I'm a season ticket holder at Wigan, have been for years. Every year I get increasingly less interested in football and more interested in RL as a whole. I've taken quite a few to their first games and they've loved it and quite amazed at how hard the game is played. What most don't realise is how hard the players actually work and the hours they put in a day and then most do vocational training in readiness for a job after retirement (many Wigan players are highly qualified).

This season will be difficult for me, we now have twins that have just come home after three months on a neonatal unit so our hands are incredibly full! I will get too as many home games as possibly but I fear that wont be many

I've started going to the Huddersfield Giants this season and although I've only been once this season- I'm loving it. Don't know too much about the game, but as the Mrs is from Wigan, its kind of in her blood. Oh and £90 for my season ticket is a bargain!

I think those of us who were there and saw what happened will all be suffering.

As this sinks in more and more the pain is growing, the facebook photos are hurting the most. I know I couldn't have done anything more but I can't help but feel guilty though, I am so sorry for the family and his son. This is the 1st time I've dealt with anything like this and although I'm First Aid trained nothing could prepare me for this, the paramedics were excellent when they arrived by the way.

I've been to so many away games, followed the team in europe, season ticket holder etc, etc. I've never been in any trouble with the police or stewards. I just feel that I don't want anything to do with football anymore or the club that I love. Blackburn Rovers away supporters are a family and on Sunday morning one of our family died RIP John.

As an initial thought- could we get some blue and white wristbands produced- similar to the Help for Heroes and the Lance Armstrong livestrong bands with any proceeds going to John's girlfriend and daughter

Just trying to pass the last few minutes before the weekend, and I was trying to name the line up for that game. Have a feeling that Wilcox missed out that day due to injury. I also remember Berg playing the ball up to Shearer from right back for the goal This is the team I think started- ANY HELP GRATEFULLY RECEIVED.

GK Flowers

RB Berg

CH Hendry

CH Pearce?

LB Le Saux

LW Kenna?

CM Sherwood

CM Batty

RW Ripley

CF Shearer

CF Sutton

Thanks

If you fancy a Da Vinci code-esque read then try "The Sacred Cut" by David Hewson. I don't really read much, but once I got into it, there was no putting it down. In fact, once I'd read it, I left it in the hotel reception for someone else to read, and it had gone within five minutes :!:

I think Scott Sellars is assistant manager to Lee Richardson at Chesterfield- He was at Sheffield United as youth team coach before that.

That Derby game was the first game of the season when we were back in the top flight in 01/02 wasnt it? Yeh same with me, whenever i see highlights of the game the offside decsion still rankles with me as it was clearly onside and we deserved at least a point from the game.

I seem to remember a large travelling Rovers support on that day, musta been 3k plus

Isn't this the game where we should have been 1 up after about ten seconds. I'm sure I recall Duff skinning their right back and sticking over a cross and Gillespie missing from close range!

In the summer of 1984, my dad showed me a scrapbook he had made as a young man. As a born and bred Wiganer, he loved his rugby. He had created a scrap book detailing a full season of events and matches involving the Wigan RL club. I think it was from around the mid fifties, when legendary Welshman Billy Boston was in his prime. The photos had been been hand coloured, and the cherry hoops of the Wigan shirt gave the photos almost a 3D effect.

Inspired by this, as a Rovers fan I thought that the tradition had to be upheld, and went to get a scrap book. I found an A4 John Dickinson Cuttings book, ring bound with thick pinkish cartridge paper pages. So I was ready for the season!

I was in my second year of college then, at Runshaw in Leyland. I was studying three A levels, Maths, Geography and Computer Science. When I say studying, most of the time was spent playing 5-a-side in the gym and thinking of excuses to give to Mr Hankin the maths lecturer for my non-attendance each week. The other two were a good laugh, Steve Bagshaw was a pussy cat in geography and computer science was great as you could just play on the CBM PET computers-very rudimentary versions of Pacman, Pong and Space Invaders.

The season started I think at Crystal Palace, a draw 1-1. I didn't go, and there is no report or mention of it in the book. I was doing the numbers in the score box at Chorley Cricket club that week, and had to settle for a transistor radio in the box, with Jack Holden summing things up with his usual one-eyed view for me.

A week later a home game against Carlisle. I remember us dominating the match, and winning 4-0 in an easy romp. I stood on the Blackburn End, near the old bar at the back. Seems a bit bizarre now looking back, the BBE having a little cafe type thing tucked up at the rear of terrace, selling beer! It had women and kids serving in it, and service was a little poor. Pies and crisps also sold, not much changes really does it. I didn't drive, and used to get either the Tom Jackson coach from Chorley market, or sometimes the Cliff Owen coach-can't remember if they operated at the same time or if one replaced the other, but again it does seem a little odd today that a coach firm would operate a service from Chorley to Ewood just for the match, a journey of around 7 1/2 miles! Used to get quite full some days too.

Anyone remember any of these games so far?

I remember Bagshaw from Runshaw. What a legend, he always had a "gig" on the Friday night and if we were off on a trip to see some sand dunes or similat, he'd always say "Now please make cheques payable to Runshaw College and Not Stevie B's one way ticket to the Bahamas fund"

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