you mean you remembered it? you forget everything else

Having watched the DVD. The Hull KR game is a cracker. Anybody watching that would think Leigh would have been sure bets for Wembley that year. What happened v Cas? did Leigh play badly? were players absent?

IMO the weather beat us that day , although to be fair Cas did have a decent side.

It p1$$ed down the whole match and we couldn't handle the conditions as well as Cas.

Thats an understatement. They were building Arks down Glebe Street.

My Dad made the stand in the 'boys pen' as he called it, behind the dugouts, and I remember very little of the game apart from someone holding a brolly at the side of me which served no puropose other than to divert the rainwater from the same, into the neck of my Parka. I dried out some time in 1984.

Lost 8-3 if I remember rightly.

Remember it well. The rain washed away our hopes of getting to Wembley.

We all believed that 'this was going to be the year'.

Many sorrows were drowned after the match.

What happened re the 82 team? Why did it not go on for a few years?

Same as '71. The team at the time reached a 'high-water mark'........Murph moved on, and tempted players away!!

AJM - hero & villain in equal measure!!

Murphy was a master of getting the best out of honest hard working players.

Whilst we had a great backline of Drummond, Woods, Donlan, Fox, and a nowty little bugger called Kenny Green at scrum half, the forwards were simply a pack of hard local blokes who would run and run all day for him.

Collectivly there wasnt a better pack in the division, but individually (whilst Cook, Tabern, Potter were quality players) they were not world beaters.

Once Murphy left the momentum was lost, folk left or retired in the following years and within a a few years we were in the 2nd division.

Could i geta copy of the DVD, think i'd get browny points from the future father in law [future mum in law is a pie eater

was only 12 at the time and was'nt allowed to go to HKR, remember it being on granstand on the saturday, and looked away from the TV when woody took that kick,could not watch, went to the cas game though,gutted, we may never get as close again, is that the same game dessie tracked back from opposite wing and absolutely crunched him into touch

We were victims of our own success after that game as the pundits made us favourates for the Cas game. Why couldn't they have just shut up.

yes...i still say it was the finest tackle i have ever seen in watchng league for 40 years.
the wingers name was steve hubbard...i think and he was a bulk of a man.

just one of many great dessie moments