1991 Lancashire Cup

1991 Lancashire Cup

Structure	Regional knockout championship
Number of teams	16
Winners	St Helens
Runners-up	Rochdale Hornets
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The 1991 Lancashire Cup was the seventy-ninth occasion on which the completion had been held. St Helens won the trophy by beating Rochdale Hornets by the score of 24-14 in the final. The match was played at Wilderspool, Warrington, now in the County Palatine of Chester but (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 9,269 and receipts were £ ?

Background

The total entrants remained the same as last season, i.e. at 17.
This necessitated the need for a preliminary round (consisting of just 1 game). The first round (proper) then involved 16 clubs, thus removing the need of any “blank” or “dummy” fixtures or any byes.

Competition and Results

Preliminary Round

Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
	Sun 25 Aug 1991	Workington Town		'27-18		Widnes	Derwent Park	3499		1

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 15 Sep 1991	Highfield		11-34		Rochdale Hornets	Hoghton Road Stadium	700		2
2	Sun 15 Sep 1991	Leigh		59-12		Chorley Borough (2)	Hilton Park	2415
3	Sun 15 Sep 1991	London Crusaders		10-38		Wigan	Barnet Copthall	1893		3
4	Sun 15 Sep 1991	St Helens		104-12		Trafford Borough	Knowsley Road	4550		4
5	Sun 15 Sep 1991	Salford		22-16		Warrington	The Willows	3656
6	Sun 15 Sep 1991	Swinton		21-22		Oldham	Station Road	3285
7	Sun 15 Sep 1991	Whitehaven		12-44		Carlisle	Recreation Ground	873
8	Sun 15 Sep 1991	Workington Town		'12-6		Barrow	Derwent Park	2721

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	Thu 26 Sep 1991	Rochdale Hornets		25-18		Salford	Spotland	1829
2	Thu 26 Sep 1991	St Helens		39-26		Oldham	Knowsley Road	7025
3	Thu 26 Sep 1991	Wigan		42-12		Leigh	Central Park	11153
4	Thu 26 Sep 1991	Workington Town		2-11		Carlisle	Derwent Park	4278

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	Thu 10 Oct 1991	Rochdale Hornets		19-6		Carlisle	Spotland	1842
2	Thu 10 Oct 1991	St Helens		28-16		Wigan	Knowsley Road	17125

Final

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
	Sunday 20 October 1991	St Helens		24-14		Rochdale Hornets	Wilderspool	9269		5

Teams and Scorers

St Helens	№	Rochdale Hornets
	Teams	Team Includes
Dave Tanner[1]	1
Mike Riley[2]	2
Gary Connolly	3
Tea Ropati	4	Colin Whitfield
Anthony Sullivan	5	Matt Calland
Phil Veivers	6	Mike Kuiti
Paul Bishop[3]	7	Darren Abram
Jon Neill	8	Bob Marsden
Paul Groves	9	Martin Hall
Kevin Ward	10	Steve Gartland
John Harrison[4]	11	Ronnie Duane
George Mann	12
Shane Cooper	13
Mark Bailey[5] (for ???)	14
Paul Forber[6] (for ???)	15
Mike McClennan	coach	Allan Agar
24	score	14
8	HT	10
	Scorers
	Tries
Phil Veivers (2)	T	Darren Abram (1)
Paul Bishop (1)	T	Ronnie Duane (1)
George Mann (2)	T	Mike Kuiti (1)
	Goals
Paul Bishop (2)	G	Colin Whitfield (1)
Referee		R (Ronnie) Campbell (Widnes)
Man of the match		??
sponsored by		Greenall Whitley
Competition Sponsor		Greenalls

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

The road to success

This chart excludes the match in the preliminary round

	First Round					Second Round					Semi Finals					Final
	St Helens		104
	Trafford Borough		2
						St Helens		39
						Oldham		26
	Swinton		21
	Oldham		22
											St Helens		28
											Wigan		16
	London Crusaders		10
	Wigan		38
						Wigan		49
						Leigh		12
	Leigh		59
	Chorley Borough (2)		12
																St Helens		24
																Rochdale Hornets		14
	Highfield		11
	Rochdale Hornets		34
						Rochdale Hornets		25
						Salford		18
	Salford		22
	Warrington		16
											Rochdale Hornets		19
											Carlisle		6
	Workington Town		12
	Barrow		6
						Workington Town		2
						Carlisle		11
	Whitehaven		12
	Carlisle		44

Notes and comments

1 * The attendance is given as 3,500 in the Widnes official archives - RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives it as 3,499||
2 * First Lancashire Cup match by newly named/reformed club and also at this stadium, home at the time of St Helens Town A.F.C.
3 * The first Lancashire Cup match to be played on this ground, one of many used by Fulham during the nomadic period between 1985-1993
4 * The second score of over 100 points (and the second highest score) in the history of the competition when ||St Helens beat Trafford Borough by 104 to 12. The highest occurred on 14 September 1986 when St Helens beat Carlisle by 112 to 0
4 * Wilderspool was the home ground of Warrington from 1883 to the end of the 2003 Summer season when they moved into the new purpose built Halliwell Jones Stadium. Wilderspool remained as a sports/Ruugby League ground and is/was used by Woolston Rovers/Warrington Wizards junior club.
The ground had a final capacity of 9,000 although the record attendance was set in a Challenge cup third round match on 13 March 1948 when 34,304 spectators saw Warrington lose to Wigan 10-13.

See also

• 1991-92 Rugby Football League season
• Rugby league county cups

External links

• Saints Heritage Society
• 1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.com
• Hull&Proud Fixtures & Results 1896/1897
• Widnes Vikings - One team, one passion Season In Review - 1896-97
• The Northern Union at warringtonwolves.org