When he played for Wakefield it was a fashionable club.
No shortage of GB players in the 60s.

Thought he just squeezed into the eighties PopTart, but I bow to your superior knowledge. I didn't check before posting

If you wernt around in the sixties its impossible to relate to the games and players of that era, fox at 6ft was a big power house centre ,today 6ft plus is common but add a side step ,dummy and a rugby brain to run into gaps and the power to carry blokes over with him and that was the differance , ashton was a differant type a centre who played to his winger usally Boston who had the speed and power to finish ,the only other centre i saw who came close to foxy was reg gasnior who had the probably more speed than neil and the craft but didnt have neils power , talking about hardisty another great player whos support play was second to none yes there were plenty of great players in that era i could talk for hours about alex murphy and our own harold poynton but foxy was certainly summat special

I was meaning a fashionable club at the time the statue was erected.

Neil was a joy to watch.

when you read on his profile he retired in 81/82 after helping underbank win the Holliday cup as a player coach, something I never knew

Yes Neil played in four decades . I remember it being commented on at the time of his retirement.

Of all the subjects we talk about on this forum, this is my favourite.
I'm old enough to have seen him play but not for Wakefield in his prime.

Sadly I started watching Wakey a season or two after Wally Lewis was with us. So I've missed 2 Trin greats in Lewis and Fox, Thankfully through an RL DVD site membership and other sources I'm able to relive Fox in his prime.

The Hearns say we don't have any famous names in the game anymore, well a new Neil Fox would certainly help rectify that.

Here's something else I bet you didn't know old lad, the first four games he played for Bradford he got the man of the match award.

And he had a stint off season in New Zealand.

if there was a player like Neil fox available We wouldn' get him cause we won't spend the Damn salary cap even tho he'd bring lots more money thru the turnstiles & possibly some silverware. We'd have to get him at Neil's original salary to sign him now

I started watching Trinity as an eight year old in 1956 just as Big Neil was breaking into the first team as a sixteen year old prodigy. Whilst being too young to appreciate the finer points of the game and his own particular skills, I recall he soon became the talk of Wakefield amongst all the young 'uns interested in the game. All the kids playing rugby on the street and the playing fields wanted to be Neil Fox. By the early sixties he had already become a legend. I must admit I capitalised on his fame. By virtue of his name being short and simple his autograph was very easily forged, and as a kid I made several copies and sold them in the school playground at 6d (2.5p) a time. I honestly cannot think of a sportsman that is more representative of his tome town than NEIL FOX!!!

I think we have a modern day hero that young and old can appreciate in Johnstone.

Indeed, Tom is a fantastic talent that we as a club have done extremely well to keep hold of.

For my money the greatest player to ever play the game huge respect
The fact that he is not on the Wembley statue is a disgrace as is the fact there is no statue of this great man in the centre of Wakefield
His records will never be equaled

Should have replaced Queen Victoria in the bull ring.

Looks like there n me are same age n started watching trin at same time so we will have same memories of that great era, so frustrating we can't convey the match day feeling and atmosphere when Neil and that great team entered the field of play.

That's just about how he used to sign his autograph.

All very nostalgic eh Oddshape??

He's far more relevant to this age and city than an over priviliged anachronism that passed away 117 years ago

So much a part of my life. I was taken to my first game around 1957 at age of 6 , coinciding with the great man starting his career.
With all of today’s fitness/ training methods he would have been sensational in the modern era.
Class is class.

I have been lucky enough to watch Big Neil throughout his career at Wakey and also on TV when he left. Definitely one of the greatest ever to play our game. There was always a rumour going round that he didn't like to tackle. Often he didn't need to. I always remember a game at Belle Vue and the opposing winger set off on a run. Neil went after him. 'Tackle him Neil' shouted the crowd. B***er that thought Neil. He ran alongside the winger and just nudged shoulders. The bloke overbalanced and fell into touch. Loved it.

My hero when I was a kid.

Also when taking about tries only being three points, let's not forget he kicked his goals without the use of heaps of sand or plastic tees.

then kicked it straight between the posts from the halfway line.

Foxy rarely place kicked a ball, most of the time he made a small divot with his toe and used the term cannon kick where the ball was placed forward and not back enabling him to get his toe to the point of the ball as they didn't use kicking tees in those days, a technicality I know, but with the shape of the ball then very much different to what it is now, the ball he kicked with back in the day was far bigger and rounder than what we use today.