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Sally, this idea of a review of the whole 10 years is superb. Is it your memory, or do you have Videos/DVD's of every game over the entire period?'"
Its my memory, sad lad that I am, mixed with checking the fixture list from the season and seeing the scores which jogs things.
As Mark points out this was the year of "Foot and Mouth" and that chant was used against various teams, I remember Bradford getting it.
This was the year we signed Steve Georgallis. He was the type of signing the fans never liked - a 30 odd year old Aussie over here off quota on an EU passport and his first couple of games he looked slow and got everybody shouting at him. After the Challenge Cup semi he won the fans over as a hard worker who seemed to be getting into the whole thing of playing for the Wire, then just as people had warmed to him he got a season ending injury and never played again!
Another part of this season was the arrival on the scene of Paul Wood who came onto the bench at the start of the season and stayed there for pretty much every game. Where other youngsters can come in and get big hype then fade away, Wood just quietly held his own and started getting better slowly, he was skinny for a prop back then but never looked overawed physically.
2001 was the swansong of Allan Hunte who was a source of frustration for us all during his three years with us but on the other hand was quite popular, he scored a lot of tries and he did have pace, when he was on the break you could usually rely on him to finish. I used to love the the "Allan 'Unt, Allan 'Unt, Allan 'Unt" chant.
Remember Martin Masella too? Just had the one year with us, seemed a decent bloke, worked hard and did his best. No quarrels with his effort.
The most important thing by far that season for us was getting the stadium approved, we got the news after the season was over, shortly before the end of the year if I remember rightly, that the stadium would go ahead.