Just a little observation here young man. Gary Mercer was errrrrr A KIWI !!!!!
You, yourself, or your club's supporters may not rate that man MING, but for many of us, he has a place in our hearts as a modern
( SL era ) mini legend at Halifax RLFC.

To answer Fax4life's question, yes, sure i remember that day. Wakey came with all their big guns, including Mike Lambkowski iirc, Thrummers was bouncing that day, cracking atmosphere & Jonny Blair's drop goals. If only games like those were available online or to purchase on dvd/blu-ray. 13,000 in Thrum Hall, it was awesome & one win away from Wembley until the late, GREAT Clive Sullivan took us to the cleaners at Headingley in the semi final.

Great player was Gary Mercer, enough said.

Yes it was as per a previous poster put a certain Bob Arnold who jumped over a wall to avoid the local constabulary in Mytholmroyd only to find it was a bridge! Also Bob Hudson was the player who slept through the whole episode and was found on the minibus floor by police!

Anyone remember the CC game versus Fulham at Crystal Palace which was played on about a foot of snow on the pitch! Possibly the coldest rugby match I ever attended and Kevin Moore broke his leg scoring a try on the posts....

That was the coldest game I've ever watched, from a bout a mile away, I think my knee joints froze.
Remember my mates thinking they needed to warm up a bit so had a long jump competition in the pit, the the bloody heating broke down on our coach before the coach itself finally gave up the ghost at Tingley, all in all a long cold day. But great memories.

For me coldest day ever was Oldham away - Boundary Park. Joe Kilroy looked "frozzen daft" after the match. So, so cold.

You obviously remember Jonny Blair and his drop goals that day. Can you remember the score, and how many he kicked?

I was on the very same coach with my dad and loads of other old timers! I remember my dad saying there's bloody ice on the inside of the windows...... That was a long cold trip!

Quote marillion man="marillion man"Just a little observation here young man. Gary Mercer was errrrrr A KIWI !!!!! You, yourself, or your club's supporters may not rate that man MING, but for many of us, he has a place in our hearts as a modern ( SL era ) mini legend at Halifax RLFC.'" I know mate. But he and his pal Russell Stewart from Bay of Plenty were our only decent foreign imports in the late 80s. Mercer left us for Wire and we only really got one good season from him. As far as Aussies were concerned we had the likes of Bob Kellaway and Ash Lumby who were v poor. Nowhere near the quality of Eadie/Anderson/Rix/Neller etc. We did get Bob Grogan for a game or two though after he left Fax. Interesting Jo Kilroy tale here: www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6609613138

Quote marillion man="marillion man"Just a little observation here young man. Gary Mercer was errrrrr A KIWI !!!!! You, yourself, or your club's supporters may not rate that man MING, but for many of us, he has a place in our hearts as a modern ( SL era ) mini legend at Halifax RLFC.'" I know mate. But he and his pal Russell Stewart from Bay of Plenty were our only decent foreign imports in the late 80s. Mercer left us for Wire and we only really got one good season from him. As far as Aussies were concerned we had the likes of Bob Kellaway and Ash Lumby who were v poor. Nowhere near the quality of Eadie/Anderson/Rix/Neller etc. We did get Bob Grogan for a game or two though after he left Fax. Interesting Jo Kilroy tale here: www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6609613138

Yes my mate fell asleep and woke up stuck to the window.

The 80`s must have been the era when recreational drugs were most prevalent in the game, Ive heard all sorts of stories about what some of the players got up to in that decade although i saw first hand in the 90's that it was still going on and quite widespread so it always makes me wonder how performances of players were affected for the better or worse afterall its well known as mentioned before that there were a few players probably still half cut when playing a couple of major games for us.

I can recall some article in The People or the NOTW back in the 80s/early 90s when someone alleged that Wire were on something for the Premiership Final versus Fax. Could’ve just been a massive bonus.