GrahamBray wrote:I am an ex Riley boy, who was part of the Rugby team that refused to play Union, as coached by Kim Johnson and Graham Ollett , both with local RU Clubs at the time, we won and had a RL team there for the first time in several years, much to the afore mentioned teacher's chagrin, who promptly refused to coach us when that happened!
When I was at the Riley Boulevard site no rugby was played at the school. Our weekly sports day was held at Inglemire Lane sports ground a few miles away which had no rugby posts, so we only played soccer.
We had a good connection with RL though when Brian Darlington came to Riley as Gym Master in the last couple of years I was there. Brian was an even time sprinter and signed for Hull in the mid 50's as a winger where he played for a few seasons including league championship winning sides.
I played soccer for Riley and after leaving for Hull Technicla College initially played RL for Fenners in the Works league before switching to RU for the the remainder of the 3 years I was at Hull Tech.
