Re: Snapethorpe 7’s & Les Pounder Trophy : Tue Feb 16, 2021 3:49 pm  

Don't recall Lyman...did he go to Becket's ??
I do remember that the boys P.E. teacher was George Pinyajak (definitely not spelt right but can't find him on Google !) and IIRC he went on to coach either Featherstone or Dewsbury for a short while ??
Leary joined the police
I got told that the 'bully' from Sharlston got into the drugs taking and supply scene but the drugs eventually got to him and killed him...don't know if that was true or not ??

Re: Snapethorpe 7’s & Les Pounder Trophy : Tue Feb 16, 2021 6:02 pm  

Played for lawefield lane a few times there in the 70s each school had a classroom as the changing rooms if i remember correctly

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Re: Snapethorpe 7’s & Les Pounder Trophy : Tue Feb 16, 2021 6:55 pm  

FIL wrote:

Don't recall Lyman...did he go to Becket's ??
I do remember that the boys P.E. teacher was George Pinyajak (definitely not spelt right but can't find him on Google !) and IIRC he went on to coach either Featherstone or Dewsbury for a short while ??
Leary joined the police
I got told that the 'bully' from Sharlston got into the drugs taking and supply scene but the drugs eventually got to him and killed him...don't know if that was true or not ??

I edited the bit about Leary as that isn't really fair on him. He was a good rugby player, I think he represented England Schools. Lyman was at Fev High I think. They played similar position so came up against each other a lot and both selected for representative games. Lyman went on to play for Fev and Hull KR and was selected for Aussie tour in the 80s. So just shows how close it is between normal life and great rugby career.

George Pieniazek was the PE teacher. He played a couple of games for Wakefield. Was a powerful winger. Coached at Batley and Fev after his playing career.

I think I heard the same about the other guy.


In terms of Snapethorpe, my memories are that it was always sunny in that tournament. Didn't they have a tannoy system set up next to a car in the middle of the fields to tell everyone what the scores were? I might have mixed that up with somewhere else.

Re: Snapethorpe 7’s & Les Pounder Trophy : Tue Feb 16, 2021 7:35 pm  

FIL wrote:

I went to Becket's but left in '81 and despite being sports mad and giving it my best was never good enough for the school soccer team (I ran into the softest kid in our year and broke my collar bone ) and was the wrong shape to play rugby - a 6ft 4ins beanpole when I was 15 !! But I remember one sports day we were playing a rugby match against another 'house' who had a lad called Simon Leary in their team who was also playing for Yorkshire schoolboys at the time, he got the ball and I thought "right Leary, you're going down"...I ran in to tackle him but he just swatted me off like a fly then jogged 50 yards and touched down under the posts...it was at that very moment that I decided spectating was going to be much less embarrassing !!!
We also had a very nasty individual in our year who hailed from a well-known Sharlston family (who I won't name but definitely NOT the Fox family) and he also played in the school rugby team, but the team weren't very good in our year either and after yet another defeat he made the whole team line up then went along and punched each one of them in the face - their punishment for losing !!!

Remember playing against Beckets 74 ish at football, a young lad called Andy Kelly was their centre half too big to catch the Kekky dinamo must admit he did cop me a couple of times, it was like playing against a 20 year old

Re: Snapethorpe 7’s & Les Pounder Trophy : Tue Feb 16, 2021 8:36 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I edited the bit about Leary as that isn't really fair on him. He was a good rugby player, I think he represented England Schools. Lyman was at Fev High I think. They played similar position so came up against each other a lot and both selected for representative games. Lyman went on to play for Fev and Hull KR and was selected for Aussie tour in the 80s. So just shows how close it is between normal life and great rugby career.

George Pieniazek was the PE teacher. He played a couple of games for Wakefield. Was a powerful winger. Coached at Batley and Fev after his playing career.

I think I heard the same about the other guy.


In terms of Snapethorpe, my memories are that it was always sunny in that tournament. Didn't they have a tannoy system set up next to a car in the middle of the fields to tell everyone what the scores were? I might have mixed that up with somewhere else.

