1982–83 Lancashire Cup Explained

1982–83 Lancashire Cup
Structure:	Regional knockout championship
Season Champs:	Warrington
Season Champ Name:	Winners
Runner-Up Name:	Runner-up
Second Place:	St. Helens
Prevseason Link:	1981 Lancashire Cup
Prevseason Year:	1981–82
Nextseason Link:	1983 Lancashire Cup
Nextseason Year:	1983–84
No Of Teams:	16

1982–83 was the seventieth occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held.
Warrington won the trophy by beating St. Helens by the score of 16-0
The match was played at Central Park, Wigan, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 6,462 and receipts were £11,732.00

Background

This season saw no new clubs and no withdrawals, leaving the total number of entrants at the 16 level.
With this full sixteen members there was no need for “blank” or “dummy” fixtures or any byes.

Competition and results

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Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

width=20 abbr="No"	Game No	width=100 abbr="Date"	Fixture Date	width=150 abbr="Home Team"	Home Team	width=5 abbr="space"		width=20 abbr="Score"	Score	width=5 abbr="space"		width=150 abbr="Away Team"	Away Team	width=150 abbr="Venue"	Venue	width=30 abbr="Att"	Att	width=30 abbr="Rec"	Rec	width=20 abbr="Notes"	Notes	width=30 abbr="Ref"	Ref
1	Sat 04 Sep 1982	Workington Town		12-20		Barrow	Derwent Park	1935
2	Sun 05 Sep 1982	Carlisle		16-8		Whitehaven	Brunton Park	3595
3	Sun 05 Sep 1982	Leigh		32-20		Rochdale Hornets	Hilton Park	3950
4	Sun 05 Sep 1982	Wigan		18-13		Salford	Central Park	7033			^[3]
5	Sun 05 Sep 1982	Blackpool Borough		10-27		Oldham	Borough Park	2013
6	Sun 05 Sep 1982	Fulham		20-8		Swinton	Craven Cottage	2796
7	Sun 05 Sep 1982	Warrington		43-5		Huyton	Wilderspool	2042			^[4]
8	Sun 05 Sep 1982	Widnes		12-14		St. Helens	Naughton Park	6704			^[5] ^[6]

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

width=20 abbr="No"	Game No	width=100 abbr="Date"	Fixture Date	width=150 abbr="Home Team"	Home Team	width=5 abbr="space"		width=20 abbr="Score"	Score	width=5 abbr="space"		width=150 abbr="Away Team"	Away Team	width=150 abbr="Venue"	Venue	width=30 abbr="Att"	Att	width=30 abbr="Rec"	Rec	width=20 abbr="Notes"	Notes	width=30 abbr="Ref"	Ref
1	Wed 15 Sep 1982	Barrow		6-9		St. Helens	Craven Park	3282
2	Wed 15 Sep 1982	Leigh		12-13		Carlisle	Hilton Park	3939
3	Wed 15 Sep 1982	Wigan		4-15		Fulham	Central Park	6054
4	Sun 19 Sep 1982	Warrington		16-14		Oldham	Wilderspool	4174

Round 3 – Semi-finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

width=20 abbr="No"	Game No	width=100 abbr="Date"	Fixture Date	width=150 abbr="Home Team"	Home Team	width=5 abbr="space"		width=20 abbr="Score"	Score	width=5 abbr="space"		width=150 abbr="Away Team"	Away Team	width=150 abbr="Venue"	Venue	width=30 abbr="Att"	Att	width=30 abbr="Rec"	Rec	width=20 abbr="Notes"	Notes	width=30 abbr="Ref"	Ref
1	Wed 29 Sep 1982	St. Helens		7-7		Carlisle	Knowsley Road	4746
2	Thu 30 Sep 1982	Warrington		17-8		Fulham	Wilderspool	3356

