Crunchers Dad Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Great times and memories, unfortunately the giant killing acts are getting fewer and less likely:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowes Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Highfield as in "Runcorn Highfield"?The same club but they'd relocated to St Helens by then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanto Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Wath Brow have a decent history of upsets. 2002/03 V Workington Town, 2004/05 V Dewsbury Rams, 2008/09 V London Skolers. Has any other team been beaten three times by amateurs as Egremont also beat Workington Town in 1998 and as mentioned they lost to Sharleston way back in their first season as a pro club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deluded pom? Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Didn't West Hull beat York in the 90s? Yes but this thread is about amateur clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowes Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 No amateur club knocked out a professional club between 1909 and 1995 (ironically Beverley were the amateur club on both occasions). However, two clubs won one game of a two legged tie but still got knocked out. Normanton 7-2 Holbeck (1899) Normanton 5-0 Leeds (1900) Birkenhead Wanderers 2-0 Millom (1901) Windhill 5-0 Millom (1902) Millom 7-8 Parton (1904) Featherstone Rovers 23-2 Widnes (1906) Saville Green 10-0 Bramley (1907) Whitehaven Recreation 13-8 St Helens (1908) Beverley 7-2 Ebbw Vale (1909) Sharlston Rovers 12-7 Workington Town (1946; lost 23-14 on aggregate) Risehow & Gillhead 10-2 Keighley (1948; lost 13-10 on aggregate) Highfield 4-27 Beverley (1995) Highfield 20-35 West Hull (1996) Chorley 12-27 Thatto Heath (1996) West Hull 10-6 York (1996) York 14-21 Dudley Hill (1997) Bramley 10-16 Ellenborough Rangers (1998) Doncaster 18-23 Featherstone Lions (1998) Ellenborough Rangers 14-12 Hunslet (1998) Egremont 18-0 Workington Town (1998) Bramley 12-18 Leigh Miners Rangers (1999) Batley 0-10 Oldham St Anne's (2000) Sheffield Eagles 14-16 Thornhill (2000) Chorley 8-22 Woolston Rovers (2001) Wath Brow Hornets 13-12 Workington Town (2003) Halton Simms Cross 15-8 London Skolars (2003) Sharlston Rovers 30-28 Dewsbury (2004) Dudley Hill 16-14 Keighley (2004) Swinton 14-26 East Hull (2004) Wath Brow Hornets 32-30 Dewsbury (2005) Thornhill 16-12 Workington Town (2006) Wath Brow Hornets 14-12 London Skolars (2009) Doncaster 0-26 Siddal (2010) Everything up to 2010. Source: Making up the numbers by Stuart Sheard I'll get the remaining wins by amateurs against pros shortly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowes Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Leigh Miners Rangers 32-6 Oxford (2015) Is the only giant killing since 2010. However, Leigh Miners Rangers have a very real chance of beating York to make the last 16. I think the heyday of amateurs beating pros was when the Challenge Cup was a winter competition and the pros played summer whilst the amateurs were match fit from winter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ullman Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 No amateur club knocked out a professional club between 1909 and 1995 (ironically Beverley were the amateur club on both occasions). I thought that was the case when I mentioned Beverley's record earlier in the thread but I wasn't sure of myself. The list of results is a fine piece of work and really interesting. Well done and thanks. "I'm from a fishing family. Trawlermen are like pirates with biscuits." - Lucy Beaumont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ullman Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Yes but this thread is about amateur clubs. meeeoowww "I'm from a fishing family. Trawlermen are like pirates with biscuits." - Lucy Beaumont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobbygobbler Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 No amateur club knocked out a professional club between 1909 and 1995 (ironically Beverley were the amateur club on both occasions). However, two clubs won one game of a two legged tie but still got knocked out. Normanton 7-2 Holbeck (1899) Normanton 5-0 Leeds (1900) Birkenhead Wanderers 2-0 Millom (1901) Windhill 5-0 Millom (1902) Millom 7-8 Parton (1904) Featherstone Rovers 23-2 Widnes (1906) Saville Green 10-0 Bramley (1907) Whitehaven Recreation 13-8 St Helens (1908) Beverley 7-2 Ebbw Vale (1909) Sharlston Rovers 12-7 Workington Town (1946; lost 23-14 on aggregate) Risehow & Gillhead 10-2 Keighley (1948; lost 13-10 on aggregate) Highfield 4-27 Beverley (1995) Highfield 20-35 West Hull (1996) Chorley 12-27 Thatto Heath (1996) West Hull 10-6 York (1996) York 14-21 Dudley Hill (1997) Bramley 10-16 Ellenborough Rangers (1998) Doncaster 18-23 Featherstone Lions (1998) Ellenborough Rangers 14-12 Hunslet (1998) Egremont 18-0 Workington Town (1998) Bramley 12-18 Leigh Miners Rangers (1999) Batley 0-10 Oldham St Anne's (2000) Sheffield Eagles 14-16 Thornhill (2000) Chorley 8-22 Woolston Rovers (2001) Wath Brow Hornets 13-12 Workington Town (2003) Halton Simms Cross 15-8 London Skolars (2003) Sharlston Rovers 