FredParky wrote:Televista was owned by a guy called Whitford he was the co-founder of Sheffield Eagles (remember them Charlie ), when Televista went belly up in 1984 they were taken over by The Sports Technology Group, which dd lots of business with different sports (RL include) on video stats and the like, but I cant find any more reference to them after 1999, it would appear they also went 'west' and the 'trace' would appear to stop thier but I will continue digging.
Nice chap that started the Eagles. Wonder whatever happened to him
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Snowy wrote:Funny thing is, the crowd was officially announced as a little over 5000!!
The Cas CC game was a huge dissappointment. The elements prevented Leigh from going to Wembley that year, and 12000 pyssed wet souls went home absolutely gutted.
There was some fine sides then, and some traditional clubs like Cas and Barrow, was two of them!!
Coach 67 from Monks travel, they ran out of places to park them all, we ended up in a cul de sac 20 mins late.
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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?
The problem for Leigh that day was our master tactician (Murph) was in the coaches dugout and, Cas's tactician loose forward (Reilly) was on the pitch!
Reilly knew John Woods was the big danger so he put GB centre John Joyner to stand off to mark woody. It poured down all the match and the Ref, our old friend Billy Thompson, was soaked through. At every scrum Joyner had encroached(behind soaked Billy's back) offside until he was almost level with woody which meant Woody had no room to move as soon he got the ball! Reilly's up and unders and general field kicking were masterful, considering he was in the veteran stage of his career and, virtually playing on one leg! he delivered an abject lesson in leadership,
unfortunately!
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soldiers field wrote:would the beardmore twins have been in that cas side as well?
bob signed for us later in his career
Pretty sure the Beardmore twins came a few years later........wasn`t Gary Stephens their scrum half that day..........
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), when Televista went belly up in 1984 they were taken over by The Sports Technology Group, which dd lots of business with different sports (RL include) on video stats and the like, but I cant find any more reference to them after 1999, it would appear they also went 'west' and the 'trace' would appear to stop thier but I will continue digging.
