Quote ="Rach"All the info on there was 'lifted' in true Wikipedia fashion from the old club history website that I ran alongside the old club website around 2005 /2006 and came from a fairly comprehensive club history written by John Pitchford , David Kirkley , John Doveston and the late Eric Lund and for some reason there is a massive chunk covering the 60s and 70s missing from there which covered the 76 semi in great depth . On the original 'Lawkhomers to Cougars ' website there was also a section on memorable matches and I know that the semi was one of the highlighted games .
When the club decided to take over control of the club website and its design , the history website proved uneconomical for me to keep running on its own for the few hits it got a month and was taken down
With the cost of webhosting coming down fairly rapidly I'm now in the midst of redesigning the site with some massive help on the content side from David
and would welcome help from anyone else who wants to see the clubs heritage preserved in a digital format .HINT HINT
From the clubs perpective I know that the current board see the clubs past as important .We are beginning to store anything historical now that comes into the clubs possession which hasn't always happened in the past and David is working tirelessly to ensure that the improved sponsors bar upstairs features the clubs past successes on its walls .There has also been some early ground work and research into an application for Heritage lottery funding for a project that will see local young people look at the history of the club and the memories of the people involved in context to the history of the town ..
Keighley is very lucky in having folk like David , John Pitchford, Ann Self ,Brian Lund and Sue Dodds who over the years have helped to keep the clubs heritage alive, Carol and Maureen from the old supporters club who organised the players reunions for many a year, a task now taken by Gary Moorby and Paul Moses and the past players association not forgetting Neil Spencer and Alan Inman who have maintained fantastic cataloged archives of games on video and DVD and are happy to share them...
There is lots going on ..get involved instead of whinging behind a forum alias about one dodgy wikipedia site....'"
Hi Rach, Thanks for the in depth explaination, very much appreciated, just a shame about the end bit!
Quote ="keighley1"There were two other near misses that I know of in addition to that semi, which was by far the biggest.When we were in the old second division, maybe 1964, we went to Hull KR, who were a top 1st division team, and lost 6 to 5 and we scored the only try. There was also a Yorkshire cup semi final against Trinity who were right at the top of the game Neil Fox, Derek Turner etc. We gave up home advantage and played the game at Odsal and lost 5 to 4. Neil Fox scored the Trinity try when he played the ball forward to himself and dived over for the games only try. That is against the rules in the present era. Keighley is a small club with a chequered history but we have had our moments.'"
Hi K1, I'd forgotten about the trinity match, thanks for that .... 1973 wasn't it? I seem to remember, perhaps the season before getting to the quarter finals of the Yorkshire Cup and just loosing out to Cas at Castleford. Happy days with the Floodlit Trophy, John Player Trophy, Yorkshire Cup together with the Challange Cup, lots to shout about and quite often 2 matches a week!
and would welcome help from anyone else who wants to see the clubs heritage preserved in a digital format .HINT HINT 
