don't know if everyone remembers this, most of us "old traditionalists" will.

the final table from the 3rd division from 1991/92,when we were champions.
some interesting names there, names most current giants fans will probably never have heard of.
just shows how far we have come as a club,considering our average gates were less than 2000.

1 Huddersfield 26 23 0 3 869 257 612 46
2 Bramley 26 21 0 5 675 258 417 42
3 Dewsbury 26 19 1 6 794 279 515 39
4 Batley 26 18 2 6 641 279 362 38
5 Barrow 26 17 1 8 663 355 308 35
6 Doncaster 26 15 2 9 567 362 205 32
7 Keighley 26 15 2 9 587 420 167 32
8 Hunslet 26 16 0 10 654 553 101 32
9 Scarboro 26 10 0 16 483 499 -16 20
10 Whitehaven 26 9 0 17 510 595 -85 18
11 Highfield 26 9 0 17 406 646 -240 18
12 Chorley Boro 26 4 0 22 290 842 -552 8
13 Trafford Boro26 2 0 24 306 941 -635 4
14 Nottingham 26 0 0 26 164 1323 -1159 0

also on 9th october 1992 as many will be aware, huddersfield hosted the australian national team who were preparing for their world cup final showdown with great britain.
despite taking a 2-0 lead through a phil hellewell penalty,fartown succumbed to a 2-66 defeat to a far superior kangaroos side, despite this,as some will remember from a few years back, a fanzine was produced entitled "fartown 2 australia nil" in honour of seeing our side leading the mighty kangaroos side



the teams that night at leeds road were
FARTOWN:
1.jason laurence
2.joe naidole
3.phil hellewell
4.chris chapman
5.ian thomas
6.brian blacker
7.neil flanagan
8.jason fogerty
9.lee st hilaire
10.rion pearce
11.andy pucill
12.garry coulter
13.gary senior

14.brad davis
15.martin pearson
16.andy sewell.
17.frank simpson

AUSTRALIA:
1.brad godden
2.tim brasher
3.steve renouf
4.mal meninga
5.graham mackay
6.brad fittler
7.ricky stuart
8.glenn lazarus
9.steve walters
10.mark sargent
11.paul sironen
12.john cartwright
13.bradley clyde

14.david gillespie
15.paul harragon
16.kevin walters
17.bob lindner

australia's scorers were mackay(4)brasher(2)clyde(2)gillespie,harragon.lindner,renouf,walters with meninga(5) and brasher(2) kicking the goals.
attendance was a huge! 4,716.


feel free to post your memories of this game or any other from this era.

It was the 91/92 season that I first started watching RL at Fartown having moved to Yorkshire from Devon via Liverpool. Worked in Leeds with a Fartown fan who invited me along to a few games that year. Did not take me long to get hooked and succumb to the draw of the Fartown terraces despite it being freezing most of the time I seem to remember. Those were the days when we had some relatively good attendances and were by far the best away supported side in the league often outnumbering the home support.

Still got my first shirt bought that year on the terraces outside the old supporters bar - the long sleeved Ravensport shirt, hooped C&G with HUDDERSFIELD on the shoulders.

Did attend the game vs Aus too - but not many memories of it other than us taking the lead. Reality ssoon dawned though

i remember some banter with mal meninga regarding his brother who i think was doing time or had just completed his sentence?
as for the attendances,very true. even though at home we used to pull 2000 regularly but also a lot of sub 2000 gates,we usually took a good number away from home, certainly a lot more than we do now or anytime in the super league era!

oh and that 'ravensport'shirt was from 92-94, the shirt we wore in the 3rd division was the old ellgren made,david browns sponsored shirt, claret and gold on a white background.

Took a couple of reels of photos. When I developed them they were all almost black! I'd used the wrong ISO setting.

Damned Ozzies wouldn't come back & replay the match neither!

Great days.....probably one of the best seasons i've seen......we had a really good team then and were a joy to watch, there was a buzz at Fartown again which signalled the end of the slump and things picked up on and off the field after.

Away games were brilliant, like has been said every away game was at least 50% Huddersfield fans.

Our championship season I went to every game home and away, it were brilliant

spot on.
most of us around that time went to every home and away game,admittedly there wasn't a lot else to do on a sunday and it was cheaper, but every game,the same people were there,whatever the weather!

on the australia game,does anyone know of anyone who has any pictures or videos of the game? i dont think i have ever seen any coverage of it. strange considering how much of a deal it was to face a touring kangaroos side in those days.

I sold you that shirt

you sold me a moscow magicians pin badge

Great season that. I'd been supporting them for about 10 years before that season, so it was the first time I'd see us win anything. I was used to us giving Runcorn a good game before Murphy came along. The Australia game was fun too. To see all those stars line up against our players and when we took the lead it was amazing for a few minutes.

I sold lots of things from that trestle table ha ha

I sold lots of things from that trestle table ha ha

I've still got a badge that i got off that table upstairs

I'll have another go at digitising mine.

I remember buying russian vodka when Moscow played too

aye dave, see what you can come up with.
i had some old pictures from around 92/93 with a disposable camera but no idea what happened to them.