Excolt 1 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Very sad news Frank Myler has passed away. One of the greatest players ever and a superb player/coach for Hornets. RIP Frank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anita Bath Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 The maestro ...the rugby league world has lost a legend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anita Bath Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 The tweets and websites at Widnes and Hornets failed to mention he also coached England as well as Great Britain on the Ashes tour in the 1980s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrone Shoelaces Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 We've had some great players at Hornets over the years but If I had to pick one above all the other it would be Frank Myler. RIP Frank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Jones Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Great player who served Widnes, Saints and Hornets with distinction. International wise a class act RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 A really great player. A rugby legend and the best player I've seen in a Hornet's shirt. R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArthurDaley Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Happy days supporting Hornets when Frank played for us. RIP. Frank scoring for Widness in the 1964 cup final . A large VAT Dave please. Allso known as Teodozjusz Matuschanskavasky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anita Bath Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Great find Arthur. Hull KR had beaten Hornets in a replay on the way to wembley. HKR played a record 8 games in the cup that season. They drew with the biffs in the semi final. The replay went to extra time and with the biffs in front the game was abandoned for bad light! The days when many grounds had no floodlights. HKR won at the third time of asking. The closest the Biffos have ever been to Wembley. They played in four consecutive cup finals in the 1920s, two of them played at the Athletic Grounds, the last being 2 years before the cup final moved to Wembley. Widnes’ Jim Measures, prominent in the newsreel, also played at Hornets at the end of his career Good to see the old straight line kicking style. I think it was David Watkins at Salford in the early 1970s who popularised the round the corner kick. Interesting to see the photographers running into the in goal area as the HKR try is scored. There is an accident waiting to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moorside roughyed Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Good coach for us as well. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickhornet Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 A legend, they don't come any better RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrone Shoelaces Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 I remember him playing inside centre to Norman Brelsford one day. Frank had made a couple of great breaks before whipping out a pass to Norman who promptly dropped the ball each time. Later on Frank made another clean break, swerved out right up to Norman on the right wing and shoved the ball into his hands so he could just run in for a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanC Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Frank brought some quality players Tom Brophy, Willie Aspinall , Brian Glover , Peter Gartland plus many other. When Frank started the game he would come off after 30 mins and sit on the bench and light up cigarette how time change. Great day Norman Brelsford scored 5 tries at Whitehaven playing outside Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glemiln Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 From the M.E. News, April 2005 (on the death of Jack Grindrod), reflecting on the influence of Frank Myler with Hornets after he had been signed by Alan Ellis and Fred Kershaw. Don’t click on the video, it’s not about Hornets! https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwiqpPO718_oAhUMXMAKHStmA-wQFjAAegQIBRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.manchestereveningnews.co.uk%2Fsport%2Fother-sport%2Fjack---a-man-for-all-seasons-1055834&usg=AOvVaw1pQi5K7XRTnV3V17BFqGo9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anita Bath Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 28 minutes ago, glemiln said: From the M.E. News, April 2005 (on the death of Jack Grindrod), reflecting on the influence of Frank Myler with Hornets after he had been signed by Alan Ellis and Fred Kershaw. Don’t click on the video, it’s not about Hornets! https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwiqpPO718_oAhUMXMAKHStmA-wQFjAAegQIBRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.manchestereveningnews.co.uk%2Fsport%2Fother-sport%2Fjack---a-man-for-all-seasons-1055834&usg=AOvVaw1pQi5K7XRTnV3V17BFqGo9 Another good find. But some of the details in the piece are inaccurate. Myler certainly wasnt less influential after he stopped playing and became FT coach. 1973-4 season was probably the best in the clubs history and the rugby we played was a delight to watch. We didnt make the lancashire cup final that year, as the report indicates. And Holliday’s drop goal was not from the touchline mud, it was from a fairly central position but not much inside Leeds half. Of course sloppy journalism at MEN is not a recent phenomenon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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