: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:44 pm  

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?

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:49 pm  

FredParky wrote:

you mean you remembered it? you forget everything else

Sorry Fred you know what its like in these high pressure jobs.........

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:51 pm  

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.

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:52 pm  

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.

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:37 pm  

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.

Lost 8-3 if I remember rightly.

: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:01 pm  

Remember it well. The rain washed away our hopes of getting to Wembley.

We all believed that 'this was going to be the year'.

Many sorrows were drowned after the match.

: Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:45 am  

What happened re the 82 team? Why did it not go on for a few years?

: Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:42 am  

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!!

AJM - hero & villain in equal measure!!

: Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:12 am  

Walt Mooney Fan Club wrote:

Same as '71. The team at the time reached a 'high-water mark'........Murph moved on, and tempted players away!!

AJM - hero & villain in equal measure!!

Judas and Messiah on more than one occasion

: Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:56 am  

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.