a few thousand watching reserve grade rugby compared to a couple of hundred watching our lot..i knew there was a lot watching jiffy in the reserves just find it hard to believe 12,000 watching the 1st team,,amounts to 3 games nowadays

Oh s a m

I remember that game, as if it were yesterday
Rob Myler went length of the field after about 10 mins.
Then, John Smith went and gave THE most biased reffing performance I've ever seen, and gave Cas EVERY decision after that. We pummelled them, but couldn't break their try line. Five minutes to go, and we're trailing by a handful of points, and then, THAT happened................PANDEMONIUM breaks out in the Fletch.

Hard luck "Mr" Smith, you tried, but failed.

That bomb Davies put up, had Martians worried.

As mark m pointed out earlier, 90's rugby was superb

First half of the 90s was, it declined rapidly in the latter half of the 90s as the game lost a lot of great players, Davies, Hanley, Schofield, Bateman, Edwards etc.

On Davies, his kicking alone would have made him a top player. If he'd have had no real pace or agility you could have put him at stand off and he would have been a threat kicking 40/20s, putting precision bombs up, and of course his goalkicking was outstanding. On kicking alone I would have put him right up with Briers and he was a better goalkicker too. Probably only Andrew Johns, maybe Ricky Stuart ahead of him.

But then you add that kicking, to his ability to evade and outpace defenders and he was the ultimate attacking player. He could accelerate very quickly and had a definite extra gear that he could slip in to when he had just got the edge of a defender, it was hard to tell he was running any faster but defenders who appeared to have him covered seemed to slide backwards. When he got in to full speed he could maintain it without slowing up till he was over the line, so once he was past the line there was no contest, if the fullback was coming across from the middle of the field he just used to arc out to the corner and realistically nobody was going to close him down.

Undoubtedly the best Warrington player since I've been watching. If we had him in the Tony Smith era we would have dominated RL like Wigan used to.

Talking of Widnes, I remember them playing Halifax once and Colin Whitfield took too long at a penalty and got sin binned. The old BBC 101 top tries has some great 80's rugby league on

There's no way they could've done this programme without his RL career getting a fat mention, since it's such a big part of his life. You could even argue that it 'made' him.

It was interesting to note that the changes he put to the WRU, which were rejected, were then taken on board some 15 years later, suggested again by the then foreign coach. Still, it's typical of the WRU not to take any notice, to generally be dumb and to protect their own little ways.

Nobody could blame Jiffy for feeling let down and taking the money on offer. Nobody. And I include the most rabid RU fans in that too. Ignored and pilloried by his own sport, for daring to want to improve it.
And guess what? Even today, the WRU are a bunch of anuses.

As a fan of both codes, I still rate his best try as the GB one against Oz at Wembley, where he skinned Brett Mullins at the end.

I first saw him in RL at a wet Vetch Field in November in the early 90s, Wales v New Zealand. From memory, the Wales team contained him, Phil Ford, Rob Ackerman, Alan Bateman, Jonathan Griffiths, Anthony Sullivan, Ian Marlow, Barry Williams, Rowland Phillips, and Adrian Hadley. There might've been Kevin Ellis and David Bishop too.

The elastic band scene with Rowland Phillips was probably done for his S4C rugby chat show Jonathan. A mainly daft, cliched show, but it's good fun, even if I do have to watch it with subtitles!