So that's how it was spelt
I knew he'd gone into coaching but must have forgotten about him playing for Trin

Re: Snapethorpe 7’s & Les Pounder Trophy : Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:17 pm  

Don’t normally post much on here, but I must say you have got me posting once I saw this thread. I played for Flanshaw st michaels from under 11s so I would say 1988 ish onwards. Our coach was Bernie Smith and he played a huge part in my early rugby career. Always took part in the snapethorpe sevens and played against schools called Crigglestone, Sharlston, Sandal Endowed and Crofton to name a few. Also played in numerous les pounder trophies at half time and we’re lucky enough to win on at least one occasion against Crig I think?. Still have the photos. In our team we had a young lad playing for us called Graeme Law......! And a number of other I played against. One being a spritely skinny Chris Chester, who played for Sandal at the time. I also believe a young chap called Kurt played for us as well who is in the picture. He now sponsors the trin under the guise of Hawley plant Hire. Memories hey!

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Re: Snapethorpe 7’s & Les Pounder Trophy : Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:11 am  

Divdav77 wrote:

Don’t normally post much on here, but I must say you have got me posting once I saw this thread. I played for Flanshaw st michaels from under 11s so I would say 1988 ish onwards. Our coach was Bernie Smith and he played a huge part in my early rugby career. Always took part in the snapethorpe sevens and played against schools called Crigglestone, Sharlston, Sandal Endowed and Crofton to name a few. Also played in numerous les pounder trophies at half time and we’re lucky enough to win on at least one occasion against Crig I think?. Still have the photos. In our team we had a young lad playing for us called Graeme Law......! And a number of other I played against. One being a spritely skinny Chris Chester, who played for Sandal at the time. I also believe a young chap called Kurt played for us as well who is in the picture. He now sponsors the trin under the guise of Hawley plant Hire. Memories hey!

Bernie coached me when I played for the Wakefield schools side.
He still goes down to watch Trinity pretty regularly. Really good guy who brought a lot of kids in Wakefield in to rugby. Always made it fun but knew his stuff.

Re: Snapethorpe 7’s & Les Pounder Trophy : Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:12 am  

Divdav77 wrote:

Don’t normally post much on here, but I must say you have got me posting once I saw this thread. I played for Flanshaw st michaels from under 11s so I would say 1988 ish onwards. Our coach was Bernie Smith and he played a huge part in my early rugby career. Always took part in the snapethorpe sevens and played against schools called Crigglestone, Sharlston, Sandal Endowed and Crofton to name a few. Also played in numerous les pounder trophies at half time and we’re lucky enough to win on at least one occasion against Crig I think?. Still have the photos. In our team we had a young lad playing for us called Graeme Law......! And a number of other I played against. One being a spritely skinny Chris Chester, who played for Sandal at the time. I also believe a young chap called Kurt played for us as well who is in the picture. He now sponsors the trin under the guise of Hawley plant Hire. Memories hey!

It was Crigg we beat, the team with John-Lee Lockwood, Ryan Hoarsely and Kevin Waterby(?) in. I've got a photo somewhere of us sat on that wall outside the changing rooms....
Smithy was all about RL when I look back the amount of games we played at St. Micks after school for the various age groups (both football and rugby) he must've been working late after school must nights running the teams.
Chester was a good kicker if I remember, as was G Law for that matter

Re: Snapethorpe 7’s & Les Pounder Trophy : Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:57 am  

Schunter wrote:

It was Crigg we beat, the team with John-Lee Lockwood, Ryan Hoarsely and Kevin Waterby(?) in. I've got a photo somewhere of us sat on that wall outside the changing rooms....
Smithy was all about RL when I look back the amount of games we played at St. Micks after school for the various age groups (both football and rugby) he must've been working late after school must nights running the teams.
Chester was a good kicker if I remember, as was G Law for that matter

John-Lee Lockwood now there is another young player touted for great things, where did he end up?

Re: Snapethorpe 7’s & Les Pounder Trophy : Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:34 pm  

Schunter wrote:

It was Crigg we beat, the team with John-Lee Lockwood, Ryan Hoarsely and Kevin Waterby(?) in. I've got a photo somewhere of us sat on that wall outside the changing rooms....
Smithy was all about RL when I look back the amount of games we played at St. Micks after school for the various age groups (both football and rugby) he must've been working late after school must nights running the teams.
Chester was a good kicker if I remember, as was G Law for that matter

Ryan’s brother Damien was also a cracking player at The All Blacks.