1st November 1987 - Fulham v Papua New Guinea - 4-12



While I had been to live games before (including all of Southend Invicta's home fixtures!), this was the one which ignited the passion to trail across London on a fortnightly basis, which has continued to burn until recently. For me players like Huw "Sumo" Rees, Kieran Murphy, Colin Fenn and Dave Gillan became superstars (if only in my mind).



Mention in dispatches for Fulham v Wigan - Lancashire Cup 2nd round - 27/9/89 - 4-34 at Hendon. Given the club's run in super league and constant games on satellite TV, I guess many people won't see what a big deal this game was. In those days we only got to see the likes of Edwards and Gregory two or three times a year on the BBC in Regal Trophy or Challenge Cup ties. Having them come to play was like aliens landing. Good coverage in the press and on TV I recall and also a 3200 crowd!

Actually despite the loss. The game at Charlton against St Helens. The name Apollo Perillini shall haunt me.



Nice to see Homer and The Gob. Anyone else coming back? The Curtism and many others?

24/10/09 at The Stoop. New Zealand 20 Australia 20. Showed England and all in UK how RL should be played. Pride, Passion & Courage...wow

Whilst the above game was spectacularly good I'll stick to Broncos games and go for Broncos v Leeds at Griffin Park. Liam Botham nailing a very late, tricky conversion to grab us a rather unexpected point at a point in the season when we really needed it.

Mickeyboy.... I would say that was probably the best game of rugby league I have seen!



Back to broncos..

An away game at saints, snowing, me and the Morecambe contingent waiting outside not knowing if the came was going ahead. We won

. Sing when its snowing, we only sing when its snowing

I was at that saints game in snow awesome result and cracking game despite the weather

Have to say the game at Brentford when we spanked wakey I think it was Paul Sykes could not miss with the boot kicked everything, can't remember was it 12 from 12

I think it was a rearranged match against Huddersfield during the week and me and you were roped into being Buck and Dusty. The temperature was in the 90s and we were sitting on the wall behind the posts just after half time with our heads off having a well deserved cold VB and cigarette when Sky spotted us and we became stars on the T V.

I thought I may have lived that one down

Someone said 15th , and when I looked at the engraved tankard I saw 27th, but that was for the Brisbane game, so my error.

Difficult to pick one from quite a few, but I'm going for Craven Cottage, 18th. April 1982, Fulham 17 - Hull (Cup winners a few weeks later) 12. I'll always remember Colin Gibson's comment in his match report in 'The Times' - 'Carl Radbone, not noted even by his supporters for his ability to read the game, kicked ahead, regathered and scored'.

August 1st 2004, Griffin Park , London 22-20 Wigan.

Cracking match with scores going to and fro throughout. It was a couple of weeks after the draw with Leeds ( the Liam Botham game!) and set us on a run of about 4 wins so we preserved our SL status!

Sorry, memory fades year on year so I remember incidents more than whole games. Anybody remember which was the one at GP where McLinden was tackled about 10 metres out and I sat and waited for the PTB, only to see that somebody had waltzed over for a try.



It was only when I watched the game on TV later that I saw the offload he made to his outside player just before hitting the deck. Our most skilful and exciting player IMO.



[Benji Marshall, anyone?