This 2,000th home game thing

[HopeThisHelps]

Thought I'd do a bit of number crunching to do with these claims that the Wigan cup tie is supposedly the 2,000 home game.

I presume this means since 1895 although we played many league and cup games before then. An email from Alex Bonney talks about 138 years of history even though the actual formation was 1875 and the traditional date was 1873, so not sure where 138 comes from.

The 2,000 games is said to exclude tour games (they're officially recognised fixtures so not sure why you'd ignore them) and abandoned matches.

If you take out the 27 tour fixtures, the two abandoned games and that one null and void match against Hudds in the early 1970s I reckon that leaves 1,997 home games since the breakaway.

The first 3 of those were at the old ground and 4 were at Runcorn in 1997 so I calculate 1,990 games at 'Naughton Park' (though, as I say, you can add 27 tour games back on to that figure as leaving them out is completely arbitrary).

[HopeThisHelps]

Correction to that - the first 2 games in 1895 were at the old ground so that makes 1,991 at the current site.

[rayvon]

So, you are trying to say, its not actually the 2,000 th game then?
 

[shadowplay]

Why was the huddersfield game null and void

[HopeThisHelps]

Rayvon - yes I'm saying it's not the 2,000th game.

Shadowplay - what happened was that Widnes were leading (something like 10-3) with ten minutes to go and we tried to replace an injured player with someone from the bench who had already been substituted himself.

The ref refused to allow it (subs had only been in place for a few years so clearly some weren't up to speed with the rules), we played the last part of the game with 12 men and drew 10-10.

The RFL agreed that the ref had made a male-chicken up and ordered a replay (which we won 18-8).

[shadowplay]

Excellent bit of trivia

[homo erectus]

Thought I'd do a bit of number crunching to do with these claims that the Wigan cup tie is supposedly the 2,000 home game.

I presume this means since 1895 although we played many league and cup games before then. An email from Alex Bonney talks about 138 years of history even though the actual formation was 1875 and the traditional date was 1873, so not sure where 138 comes from.

The 2,000 games is said to exclude tour games (they're officially recognised fixtures so not sure why you'd ignore them) and abandoned matches.

If you take out the 27 tour fixtures, the two abandoned games and that one null and void match against Hudds in the early 1970s I reckon that leaves 1,997 home games since the breakaway.

The first 3 of those were at the old ground and 4 were at Runcorn in 1997 so I calculate 1,990 games at 'Naughton Park' (though, as I say, you can add 27 tour games back on to that figure as leaving them out is completely arbitrary).

Bravo Great Knowledge