Anita Bath Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Rochdale Hornets Website reporting ex player and coach Frank Myler has passed away at age 81. He achieved almost everything in the game as player and coach including leading the last GB team to win the Ashes. Although most people will remember him for his times at Widnes and St Helens and with england and Great Britain, he transformed Rochdale Hornets from a club struggling to to keep their head above water to a team competing with the best in the top half of the first division playing attractive rugby. He will never be forgotten in Rochdale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxford Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 More sad news RIP Frank. 2 warning points Non-Political Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastLondonMike Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 RIP Frank. Newham Dockers - Champions 2013. Rugby League For East London. 100% Cockney Rugby League!Twitter: @NewhamDockersRL - Get following! www.newhamdockers.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksy Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 RIP you legend. Rugby Union the only game in the world were the spectators handle the ball more than the players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nkpom Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Really sad day for the game today; may well be the last EVER captain of an Ashes winning team Down Under. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audois Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Frank was our hero at Widnes in the late 1950's. Remember him breaking the clubs try scoring record (38?) at that time - he had a great fend. Later I had the honour of playing against him for the Chemics when he moved on to the Saints. The picture below tells a thousand stories. Right corner maybe Percy Davies who played scrum half to Frank in the early days. The image in casuals I think was taken at the Widnes golf club where he was a top player. Bottom left scoring a try at Knowsley Road in a trial match for GB v the Rest leading up to the 1962 WC. On top that great occaison the Chemics winning at Wembley v Hull KR 1964 along side Vince Karalius. Between them the Chairman who led them out that day Frank Devonald and a neighbour of ours at the top end of town. "It involves matters much greater than drafting the new rules...the original and existing games have their own powerful appeal to their players and public and have the sentiments which history inspires" - Harold 'Jersey' Flegg 1933 "Just as we had been Cathars, we were treizistes, men apart." - Jean Roque, Calendrier-revue du Racing-Club Albigeois, 1958-1959 Si tu( Remi Casty) devais envoyer un fax au Président Guasch? " Un grand bravo pour ce que vous avez fait,et merci de m 'avoir embarqué dans cette aventure" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 News confirmed earlier this morning on Radio 5. Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Ralph Waldo Emerson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marauder Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 R'I'P' Sir My mate (Kevin Nason) turned out for Oldham Colts against Castleford, I remember one of the Oldham lads making a comment about another players skinny legs, Frank piped up and said "If the legs carry the man then they're big enough" I've always remembered that and used it myself a few times. Carlsberg don't do Soldiers, but if they did, they would probably be Brits. http://www.pitchero....hornemarauders/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Prince Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 20 minutes ago, Marauder said: R'I'P' Sir My mate (Kevin Nason) turned out for Oldham Colts against Castleford, I remember one of the Oldham lads making a comment about another players skinny legs, Frank piped up and said "If the legs carry the man then they're big enough" I've always remembered that and used it myself a few times. A classy player. He'd stand out in the modern game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentoffagain2 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Centre stand off or Coach top class in either.One of the good ones .R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Frank Myler will always be one of my all time Rugby League legends. RIP Frank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wollongong Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Never saw him play but but I remember his coaching career well. vale Frank Myler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Halfpenny fan Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Many years ago I caddied for Frank at Widnes Golf Club. He asked me if I fancied caddying for him at a competition in St Helens the following day. I said "Okay" and arranged to meet him at 9am outside a local newsagents. I turned up and the newsagent came out of the shop and asked me if I was supposed to be caddying for Frank Myler. I said "Yes" at which point the newsagent handed me some money. He told me Frank had made a mistake with the time but would pay me anyway. He had no need to do this, he barely knew me from Adam. He was a class act on and off the pitch. RIP Frank. Just because you think everyone hates you doesn't mean they don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unapologetic pedant Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Possibly a footnote in a career of extensive achievements, but forever grateful to Frank for delivering, in tandem with Peter Smethurst, some good days to Swinton in the early eighties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinking Jimmy Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 One of the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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