: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:29 pm  

tvoc wrote:

Was Marvellous Marvin Golden there as well?

No. But i did end up getting his spare jersey from the Cup Final, courtesy of Masella.

The only absentee from the 17 was Blackmore and the only absentees from the squad were Marvin, Lawford and Sterling.

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:53 pm  

G1 wrote:

No. But i did end up getting his spare jersey from the Cup Final, courtesy of Masella.

The only absentee from the 17 was Blackmore and the only absentees from the squad were Marvin, Lawford and Sterling.

why wasn't sterling there?

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:12 am  

Snake Eater wrote:

why wasn't sterling there?

because nobody else liked him

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:20 am  

G1 wrote:

The only absentee from the 17 was Blackmore and the only absentees from the squad were Marvin, Lawford and Sterling.

Almost like the '99 season then for Blackmore. He played in the CC wins V Wigan and St Helens; then missed the first two rounds of SL and the CC QF; then played in the semi V Bradford; then missed the next five rounds of SL; then played in the Final at Wembley; then missed the next fifteen rounds of SL; then played in two; then missed the final six rounds of SL and the two Play Off games.

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:55 am  

How did Mr Harris and Mr Hetherington get on?

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:01 pm  

tvoc wrote:

Almost like the '99 season then for Blackmore. He played in the CC wins V Wigan and St Helens; then missed the first two rounds of SL and the CC QF; then played in the semi V Bradford; then missed the next five rounds of SL; then played in the Final at Wembley; then missed the next fifteen rounds of SL; then played in two; then missed the final six rounds of SL and the two Play Off games.

A friend of mine always insists we were a better team without him, maintaining that the best rugby we played under Murray was just after the CC win, when Golden was playing in the centre position.

It's hard to argue with his logic. We had some tremendous wins during that time. One absolute hamering of Bradofrd at HQ springs to mind.

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:07 pm  

gulfcoast_highwayman wrote:

A friend of mine always insists we were a better team without him, maintaining that the best rugby we played under Murray was just after the CC win, when Golden was playing in the centre position.

It's hard to argue with his logic. We had some tremendous wins during that time. One absolute hamering of Bradofrd at HQ springs to mind.

A Jon Hamer-ing?







*gets coat*

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:08 pm  

I really must re-activate some kind of spellchecker.....

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:13 pm  

gulfcoast_highwayman wrote:

It's hard to argue with his logic. We had some tremendous wins during that time. One absolute hamering of Bradofrd at HQ springs to mind.

We battered wigan a week before that i think as well at central park. When i say battered i don't mean thrashed, but as was typical under murray our forwards just trampled theirs.

Then in midweek after the bulls thrashing we thrashed cas as well, who were pretty good back then and one of our bogey teams.

: Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:27 pm  

gulfcoast_highwayman wrote:

A friend of mine always insists we were a better team without him, maintaining that the best rugby we played under Murray was just after the CC win, when Golden was playing in the centre position.

It's hard to argue with his logic. We had some tremendous wins during that time. One absolute hamering of Bradofrd at HQ springs to mind.

I'd be careful when talking 'just' after that CC win as we started with a visit to that club Graham Murray didn't rate the following Tuesday and they put the cleaners through us. In fact they could have probably played the cleaners that evening and still won and Leeds (oddly) had a respectable looking side out as well.

Snake Eater wrote:

We battered wigan a week before that i think as well at central park. When i say battered i don't mean thrashed, but as was typical under murray our forwards just trampled theirs.

Then in midweek after the bulls thrashing we thrashed cas as well, who were pretty good back then and one of our bogey teams.

That was a pretty decent sequence of results at the time:

11-Jun-99 ..... Central Park ..... Wigan ..... 9,588 ..... Won 13 - 4
18-Jun-99 ..... Headingley ..... Bradford ..... 21,666 ..... Won 45 - 16
23-Jun-99 ..... Headingley ..... Castleford ..... 16,371 ..... Won 50 - 22