Warriors aim for the perfect Lindsay tribute
KRIS Radlinski has promised Wigan Warriors will ‘do justice’ to the memory of Maurice Lindsay by trying their best to win the trophy he was most synonymous with next weekend.
Lindsay, the legendary former Warriors chairman, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 81.
His death was met with an outpouring of grief from across the sporting world, but particularly in rugby league, where he made an immeasurable impact.
Radlinski insists that without Lindsay’s vision to create Super League in 1996, the sport would be ‘semi-professional at best’.
But he has also insisted Wigan will honour Lindsay’s memory in the appropriate fashion.
“We will do him justice,” Radlinski said.
“I was expecting it to be big news but the enormity of it, the comments that have come from around the world crediting him as a visionary and a pioneer, has been unbelievable.
“He made some controversial calls, along the way he wound some people up.
“But he ultimately had the game’s best interests at heart. He adored the sport, and he wanted Wigan and all of us to be huge and have a major profile.
“Where would we be without him? And not just Wigan Warriors, but rugby league? Probably playing in a premier competition that was semi-professional at best.
“People must have thought he was bonkers with some of the stuff he was proposing in the 1990s but look where we are today.
“That’s because of Maurice.”
Wigan will go for Challenge Cup number 20 next weekend at Tottenham, a figure that is only attainable due to the remarkable success of the club under Lindsay’s watch, when they recorded eight successive cup titles without being beaten.
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Huddersfield Giants will have something to say about it.
Radlinski said: “Having spoken with the RFL, it sounds like they will make a tribute to him on the day which is fitting.
“The history they wrote in the ‘90s, in some respects it paved a difficult path for us all to follow.”