Trojan
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Heard Mick Potter come out with it again tonight.
"As long as you beat Wigan (insert some other rival) we don't care if you lose every other game"
Utter *******'*
In 1989 Fev beat Cas first game, and again in the Yorkshire Cup. The got to the YC final but didn't win another league game before Christmas, but the Fev fans were fairly content.
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Talking to two Fev fans at work today who said that in the stand they were in you couldn't hear the P.A system clearly and that thought that the Fax fans were invading the pitch.
You couldn't hear the PA system. You couldn't hear throughout the entire match. The Halifax fans came on just after Fev had scored, and whether they like it or not those facing the south stand were making threatening gestures.
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Both sets of fans had a share of idiots yesterday, we got some abuse at the service station on the way home luckily I was sober so delt with it in a polite and friendly manner. Why do these people call themselves RL supporters we don't need them, I agree that the drink is a big problem but it was on sale in the ground so some people will have been at it all day.
The sooner major Rugby League games can go back to sensible kick off times the better. For me 3-00pm is the time major games should kick off. the weird and wonderful kickoff times are all to suit Mr Murdoch's soccer schedules.
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Key phrase there is "authority area of Cheshire". All that these areas represent are areas of local government or administration. They are not counties in the traditional sense.
Check this website out: Friends of Real Lancashire
But administrative areas is exactly what counties are. If we're going to start claiming, then we (the West Riding of Yorkshire) will have Saddleworth, the Trough of Bowland and Sedberg back for starters.
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Police forces are not based on county boundaries. For example in the midlands West Mercia police force covers 3 counties. I believe there is still a Humberside police even though Humberside ceased to exist a long time ago.
Warrington is a large town, borough and unitary authority area of Cheshire, England
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I don't know whether it was the right decision or the wrong decision. I do know that we were never behind the whole game until it was too late to do anything about it, which in retrospect seems a bit unfair. Having said that, Fax looked the stronger team in the last 20 minutes of normal time. I'm terribly disappointed. I woke up this morning wondering why I felt miserable (even more miserable than ususal
) and then I remembered why. 
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Not true. Warrington is a unitary authority which is split roughly in half by the river Mersey in terms of the old county boundaries. The town centre and anything north is technically in Lancashire and anything to the south of the Mersey is in Cheshire.
If it's not in Cheshire why were the Cheshire police at the HJ today then?
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I'll drive to Besses o' th' Barn at Jct 17 on the M60. Park there and get the tram - but then I'll be travelling from Yorkshire. If it wasn't for the fact that I promised a mate who a. lives in Barnsley and b. is a Wire fan who bought tickets last month convinced that Wire would be there - I wouldn't bother
I just hope it's a good game. The last time I went to Saintw Wigan in 2000 (?) it was quite an exciting game. Robinson's last for the Pies.
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Mo even use to make it in the London editions of the Nationals. whatever his fauts and he had them he was a great PR man for our game. as regards running the game give me
Richard LewisBill Fallowfield
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The man who could probably throw some light on Maurice is saying nothing. Harry Gration left a good job at the Beeb to become PR Director at the RFL under Maurice - he lasted about 6 months IIRC. I reckon Harry's memoirs of those months would be worth reading. I'll not repeat my opinion of Lindsay again, I've posted it on here often enough.
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So what? Churchill was kicked out by the post war electorate, just as the forum's fave party, Labour, has been. Does not mean to say they were never any good in the first place.
Funnily enough however you regard Churchill, one thing about him as PM is seldom pointed out. He never won the popular vote at a General Election. He was appointed in 1940, he lost in 1945, he lost again in 1950 and it was only due to the vagaries of the electoral system that he became PM again in 1951, his party polling considerably less votes than Labour.
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Those were the days EH ! Black and white telly , and everone covered in mud
"At Watersheddin's it used t'be good
To watch 'em feight for t'ball in t'mud
But now the game has changed tha sees
They can't play dirty on TV!
Eddie Warin' is a bum
Eddie Watin' is a bum
Ey aye addy Eddie Warin' is a bum!"
Oldham Tinkers
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There used to be a commnetator on Radio Leeds called Jack Wainwright, and I remember him saying "all these great Leeds moves are coming off John Homes's balls"
Sadly both are no longer with us.
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Surprised that a cricketer managed to beat both the rugby and soccer players in the sprint test. Although not surprising that the soccer players won the endurance.
The rugby players were from Cas so they probably cheated
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Fev, because for such a small place they have punched above their weight.
Not because your traditional shirts and ours used to look the same on b&w tv?
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And (apart from the series in 2003 where we lost closely in 3 tests) we've never really been that close.
Reason for me - we had decent 3/4's and half backs that could do more than kick a bomb to the corner.
We were a heatbeat away in 1990. If the ref had seen Meninga's obstruction of Gibson we'd have won at Old Trafford in 1990 and with it the series.
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Same here. I was off to York Races that day, so while everyone else on the coach at 8am was sleepy & bleary eyed I was buzzing from the win! Didn't stop me spending a couple of hours in a pub in York watching the afternoon replay though.
