Wigan Album

Back,left to right,Johnny meehan.

i must put the rest of the team on the photograph.top r to.l.fitzimmons,d. haseldene, j. atherton, f.kirk,h. houghton,j.loughlin,j.ready,myself,bottom.l to r f. sullivan,dowd ? j. ganderton, r. williams, j. brown. im not to sure if its dowd. i must add jacky ganderton was a billy boston, he was a flyer. okay.

which John meehan, are you.?

Thanks John, you could play a bit yourself, happy days eh, how are you getting on.

hi,jacky im not bad for my age but looking a lot older than the photograph i last met you at the reunion at st.cuthberts social club you gave me a photocopy of the picture shown thanks for the comment do you want my autograph.ps we must have another reunion i would love to see you all again. fantastic days we had.

hi John, nice to hear from you ,have you seen the sports picture it's under St Cuthberts ,schools, album.

hi, jacky if its the picture with joe mcardle and fred riley yes i have. do you remember fred he used to shout on the touchline, kick um thump um scratch um plug um. he was my favourite trainers and good hearted sadly not with us anymore. thanks for keeping in touch jacky.

Yes i rembember, Riley would give us a rollicking if we lost.I thought Jack Keane was the best trainer, great bloke. my grandsons play for leyland warriors, st cuthberts beat them last week , under 10s

hi, jacky i myself think jack kean was cruel he would twist both sides of your sideburns realy bad fred would throw the blackboard duster at the back of the classroom but it never hit anyone. jack also stopped me playing the last year at school i was an order boy for tommy smailes and he told me either stop taking orders or he would finish me playing rugby and he did okay, i hope were still friends jacky.

hello John, i didn't know that side of him , not such a good bloke then, didn't like Fred though. I couldn't get in the 1st team at tommy mores, the were some good players. al still buy thee a pint if a bump into thy oreet.

oh, thanks jacky i will buy thee 2 back i suppose he did have good points for me as well, at st.cuthberts juniors i was picked for the town team, it was fred and joe macardle who trained us jack kean was in the senior school. at tommy more i was capt for the 13s and vice capt for the sevens. it was joe sweeney from st. josephs who trained us, jack only came late to take charge in the team.i was taking orders then he change the evening training. 17/6p was a big help for my mother.its the story of my life joke.god bless jack.

al bet you could have made it into Wigan academy with a bit of luck.we were all a bit sash strapped in them days. Was tommy smailes the butchers,I moved to Leyland when i married in1970,i still visit Wigan a lot, take care .

hi, jack one will never know what could have been i loved playing rugby jack keen did a spell at blackpool borough i played against them for triangle valve and scored,he also trained wigan colts. one or two got picked for lancashire at the time i stopped playing we seem to have this topic to ourselves suprises me no one else has joined us. sithee jack.

hi, jacky tommy smailes was a grocers shop, butchers was ainscough jimmy was a good rugby player a bit older than me he played in the seniors at st. cuthberts.sithee jacky.

Hi John, you are right Jimmy was a good scrum half he played for the Queens head in the ken gee cup,we reached the final one year, there is a couple of photos under ken gee cup.alsithi.