Anderson Jowett and Peacock all did cruciates that year.

Fielden came in to beef up the front row when we went even more down on numbers by the time we played Leeds at Headingley in April (was it)?

Speaking of which: Did you know that the elephant is the only animal with four knees. It would therefore be possible for an elephant to have 3 or 4 knee reconstructions at the same time.

Not obvious to me. Obviously.

Oh yes of course.

I would have him back like a shot now as coach..

Made all the more criminal that he is now in charge of the refs. Explains a lot about standards.

At the time I believed he was settling some old score, and it was the most scandalous action.

Some years later I asked him why he did it, and whether he had any regrets. He said that it was the wrong decision, but he just saw lots of blood on the player he thought Bradley had fouled, and that it was serious foul play. I find it difficult to be convinced by that, especially the speed at which he brandished the red, but suppose his explanation might as well be taken at face value.

I also asked him if he'd spoken to Bradley since about it and apologised, but the answer was basically no. He did sound like he did regret what he'd done, FWIW.

You can't send someone off becuase you think something mgiht have happened. That's even more outrageous.
So he didn't see anything? Appalling.

Bradley had built up a reputation as a niggly sort or player and obviously Cummings leapt to the wrong conclusion and brandished the red card too quickly. In short he acted like a biased fan rather than a referee.

Bradley was also severely censured and reprimanded by the RFL for remarks made about Cummings in his newspaper column. As he had retired and was thus RFL-impervious, it did seem an odd thing for the RFL to do, especially in the circumstances of Bradley having been found not guilty, despite having had his last game utterly ruined by a rash decision, but then it is the RFL.

Does anyone have a link to Bradley's article?

Wasn't he pursuing a coaching career in the UK at the time though? But it does seem like an RFL ploy. Censure the innocent party and promote the guilty one.

Dunno, don't think so. Pretty sure he was no longer involved in the game. Still utterly pointless, tho.

What he said.