Thank you Ridlerbull, Jack passed away a couple of years ago I believe. My (also departed) dad was a Director at Odsal between 1972-76 and the keen as mustard teenager I was always fished for rugby gossip alongside actual reported news. I can therefore recall a few details about the 3 signings.

Ken Kelly was signed from St Helens for £8000 plus a player (Steve Gobey perhaps) at the start of the 1973/74 second division campaign. He played most of that season but asked Albert Fearnley if he could have his Winners Medal early to show his dad. Albert was too trusting as KK failed to appear at Charnock Richard Services on the way to an end of regular season away game at Workington. He stayed away until well into the next season I believe.

Kel Earl played as sub forward for St Helens in the 1972 Challenge Cup Final in a 16-13 win against Leeds. Signed for Northern for around £2000 in Autumn 1972

Brian Hogan played for Saints in the 1960's then went to Wigan before appearing at Odsal (can't remember the fee but he had a strange hair cut)!

Ha, thanks for that Jack.

It's funny but even reading all that, it didn't jog my memory at all - though I can still picture all three. Funnily enough, I think all three indulged [as did most of us back then in 'luxuriant' hair - Brian had probably the shortest, but it sort of stuck out strangely, Ken Kelly had long, shoulder length but fairly straight, blond hair and Kel Earl looked most like myself - pretty much the full Dennis Trotter, in my case at least, largely gone!

Leon Pryce

Bryn Hargreaves

Tom Winnard. Probably the single most significant signing from Saints, as he was the first component of the dominant post-war team. And as a 1935 (?) signing, he was at the club way before I was born.

Scrum half - Neil Holding

I can't remember how many games he played for Northern,think it was a season. Pretty sure that we signed him from saints though.

Good one, what a cracking player he was. Like Pinner he had his best years at Saints before he come to us

We drifted a bit on topic for a while so we need to be careful. I've noticed a recurrent theme across several of the threads where, in general, Bulls fans are asking if the answer to our halfback problem might be a giant Tortoise eating a Halloween Pumpkin. Like this:

Think this is a quantum thread, in as much as the topic seems to vary depending, both on the position of the observer, and which reality they're in at the time.

1.Jamie Foster
2. Paul Loughlin
3. Paul Newlove
4. Tom Winnard
5. Leon Pryce
6. Lee Gaskell
7. Neil Holding
8. Paul Anderson
9. Micky Higham
10. Sonny Nickle
11. Paul Clough
12. Lee Gilmour
13. Bernard Dwyer

Kel Earl
Bryn Hargreaves
Brian Hogan
Ken Kelly
Harry Pinner


Res: Sulcata Tortoise

Probably swap Harry Pinner for Bernard Dwyer at 13 and maybe, possibly change Ken Kelly for Lee Gaskell at 6, and put Gasky at no.1 instead of Foster, but that's a pretty good side, isn't it just!

I am planning on using this thread almost exclusively to offer barely lucid faff. However, I reluctantly accept that some of you may wish to make sense.

Well, yeah - I definitely set of with what was, [imore or less[/i, 'barely lucid faff', but then, think I maybe, took a wrong turn somewhere and it ended up[i looking like [/i'sense', though on closer inspection, I think you'll find it doesn't really even qualify as [ibarely[/i lucid faff..



Onwards and upwards!

I hear from inside contacts at the CERN lab that the Large Hadron Collider is closing in on a rare exotic particle, we had the lepton, hadron, fermion and boson, we may be on the verge of seeing the ferguson.

The Feguson particle only appears once for every ten Olbison appearances.

But it's nowhere near as rare as the Siejka

True..and nowhere as rare as the Offerdahl

Nor the Higham, which was once thought not to exist, but has actually made cameo appearances as a visitor whilst wearing some strange red and white garb. His appearances could almost be described as 'biblical', with the obvious difference that he usually appears from the west rather than the east - and, of course, he is rarely the answer to [iour[/i prayers.

Last I heard of him he was working in a vegetarian curry house.

Wa wa waaaah.

https://twitter.com/WigToday/status/628214261668552704

https://twitter.com/WigToday/status/628214261668552704

That's even funnier than my comment.

Thought this thread was all about injustice? And also the fact that in a later injustice served up by Steve Ganson, when he eventually agreed that we (and the millions of viewers who saw the injustice on Sky were right and he was wrong, which like the voluntary tackle by Chris Joint cost us victory against Saints and Leeds. At least Smith bugg...d off to Australia whilst Ganson was promoted to the highest office (probably on the 3rd floor, if Red Hall is multi story) at the RFL.
Yes it was right on both counts!!

Nah. Macaroons, mostly

Macca [istill[/i gets into every thread.