: Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:16 pm  

marillion man wrote:

He does both to my knowledge and he was also involved at some level assisting his lad Danny up at Queensbury with their juniors until recently.


When he was trialling for Leeds colts as a teenager, we ( Halifax colts ) played them down at Brackenbed and he had a stormer that day, he tells me since that his performance sealed his signing as a pro for Leeds. He gave our front row a torrid time that afternoon, Nigel Wood propped against him, me at hooker and Phil Huck at blinside ( sorry Phil, no pun intended ). The first couple of scrums were interesting to say the least, it turns out Brendan and Nigel were previous combatants from Woody's West Bowling junior days.

So you had a couple of pricks and a decent lad in front row (you been the decent lad Colin)

: Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:56 pm  

Leon Ashton wrote:

So you had a couple of pricks and a decent lad in front row (you been the decent lad Colin)

I'm the only one of that front row who's still involved in the game, VOLUNTARILY Unpaid Some folk actually still talk to me

: Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:51 pm  

Alan wrote:

Remember watching Leigh, at Keighley, donkey's years ago, in a total mudbath. Anyway, Keighley changed kit at half time, into a set of white shirts, and Hill didn't re-appear. A knowledgeable Keighley fan told me it was because none of the white shirts was big enough, for Brendan!!

reffed him in an a team match some years ago against leigh got the team sheet 1hr before k.o. then 20 mins to go somebody came in saying they,d got a prob with brendon i thought he,d smacked someone but no he was down as 8 but couldn,t get it on was it alright if he wore 10 as he,d got that on and they,d struggle to get it back off (i did let it go) i wasn,t going to tell him he couldn,t play

Re: : Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:38 am  

fridgeman57 wrote:

reffed him in an a team match some years ago against leigh got the team sheet 1hr before k.o. then 20 mins to go somebody came in saying they,d got a prob with brendon i thought he,d smacked someone but no he was down as 8 but couldn,t get it on was it alright if he wore 10 as he,d got that on and they,d struggle to get it back off (i did let it go) i wasn,t going to tell him he couldn,t play

I also reffed him in an 'A' team game against Hunslet at Elland Road (Sonny Nickle was playing for Hunslet at the time) and unusually Fax were losing. Brendan was on the bench and 5 minutes into the 2nd half, it was decided to put him on (I think he was due to play for the 1st team on the following day and they were trying not to field him). The first two tackles Brendan made resulted in penalties, after the 3rd went the same way I brought him over and told him: "Brendan, they haven't brought you on for that". He looked bemused, with a quizzical "they haven't?" look on his face. I further explained, "no, they've brought you on to inject a bit of flair and pace in the front row". Brendan then settled down to play like a choirboy in defence and an off-half in attack. The result was, Fax still lost and the Fax coach was doing his nut on the touchline. But all the bother stopped and most importantly, I didn't have any reports to write afterwards.

Re: Brendan Hill : Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:30 am  

Blimey Coddy - have you had an archive weekend?

I didn't know you'd been a ref! Interesting. You'll know Jim Smith no doubt - his son posts on here frequently. Did you ever ref Nigel Wood?

Re: Brendan Hill : Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:09 am  

I see Brendan most Sundays and if we stop for a chat there are people passing who remind him about his Fax days ,he loves it.

Re: Brendan Hill : Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:51 am  

Get him back at the Shay to do the half time draw. He'll get a great reception.

Re: Brendan Hill : Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:06 pm  

He was going to come to the 90s reunion with Preston, Harrison and the rest but the date coincided with his annual holiday.

Re: Brendan Hill : Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:19 pm  

littlerich wrote:

Blimey Coddy - have you had an archive weekend?

I didn't know you'd been a ref! Interesting. You'll know Jim Smith no doubt - his son posts on here frequently. Did you ever ref Nigel Wood?

I knew Jim Smith, ran lines for him a few times. I've probably reffed Nigel at some point too. I think my most memorable match was Leeds v Fax 'A' at Headingley one Friday night. I'd checked the team sheet to make sure that there were no Donald Ducks etc but it was only at the toss up that I realised the two scrum halves were Ray Ashton & Gary Stephens. That made for an interesting evening I can tell you.