Rugby league in strange places

[corvusxiii]

47 minutes ago, DoubleD said:

There was a rugby league team in knaresborough for a while, I remember playing against them and getting a forearm smash to my face leaving me with a nice gash under my eye. They were a union team playing in the league summer season, not sure if still going. Facilities were dreadful, on a par with some of the worst rugby league grounds

Harrogate Hawks are playing York Barbarians today in Starbeck. I'm in Whitby taking on fluids though. 

[Hopping Mad]

I was down near Alfreton yesterday, watching non-league football. Came across the ground - in a public park at South Normanton - of Bolsover Bulls RLFC, who appear to run a number of junior teams. Posts up, pitch marked out and a publicity poster on the outside of the changing rooms.

Nice to see some rugby league interest remains in that part of the world, despite the long ago demise of semi-pro Mansfield Marksman RLFC, who played at Field Mill, Mansfield, then at North Street, Alfreton.

https://www.facebook.com/bolsoverbulls/?locale=en_GB

Edited March 10 by Hopping Mad

[Gomersall]

48 minutes ago, Hopping Mad said:

I was down near Alfreton yesterday, watching non-league football. Came across the ground - in a public park at South Normanton - of Bolsover Bulls RLFC, who appear to run a number of junior teams. Posts up, pitch marked out and a publicity poster on the outside of the changing rooms.

Nice to see some rugby league interest remains in that part of the world, despite the long ago demise of semi-pro Mansfield Marksman RLFC, who played at Field Mill, Mansfield, then at North Street, Alfreton.

https://www.facebook.com/bolsoverbulls/?locale=en_GB

They really should be the Bolsover Beasts with Dennis Skinner as honorary chairman.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Today I saw a Gateshead Thunder polo shirt in a charity shop in Bridlington. That could be the most random thing I've ever seen. 

[EggFace]

My nephew just returned from a week in Haarlem in the Netherlands and met a Aussie who was St.Merge Dragons which warmed my cockles.

[ronusa]

In the 70s playing league 0n Hackney Marshes in London,103 soccer pitches and 2 rugby pitches.

Good old days in SRL

Ron

[EggFace]

I also went into a Wigan Rugby League bar in Tenerife in 1993 not far from the whole Las Americas strip but went looking for it again in 1996 and couldn't find it.

[RayCee]

I was in a medical waiting room in NZ and I spotted a sign ostensibly about nurses. I realised it was a subliminal message from a Wire fan using an innocent poster to get his message across. What an unusual place to spot RL, albeit done surreptitiously.

[Gomersall]

I have a tv programme on Channel 5 on in the background about Cornwall. My wife chirps up that the man operating a mechanical digger on Newquay beach is wearing a Leeds Rhinos shirt. Sure enough he was. I’ll make a rugby league shirt spotter out of her yet.

[Gomersall]

On 19/03/2024 at 22:24, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Today I saw a Gateshead Thunder polo shirt in a charity shop in Bridlington. That could be the most random thing I've ever seen. 

Really? There are loads of charity shops in Brid.