Tremendous servant to the club for over ten years, through good times and some not quite so good times!
Scorer of some great and important tries tries over his career, none more so of course than Wembley 2016, a never to be forgotten moment for all of us, a lifelong dream finally realized.
I'd like to mention another highly important try he scored for us, from earlier that same year.
We'd come into 2016 on the back of a certain amount of hype and hope, that maybe we had assembled a squad capable of big things. Only for that all too familiar sinking feeling to rear its ugly head among the faithful, as we crashed to a humiliating thrashing at Widnes followed by a none too convincing win over Wakefield. 'Here we go again, same old, same old' we sighed despondently!
Next up, Derby day, Good Friday, at the other side! More of the same, a dreadful sixty minutes, 20-0 down to them and rapidly going nowhere!
And then, a half-break by Kirk Yeaman, an inside pass, and steaming up in support comes Jamie with perfect timing. A burst of acceleration, he skins the rovers full-back (Cockayne?) and races 70 metres unopposed under the sticks to put us on the scoreboard at least.
With that, it was like a switch had been flicked! Twenty minutes later we were celebrating a comeback derby victory to savour. By the time we next met rovers, at Magic weekend, we were top of the league and going like a train.
Almost everything that happened in 2016 came out of Good Friday Craven Park and Jamie's pivotal intervention in both that game and the season as a whole.
I've often pondered on how would that year have panned out if Jamie had knocked on from Kirk's inside pass. Scrum to rovers, resultant try from the scrum, 26-0 down with less than twenty to play. How history could have been so different, a real sliding-doors moment for the faithful.
For those two tries in 2016 alone, Jamie will always be a Black & White immortal, and goes with our thanks always for memories to cherish for the rest of our days.
