Funnily enough the total opposite happened to me.....different player mind. Dean Sampson for Cas, hated him as a player always thought he was a dirty and no good for the game. But now at 17 years of age I found myself playing against him a few month back when I was at Dudley Hill 2nd team and he was playing prop for Fryston. He wasn't dirty at all and at 42 he still ripped us apart and even congratulated us younger guys for putting in massive effort, he went from Zero to pretty cool guy.
Anyway back on topic
It's great that some of you older folk are putting pics up of older teams as I for one was born in 1995 so didn't experience all the 70's and 80's however ever week without fail my grandad mentions players and games from this period and it's nice for me to be able to see these players on your pictures