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[hecky]

After hiding since Friday 12th November 1993 .A REGAL TROPHY Program has turned up ,2nd round Dewsbury v St Helens . Memory being what it is can`t remember the score , anybody with a better memory know the score .

[YOUNG UN]

The score was Dewsbury 6 Saints 20. Mark Conway kicked a penalty and Denis Bailey scored a scorcher. Saints had absolutely hammered Bradford the previous week putting 54 points past them but we gave them a hell of a game.I think I am correct.

[hecky]

The score was Dewsbury 6 Saints 20. Mark Conway kicked a penalty and Denis Bailey scored a scorcher. Saints had absolutely hammered Bradford the previous week putting 54 points past them but we gave them a hell of a game.I think I am correct.

Many thanks

[Blind side johnny]

The score was Dewsbury 6 Saints 20. Mark Conway kicked a penalty and Denis Bailey scored a scorcher. Saints had absolutely hammered Bradford the previous week putting 54 points past them but we gave them a hell of a game.I think I am correct.

Gifted them two tries in the 1st half to trail 18-2 then actually won the 2nd half, if not the match itself. Probably the highlight of a fairly indistinguished season, our last as tenants at the Mount.

Ce message a été modifié par Blind side johnny - 27 janvier 2011 - 12:13 .

[creditwhereitsdews]

For some reason Dave Hadfield's match report of it still exists on the Independent site:

Dewsbury. . . .6

St Helens. . .20

ST HELENS became the first side to reach the third round of the Regal Trophy last night but most of the credit belonged to their determined Second Division opponents, writes Dave Hadfield.

Only a pair of defensive mistakes in the first half put the Yorkshire side in arrears. Instead of folding after those setbacks, they gave a St Helens side struggling to find their rhythm a thoroughly uncomfortable evening.

Dewsbury were a long way from being overawed by a side who put 54 points past the First Division leaders last week. Their Kenyan winger, Eddie Rombo, had a couple of dangerous runs and David Lyon had to scramble away a clever short kick by Les Holliday.

That encouraging start was undone when Conway had his pass intercepted by Tommy Martyn, who went 40 yards to score unopposed. Paul Loughlin missed the conversion but soon added a penalty for offside.

Dewsbury had their bright and threatening moments again before they were caught out by Phil Veivers' high kick which bounced free for Anthony Sullivan to cross for the second try.

A match littered with penalties gave Dewsbury the chance to open their scoring when Jonathan Neill was caught stealing the ball from Darren Fleary, Conway putting over the easy kick.

A similar award at the other end gave Loughlin his second goal, and three minutes before half-time an inside pass from Shane Cooper put George Mann into all the space he needed to reach the line and make Saints look thoroughly secure. Dewsbury continued to give them rather more trouble than Bradford last Sunday, however, with the hard running of the impressive Fleary causing repeated alarm.

Not as much, though, as the 60- yard dash down the left touchline which brought Dennis Bailey Dewsbury's deserved try just before the hour. Saints' insecurity showed in the way they were happy to accept the insurance of drop goals from Gus O'Donnell and Martyn. That put them out of reach but Dewsbury were still coming at them defiantly until the bitter end.

Dewsbury: Graham; Rombo, Charles, Johnson, Bailey; Delaney, Conway; Worthy (Haigh, 49), Kelly, Cocks (Worthy, 75), Williams (Dickinson, 49), Fleary (Williams, 71), Holliday.

St Helens: Lyon (O'Donnell, h/t); Riley, Martyn, Loughlin, Sullivan; Veivers, Griffiths (Pickavance, 56); Neill, Dwyer, Dammatt, Mann, Pickavance (Joynt, h/t), Cooper.

Referee: N Wood (Keighley).

[grumpyoldram]

For some reason Dave Hadfield's match report of it still exists on the Independent site:

Dewsbury. . . .6

St Helens. . .20

ST HELENS became the first side to reach the third round of the Regal Trophy last night but most of the credit belonged to their determined Second Division opponents, writes Dave Hadfield.

Only a pair of defensive mistakes in the first half put the Yorkshire side in arrears. Instead of folding after those setbacks, they gave a St Helens side struggling to find their rhythm a thoroughly uncomfortable evening.

