Just heard that the father of Fulham Rugby League Harold Genders died last night. His funeral will take place at Walton Lea Crematorium in Warrington on February 24th at 11am.
Harold was a former Widnes player and Warrington Director passionate about the game's expansion. Having recruited Reg Bowden as player coach they put a team together in just nine weeks that would of course take the League world by storm with the historic first game victory over Wigan at Craven Cottage.
Condolences to Shirley and family.

Sad to read that. I recall he wrote a book a few years ago about the founding of Fulham (published by Poplar's lot I think). A true rugby league man. Are the club planning to mark his passing in any way?

Very sad news, RIP Harold Genders.
As SE Taff says hopefully the club will mark his sad passing at this weekend's game.

The Club is planning a minute's silence at the game; subject to RFL approval.

A real Gentleman, got to interview him at the Wigan opening match at Fulham, I was just a teenager radio sports reporter and nothing was too much trouble. Rest in Peace Mr Harold Genders a True Visionary and as I said Gentleman, sad news.

Minute's silence confirmed. An appreciation of Harold Genders by Peter Lush rlhttps://www.lbsa.org.uk/rip-harold-genders/rl

Quite a man. R.I.P. Harold.

Yep, a sad loss for RL.

RIP Harold. Condolances to the family.

It was nice to see the numerous Fulham shirts among the crowd today, a nice tribute to the man responsible for the formation of the club.
Strange that there has been no mention of his passing on the clubs official website.

Agree it's a pity the club have not put anything up. There is a good tribute on the Warrington website.

I'd say it was a miracle there was any mark of respect shown.

We are talking about a club that threw a load of historical memorabilia in a skip after all.

Having a go at the club whilst we pay our respects to one of the founders. Not the most respectful of things to do.

Back to the thread. RIP. Mr Genders and thank you.

This is one of the rare occasions when I wasn't actually having a dig.

The club paid due respect it's everyone else who is having a whinge that they didn't do enough.

There is a big second hand bookshop near me. As I was walking past yesterday I popped into see if they had Harold Genders book The Fulham Dream.
Blow me, not only did they have a copy, it does not look like it has even been read. Plus it was only £ 2.50, a bargain. Got to find the time to read it now.