Again you're right. His comeback game was against Bradford at Odsal, may have been a cup game. In the pre match the then Bradford coach Peter Fox said Tindall would be "As weak as a kitten".

That's why he scored two tries then Peter.

yes the gorilla ( the FC monkey ) made an appearance and I'm sure Tony Dean took the whistle off fred lindop and reffed part of the game

Iirc we drew 8 all. There were literally hundreds of fans walking up the hill from the train station.

How many of that crowd are family, friends or even you?

Does anyone actually know who the mysterious monkey was?

Quality photo. Does anyone know who FC Monkey was? Also, anyone got pics of him on the pitch at Wembley?

A real non-playing legend lol.

There's a photo of him at Wembley 1982 in the Challenge Cup Final Replay programme.

Great photo!

Good memories of the Boulevard. No advertising, just the white boards. They were banged before an opposition kick at goal and made quite a racket. Great to see the original shirst in the crowd. Irregular hoops all the way!!



Keith Tindall, great player, big heart!

Always remember him driving that white sports car , He played a lot of water polo iirc.

I thought that was a Challenge Cup QF tie in 1977 /78 season at odsal?.If i remember right we lost the replay 8-4 at the Boulevard.

I've got a ball from the Keith Tindall benefit year too, not a match ball i don't think though. The ball i have was given to me by my future father in law, it was won by him at one of his benefit nights. I think he said it was Trades and Labour club if not, i'm not sure where but it was down Bev road. It was on the 11th March 1982 which was actually the day my partner was born, my father in law got a message to get his

to hospital like.

The ball say's KEITH TINDALL BENEFIT HULL F.C 1981-1982 on it and it signed by the Hull F.C team and also has some of the Great Britain and France teams signatures on it too.

11th March 1979 8-8 at Odsal Cup quarter final in that undefeated League season replay as you said

Tony Dean got penalized for an involuntary tackle under Hull's Sticks that change the game in Bradford favour Work with Keith at Priestmans It was a hot bed work place for Rovers fans .I play against Keith in a inter shop game and I knew my rugby days were over I only managed to tackle him twice the lad ran me ragged

cracking photo - think we should have an old photos thread on here. love the fact that everyone seemed to bring a scarf, most were worn around the wrist. the black and white caps were pretty smart too, i remember having one of those. great memories from the time when testimonials were fun

as a slight aside there was a cricket match played on the boulevard around this time - a benefit for the late david bairstow i think. it was played in the evening and the likes of brian close, colin croft and i think a young martyn moxon played. i remember bairstow holding up the game whilst the went to the clubhouse bar, and close getting some quality stick from the threepenny. anybody else remember this?

It was at the end of August 1982 when there was a fund raising evening in aid of the ‘Stadium Development Fund’. Organised by new Secretary Dooley, it was a floodlit Cricket Challenge featuring a Freddy Trueman XI and a Brian Close XI and included some big name players like Clive Lloyd, Colin Croft and Desmond Haynes as well as young Moxon. 6000 turned up for what was an enjoyable, if somewhat bazaar night; I have a photo but dont know how to post it

Yep, I lived back of best stand then and 6 houses had there windows smashed that night with the cricket balls flying over the stand. Boycott and botham were also there iirc , I got a load of autographs that night.

Agree, would love more pics of the old Threepenny!

Its like there just isnt enough on the Facebook group

ive got the programme i think im a rovers fan so dont mind parting with it if you want it

I was at that cricket match as well, stood in the middle of the Threepenny stand. Halfway through the match, a ball was bowled to somebody who gave it a right good clout, it flew past Brian Close, standing at mid on, missing him by a few inches without him having time to move a muscle. the ball had barely thudded into the boards before some wag shouted "That was close"...

He did indeed play water polo,very good swimmer was Keith.
Steve Hubbard also played along with a halfback from hull,Chester, i think.
They all played for Hull Water Polo team.A very physical sport i can tell you.

used to share a house with someone who played water polo at a high level - very hard game, and a lot of skullduggery goes on too

Hi not sure my private messaging is working but yes I'd be very interested if you want to message me further about it!

Thanks
Graeme

Ive got a signed copy of it if you would like it,better you had it then it stuck in a box in my loft.

Again that would be brilliant thank you!

message me your name and adress and ill pop in post for you