I remember when I strained my foot earlier in the year and my dad parks in the Kirkstall sports centre and I have to walk up that big hill in order to get to Headingley stadium. Its something that I don’t want to experience again especially with cruches in each hand. How relieving it was when I got home and had a paracetamol.

Have you ever struggled that much to get to a rugby league match?

I once tried to do backflips all the way to a game in Leeds over the pennines, I fell off the hard shoulder down the steep part and broke my back, now I find it hard to get to games, but that one day stands out.

I was on holiday in Maritious once could not get the locals to play the game for Us.

Most games at Wigan for some reason

A friend of mine was unlucky enough to lose both his legs in a car smash.

Thankfully he survived.

Eventually he was fitted with prosthetic limbs and used to enjoy taking them off in the pub whilst drunk and trying to impress the sheilas.

Sadly for him a few of his drinking buddies decided to take them off him for a laugh an hour before Cronulla played the Roosters at the SFS and hid them behind the bar.

thinking the barman would tell him where they were they drunk up and headed to the game leaving him in the pub

Only he didn't


The poor guy had to drag himself from Surry Hills to the Stadium at Moore Park with no prosthetic limbs

I do hope you all found the funny side though in the long run



Is your friend over it?

I think he has accepted they won't grow back, yes

Thats good.

I've still not got over my struggles in life. People like your friend really do put me to shame

Out of interest do you also post as 'Damian - Leeds' somewhere else?

Yes why?

How you find me?

It's a match made in heaven. Think he is more into freaky thought damo

Leave them to it and shut (in fact lock) the door behind you

I hate Australia and he hates England. Of course this a match made in heaven because opposites do attract!

Not sure actually, Barry Mc would not touch the sides on you Damo

When i have to leave work late its a struggle especially for away games.

I was once ready to leave the house to go to a match at Headingley when my wife reminded me that the carpet fitters were arriving at 9am the next morning and that she had been nagging me all week to nail down a couple of loose floorboards before the carpet went down.

Went and got my hammer and a handful of nails, did both boards, was just knocking one final "one more for good luck" nail into the floor when I heard a hissing noise.

Yes, nail through central heating pipe time.

So what would you have done - gone to the match or fixed the pipe, when I lifted the floorboard there was a new water feature in our bedroom with a fountain at least three feet high

In 2003 when Bradford played Saints I had to work til 7.30 and it was an 8.00 KO

Managed to get changed at work, and set off from Steeton to Odsal, drove at some illegal speeds all the way to Bradford, parked at the bottom of Manchester Road, and sprinted up the hill to Odsal Stadium, went to my normal turnstyle, shut, had to run round to the late entry one, got in the ground about 30 seconds after Kick Off,

Then watched Robbie break his arm and Saints muller us 35-0

Did he still get a game with Cronulla?

Yeah

He was terrible.

So in true form we sold him to a Pommie superleague side for big bucks where he turned out to be one of their best players

Why won't they ? I thought all Australians were superhuman ?

He was Danish

2006 harlequins v hull fc, left hull at 9am to get to stoop for 3pm kick off, travelling in car, all going well, stopped off at watford gap around midday for break, giving us plenty of time to get to twickenham, rejoined m1 and 500 yards on there was a accident meaning we didn't move for nearly 2 hours!, managed to arrive at the stoop just as the half time hooter went!

And now?

The only time I've ever been late for a game was Leeds in the play off final eliminator 2007. Bad traffic on the M62 meant we only arrived at 8.20, twenty mins after kick off.

My maites was going to be late for a Cas versus Wire game at the old Wire ground so they phoned Wire club shop claiming to be Eddie Ashton the Cas chairman asking if they could delay the kick off but it did not work. even though the wire shop beleived they was the chairman they would delay it because of the police and was very sorry for not delaying it.