Been following rugby for 20 years, I belive he he played for fax in 86. Was he any good and what kind of prop was he, ie like frank or said with pace?

He was superb, got 10 out of 10 on New years Day at Swinton I think, probably only one sober though.
Had great hands, read game and ran like Shad but with 3 stone on, and 5 when he'd been here eating Quality Street for a few months.

could do with two of him now, was a brilliant prop.

Probably one of the best off loads I have ever seen. Ran hard, tackled hard and made superb yardage. Shame we couldnt have had him for more than a season. Funny how when you Google him, Wiki only has him down playing for Leeds, Barrow and Rochdale. No mention of the mightly Fax and his part in the succeses

These questions are often answered by the OP's themselves. Kilroy, Robbo, Heugh. Still being talked about 25 years later having played only ONE season.

That's how good they were.

one of the best we have had....

Superb player. Remember him once stopping to use the phone box on hopwood lane, he couldn't work out hiw to use it so i took him in my house to use our phone, he ended up hanging around for about 3 hours and i got him to sign everything in sight, we ended up going for a kick around with my mates



Wouldn't do that nowadays round there

Would be a different type of kickabout nowadays!!!!!

A great player for Barrow as well. I think he had 2 seasons here and played when we got promotion to Division 1 (todays SL). I think it was when we had Rod Reddy as player/coach.

Great hands, great feet - what a player.

easy one to answer.......

VERY!

i remember that famous night in leeds when we beat them on sky, when preston, austin sharp and co ran riot in the second half,and bentos through out a silly pass and austin scored in the last few mins, cavill heugh was sent off for tripping Greg Pearce,

Grep pearce, good kicker but not that good, bit like a certain Alan Pratt..

Pearce was a great player but then he cut off his mullet and he went to pieces, lost all his magic. IS he still knocking around?

At one point he was a bit of a Golf whizz but havnt heard from him in a while. Got lots of storys about him that just cant be told on here.

lol me too.

an excellent forward was cavill,remember him well.

No disrespect to Rhino but Cavil and Wild Man Robbo best props i have seen in the blue and white of the mighty fax

These 3 should be honorary members of the club's Hall of Fame. Given the delayed arrival and early departure due to overlapping Aussie seasons, they didn't even play a full season yet they are still remembered. Probably the greatest trio of overseas players we've ever had. Along with Eadie, should be in the HOF despite not playing 200+ games like most have to before you get enrolled.

Also you have to consider their impact and the other 11 or so Aussies that came over between 1984 and 1987. They (and Brookie, god rest his soul) plucked this club from the sticky stuff and put us back on the RL map for another 16 years until our demise in 2003. I'm sure that when i'm rocking in my chair at Heath Bank Nursing home in 40 years time i will still have these great memories.

Cavill and Robbo they dont get any better.

I was honoured to watch Wildman, Cav and Smokin play for Fax. They came as no names and left as Legends that time will never forget. I doubt there are many players who have spent 1 year at a club and had such an effect as Robbo and Joe. Thanks for the memories

Brendan Hill?

He was worth the gate fee alone back in the day.

Remember the 'A' team getting crowds >1k when he played.

yep - 1,700 used to be the norm back in those days.

was amazing when got those attendances for 2nd team games. if we had them now. academy, u20 and 2nd team would pay for themselves.

Those Friday nights were great, in the days when town played home games on Fri nights aswell, we had bigger crowds regularily.