Hi Snowie xxx

I was thinking exactly the same thing - the script was written at the beginning of the season and Eddie has stuck to it without deviation from then onwards; if I were Kear, I'd had given him a chinese burn during the adverts.

Wigan have never played that badly and won before! Even Tomkins had a nightmare.

Is Cas's Eden related to our ex plodder Phil Eden? Didn't we off load Phil to Cas when he was past his "best", using the term best in it's loosest sense. What a waste of a good physique that bloke was!

a bit harsh on phil eden that.

he played (at a guess) well over a hundred games for trinity and he was not some mercenary passing through such as some of the players we have now. he was a big lad, but no plodder. he’d plenty of pace. i remember him destroying cas at wheldon road (i still have the vhs somewhere) as well as getting a hatrick at the willows in a poor side which contrived to lose. his undoubted talent was not nurtured.

he may have gone to cas, but i seem to think we loaned him to donny, but to be fair it’s a while ago.

edit: not harsh, but bang out of order. clearly written by one of those "fans" that have no idea what goes on during a game, and thinks it's the done thing to slag off players who gave their all.

Phil was a good Centre in a mediocre team and at least he always did his best and was a good club man,more than can be said of some of the dross we have on the books just now. Had some good times in club after matches with Eden, Mason, Fletcher,Scrum half of that team(Can't remember his name he worked at Kellingley pit,afraid it's the old grey matter).Remembered now ,it was Pickerill

I think Greg Eden who played last night was at Wakey until a couple of years ago.

Always remember Phil Eden as an outstanding junior who never fullfilled his potential. Big lad capable of running in straight lines. Still remembered for his collision with Rambo Ronnie Gibbs that left Ronnie spinning to the tune of a Rose Royce track (wishing on a star?) as the credits rolled following a televised clash.

Only Trinity player I've ever bagged was Paul Brown. Shouldn't have been drinking & smoking on the Church steps.

i take it that this is your lame attempt at a climb down from your massively disrespectful comments earlier.

noted.

Phil Eden was a very good player for Wakefield, for a long period.
If you think he was a plodder you obviously didn't watch many games back then.

Why was he mates with your hero Sykes?

Not those steps!

Its his son and he was a good player for wakefield, although he was devastating on a good day when he put his mind to it, he was a average player most of the time but then again that was same as most of the team then..

No climb down. I never really rated the guy as more than average during his playing career. Just confirming that for his size and early career promise he never really did anything I can remember other than the collision with Gibbs.
The comments were really an aside as part of an enquiry to any relationship to Cas's player. Hope that clears things up (Phil?)



I wish I had a quid for every game I've watched since the early sixties! Would estimate that I would have seen every home game that Eden ever played in + many away.