It was Hubbard and yes he was huge

another memory from that game was the late geoff clarkson scored a rare try that day.

he was my favourite player from as a young lad

Ayen he did a nice war dance following it too

got another rare(ish) try on the DVD as well Tony (owd shoe) Cooke scoring off an Alf Wilkinson pass, couple of vintage Woody breaks too V Barrow.

the two divisions in that year proves there was life before sterile league

One of my earliest rugby memories is going to watch Whitehaven when i was a sprog in the old 2 divisions, bloody cold, wet and windy. Dont reckon it would have changed now......

its a bigger time warp than HP ever was

He was tackled by about 6 HKR forwards, maybe 20 feet from the line, reached an arm out, and plonked the ball down on the line.

Ok Ok, it might have been 10 feet out with 5 defenders, but you get the drift.

one final memory from me for 82.

the day of the whitehaven decider was a thurs and my sister was at school and there was no way she would miss that match.
at about 11:30 she put her hand up to inform the teacher about an imaginary docs appointment and she would have to leave.
within a minute 20 other kids had done something similiar and a class of 30 became 10.

she became part of the 6000 strong convoy heading to cumbria.

finest rugby day of my life.

have you got that dvd fred?

none exists of that game i'v pestered BBC and ITV as both had cameras thier but no film exist as club video's didn't 'come in' until a couple of years later.
I do have what appeared on the tv the day after but its only a short piece.

Fred, do you know who bought Telvista's library when they went belly up? They covered every 82 tour match and lots of matches around 81 to about 84 when they went under? Telvista were a Yorkshire company based close to Yorkshire TV.

Funny thing is, the crowd was officially announced as a little over 5000!!

The Cas CC game was a huge dissappointment. The elements prevented Leigh from going to Wembley that year, and 12000 pyssed wet souls went home absolutely gutted.

There was some fine sides then, and some traditional clubs like Cas and Barrow, was two of them!!

i stand corrected

sorry no but I will make enquiries