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| If we're into epics, then this is a pretty good one.
From being around seventeen I had a motorbike, a Triumph Tiger Cub, and I once went on it to Oldham, on a lovely, early spring Sunday afternoon. Northern were there that day, and though neither of us went to all the away games, my mate Ray and I decided, that as it was so nice, we’d go on the bike to watch the match. It actually stayed pleasant enough until we were approaching Halifax, when we spotted a few dark clouds on the horizon, these seemed to follow us, and intensify, as we rode up into the hills, until eventually the clouds burst and it absolutely bucketed it down all the rest of the way to Oldham, relenting only as we arrived at the appropriately named Watersheddings.
We were, as you might expect, dressed in casual jackets, T-shirt and jeans, more than a bit damp by this time, and since, not only couldn’t we have got much wetter, but in any case, the rain actually seemed to have stopped, I still wonder just why we decided to pay extra to stand under cover to watch the match. The pointless folly of this waste of brass was brought home straight after the game when, for some reason, the storm clouds returned, and let us have it, full pelt, all the way home.
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| Quote: Mirfieldbull "I was there that day too, horrible weak refereeing and a Rovers team determined to give it to a young Northern team. I remember taking to Phil Sanderson who played that day, he said Peter Fox told them to come off if there was any more mischief.
I also remember being drawn against Rovers at Odsal in the Yorkshire Cup a few months later, and another young team beat a very experienced Rovers team 15 14 I think, and Sir Keith scored a try from his own half against the man who used to get in the GB team ahead of him because of his better skill on attack, George Fairbairn!'" ]
Wasn't it from about 15 yards from his own line ?
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| I was up at Odsal with my brother buying our season tickets when big Les walked in, it was his first day at the club.
His wife and her sister were there, both huge women, as big as him.
One asked the girl behind the counter to order a taxi, to take them in to Bradford, my brother said we would give them a lift.
It was driving on 2 wheels down Manchester Road, I could feel the car breathing a sigh of relief when they got out......
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