Simon Longstaff played in the late 80's but I don't think he made more than 20 appearances for us. He was from the Wakefield area and went to Oldham but became a javelin thrower I believe.

Did a bit of Faxcarring and according to Marillion man-a well known poster in the day-Longstaff signed a record 50k junior contract in 1986.His son Ellis broke onto the scene last season scoring a hat-rick at magic for Hull on loan from Warrington and earned a Knights call-up.His career also nosedived quickly as he's now at Fev..

Did you "trawl" or "remember / search" because I only "trawl" apparently.

Always good to get the facts right.

Is (or was) Marillion man the referee Jack Smith?

I'm not sure but I believe he was called Colin something..

Genuine research,like you good self.. with a bit of personal memory-which can suffer from a touch of Florimo at times..

No he isn't Jack.

MM played for the colts back in the 80's - with a certain Nigel Wood!!

OK, thanks for clearing that up. It's just that I seem to remember him saying his dad was Halifax referee John Smith and I've always thought Jack is John's son, but I suppose he wouldn't be allowed to referee Fax matches if he was. But then again that didn't stop the world's most over rated ref ever, Steve Ganson, refereeing Saints matches.

Top of that list of flops would be Dayne Neirinckx and Anthony Seuseu for me.

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Richard Durgan no longer a director as of yesterday according to companies house. https://find-and-update.company-informa ... ng-history Make of that what you will