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[pont rover]

New years day home to Hunslet 1pm kick off,13th January away to Wakefield 3pm kick off,sorry unable to post link taken from Pont and Fev Express !

[Vince]

New years day home to Hunslet 1pm kick off,13th January away to Wakefield 3pm kick off,sorry unable to post link taken from Pont and Fev Express !

http://www.pontefrac...clash-1-5054516

[pont rover]

Another one confirmed away to the Tiggers !

http://www.pontefrac...-game-1-5056311

[thundergaz]

Another one confirmed away to the Tiggers !

http://www.pontefrac...-game-1-5056311

We might let them win this one😃😃

[oldrover]

when we play cas can we bring Alan Dakin back.

[marklaspalmas]

when we play cas can we bring Alan Dakin back.

And Paul Hughes. And Mark Knapper.

Two others that always seemed to have stormers against the auld enemy.

[Robin Evans]

Knapper from the touchline. Oh yes!!! 1988??

[oldrover]

yeh but when Dakin ran out at cas, it was like watching David Banner change into the hulk.

[marklaspalmas]

What about when Hughesy whalloped Kevin Ward who spent of the rest of the game hiding?

[Robin Evans]

Forgot about that!! I remember the 1st match of the season when we'd hardly got a pack. Cas were looking comfy til Foxy started putting newy n smalesy into gaps to come back n win at the death.
Chris Bibb looked great that day.
Well that's how I remembered it. Could be all cobblers!!!
Go on then mark. Away to cas 1st game of the season.
Year and team please.......

[Robin Evans]

It was either 87/88 or 88/89. Memory shot!!!

[marklaspalmas]

89/90.

We didn't win again in the league until about Christmas!

[Robin Evans]

Barrow's only win was at por! 22-29 or something like that. Genuinely thought it was earlier!

[marklaspalmas]

Barrow's only win was at por! 22-29 or something like that. Genuinely thought it was earlier!

Correct.

[Les Tonks Sidestep]

Forgot about that!! I remember the 1st match of the season when we'd hardly got a pack. Cas were looking comfy til Foxy started putting newy n smalesy into gaps to come back n win at the death.
Chris Bibb looked great that day.
Well that's how I remembered it. Could be all cobblers!!!
Go on then mark. Away to cas 1st game of the season.
Year and team please.......

Thought we were short of backs too, with Trevor Clark in the centres and Paul Hughes' 1st game as a winger.

[Les Tonks Sidestep]

Barrow's only win was at por! 22-29 or something like that. Genuinely thought it was earlier!

Correct.

Probably old age but my memory's convinced that they were down to 11 men by the end as well?

[Keith Nutter]

Barrow's only win was at por! 22-29 or something like that. Genuinely thought it was earlier!

Robin - the match was on 29 October, 1989 (2,137 crowd). The return match at Barrow on 21 January 1990 saw Rovers win easily 46-0 (1,289 crowd).

Incidentally, the win at Fev was Barrow's only victory in an 18 month period. I missed the match at Fev so watched non-stop defeats for the whole 18 months! Barrow defeated Whitehaven at Craven Park in April 1989 and I saw that match. The next time I witnessed a Barrow win a competitive match was a victory over Dewsbury at Craven Park in October 1990 - a period of almost 18 months!

What is even dafter is that after a run of nothing but defeats like that Barrow was still pulling in crowds circa 1,300 in the old Division Two (about our average last year in Championship 1).

[Griff]

89/90.

We didn't win again in the league until about Christmas!

Definitely. I remember listening to it on hospital wireless.

Edited by Griff, 28 October 2012 - 02:07 PM.

[Griff]

Looks like we're off to Limoux for our preseason friendly, le dixneuf Janvier.