Hi, not posted before but I've been waiting for someone to ask about the Eastern Division match for the last 40 odd years. I was actually at the final, taken by my dad when I was 12. Final was against Huddersfield and Rovers won 13-10 I think at Headingly, believe Graham Paul. The match was a week or 2 after the Yorkshire cup final which Rovers lost to Hunslet 12-2. Rovers suffered some real bad injuries in the Yorkshire cup final, Harry Poole broken leg, first game back after another broken leg and Mike Blackmore broken collar bone so nobody gave them a chance against Huddersfield but they won. There's an interview with Colin Hutton on Rovers TV in which he discusses the game. Think only he and I remember it.

Quote: Chants Ave Red "Hi, not posted before but I've been waiting for someone to ask about the Eastern Division match for the last 40 odd years. I was actually at the final, taken by my dad when I was 12. Final was against Huddersfield and Rovers won 13-10 I think at Headingly, believe Graham Paul. The match was a week or 2 after the Yorkshire cup final which Rovers lost to Hunslet 12-2. Rovers suffered some real bad injuries in the Yorkshire cup final, Harry Poole broken leg, first game back after another broken leg and Mike Blackmore broken collar bone so nobody gave them a chance against Huddersfield but they won. There's an interview with Colin Hutton on Rovers TV in which he discusses the game. Think only he and I remember it.'" It was 13-10, the teams are given in the link below and there is a picture of the cover of the match programme. www.giantssupporters.co.uk/Herit ... ition.html

Quote: Chants Ave Red "Hi, not posted before but I've been waiting for someone to ask about the Eastern Division match for the last 40 odd years. I was actually at the final, taken by my dad when I was 12. Final was against Huddersfield and Rovers won 13-10 I think at Headingly, believe Graham Paul. The match was a week or 2 after the Yorkshire cup final which Rovers lost to Hunslet 12-2. Rovers suffered some real bad injuries in the Yorkshire cup final, Harry Poole broken leg, first game back after another broken leg and Mike Blackmore broken collar bone so nobody gave them a chance against Huddersfield but they won. There's an interview with Colin Hutton on Rovers TV in which he discusses the game. Think only he and I remember it.'" It was 13-10, the teams are given in the link below and there is a picture of the cover of the match programme. www.giantssupporters.co.uk/Herit ... ition.html

Welcome along. Not that it's my gaff or anything, but no one else has said it. I'm a bit like that big fat bloke who says "Good morning" and then opens the door for you at Harvey Nicholls, but without the top hat.

Anyway, when you said you'd been waiting for forty years for someone to ask about this game, I sort of pictured you as the old bloke in the corner of a pub who never speaks and nobody knows anything about.

Like in a pirate film where there's always a nameless bloke in a corner whose sat there for forty years and then The Pirate Captain comes in and asks to the whereabouts of Black Bellamy and, you jump up (everyone looks shocked, you've never moved before) and say; "Arrggh! That scurvy knave, I know him well, I'll help you track him down Pirate Captain, I have a tattoo on my Iestyn as to the destination of his Secret Pirate Cave."

And then you and The Pirate Captain go off together on a boat called "The Curvy Esmerelda" and locate Black Bellamy, run him through and take all his plunder, and then go off and have all manner of adventures on the high seas.

There's probably a parrott involved somewhere as well.

So, are you a pirate, or am I getting a little ahead of myself?

Is that all your own work? Flippin' brilliant. 'The Curvy Esmerelda', love it. Ship not a boat though, ya land-lubber.

Of course it is, I was getting a bit bored with this thread.