Round 3 – Semi-finals – replays

Involved 1 matches and 2 clubs

width=20 abbr="No"	Game No	width=100 abbr="Date"	Fixture Date	width=150 abbr="Home Team"	Home Team	width=5 abbr="space"		width=20 abbr="Score"	Score	width=5 abbr="space"		width=150 abbr="Away Team"	Away Team	width=150 abbr="Venue"	Venue	width=30 abbr="Att"	Att	width=30 abbr="Rec"	Rec	width=20 abbr="Notes"	Notes	width=30 abbr="Ref"	Ref
1	Wed 06 Oct 1982	Carlisle		5-9		St. Helens	Brunton Park	3406

Final

width=20 abbr="No"	Game No	width=100 abbr="Date"	Fixture Date	width=150 abbr="Home Team"	Home Team	width=5 abbr="space"		width=20 abbr="Score"	Score	width=5 abbr="space"		width=150 abbr="Away Team"	Away Team	width=150 abbr="Venue"	Venue	width=45 abbr="Att"	Att	width=60 abbr="Rec"	Rec	width=20 abbr="Notes"	Notes	width=30 abbr="Ref"	Ref
	Saturday 23 October 1982	Warrington		16-0		St. Helens	Central Park	6462	11732	1	^[7]

Teams and scorers

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width=280 abbr=winner	Warrington	width=60 abbr="Number"	№	width=280 abbr=runner-up	St. Helens
	teams
Steve Hesford	1	Brian Parkeshttp://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=16104
Paul Fellowshttp://wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk/martini/results.asp?txtName=Fellows&ddlAppearances=0&ddlTries=0&ddlGoals=0&ddlPoints=0&code=%25&Search=Search	2	Barry Ledger
Ronnie Duane	3	Chris Arkwright
John Bevan	4	Roy Haggerty
Mick Kellyhttp://wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk/martini/results.asp?txtName=Kelly&ddlAppearances=0&ddlTries=0&ddlGoals=0&ddlPoints=0&code=%25&Search=Search	5	Dennis Litherlandhttp://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=15853
Paul Cullen	6	Steve Petershttp://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=16141
Ken Kelly (c)	7	Neil Holding
Neil Courtney	8	Mel James
Carl Webbhttp://wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk/martini/results.asp?txtName=Webb&ddlAppearances=0&ddlTries=0&ddlGoals=0&ddlPoints=0&code=%25&Search=Search	9	Graham Liptrot
Tony Cookehttp://wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk/martini/results.asp?txtName=Cooke&ddlAppearances=0&ddlTries=0&ddlGoals=0&ddlPoints=0&code=%25&Search=Search	10	Gary Bottellhttp://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=14922
Bob Eccles	11	Gary Moorbyhttp://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=16010
John Fieldhouse	12	Peter Gorley
Mike Gregory	13	Harry Pinner
??	14	Johnny Smithhttp://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=16352 (for Brian Parkes)
Dave Chisnall (for Tony Cooke)	15	Roy Mathias (for Gary Bottell)
Kevin Ashcroft	Coach	Billy Benyon
16	score	0
3	HT	0
	Scorers
	Tries
Paul Fellows (1)	T
Mick Kelly (1)	T
Ken Kelly (1)	T
Bob Eccles (1)	T
	Goals
Steve Hesford (2) out of 9 attempts	G
Referee		J Holdsworth (Leeds)
Man of the match		Steve Hesford - Warrington -
sponsored by		Burtonwood Brewery
Competition Sponsor		Forshaws (Burtonwood Brewery Co Ltd)

Scoring - Try = three points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point

The road to success

Notes and comments

1 * Central Park was the home ground of Wigan with a final capacity of 18,000, although the record attendance was 47,747 for Wigan v St Helens 27 March 1959

See also

• 1982–83 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rugby League Project.
2. Book: Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding. John Player Yearbook 1975-76. 1991. Queen Anne Press.
3. Web site: Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results. 16 February 2014. 21 February 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140221234707/http://wigan.rlfans.com/news.php?readmore=3199. dead.
4. Web site: Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140202093910/http://www.warringtonwolves.org/results-archive?y=1897 . 2014-02-02 .
5. Web site: Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896-97.
6. Web site: Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896-97.
7. Book: Raymond Fletcher and David Howes. Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-100. 1991. Queen Anne Press. 0 35617852 8.