| Player |
Name |
Real Name |
Position |
Date of birth |
Place of birth |
Greatest Extra C moment |
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Zin Zan |
Shaun Sykes |
Specialist scrum half |
3/8/57 |
Huddersfield |
Seeing Peter Winterbottom (England,
British Lions), returning after an injury, playing for Headingly fifths,
being cut in half by Tony Johnson (Fartown, Extra C). |
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Shaun Kenyon |
Another specialist scrum half |
10/12/59 |
Dewsbury |
Scoring a hat trick after coming back on, after an injury, to substitute a tragic incident (busted boot lace) against York. Also enjoying different culinary delights (testes de chien). |
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SC |
Jack Thomas |
Winger/full back |
5/4/48 |
Irvine, Scotland |
Scoring a hat trick of tries
in our first ever match at Lockwood Park and then receiving the asterisk
because if I hadn't dropped the other two passes I would have scored twice
more.and ...... |
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Ibbo |
John Ibbotson |
Forward |
20/5/48 |
Salford |
For the last try I scored which was worth, at
the time, 3 points. |
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Hymie |
Alan Ellis |
Front row |
22/7/65 |
Tel Aviv |
Being identified easily as the
target man for Mr Sykes's Yiddish line-out calls by both Old Mods and
Leos in successive games. The ploy was consequently dropped. |
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Ian Ward |
Forward |
20/10/67 |
Mirfield |
Hatrick against Old Brods - away. |
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Dale Foster-McBride |
Front row |
15/02/63 |
Huddersfield |
Walking into the changing room on match day feeling like a burst ball, looking around and immediately feeling on top of the world , then being handed a rennie, some Fiery Jack and being told you are playing stand off and that 'you are the biggest, widest, ugliest stand off in the whole of the f****** Northern Union!'. |
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Baggsy |
Mike Baggs |
Back |
22/10/68 |
Huddersfield |
Receiving the 'Henderson-Smith' award for the 'medical first' injury of a hamstring strain that developed into earache. |
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Johnny Gobshite |
Mark Pickering |
Full back |
01/11/66 |
Huddersfield |
Been hospitalised for 2 days after been head butted by one of our own players - Ian Ward. |
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Gandhi |
Ben Ryan |
Wing forward |
16/10/65 |
Cheltenham |
Actually playing more than 40 minutes without getting injured. |
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Father Ted |
Vincent Finn |
Ball boy |
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Birmingham (a true Irish lad) |
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