Does anyone on here know if club statistician/historian- Nigel Williams is still with us, & if so, how he might me contacted?

Thank you;

Great. I'll post the stats on the board. It can be a useful discussion thread too as all sorts comes up when you start to research them.

Anyway, that book doesn't have an ISBN. It was a very small print run in 1989. Nigel himself still holds copyright, so I'm not re-producing any of it anywhere. It is however a base point for ongoing stats.

Dont know if im allowed to do this but this site has a every super league season from 97 except 2005 for some reason, in its archive files www.rugby-league-world.com/archive.htm

Dont know if im allowed to do this but this site has a every super league season from 97 except 2005 for some reason, in its archive files www.rugby-league-world.com/archive.htm

Thankfully Nigel's book is very clear in the stats and takes into account the changes in points for tries and drop goals over the years.

He includes friendlies in his records of games played but they don't count as first class games.

The point about sub appearances is worth bearing in mind. Before thd game went 17 a side subs were seen as less important. That's changed a fair bit now.

To be fair, on Wikipedia we include League, Cup, Playoff and WCC games. No friendlies. And the subs are integrated with appearances and not as a separate column as you say they are fairly important these days and give as much to the game as the starting 13.