Hi there

I’ve just set up a little website with some images of Wakefield Trinity programmes over the years, some personal thoughts from my time being a regular, Wakefield’s tour of South Africa in 1962 and the South African players that we’ve had play for us over the years.

I sadly couldn't get my cat to wear my old Wakefield woolly (wooly?) hat, which was the image that I really wanted...

Hope the site's of some interest.

[urlhttp://www.wakefieldtrinity-programmes.co.uk[/url

Cheers!

brilliant. I've not even read any further than the list summing up your experiences, and that brought back enough memories. Thank you.

Good stuff

I thought Ray Batten had two separate stints as coach?

Some time and effort involved in setting all that up, have just spent 15 mins looking through it, i'll be back.


Thank you very much.

Great site and thanks for the memories. Have lots of old programmes myself including a couple from the South African tour. You may be interested to know there was another South African we signed from Bradford, called Rude Hasse (think that's how you spell it!)
He was a big second row forward but he was struggling in a good team in the 60's and didn't play many games, perhaps half a dozen or so.

A great site, will go back on to look at more. From reading your list I think our family started to watch Trinity around the same time as yours. My other half was the hitler in the middle of the pitch in London!

From you're Tommy Smith link I stumbled upon the 79 semi on youtube. Great stuff.

check out the other old finals the Andy has put on

great post, surprised it hsn't had more hits. i'm finding it fascinating but can't remember the season that geoff gunney wes coach. took my coaching badge in the same group as andy kelly. one of the funniest men i've ever met. the whole week was one big laugh and i'm sure that andy eased peoples nerves. arthur keegan was our assessor and its just got me wondering if he is still knocking about.

Nice site, love to catch up on the history of Trinity, will have a good look tomorrow.

Sadly, Arthur keegan died some years ago. As you know Arthur played for Hull many years but never had a good word to say for a lot of the Hull supportes - he thought they were far too abusive. No change there then!

sad to hear of his passing. he wasn't as funny as andy but had a dry subtle sense of humour and was still surprisingly accurate with the boot when demonstrating kicking techniques.

What a great memory, what a match/battle. Belle Vue was rocking that night!

Amusing story about Nick du Toit from one of the links www.eraofthebiff.com/p21-yarn-05.html What was the name of the South African who we signed and was at the club open day on the Saturday, showing fans around the ground etc and was supposed to make his debut the next day (I think) but went back home?

Amusing story about Nick du Toit from one of the links www.eraofthebiff.com/p21-yarn-05.html What was the name of the South African who we signed and was at the club open day on the Saturday, showing fans around the ground etc and was supposed to make his debut the next day (I think) but went back home?

Great Site... Fantastic info keep updating it..

Lovely to see i'll be back to learn

Looks like an interesting site and will add it to my favourites to investigate further.

Just a quick query. You say the latest floodlights were added in the 1990/91 season. I always thought they were the following season. The reason why I query this is a specific memory. I went to University between October 1991 - June 1994. I remember in my first year at University being in the halls of residence watching us lose on Sky at home against Hull KR. Bright Sodje scored a few that night and a few of the tries we/Sky blamed on the brightness of the new floodlights. Rovers used the high kick to effect that night. This was before summer rugby came into play.

Thanks for the kind words - will double check on the queries and update accordingly.

I'm hoping at some point over the next month to put all our results on from 1895 in some sort of searchable format - it'll keep me busy whilst I pretend to be working...

The OP is seeking further information to enable him to continue his archive work into WTW. He is missing some results for the following seasons: 1996, 1997 and 1998.
Unfortunately, having once been a collector or more a hoarder of programme's, I decided to greatly thin mine out some years ago and I do not have these results to assist him.
If anyone out there can help, perhaps you could PM him with the information or suggest where it can be obtained from. I've trawled through all sorts of sites but cannot find the information.
I'm sure it will be put to good use and further 'goodies' posted on here for our enjoyment!

I'm pretty sure I can help - I just need to check when I get home tonight to make sure - I'll be in touch unless someone else can help out in the meantime

Thanks for that.