still up there as one of my all time top fartown games
for those too young or ignorant to know about this, a quick explanation
in 1995 keighley were the big shakers outside the first division,cougar mania was at its height, crowds of 3,000 regularly crammed into lawkholme lane,they invariably won everything ( but were denied promotion because of the invention of SL-a disgraceful decision in my eyes). anyway we were a handy mob ourselves and so became big rivals with keighley. we were drawn away to keighley in the cup after knocking out first division halifax, now keighley hadn't lost at home for something like 2 years and usually steamrollered teams up there, anyway the fartown boys strolled into town and handed the cougars a 30-0 clogging,and could have been more,it sent shockwaves round the RL world and delighted our fans, of which 3,000 travelled to oldham to see us lose in the quarter final but we werent disgraced.
we had some titanic tussles with keighley and had a great rivalry going on until their world fell apart, we were admitted to super league in '98 and the cougars never recovered from being deneid promotion and the start of bullmania and we have only met twice since in the 2002 NFP season.
