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Wigan in the USA?
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:43 pm
by dawbz
Can anyone answer a question for me please?.
It's going back a few years when Wigan played exhibition matches in the USA early 1980s.
Wich other british clubs went over with them and who did wigan play? thanks in advance.
Re: Wigan in the USA?
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:46 pm
by mike binder
wigan played warrington
Re: Wigan in the USA?
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:50 pm
by dawbz
mike binder posted:
wigan played warrington
Cheers Mike,should it not have been Widness and they pulled out thats why we played Warrington? this will solve an argument between me a stains fan and a wire fan. Oh and was it 1983?
Re: Wigan in the USA?
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:05 pm
by ChrisA
Wigan played Widnes, and we played in a yellow shirt. I still have it somewhere.
Re: Wigan in the USA?
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:32 pm
by dawbz
ChrisA posted:
Wigan played Widnes, and we played in a yellow shirt. I still have it somewhere.
Thanks for that Chris, now thats put the cat among the pidgeons
Re: Wigan in the USA?
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:23 pm
by Mike
We played Warrington in 1989, it was in Millwalkee. We played in a baseball stadium and the pitch was very narrow so the match was very low scoring. I think we played in an all red kit with two narrow white V's for some reason (or perhaps I'm thinking of a lancashire kit :conf: )
There are stories about the guys who set it up here:
http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/e ... _page.html
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ ... _n12671562
Re: Wigan in the USA?
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:21 pm
by cpwigan
Mike is correct. I have a flag from the stadium. The game is famous for Les Boyd chasing Ellery around the pitch threatening him for 80 mins. He never got near him though.
Re: Wigan in the USA?
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:11 pm
by warrior till i die
Les Boyd came out of retirement for that game didnt he? I heard that the games was just really a organised fight to get the yanks involved.
Re: Wigan in the USA?
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:14 pm
by cpwigan
It was a cock up. A guy called Mike Mayer kept trying to get league going in the USA BUT he was full of hot air.
Re: Wigan in the USA?
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:03 am
by adrenalinxx
cpwigan posted:
It was a cock up. A guy called Mike Mayer kept trying to get league going in the USA BUT he was full of hot air.
There is a USA Rugby League going now it's called AMNRL. Some new teams have joined since it started including New Haven Warriors, Jacksonville Axemen and Boston Braves.
Also noticed on the AMNRL site:
National Team Coach - Shane Millard :conf: