Quote ="faxlad66"Why are you called steam pig? This name has been stolen from Halifax!'"
Both our teams have been called "steampigs" as have Dewsbury. No one has nicked it from anyone.
Peter Deakins obituary states:
"He transformed what had been a stolid, traditional club, still firmly typecast in the days of flat caps and whippets, into an all-singing, all-dancing epitome of what the strange, new concept of summer rugby was all about. A team whose dour image was once summed up by its nickname of [size=150
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