Ferocious Aardvark wrote:
The legendary Peter Fox in fact was the man who brought an 18 year old Robbie Paul to the club in 1994, although what he actually wanted was a big old ugly prop at the time. Foxy left in 1995 so I don't see your connection, but in 1994 we tied the league with Wigan losing out only on PD so he didn't do so bad. (and with a big prop would probably have won it!).
Foxy was a true leader of men and an inspirational genius. He ignored the sell-by dates and miraculously got old men and has-beens to play like world beaters and win titles. He specialized in it. That was the whole point of him.
If we had Foxy now he would probably have built a title winning team in this division of old has beens for less money than Batley spent. Kear is the nearest thing to Fox currently about and while Kear is also from a similar mould, he would I'm sure be the first to bow to the genius of Foxy, the Brian Clough of rugby league
Wasn't he 16 when we signed him?