Having watched the DVD. The Hull KR game is a cracker. Anybody watching that would think Leigh would have been sure bets for Wembley that year. What happened v Cas? did Leigh play badly? were players absent?
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FredParky wrote:you mean you remembered it? you forget everything else
Sorry Fred you know what its like in these high pressure jobs.........
How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
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Charlie Seeling wrote:Having watched the DVD. The Hull KR game is a cracker. Anybody watching that would think Leigh would have been sure bets for Wembley that year. What happened v Cas? did Leigh play badly? were players absent?
IMO the weather beat us that day , although to be fair Cas did have a decent side.
How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
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Charlie Seeling wrote:Having watched the DVD. The Hull KR game is a cracker. Anybody watching that would think Leigh would have been sure bets for Wembley that year. What happened v Cas? did Leigh play badly? were players absent?
It p1$$ed down the whole match and we couldn't handle the conditions as well as Cas.
Great King Rat wrote:It p1$$ed down the whole match
Thats an understatement. They were building Arks down Glebe Street.
My Dad made the stand in the 'boys pen' as he called it, behind the dugouts, and I remember very little of the game apart from someone holding a brolly at the side of me which served no puropose other than to divert the rainwater from the same, into the neck of my Parka. I dried out some time in 1984.
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Charlie Seeling wrote:What happened re the 82 team? Why did it not go on for a few years?
Same as '71. The team at the time reached a 'high-water mark'........Murph moved on, and tempted players away!!
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Charlie Seeling wrote:What happened re the 82 team? Why did it not go on for a few years?
Murphy was a master of getting the best out of honest hard working players.
Whilst we had a great backline of Drummond, Woods, Donlan, Fox, and a nowty little bugger called Kenny Green at scrum half, the forwards were simply a pack of hard local blokes who would run and run all day for him.
Collectivly there wasnt a better pack in the division, but individually (whilst Cook, Tabern, Potter were quality players) they were not world beaters.
Once Murphy left the momentum was lost, folk left or retired in the following years and within a a few years we were in the 2nd division.
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