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Quote: Levrier "York are obviously a good team going off their performance against The Cats. I have played in 100+ games and remember just how much time it takes to score and kick and then restart. To score that many tries suggests that West wales barely saw the ball. It must be a worry for the integrity of the league and the welfare of players. Next year I imagine that York will be looking to move up.
On another note, were all of the scores mentioned using the same scoring system. I assume that Wigan's 116-0 against Flimby and Fothergill (?) would have been using 3 point tries. (24 tries and 22 goals

The Huddersfield (142-4) and Barrow (138-0) results included 4 point tries (the value increased from 3 in about 1983). The record score prior to that was also held by Huddersfield (119-2 v Swinton Park, an amateur club in the challenge cup) registered a few years prior to Wigan's win over Flimby and Fothergill. While the Huddersfield score from that day about a century ago may have been higher than 144 if we converted each 3 point try into a 4 point try (it could have been from 27 tries and 19 goals so 146 points in today's system for example) it would seem silly to discount a higher total on the scoreboard today from the record books due to the scoring system having changed. (There was a similar discussion IIRC when Kevin Sinfield broke Lewis Jones's points record for Leeds as Jones had scored 3 point tries).

Also to make direct comparison of scores difficult (if the desire to do so was there) at the time of Huddersfield's 119-2 win and Wigan's 116-0 win drop goals were worth 2 points so all goals were often lumped together. Jim Sullivan's record 22 goals in that game for Wigan may have included some DGs (however unlikely it seems that a team scoring over 20 tries would go for a DG) which today would reduce the total. The same could apply to the 119 point tally.