Very, very well said mate

No I'm not wrong mate, labour lost the election and we are out of the EU, personally I don't give a toss on either matter, my reply was to bren2k on his opportunism at taking every opportunity to bring politics into it, perhaps your criticism might be better aimed at him for going off the subject of Michael carter, incidentally i see that you were unable to resist a comment on the subject of brexit on a Michael carter thread

And following on from Wayne's point..... Keep this thread about MC's interviews. I'm really too busy to be having to mod this. You are quite capable of self nodding yourselves.

Think it's great how open MC has been on social media recently, gives a real insight into the club.

Get a grip Bren, the government are doing what they can in an unprecedented situation. Give Boris a ring and explain exactly what you would do instead

Easy - increase SSP and avoid throwing self-employed people to the wolves; and send Dominic 'Herd Immunity' Cummings into enforced self-isolation with immediate effect.

And please stop with the sanctimonious party political bull$hit - this is nothing to do with which party is in charge.

Wonder what Michael Carter makes of all this political wrangling on here, surely it's far more interesting to bring politics into the conversation allowing a wider variation as to why the club might be in financial trouble through this silly old virus.

Thought this was a thread onMichael Carter not politics!

So did most people on here, except bren2k apparently



Maybe my attempt at sarcasm was a tad too subtle for you and went over your head.

I got your sarcasm.

I've always had a soft spot for Wakefield ,they were the first team i saw lift the cup against Huddersfield at Wembley ,was that 1960 ? Didn't the club also perform in This sporting life ?

How is it political wrangling?! We're in a crisis - the people in charge are getting some things wrong - do we suddenly become subservient bootlickers, or are we still allowed to think for ourselves and express a view?

We discuss it somewhere else Bren. That's what they are trying to say.

1962, mate, which was also the same year they filmed This Sporting Life, as the rugby footage was filmed during one of the earlier Challenge Cup rounds, with both Wigan and Wakefield players doing the acting bit prior to the actual game (I think). The guy who punched Richard Harris was in fact Derek Turner, who wore a Wigan shirt in the film but was of course the Wakefield captain you saw lift the cup.

If I've upset anyone or caused thread drift, I apologise; I brought the Govt scheme up initially as a suggestion of how MC might get some temporary relief for the club - but I pointed out the pitfalls of that, which may have started the drift.

I do happen to think that *everything* is politics in one way or another - but I am also living on adrenaline and coffee these past 2 weeks, so apologies if I was, unwittingly, a at any point.

It was Hull in 1960 and shudds in 62, this sporting life was filmed in 63 when one of your best mates on here Cheshire cat made a guest appearance for the opposing side.

only a bairn!

A corner flag

It will be 1962 it was filmed in as the filming was prior to a Challenge Cup tie against Wigan, whereas we met Wigan in the final in 1963, so it couldn't be that year. It was released in 1963 though.

Sure it was filmed in 1963 because I was in my final year at secondary school and I left in 1963. We pupils were invited to appear in the crowd as extras and would be rewarded with an apple and a pork pie for our trouble.

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This suggests 1962 as it was in the cinema by February 1963

Mmmm!! Must have been the beginning of my final school year, Slugger; the back end of 1962.

My dad hadn’t even been born in 1962, long time ago!

That was another good film based in yorkshire ! Billy Liar

I'm going to say earlier, because Richard Harris turned up at the 1962 final and spoke to the players in the dressing room, so it must have been after he met them. Also, the Challenge Cup rounds won't have been late 1962 but early 1962.

We played Wigan in the quarter final on 24th March 1962 and won 5-4. That was the date.

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