Re: Why was promotion and relegation scrapped? : Wed Oct 21, 2015 3:03 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

Ah, yes, but he'd have brought back Johnny Wolford at stand off and Jackie [the hand-off] Austin on the wing.....no matter how old they are now,.... how could we have lost with those two in the side?

And Ian Van Bellen off the bench in place of Lauaki

Come to think of it, might have been a better option!

[Bulliac]

Re: Why was promotion and relegation scrapped? : Wed Oct 21, 2015 3:14 pm  

Selwyn in place of Luaki is a no brainer!

It's funny really, when he first joined Northern he was a big pudding but Foxy got him to use his weight and he became a real wrecking ball. I'm trying to think of someone else who might be persuaded to try the same tactics....

Re: Why was promotion and relegation scrapped? : Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:16 pm  

That was Foxy's great strength (and he wasn't short of them) - convincing.. ahem... veteran players that in fact they were approaching the peak of their careers, and watching them prove him right.

Players like Woolford, Nigel Stephenson, Neil Fox, Ian van Bellen, Jimmy Thompson and the rest, inspired by the one and only Peter Fox, would have murdered Wakefield in a game like the MPG. And regularly did, when Wakey were a decent side.