1986–87 League Cup (rugby league)

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1986–87 League Cup
StructureNational knockout championship
Teams36
WinnersWigan
Runners-upWarrington

This was the sixteenth season of the rugby league League Cup, again known as the John Player Special Trophy for sponsorship purposes.

Wigan won the trophy, beating Warrington 18-4 in the final. The match was played at Burnden Park, Bolton, Greater Manchester. The attendance was 22,144 and receipts were £86041.

Background[]

This season saw no changes in the entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at thirty-six.

There were no drawn matches in this seasons tournament

Competition and results[]

[1][2]

Preliminary round[]

[3] Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Wed 12 Nov 1986 Halifax 38-23 York Thrum Hall 2962
2 Sat 15 Nov 1986 Millom 4-18 Wakefield Trinity Coronation Field, Millom 2000 1 [4]
3 Sun 16 Nov 1986 Batley 2-8 Myson (Hull) Mount Pleasant 687 2
4 Sun 16 Nov 1986 Workington Town 16-6 Huddersfield Barracudas Derwent Park 420 [5]

Round 1 - First Round[]

[3] Involved 16 matches and 32 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 29 Nov 1986 Wigan 32-10 Leeds Central Park 9112 [2]
2 Sun 30 Nov 1986 Barrow 36-10 Runcorn Highfield Craven Park 1771 3
3 Sun 30 Nov 1986 Blackpool Borough 42-12 Mansfield Marksman Borough Park 376
4 Sun 30 Nov 1986 Doncaster 18-14 Hull Kingston Rovers Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield 3084
5 Sun 30 Nov 1986 Featherstone Rovers 22-18 Workington Town Post Office Road 1521
6 Sun 30 Nov 1986 Fulham 24-34 Castleford Chiswick Poly Sports Grd 1374
7 Sun 30 Nov 1986 Halifax 36-22 Wakefield Trinity Thrum Hall 4076 [4]
8 Sun 30 Nov 1986 Leigh 32-10 Rochdale Hornets Hilton Park 2754
9 Sun 30 Nov 1986 Myson (Hull) 11-18 Swinton Craven Park (1) 1648 2
10 Sun 30 Nov 1986 Oldham 12-22 Bradford Northern Watersheddings 5642
11 Sun 30 Nov 1986 Salford 12-27 Hull F.C. The Willows 2100 [6]
12 Sun 30 Nov 1986 Sheffield Eagles 14-6 Bramley Owlerton Stadium 415
13 Sun 30 Nov 1986 Warrington 11-10 Hunslet Wilderspool 3680 [7]
14 Sun 30 Nov 1986 Whitehaven 8-10 St. Helens Recreation Ground 3678 [8]
15 Sun 30 Nov 1986 Widnes 82-0 Dewsbury Naughton Park 2138 4 [9]
16 Thu 04 Dec 1986 Carlisle 8-2 Keighley Penrith FC 300

Round 2 - Second Round[]

[10] Involved 8 matches and 16 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 6 Dec 1986 Castleford 22-26 St. Helens Wheldon Road 4808 [8]
2 Sun 7 Dec 1986 Blackpool Borough 22-48 Hull F.C. Borough Park 3723 5 [6]
3 Sun 7 Dec 1986 Featherstone Rovers 12-19 Bradford Northern Post Office Road 3907
4 Sun 7 Dec 1986 Leigh 26-14 Doncaster Hilton Park 3363
5 Sun 7 Dec 1986 Sheffield Eagles 8-14 Barrow Owlerton Stadium 513 6
6 Sun 7 Dec 1986 Warrington 44-10 Halifax Wilderspool 5804 [7]
7 Sun 7 Dec 1986 Wigan 20-14 Swinton Central Park 9874 [2]
8 Mon 8 Dec 1986 Widnes 36-6 Carlisle Naughton Park 2016 [9]

Round 3 -Quarter Finals[]

[11] Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 13 Dec 1986 Bradford Northern 8-20 Hull F.C. Odsal 3545 [6]
2 Sun 14 Dec 1986 Barrow 6-16 Widnes Craven Park 3199 [9]
3 Sun 14 Dec 1986 St. Helens 20-22 Warrington Knowsley Road 11571 [7][8]
4 Sun 14 Dec 1986 Wigan 6-2 Leigh Central Park 11573 [2]

Round 4 – Semi-Finals[]

[12] Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 20 Dec 1986 Wigan 12-11 Hull F.C. Headingley 5245 [2][6]
2 Sat 27 Dec 1986 Warrington 35-4 Widnes Central Park 6409 [7][9]

Final[]

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 10 January 1987 Wigan 18-4 Warrington Burnden Park Bolton 22144 86041 7, 8 [7][13][14][15]

Teams and scorers[]

[14][15][16]

Wigan № Warrington
teams
Steve Hampson 1 Brian Johnson
David Stephenson 2 [1]
Joe Lydon 3 Paul Cullen
Dean Bell 4 Joe Ropati
Henderson Gill 5 Mark Forster
Ellery Hanley 6 Ken Kelly
Shaun Edwards 7 [2]
Graeme West 8 Les Boyd
Martin Dermott 9 Kevin Tamati
Brian Case 10 Bob Jackson[3]
Ian Roberts 11 Gary Sanderson[4]
Ian Potter 12 [5]
Andy Goodway 13 Mike Gregory
? Not used 14 Ronnie Duane (for Steve Peters 63-minutes)
? Not used 15 Alan Rathbone (for Kevin Tamati half-time)
Graham Lowe Coach Tony Barrow
18 score 4
4 HT 4
Scorers
Tries
Dean Bell (1) T Mark Forster (1)
Henderson Gill (2) T
Andy Goodway (1) T
Goals
Henderson Gill (1) G
Referee John Holdsworth (Kippax)
Man of the match Andy Goodway - Wigan - loose forward
Competition Sponsor John Player Special

