Quote="FIL"I initially started going to 'A' team matches in the mid 70's as my mate's dad used to take us down to Belle Vue on a Saturday afternoon and we used to volunteer to operate the scoreboard (the massive old wooden structure that used to be at the back of the north terrace in those days) and then one day we got asked if we wanted to man the scoreboard for the first team as the old guy that had been doing it for years wanted to pack in AND we were offered free admission for doing so!! Unsurprisingly we said yes, so that was probably when I started watching the first team in earnest, so I'm guessing that I will be in a similar
position to PT ??'"
You aren't one of the guys who was always putting the wrong scores up to much laughing and jeering from the crowd every time you got it wrong are you FIL
On the theme what is your earliest memory mine is seeing Berwyn Jones make a cover tackle in front of me in corner where burger bar is, he seemed to come from nowhere due to his pace
Also being at park side and remember Neil fox winking at me stood against the fence as he went back into position after kicking a goal both must have been early 60s as don’t remember when hunslet park side shut
I also have memory of hospital radio commentator in wooden sheds in front of old east stand and them steaming up in winter and being unable to see they used to hang out of the door, admire the service they provided
Quote="Redscat"You aren't one of the guys who was always putting the wrong scores up to much laughing and jeering from the crowd every time you got it wrong are you FIL
:lol'"
No, no, never...you must be confusing me with my predecessor
We did get it wrong once or twice to be honest, but the biggest problem we used to have was on windy days. The numbers were painted on 8 inch x 12 inch steel plates which just hooked on a nail at the top and had a loose twist catch at the bottom, so when it got windy they occasionally blew off and fell on to the terracing below, if we didn't catch them in time. It's a good job that no-one ever got hit by one as it could have easily proved fatal
OK. I know its pedantic but I have nothing else to do so I checked how many home games we have each season.
We average about 15.
The numbers are there for super league so I know from 1999 to 2019 we played 315 home games in 21 season including various playoff types and cup games.
We played 19 in 2015 which is the biggest.
2020 we played 8 home games but you could only have attended 3.
Before SL the stats are not easily available without asking Trinity Heritage so based on the number of teams and the stats that are available we played 15 home games each season through the 90s and 80s. Plus cup games which weren't many as we didn't win many and half were away.
The cup game data was more available so we had a lot more games in 70s and obviously the 60s than we did after that but of course semi and final were never at home.
Given all that, I reckon if I discount the ones my dad took me to when I was too young to know what was going on, I started watching in 77/78.
That gives me a good estimate of 680 home games.
I only really missed more than a couple a season the year my son was born so I reckon I've done 650ish.
I reckon I've done more than half as many away too.
That's a hell of a lot. If you work that out in £ to get in I could be a rich man with a lot less disappointment in my life if I hadn't but I'd have missed a lot of the happiest moments of my life too.
In answer to my first memory I was probably led by my older brother but I remember us losing to Leeds and getting the blame as it must have been because I went to this one.
But the first player I remember is Andy Fletcher. I liked him but eventually switched to Mike Lampkowski once I knew what was going on.
Clearly Toppo was everyone's favourite then but Lampi had something special I really latched on to.
My earliest vivid memory was in 1957/58 season I believe it was When Trinity second rower, Les Chamberlain was in a tackle against Workington Town and broke his leg. The "snap" sound of the limb fracturing echoed around the ground. It's still sickening now when I think about it.
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