30-28 Dewsbury (2004) Dudley Hill 16-14 Keighley (2004) Swinton 14-26 East Hull (2004) Wath Brow Hornets 32-30 Dewsbury (2005) Thornhill 16-12 Workington Town (2006) Wath Brow Hornets 14-12 London Skolars (2009) Doncaster 0-26 Siddal (2010) Everything up to 2010. Source: Making up the numbers by Stuart Sheard I'll get the remaining wins by amateurs against pros shortly Leigh East beat Chorley in 1991 but that could have been in the JP trophy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronicler of Chiswick Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Leigh East beat Chorley in 1991 but that could have been in the JP trophy Yes it was, 20-10 at Hilton Park on 4th November in the preliminary round - and they had two players sent off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanto Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Sharlston Rovers 12-7 Workington Town (1946; lost 23-14 on aggregate) Egremont 18-0 Workington Town (1998) Wath Brow Hornets 13-12 Workington Town (2003) Thornhill 16-12 Workington Town (2006) Forgot about Thornhill..so four times Town have lost to amatuers .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crunchers Dad Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Yes but this thread is about amateur clubs.Naughty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deluded pom? Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Naughty! But true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crunchers Dad Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Wests were just like all the other big 'amateur' clubs at the time, paying expenses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deluded pom? Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Wests were just like all the other big 'amateur' clubs at the time, paying expenses. Do you believe in the tooth fairy as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehbandit Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Good money at wests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crunchers Dad Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Do you believe in the tooth fairy as well?It was true, unlike the Tooth Fairy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deluded pom? Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Wests have been paying more than expenses for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehbandit Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Wests have been paying more than expenses for years.What do you class as expenses? How much u reckon they pay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deluded pom? Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 What do you class as expenses? How much u reckon they pay? You know the numbers that are mentioned just as much as I do. It also depends who you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crunchers Dad Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 The expenses during my time, were paid by the sponsor, not the club. They were decent, but nowhere fantastic; you could earn more working on the Saturday morning. I used to get £40 boot money from another club back in the early 80's just for turning up; win bonus was double. So the Wests stuff is just a lot of jealousy in some quarters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deluded pom? Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 The expenses during my time, were paid by the sponsor, not the club. They were decent, but nowhere fantastic; you could earn more working on the Saturday morning. I used to get £40 boot money from another club back in the early 80's just for turning up; win bonus was double. So the Wests stuff is just a lot of jealousy in some quarters. And your link with Wests doesn't slant your view either does it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crunchers Dad Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 No I'm going to state things how they were. Of course I'm going to support my past clubs, whoever they are; it's called loyalty. The first team were the elite and treated as such, but the Lions A team, trained alongside them. They didn't get recompensed, but didn't moan about it either. Add in the coaching, great physio backup and excellent supply line of youth players; then you had a great combination. Main factors why so many players stayed there. That is what separates Wests from other teams at the time and why they were so dominant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deluded pom? Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 So all the ex pros seem to end up at Wests because they are such a wonderful club? The pound notes have a lot to do with it. I'm not involved with any amateur teams so jealousy doesn't enter into it. Wests are known throughout the area, and further afield, as a club that pays more than expenses and I'm sure you're aware of it too. Does/did Cruncher play for Wests by any chance too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tag Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Not a bad assessment cruncher! What years you play at wests ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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