Aussie days

[glemiln]

World champions Australia returning to England  - the first Ashes series and Kangaroos tour of England in 22 years.  Some of our supporters may remember Australia games against Hornets or their players in Hornets’ colours?  In 1951 we secured 5 Aussies, including the late (2013) Wally Ellean - a Milnrow neighbour and his wife worked with my mother.   Wally broke his leg at Blackpool in December 1955 and returned to Australia two days later.

 

All England matches will be shown live on the BBC.   Test matches on three successive Saturdays - at Wembley on 25 October, at Everton's new Bramley-Moore Dock stadium on 1 November and then at Headingley on 8 November.   It is eight years since the nations last met - in the 2017 World Cup final in Brisbane, with Australia winning 6-0.

 

 

[Anita Bath]

1967 the last time we played the kangaroos...a midweek game in lat October or early November. Game played in a snowstorm and temperatures most of the aussies had never experienced. Didnt stop them rolling us over something lilke 27-2. I remember the '2'!

Dont recall us getting anywhere near their line. 

But to see the cream of australian rugby league playing at the athletic grounds was worth the snow and the cold.

[George Watt]

First time I saw the Aussies play on an Ashes tour was in Hull in 1948 where they played 2 matches against Hull and Hull KR. Clive Churchill played in the match which Hull lost. Hull KR  beat them and the Ashes went to GB 3-0. Many Aus. players came to play in England following WW2. GB played a winning Ashes series there in 1946 and Aus. players coming to England after that series included 

Lionel Cooper and Pat Devery.  Huddersfield.  George Watt. Hull  and  Arthur Clues. Leeds 

Other Aussies who came to Hull in 47/48 included Bruce Ryan, Duncan Jackson and Keith Gittoes.

 

[Jimmy DoNut]

4 hours ago, Anita Bath said:

1967 the last time we played the kangaroos...a midweek game in lat October or early November. Game played in a snowstorm and temperatures most of the aussies had never experienced. Didnt stop them rolling us over something lilke 27-2. I remember the '2'!

Dont recall us getting anywhere near their line. 

But to see the cream of australian rugby league playing at the athletic grounds was worth the snow and the cold.

Are you the George Watt who signed for Hull?

 

[Anita Bath]

34 minutes ago, Jimmy DoNut said:

Are you the George Watt who signed for Hull?

 

Signed for Hull?  ...Id sign for Leningrad academicals before signing my soul to yorksher! They'd never give me  a visa anyway.

Build that wall!

[Jimmy DoNut]

4 hours ago, Anita Bath said:

Signed for Hull?  ...Id sign for Leningrad academicals before signing my soul to yorksher! They'd never give me  a visa anyway.

Build that wall!

Sorry Anita, quoted the wrong post