Dewsbury were a long way from being overawed by a side who put 54 points past the First Division leaders last week. Their Kenyan winger, Eddie Rombo, had a couple of dangerous runs and David Lyon had to scramble away a clever short kick by Les Holliday.

That encouraging start was undone when Conway had his pass intercepted by Tommy Martyn, who went 40 yards to score unopposed. Paul Loughlin missed the conversion but soon added a penalty for offside.

Dewsbury had their bright and threatening moments again before they were caught out by Phil Veivers' high kick which bounced free for Anthony Sullivan to cross for the second try.

A match littered with penalties gave Dewsbury the chance to open their scoring when Jonathan Neill was caught stealing the ball from Darren Fleary, Conway putting over the easy kick.

A similar award at the other end gave Loughlin his second goal, and three minutes before half-time an inside pass from Shane Cooper put George Mann into all the space he needed to reach the line and make Saints look thoroughly secure. Dewsbury continued to give them rather more trouble than Bradford last Sunday, however, with the hard running of the impressive Fleary causing repeated alarm.

Not as much, though, as the 60- yard dash down the left touchline which brought Dennis Bailey Dewsbury's deserved try just before the hour. Saints' insecurity showed in the way they were happy to accept the insurance of drop goals from Gus O'Donnell and Martyn. That put them out of reach but Dewsbury were still coming at them defiantly until the bitter end.

Dewsbury: Graham; Rombo, Charles, Johnson, Bailey; Delaney, Conway; Worthy (Haigh, 49), Kelly, Cocks (Worthy, 75), Williams (Dickinson, 49), Fleary (Williams, 71), Holliday.

St Helens: Lyon (O'Donnell, h/t); Riley, Martyn, Loughlin, Sullivan; Veivers, Griffiths (Pickavance, 56); Neill, Dwyer, Dammatt, Mann, Pickavance (Joynt, h/t), Cooper.

Referee: N Wood (Keighley).

I must be getting addled - I can't for the life of me remember a centre called johnson.

[Blind side johnny]

Errol Johnson, signed from Bradford Northern and played just that one season for us as a member of a notable threequarter lineup. Played 23, scored 7 tries.

(Thanks to Rothmans, not my memory.)

[FarOutRam]

Rams had a decent team in the early nineties I remember. I remember playing our home games up at The Mount. There was hardly a blade of grass on the pitch at one point! We signed a few so called big names too I think e.g Les Holiday.

[Blind side johnny]

Clearly my memory must be betraying me then as i recall us having quite ordinary teams at that time with bursts of success simply leavening long periods of dismal failure. Les Holliday was one of the few bright spots at that time.

I've wittered on about it before but I guess that you weren't at Runcorn on the 3rd March 1991 FoR. If you were you wouldn't go misty eyed at the memory, that's for sure.

[Shipley Ram]

The score was Dewsbury 6 Saints 20. Mark Conway kicked a penalty and Denis Bailey scored a scorcher. Saints had absolutely hammered Bradford the previous week putting 54 points past them but we gave them a hell of a game.I think I am correct.

Im sure we also played Wigan around the same time in the challenge cup and lost by the same score.
I remember that game well. It was when Wigan won everything. They came to the mount with all their Stars and we gave them a good game.

[grumpyoldram]

Clearly my memory must be betraying me then as i recall us having quite ordinary teams at that time with bursts of success simply leavening long periods of dismal failure. Les Holliday was one of the few bright spots at that time.

I've wittered on about it before but I guess that you weren't at Runcorn on the 3rd March 1991 FoR. If you were you wouldn't go misty eyed at the memory, that's for sure.

I would still settle for that set of backs now though.

[Blind side johnny]

Im sure we also played Wigan around the same time in the challenge cup and lost by the same score.
I remember that game well. It was when Wigan won everything. They came to the mount with all their Stars and we gave them a good game.

The same year, but a previous season, we lost at home to Wigan 4 - 20 in front of more than 4000 (how did they all fit into the Mount in those days?). Trigger scored our only points with a single try.