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Huddersfield University at the Heritage Quay are celebrating the 1946 GB  side, the Indomitables, in an event on 2 July.


 


http://heritagequay....y/rugby-league/


 


Sounds interesting.


 


What a cracking photo that is at the top of the linked piece.


 


No doubt Giantstrides and TWIG  can remember the tour and the tests.


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Excellent! I have Colin Thomson's book about the tour, and have recently read Eddie Waring's tour diary. Proper tours back then - loads of matches and extra-curricular activities like the Welsh contingent singing on Aussie radio and the squad being treated as VIPs, attending everything from log-chopping contests to trotting races.

 

One thing I have learned from this is never take on a bunch of Irish priests in a hockey match!

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Excellent! I have Colin Thomson's book about the tour, and have recently read Eddie Waring's tour diary. Proper tours back then - loads of matches and extra-curricular activities like the Welsh contingent singing on Aussie radio and the squad being treated as VIPs, attending everything from log-chopping contests to trotting races.

 

One thing I have learned from this is never take on a bunch of Irish priests in a hockey match!

It's a great idea and I'd like to hear and see more about it.

 

 

The Irish priests, well! Funny for the way that it's viewed generally collides with my experience that it's a game of violence with sticks!

2 warning points:kolobok_dirol:  Non-Political

 

 

 

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Excellent! I have Colin Thomson's book about the tour, and have recently read Eddie Waring's tour diary. Proper tours back then - loads of matches and extra-curricular activities like the Welsh contingent singing on Aussie radio and the squad being treated as VIPs, attending everything from log-chopping contests to trotting races.

 

One thing I have learned from this is never take on a bunch of Irish priests in a hockey match!

 

Just as well they weren't playing hurling.

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Just as well they weren't playing hurling.

They didn't play the game, but I think there was a fair bit of hurling when the weather got bad...

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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