perhaps i need to see it again cos i thought it was a bit of a union bash by union types.

Yeah it was you are bang on. Laurie Gant is God!

Maybe I need to rewatch see if I misinterpreted it, not that it's important

god bless Eddie Waring what a shame he died the way he did Alzheimer's is a nasty thing and i would never wish that on anyone did a fantastic amount of work for rugby league and realy got the game in britain famous just wish he was around now to get the game a bit of life again

Why did no-one remove that dog from the pitch? Like, srsly.

Thats what I thought, even more so how the hell did a dog get into the ground in the first place.

I thought the scene where David Coleman interviewed him before his last ever RL commentary was very poignant, Waring was obviously struggling to put coherent sentences together by that time and he looked a very lonely figure, his incarceration into High Royds Mental Hospital (nee "Asylum"icon_wink.gif was a sad indictment of the times, when you went in there you rarely came out and it was a case of "out of sight out of mind", Care in the Community has its critics but its far better than locking people into Asylums and throwing away the key.

the 2nd documentary that was filmed in 1969 could quite easily have been made in the Super League era.

Salford talking about stadium improvements that never happened, the Wigan Chairman going on about a brown envelope full of used fivers, Featherstone being described as grim.

The Featherstone training session and team talk was a classic - "they have a lad called Ogden playing who i've never heard of. anyone know him? no? oh well, im sure he is nippy so get him tackled when he gets the ball"

Very enjoyable on the whole.

"she'll be offside"

Absolutely brilliant from start to finish, worth the licence fee alone.

Bang on there! Every coach should have "executive" cigars after a win!

"You'd be a good player if you could kick"

Thought 'the game that got away' was a brilliant documentary!

As for Eddie Waring, also a great documentary - if not a little sad at the end. Poor lad.

I was at that game. Serious attempts were made to round up the animal at various points but it was just treating it as a game, waiting til people got near, then taking off only to wait again for more people to chase it. To this day, I'm not sure which would have presented the most farcical viewing - playing on, or transmitting footage of stewards, players and police trying to round it up. Believe me, I couldn't see it being caught quickly, short of shooting it. In hindsight, this might have been the best option.

I thought the whole evenings viewing was fantastic! The Game that Got Away was bloody good. Interesting to see how Salford hasn't really changed since then; relying on the clubhouse to keep the club afloat.

I loved the Wigan bit. With the stadium in the background it looked very much like a scene from The Damned United.

I think I may well have to email the beeb and congratulate them on a job well done.

eh? the feature was on salford and developing alternative revenue streams. the footage was from inside the willows variety centre which did happen (hence the footage from inside it!!!!) and is still there and operating today. it wasnt about improving the stadium per se, but about having a viable business model that obtained income and allowed the club to continue AND invest in quality players. its not a coincidence that the expert summariser on the later game (or whatever title existed in 197icon_cool.gif was David Watkins - a player salford poached from RU (with the associtaed costs) in the period featured in the previously documentary. Salford was, still is, a soundly managed club.