Quote: wireone "The late 50s back line of Frazer,Bevan,Challinor,Naughton,Gilfedder,Greenough and Edwards was as good as any I have seen in the P&B. Unfortunately they played behind a mediocre pack which, too often, got second prize. If they had played behind the Oldham pack that the great Charlie Winslade was a member of in his pomp they would have been world beaters.
Although in the twilight of his career, like the other veteran who came at the fag-end of his career, Nat Silcock, Charlie was still able to show the rest of the pack a thing or two.'"
Well you are starting to push my memory there, and it is nowhere near as good as Teeside's. I can remember all the names, probably because dad talked about them at the match. Ally Naughton, I can remember nothing. Jim Challinor and Laurie Gilfedder I remember quite well. Didn't Laurie defect to Wigan. Bobby Greenough and Jackie Edwards were a great pair, but I only remember them in the Autumn of their careers. I loved Parry Gordon, but even though I only saw the tail end of Edwards, I suspect he was the better SH. Dad says that they were both eclipsed by Gerry Helme. The great Bevan, alias 'the mummy', I only saw a handful of times (I think). I suspect he must have started taking me along to the rugby around 1960-61. I remember being more interested in the trains shunting up and down the line, and wondering when the final whistle was going to blow.