1988 Lancashire Cup
The 1988 Rugby League Lancashire Cup competition
| Structure | Regional knockout championship | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of teams | 16 | |||
| Winners | Wigan | |||
| Runners-up | Salford | |||
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1988 was the seventy-sixth occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held.
Wigan won the trophy by beating Salford by the score of 22-17
The match was played at Knowsley Road, Eccleston, St Helens, Merseyside, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 19,154 and receipts were £71,879.00
This was Wigan’s fifth appearance and fourth consecutive victory in what was a run of four victories and five appearances in five successive years.
The attendance was again at a very pleasing level, the fifth of the five year period when it would reach around the 20,000 level, and the receipts reached a new record level exceeding the previous record by approximately £4,500.00; a record which would never be beaten in a Lancashire Cup Final
Contents
Background
This season the total number of entrants remained at the 16 level.
With this full sixteen members there was no need for “blank” or “dummy” fixtures or any byes.
Competition and Results[1][2]
Round 1
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Barrow | 10-24 | Wigan | Craven Park | 5528 | [3] | ||||
| 2 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Carlisle | 17-7 | Chorley Borough | Gifford Park | 645 | 1 2 | ||||
| 3 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Oldham | 64-2 | Workington Town | Watersheddings | 3877 | |||||
| 4 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Rochdale Hornets | 25-14 | Fulham | Athletic Grounds | 645 | |||||
| 5 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Runcorn Highfield | 4-42 | Warrington | Canal Street | 2017 | [4] | ||||
| 6 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Salford | 42-8 | Whitehaven | The Willows | 2551 | |||||
| 7 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Swinton | 24-14 | Leigh | Station Road | 3225 | |||||
| 8 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Widnes | 32-24 | St Helens | Naughton Park | 10764 | [5][6] |
Round 2 - Quarter Finals
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 28 Sep 1988 | Oldham | 2-18 | Salford | Watersheddings | 5497 | |||||
| 2 | Wed 28 Sep 1988 | Warrington | 34-18 | Carlisle | Wilderspool | 2586 | [4] | ||||
| 3 | Wed 28 Sep 1988 | Widnes | 38-4 | Swinton | Naughton Park | 4988 | [5] | ||||
| 4 | Wed 28 Sep 1988 | Wigan | 36-4 | Rochdale Hornets | Central Park | 7719 | [3] |
Round 3 – Semi-Finals
Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 05 Oct 1988 | Salford | 15-2 | Warrington | The Willows | 7316 | [4]>[5][7] | ||||
| 2 | Wed 12 Oct 1988 | Wigan | 14-10 | Widnes | Central Park | 17813 | [3][5][8] |
Final
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday 23 October 1988 | Wigan | 22-17 | Salford | Knowsley Road | 19154 | 71879 | 3 | [3][9] |
Teams and Scorers[3][9]
| Wigan | № | Salford |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| Steve Hampson | 1 | Peter Williams |
| Tony Iro | 2 | xTex Evans |
| Kevin Iro | 3 | Keith Bentley |
| Dean Bell | 4 | Ken Jones |
| Joe Lydon | 5 | Adrian Hadley |
| Shaun Edwards | 6 | Paul Shaw |
| Andy Gregory | 7 | David Cairns |
| Ian Lucas | 8 | Steve Herbert |
| Martin Dermott | 9 | Mark Moran |
| Adrian Shelford | 10 | Peter Brown |
| Andy Platt | 11 | Ian Gormley |
| Andy Goodway | 12 | Mick Worrall |
| Ellery Hanley | 13 | Mark Horo |
| Ged Byrne (for Joe Lydon 76min) | 14 | Ian Blease (for Peter Williams 68min) |
| Denis Betts (for Ian Lucas 49min) | 15 | Mick McTigue (for Mark Horo 74min) |
| Graham Lowe | Coach | Kevin Ashcroft |
| 22 | score | 17 |
| 8 | HT | 3 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| Kevin Iro (2) | T | Tex Evans (1) |
| Adrian Shelford (1) | T | Keith Bentley (1) |
| Dean Bell (1) | T | Steve Herbert (1) |
| Goals | ||
| Kevin Iro (3) | G | Peter Brown (2) |
| Drop Goals | ||
| DG | Mick Worrall (1) | |
| Referee | Kevin Allatt (Southport) | |
| Man of the match | Paul Shaw - Salford - Stand-off/Five-eighth | |
| sponsored by | Greenall Whitley | |
| Competition Sponsor | Grünhalle Lager |
Scoring - Try = four (4) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point
The road to success
| First Round | Second Round | Semi Finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Barrow | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wigan | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wigan | 36 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rochdale Hornets | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rochdale Hornets | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fulham | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wigan | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Widnes | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Widnes | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||
| St Helens | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Widnes | 38 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Swinton | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Swinton | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leigh | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wigan | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Salford | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Oldham | 64 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Workington Town | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Oldham | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Salford | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Salford | 42 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Whitehaven | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Salford | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Warrington | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Runcorn Highfield | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Warrington | 42 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Warrington | 34 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Carlisle | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Carlisle | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chorley Borough | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments
1 * The first Lancashire Cup match to be played by the newly renamed club Chorley Borough
2 * The first Lancashire Cup match to be played at Carlisle's new stadium
3 * Knowsley Road was the home ground of St Helens from 1890 to 2010. The final capacity was in the region of 18,000, although the actual record attendance was 35,695 set on December 26, 1949 for a league game between St Helens and Wigan
See also
References
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