It had been a long time between even a sniff of a win and that game.
Yes it was a great day. I was there the last time we'd beaten them at Odsal in '78.
Kevin Ward really was an awesome forward. Even though he played for Cas (at the time)
Mike Gregory, what a player, difficult to believe he's no longer with us. Hanley in his pomp. Offiah and Henderson Gill. Hugh Wadell - some player Hughie. -
After Fev. Batley. I live nearer Batley than I do Fev. I 've played on Mount Pleasant (a very long time ago) I was there (a long time ago) when some Hull amateur team knocked them out of the JP Cup and felt really sorry for them. Don't get me wrong, they should have beaten an amateur team handily, they played badly but they lost because of some apalling refereeing decisions.
I've mellowed a bit towards Leeds these last few years.
In their pomp I always admired Widnes. I remember Sorrensen charging at Holding in the 1988 Premiership final, and Holding looking as though if there'd have been a hole he'd have hid in it
I always thought that they were very unlucky in the 1989 CC semi against Saints to have a player sent off. I reckon that team would probably have beaten Wigan that year at Wembley. As it was Saints put up a very poor show in the final.
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I'll race thee in mine in fact I'm taking so many medications the wife got arrested for being a drug pusher
Is she always pushing you about and talking behind your back ?
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Does Naughton Park count as defunct then? I've been there but not to the new stadium, but I thought one was just a revamp of the other.
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Defunct RL grounds? (in so much as they no longer host RL) or Defunct Grounds (as in they now have houses/a B&Q on them)? Because At least Wilderspool is still there (or it was a month or so ago!)
Since they ceased to host games I've been to:
Lidcombe Oval
Pratten park
Birchgrove Oval
Wentworth Park
In the UK - all of the above (except the Barley Mow, which I assume isn't a mistaken Maclaren Field) - plus:
Doncaster Greyhound Stadium
Chiswick Poly Sports Centre
Barnet Copthall Stadium
Owlerton
Alt Park
St Helens Town FC
Prescott cables FC
Canal Street
Moor Lane (Salford City FC)
Belle View, (Doncaster Rovers FC)
Ashton Town FC
Brunton Park
Penrith FC
And don't forget the Athletic Grounds
I've been there. Well I've been to Morrisons
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Been to those except Parkside, Leeds Greyhounds but also , McClaren Field (Barley Mow I suppose), Gilford Park Carlisle, Fartown, Runcorn, Alt Park Huyton, Altrincham, Borough Park Blackpool, Nottingham Municipal, Prescot, Gigg Lane,`Alfreton -never got to Belle Vue, Knotty Ash though & maybe more (Scarboro being one)
I missed Gigg Lane
How could I forget Newloves' 100th try for Fev 
and a sodding parking ticket when the steward assured me I'd be ok parked where I was 
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With the imminent demise of Knowsley Road I was thinking about defunct grounds and how many I'd actually been on. I came up with:
Thrum Hall
Station Road
Crown Flatt
Tatters Field
Central Park
Victory Park
Parkside
Barley Mow
Elland Road Greyhound Stadium
Watersheddings
Hilton Park
Craven Park
Boulevard
Clarence Street
Wilderspool
I've never been to Fartown. I think Huddersfield had a period of playing at Leeds Road and I went there once but haven't counted it.
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I remember going to Headingley in either the late eighties or early nineties and Roy Powell was playing for Leeds against Fev. Leeds were terrible that day and Fev won. For me Powell was their stand out player - never stopped and tackled everything that moved, if all the Leeds players had played as well as Powell they'r probably have won. But it was Powell who got the abuse from the Leeds fans stood near to me. Whether it was because he was black, or because he was out of favour, or they could identify him more easily because he was black I don't know. But I do know he didn't deserve the abuse he was getting from the Leeds fans. In fact if there was a better 80 minute man at the time than Roy Powell I never saw him.
Halifax Fan
in The General Rugby League Forum
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TBH I like a drink as much as the next bloke. But I don't often drink before I watch Rugby - although I have been known to imbibe in the Moon Under Water before the GF just to be sociable with other forum members. But normally I don't drink before I watch Rugby because if I've had a drink I've a job sorting out what's going on on the field and it spoils the game for me.
I saw plenty of fans of both clubs the worse for wear en route to the ground. After the pitch invasion and the threat of confrontation I'd have thought the prudent thing to do would have been to close the bars, but there was still plenty of ale available.
Many people on here will take the line of least resistance and blame Fev but I was at Headingley three years ago and watched Fev beat Oldham, and then Cas beat Widnes. Fev and Cas fans in the same ground with drink available sounds like a recipe for trouble - but I never saw any. So what was different this time? Perhaps it was the inaudible PA system? Or contradictary announcments. All I know is that when the 'Fax came onto the pitch, no one in the South stand knew why they were coming onto the pitch and assumed they wanted either to get the game stopped because 'Fax were losing, or they wanted to cause trouble.