Still a rugby league record for the biggest win! cup game.

just wondering if anyone on here actually went and memories???? before my time!

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Yes, biggest cheer of the afternoon was when they scored, the whole crowd gave them a standing ovation.

To be honest it wasn't an exciting game cos i think we scored 26 tries and at least 5 or 6 of them were literally walk-thru's from the kick-off. and at least another 10 were more or less a break followed by 2 or 3 passes.
But those who were there were part of history being made, remember when we got past the previous record of 119 was quite exciting knowing what we were watching being achieved.

Also remember Greg Austin, who already had 9 tries having a walk in for his 10th, walked over the line but waited for Dean Hangar and passed for him to touchdown so as not to break Lionel Cooper's tries in a match record, for him to do that and lose having the record was a massive sporting thing to do and i guess showed the respect the players had for the past greats !!

God yeah I'd forgot about that Daz, everyone was wondering what on earth he was doing at first! Tbh i dont really remember much about the game -and i was sober. After the game I couldn't find my car as I'd forgotten where I'd parked!

I went and even took my camcorder but god knows where that footage ended up.

Yep. One of the more bizarre spectacles I've witnessed on a rugby field which included a couple of score-restart-catch-run-score tries

also had to laugh at the scoeboard when we went past 100, it stopped working for a while as it/or the operater couldnt work out how to put 3 digit numbers up lol

thats why greg austin has always been a favourite of mine

I was 4 at the time.... i think i was there. Is there anywhere we can get a copy from? Would love to see a DVD of this. This would be a nice stocking filler for a fiver RHP

it would be nice to see some old classics. I would love to see some old footage from previous challenge cup successes / important games in our history / team of all talents, although i dont know if such footage will exist.

yeah the scoreboard actually said 4-2 to Blackpool at one time if i remember rightly. was the source of much amusement.

There will be some limited footage coming soon to the Heritage project. It's phenominally expensive to buy.

some good stories !

greg austin, i though his 9 was a record? how would he have known about coopers 10, surely someone must of told him about it and said not to score another try!!!

was this the first round of the now challenge cup?

No it was the now defunct Regal Trophy 1st round, the Challenge cup has always been the Challenge cup.

not sure how he knew but he obviously did cos he just stopped dead and waited for Deano !

it was quite a novelty racking up try after try at first then got a bit boring after about 30-0,as daz says the biggest cheer was when blackpool scored.
it was nic to see us rack up a world record score and margin,which amazingly was equalled the next day when barrow beat nottingham 138-0!

regal trophy.... is that the now version of buddies cup come northern ford cup?!

regal trophy was the equivalent to footballs carling/capital one/league cup, it was played early season with the final around feb/march if i remember, it was the 3rd major trophy in those days.
i have the tries on a video that dave king did for me back in the day, its shocking how many of our tries were just walk ins from the halfway line.

no, regal trophy got scrapped in time for super league starting. it was one of 3 knockout cups we had in those days.

Ran from 1971 - 1996 in various formats (John Player etc) needless to say,we never won it,nor made a final.

Brilliant, i would love to see some!

The match was played on a Saturday afternoon if i remember correctly,the day of the first national lottery draw ,we had a frenchman playing at full back Laurent Luchesse.The scoreboard was out of action for a few games after that i think

went to the game, I even have it on video which I've transferred over to DVD, not great quality though

I'm sure they had a player with one leg shorter than the other, who almost looked like he was running round in circles when trying to run straight

luchesse was a very good prospect at full back , good hands , quick , decent tackler . unfortunately he had the very bad habit of dislocating his shoulder blades every time he played , thus ended his career. i think his father was high up in the french rl .

same as Terry Holmes i think. Played about 3 games from Bradford after moving from RU and ended up with a dislocated shoulder every game before retiring.