Scoring - Try = four (4) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point

Prize money[]

As part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season is as follows :-

Finish Position Cash Prize No. receiving prize Total Cash
Winner ? 1 ?
Runner-up ? 1 ?
semi-finalist ? 2 ?
loser in Rd 3 ? 4 ?
loser in Rd 2 ? 8 ?
Loser in Rd 1 ? 16 ?
Loser in Prelim Round ? ? ?
Grand Total

Note - the author is unable to trace the award amounts for this season. Can anyone help ?

The road to success[]

This tree excludes any preliminary round fixtures

First round Second round Third round Semi Finals Final
               
Wigan 32
Leeds 10
Wigan 20
Swinton 14
Myson (Hull) 11
Swinton 18
Wigan 6
Leigh 2
Leigh 32
Rochdale Hornets 10
Leigh 26
Doncaster 14
Doncaster 18
Hull Kingston Rovers 14
Wigan 12
Hull F.C. 11
Featherstone Rovers 22
Workington Town 18
Featherstone Rovers 12
Bradford Northern 19
Oldham 12
Bradford Northern 22
Bradford Northern 8
Hull F.C. 20
Blackpool Borough 42
Mansfield Marksman 12
Blackpool Borough 22
Hull F.C. 48
Salford 12
Hull F.C. 27
Wigan 18
Warrington 4
Fulham 24
Castleford 34
Castleford 22
St. Helens 26
Whitehaven 8
St. Helens 10
St. Helens 20
Warrington 22
Warrington 11
Hunslet 11
Warrington 44
Halifax 10
Halifax 36
Wakefield Trinity 22
Warrington 35
Widnes 4
Sheffield Eagles 14
Bramley 6
Sheffield Eagles 8
Barrow 14
Barrow 36
Runcorn Highfield 10
Barrow 6
Widnes 16
Widnes 62
Dewsbury 0
Widnes 36
Carlisle 6
Carlisle 8
Keighley 2

Notes and comments[]

1 * Millom are a Junior (amateur) club from Cumbria, current home ground is the Coronation Field ground.
2 * Myson are a Junior (amateur) club from Hull
3 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] gives score as 36-10 but Wigan official archives[2] gives it as 3-10 (which must be incorrect as Barrow progressed to Round 1)
4 * The highest score, highest score by home team, and highest winning margin between professional clubs, to date
5 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] and Wigan official archives[2] gives the venue as Borough Park, the home of Blackpool Borough but Hull F.C. official archives[6] give the venue as Boulevard, home of Hull F.C.
6 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] gives the score as 8-14 but Wigan official archives[2] gives it as 6-14
7 * The Rugby League Authorities were very unhappy with the television coverage of this final offered by the BBC. The broadcaster missed the first six minutes of the second half televising a horse race from Ireland. They also ignored the trophy presentation entirely and disrupted the pre match entertainment to interview Great Britain coach Malcolm Reilly, yet didn't show that interview anyway!
8 * Burnden Park was the home of English football club Bolton Wanderers from 1895 to 1997. It hosted the 1900-01 FA Cup Final replay in which Tottenham Hotspur beat Sheffield United 3.1. The record attendance was for a 6th round F A Cup match with Stoke City (Stanley Matthews played for Stoke at the time) at which, although the ground capacity was set at 70,000, an estimated 85,000 fans crowded in, and when two crush barriers broke, the result was 33 fans killed and another 400 injured. The capacity at closure was a mere 25,000

General information for those unfamiliar[]

The council of the Rugby Football League voted to introduce a new competition, to be similar to The Football Association and Scottish Football Association's "League Cup". It was to be a similar knock-out structure to, and to be secondary to, the Challenge Cup. As this was being formulated, sports sponsorship was becoming more prevalent and as a result John Player and Sons, a division of Imperial Tobacco Company, became sponsors, and the competition never became widely known as the "League Cup"
The competition ran from 1971-72 until 1995-96 and was initially intended for the professional clubs plus the two amateur BARLA National Cup finalists. In later seasons the entries were expanded to take in other amateur and French teams. The competition was dropped due to "fixture congestion" when Rugby League became a summer sport The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final usually taking place in late January
The competition was variably known, by its sponsorship name, as the Player's No.6 Trophy (1971–1977), the John Player Trophy (1977–1983), the John Player Special Trophy (1983–1989), and the Regal Trophy in 1989.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Rugby League Project".
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  3. ^ a b "Wigan "Cherry and White" j Player Rd 1 archived results".
  4. ^ a b "Wakefield until I die".
  5. ^ "Huddersfield Rugby League Heritage" (PDF).
  6. ^ a b c d e "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  7. ^ a b c d e "Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02.
  8. ^ a b c "Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896-97".
  9. ^ a b c d "Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896-97".
  10. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" j Player Rd 2 archived results".
  11. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" j Player Rd 3 archived results".
  12. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" j Player S-F archived results".
  13. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" j Player Final archived results".
  14. ^ a b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  15. ^ a b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-100. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  16. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results".

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