: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:14 pm  

Leeeigh Leeeigh wrote:

Excellent read. Got it for chrimbo.
When he got the accidental punch from his own prop (Stan Owen???) in a scrum at Rochdale was amusing. Told him to give up the head so he could knock out opposition hooker and hit Ashcroft too

The punch bouncing of his face into the opposing hookers face and getting him to you wouldn't get that in a footballers biography

: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:26 pm  

Leyther Always wrote:

The punch bouncing of his face into the opposing hookers face and getting him to you wouldn't get that in a footballers biography

Unless you have brain capacity of Roy Keane who left himself open to be sued

: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:31 pm  

Leeeigh Leeeigh wrote:

Unless you have brain capacity of Roy Keane who left himself open to be sued

: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:37 pm  

Bought it for our Dave but he couldn't relate to it, but I enjoyed it.

: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:40 pm  

FredParky wrote:

Bought it for our Dave but he couldn't relate to it, but I enjoyed it.

Its not my era either so was difficult to have the "oooh I remember such and such player" etc. for me too. But the success at Leigh, and even reading how Wire got the 4 trophies in a season was good read

: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:42 pm  

FredParky wrote:

Bought it for our Dave but he couldn't relate to it, but I enjoyed it.

Far away from being my era and being able to relate to it but 'm still finding it a fascinating read

: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:48 pm  

I didn't like the style of listing the teams every two minutes when it was bang in the middle of a story. I like stats but not in that sort of format. I felt it infringed too much on the book but there were undoubtedly some good stories in it and I would still recommend the book to anyone who remembers that era.

One of the best rugby books I read was the book on Andy Greg while Maurice Bamford's book on himself was a very good read too which is why again I was a little disappointed with the Kev Ashcroft book because Maurice's was such a good read.

: Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:07 am  

DParky wrote:

I didn't like the style of listing the teams every two minutes when it was bang in the middle of a story. I like stats but not in that sort of format. I felt it infringed too much on the book but there were undoubtedly some good stories in it and I would still recommend the book to anyone who remembers that era.

One of the best rugby books I read was the book on Andy Greg while Maurice Bamford's book on himself was a very good read too which is why again I was a little disappointed with the Kev Ashcroft book because Maurice's was such a good read.

TBH it is the first RL book I have read so may be why I am so hooked but I have only ever watched the modern era and as such never seen a competitive scrum other than maybe one when a team will push to win the ball evey 5 years.

It's that reason I am so interested the stories of the biff in the scrum and being allowed by the ref on most occasions when you can't fart in a scrum these days without being penalised!

If anyone can recommend any better RL books I would love to read them!

: Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:54 am  

i loved it, thought the attention to detail was superb!!

you do realise this was the edited version.........

for the uncut " no holds barred" version, a trip into the hilton arms on a sunday night is a must!!

: Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:59 am  

[quote="Leyther Always"]TBH it is the first RL book I have read so may be why I am so hooked but I have only ever watched the modern era and as such never seen a competitive scrum other than maybe one when a team will push to win the ball evey 5 years.

It's that reason I am so interested the stories of the biff in the scrum and being allowed by the ref on most occasions when you can't fart in a scrum these days without being penalised!

If anyone can recommend any better RL books I would love to read them![/quote]



dean sampsons is a really good one as well



the "incident" with an aussie international is well documented, doesn't actually name the said player, but i know who he is, and he later played for a club in this counrty