It has been announced that the championship finals day will be held at the LSV. Well Fax have a final, Leigh have a final and Fev cant win a final!!!! I think its a great move forward at playing them at championship grounds and put some coffers back in our pockets. I will be attending Both, Hopefully with a massive smile when we do the double. www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/27 ... tone-press

It has been announced that the championship finals day will be held at the LSV. Well Fax have a final, Leigh have a final and Fev cant win a final!!!! I think its a great move forward at playing them at championship grounds and put some coffers back in our pockets. I will be attending Both, Hopefully with a massive smile when we do the double. www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/27 ... tone-press

Fair enough, I suppose. Leigh won't be there.

Tommy Sale told me that Leigh once won a play-off game but only he was old enough to remember it.

Made me chuckle!

That is signature quality!

it does kind of make a mockery of the finals though when a team can be at home.
why not name 3 grounds and decide once know who is in final.
sorry forgot thats common sense n we are talking about RFL

I am fairly certain that Headingly has been used for the old Yorkshire Cup Final and Leeds were finalists in the 60's and 70's.

We lost in the Yorks cup final against Leeds at Headingley in 1979 IIRC

Another stupid decision

Proper shambles.

Esso insisted on it being there as a condition of their sponsorship as there were bu99er all decent grounds in the county at the time.

I wasn't complaining, simply making a statement !

Halifax

1 - Jimmy Birts
2 - Derek Howard
3 - Graham Garrod
4 - Dave Cholmondley
5 - Keith Waites
6 - Mick Blacker (Captain)
7 - Terry Langton
8 - Peter Jarvis
9 - Dean Raistrick
10 - Alan Wood
11 - Mick Scott
12 - Greg Sharp
13 - Dave Busfield

Subs - Mick Snee & David Callon

Coach - Maurice Bamford

Leeds

1 - Neil Hague
2 - Alan Smith
3 - David Smith
4 - Les Dyl
5 - John Atkinson
6 - John Holmes
7 - Kevin Dick
8 - Roy Dickinson
9 - David Ward (Captain)
10 - Steve Pitchford
11 - Graham Eccles
12 - David Heron
13 - Phil Cookson

Subs - John Sanderson & Bryan Adams

Coach - Syd Hynes


Fax lost 15 - 6 (H/T 10-6) in front of 9,137.

Now, does anyone know which 3 teams we beat to get to the final?

Hi Tony,

In that era I was a staunch loyal Fax fan (before switching to the Bulls in the 90s) and I remember it well.

1st round - Fax won at Bramley 12-5
2nd round - Fax beat Hunslet (or was it "New" Hunslet?) 23-12 at Thrummers
Semi - Fax beat Dewsbury 5-3 in a nail biter at Thrummers

My (now) beloved Bradford (Northern!) lost against Wakey 30-5 at Odsal in the 2nd round. You can see why I didn't bother with them in those days!

Glory hunters not welcome here, stick to our own forum please.

is that the final that mick blacker made a miraculous recovery from an appendix op to play