Trojan

Oh dear. This shows my age. Boxing Day 1960 Leeds v Wakey. I think Wakey won 14-7. We sat on the wall beside the slope where the players used to come out at Headingley. The next game was Wakey v Wigan at Belle Vue, 2nd round of cup, Wigan won 2-0 Fred Griffiths goal. I won half a dollar on the Leeds v Wakey game, and risked it again with the same lad against Leeds winning the Championship - I lost.

Edwards was s great player but not a "big name" like Offiah

I've been looking at a topic on Facebook about Neil Fox and why he's not on the Wembley plinth. Can anyone enlighten me as to how the selection of those that are on there was arrived at? What is most surprising thinking about it, is that while the game's heartlands are in Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cumbria, there's no representation from the latter two counties.

Sir Lancelot

It has two locations from the 1967 movie "Far from the madding crowd" - in Devizes, there's also the staircase locks there on the Kennet & Avon canal.

The point is that the various clubs and pubs in the "heartlands" started saving and booking for the following year's CC final almost as soon as the previous one was over. It was an annual jolly. Load crates of ale into the coach and off we go. Moving the date about sort of screwed that. And the end of winter rugby didn't do the event any favours either. Look at the Twickenham crowd. I went to Wembley in 2021 when Saints played Cas. (I went for Fev v York) it was hot for the Fev game. By the time Saints and Cas took the field it was blazing hot and players were dropping like flies due to the heat. Kick the comp off before the regular season (like the old county cups) don't seed it. And play a condensed comp aimed at a final in May. Whether it should stay at Wembley I couldn't say but I've been twice to the new stadium and haven't been impressed. I thought the game was ok. Wigan certainly are a competent effective side. TBH I don't think Wire were that far behind. A little more luck and they'd have been breathing down Wigan's necks. The Rob Burrow stuff showed our game at its absolute best.

But surely "The Longest Day" is an historical document, of what actually happened on both sides. The producers go to the trouble of getting actors who look and sound like Eisenhower and Montgomery, with German actors speaking actual German and then stick John Wayne in a key role. Presumably it had something to do with financing the film.

With the D Day anniversary upcoming, I watched "The Longest Day" yesterday. Has there ever been a worse actor than John Wayne? He speaks every word as though he were reading entries in a phone book. He plays the same part no matter who he is playing. Ok he was big and good looking and could ride a horse, but please actor???? Same goes to a lesser extent to another star of this movie. Richard Burton, he speaks every line as though he were on stage at Stratford, for me he totally lacked the talent to act on screen. I doubt if this movie could ever be remade, even with CGI. Shame really. It could do with some better acting performances from the English speaking cast.

Dublin is if anything more expensive than London

The 2019 playoff game between Leigh and Fev. Probably the best game I've ever seen, a credit to both sides and the Championship

I thought it was a brilliant piece. Rugby has been played at the Mount for nearly 150 years, but for how much longer under IMG? I was there the week before to watch Fev. Great atmosphere, very competitive game could have gone either way.

He, Malcolm Reilly, Steve Norton, and Bill Ashurst were the tall long striding type of forwards the Aussies based their new style game on. Lowe was a great player. Wish he was available for GB today. RIP

Long term grievances if not put right, can fester and turn to hate over the years. Again IMG had better watch out. |It won't just be Fev

But the roots of today's problem lies there. The victimised feeling of Fev fans has been passed down.