Re: donny game : Tue Aug 11, 2015 7:08 pm  

Sarf Essex Taff wrote:

Team was Stoop; Gallagher, Roskell, Campbell, Johnson: McIvor, Riley; Whiteley, Carter, Rotherham, Rosolen, Stewart (c), Ramsey. subs: Luxon, Smith. Coach: the late great Tony Tank Gordon

The Crusaders team that year still remains the one which I hold in greatest affection of all the sides I have seen.

I thought it was pretty bad form by the Broncos that Tony's passing was marked with a couple of sentences in the programme, while later that year we had a minute's silence for Graham Murray. No disrespect of course to Mr Murray and family but Tony coached this club and created a wonderful side in the most trying of circumstances.

Re: donny game : Tue Aug 11, 2015 7:14 pm  

You've not lot ALL your marbles yet Andover Boy, Dynevor did play for Crusaders but left before the Premiership Final.

Re: donny game : Tue Aug 11, 2015 7:20 pm  

Andover Boy wrote:

I'd also thought that Leo had a short spell with the Crusaders as the first part of Brisbane's interest, along with Victor "Turboprop" Timms. The old memory plays some tricks!

I've checked and your both correct, he did play for Crusaders in 93/94. He played 13 games that season.

Re: donny game : Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:45 am  

Great memories Good year that! Some good players.

Victor timms. Now there is a player. Haha!!
Not as bad as frank camilleri. Think that was his name bloody awful

Re: donny game : Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:53 am  

Frank Napoli? Remember Bobby Goulding destroying Frank at The Valley. Kicks down his throat for two tries then as we all expected him to do the same kicked to the other wing for the game winner.

Re: donny game : Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:32 pm  

Andover Boy wrote:

I thought it was pretty bad form by the Broncos that Tony's passing was marked with a couple of sentences in the programme, while later that year we had a minute's silence for Graham Murray. No disrespect of course to Mr Murray and family but Tony coached this club and created a wonderful side in the most trying of circumstances.

Yes it was appalling and just showed the lack of class that the club has displayed for some time.

Re: donny game : Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:41 pm  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

Frank Napoli? ....

For all his many faults, Frankie still continues to get as many mentions on here as any number of the club's true playing legends. He really is/was memorable (in a Frank Spencer-ish sort of way).

Re: donny game : Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:01 am  

Frank Napoli. That was it. Frank spencer of wingers!!! Like it.

we at barnet at this period. ? Awful place. Long walk from the station if I remember !

Re: donny game : Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:42 am  

mickyb1234 wrote:

Perry, the season has run from end of Feb to end of sep for a couple of years, so we always knew we had a game last weekend just didn't know home or away, so poor excuse really, would rather folk say they just don't want to rather than looking for reasons.

Seriously micky? You think everyone is able to book out every Saturday and Sunday for seven months of the year? And that not doing so is 'a poor excuse'? Has it not occurred to you that because we play our games on Sunday, people might arrange other things for a Saturday? Does no-one in your world have a job, a family, other interests, a life to lead?

Let me give you some scenarios.
You've arranged to do something with your kids on the Saturday, are you supposed to let them down because a fixture's been announced?
You've booked the family holiday (and this year you couldn't fit it around the fixtures because you didn't know when they were), are you supposed to cancel the holiday because a fixture's been announced?
You've agreed to go into work on a Saturday, are you supposed to let down your employer because a fixture's been announced?

We had 10 days notice that we were playing on that Saturday, I nearly didn't make it because I'd agreed to things and hurriedly had to juggle stuff around, not everyone can do that so easily. The RFL expecting fans to do so is treating them with contempt. Treat your paying customers with contempt and they walk away. Maybe that's why attendances are struggling across the board. And maybe our missing 3500 fans are in part due to the contempt that the club have shown us in the past.

People don't have poor excuses micky, they have jobs/families/responsibilities/lives, and not everyone can trash them at short notice to accomodate the RFL's latest scheme.

Re: donny game : Thu Aug 13, 2015 11:26 am  

Perry wrote:

People don't have poor excuses micky, they have jobs/families/responsibilities/lives, and not everyone can trash them at short notice to accomodate the RFL's latest scheme.

Especially when it's as stupid as the not-so-Super 8's.