Our greatest ever coach. No one won more trophies with less money. He made average players good and good players great. The first coach I ever watched in 78 when we once had to play something like 5 games in a week due to a fixture backlog and injury crisis but we still made the top 8. A couple of years later we won back to back championships. As GB coach he came very close to beating the Aussies in a test series. He left us and came back when we looked doomed to be relegated and saved us in the last game of the season. I think it was the year after that we lost the championship on points difference. No one ever got more out of their players. Rest in peace Sir Peter.

Didn't we only get Paul Newlove from Feath because Newlove was besotted with Foxy and was determined to follow him.

Wasn't it also Peter who introduced the tradition of taking players that Leeds had told were no longer any good (Dave Heron, Paul Dixon etc), many of who inevitably went on to show Leeds how wrong they were.

Where to begin.

Peter Fox was the coach as my time as a Northern fan. He won us an unprecedented two league titles in a row. I looked up to him enormously and used to pour over his programme notes and listen attentively to any word he uttered on the radio. He had an amazing talent for getting the best out of average players. When I met him in person I could see why. He had an ability to make you feel good about yourself and his confidence in what he said made you feel confident too. You can see why players played above themselves for him. If you could bottle and sell that ability you’d be a millionaire.

I was disappointed when he left us in 1985 and overjoyed when he came back in 1992. Without doubt we would’ve gone down that year if it wasn’t for him. I remember he was newly arrived as coach and sat in the stand at Burnden Park when we got thrashed 71-10 by Wigan in the cup semi final and we looked doomed. Within weeks he’d sorted our defence out and bit by bit we got ourselves out of the mire, culminating in a heart stopping, nail biting 14-12 win at Hull KR that kept us up. Fox saved us without doubt. Nobody else could’ve got that kind of response from the players in such a short period of time. Within a couple of years we just missed out on the title on points difference. We had been transformed.

I remember it was back in 2008 when Peter was up at Odsal doing a book signing for his newly published biography in the club shop before the SL game versus HKR. I went in and there he was sat at a little table in the corner, all alone. A few people were hovering around but they looked a bit awe-struck. I went over and asked if he’d sign me a book. He couldn’t have been more charming. I said “It’s fitting you’re here today when we’re playing Hull KR because 16 years ago you coached us against them and kept us in the top flight.” He puffed his chest out, looked around and said “Aye! And there’s a few around here that have forgotten about that!” I was pleased to then see a few people come forward and re-assure him that hadn’t been forgotten at all.

Looking at all the comments on social media you can see how admired, respected and loved Peter Fox was. He was a guru amongst coaches, a leader of men and Rugby League through and through. I must confess to having a lump in my throat writing this.

RIP Foxy, thanks a million, you were the best.

Just thinking about some of the signings he made, 2 what stand out for me are bob haigh £750 from Leeds, yes £750. Also Ian van bellan for free from Huddersfield, and sure will remember many many more

Brian McDermott too.

We’d never have got Deryck Fox or Paul Newlove either had Foxy not been our coach.

I have enjoyed reading these tributes to Peter, all of which are true. Working at Odsal as "A" team physio between 1992 and 1995 I would concur with what has been said. Charismatic, great story teller, treated everyone the same regardless of whether you were the chairman or the assistant kit man. By the end of his coaching career some were writing him off a old fashioned, and it certainly was a world away from what followed under Brian Smith, but nobody can ever take his record away from him. Not just the championships in his first stint, but saving us from certain relegation when he returned, and finishing a whisker behind Wigan in second spot in 1994. I loved sitting with him in the dugout and observing how he would constantly badger the officials, usually with the desired effect. I'll also never forget him winding up Tony Fisher when we played an A team game at Doncaster. I thought Fisher was going to batter him - nobody else would have dared but Peter told him what he thought - as usual. RIP to a true RL legend.