Re: Brad Hepi : Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:56 pm  

Tigerade wrote:

The triumvirate of Nikau, Blackmore and Kemp will never be beaten IMO.

sigh those were the days, with superdooper league this club has gone backwards.

p.s triumvirate had to look it up , nice word and very apt.

Re: Brad Hepi : Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:08 pm  

Tigerade wrote:

The triumvirate of Nikau, Blackmore and Kemp will never be beaten IMO.

Absolutely correct on that definately. Three legends of Castleford Tigers over the years. If only we could have them back in their prime and throw in Dean Fritz and Adrian Vowles...Brad Davis too and we'd be so difficult to beat.

Re: Brad Hepi : Sat Dec 01, 2012 12:45 am  

Dead Man Walking wrote:

Absolutely correct on that definately. Three legends of Castleford Tigers over the years. If only we could have them back in their prime and throw in Dean Fritz and Adrian Vowles...Brad Davis too and we'd be so difficult to beat.

If you think about over the years the calibre of players we've had, not only overseas but English too.

Without wanting to divert too much from the thread, the ones mentioned already (and I'm sure there's more)

Tawera Nikau
Tony Kemp
Richie Blackmore
Dale Fritz
Adrian Vowles
Michael Eagar
Brad Davis
Dean Sampson

All who gave everything for the club and had the passion, pride and spirit to play every game 100%. Then you look at 2004 and last year where some just couldn't give a toss.

It's a sad state of today's game where player power rules. It used to be about the pride of playing for a club, not about the amount of cash you made out of it

Re: Brad Hepi : Sat Dec 01, 2012 5:36 am  

mrpurfect wrote:

sigh those were the days, with superdooper league this club has gone backwards.

p.s triumvirate had to look it up , nice word and very apt.

Cheers.

Re: Brad Hepi : Sat Dec 01, 2012 2:51 pm  

Tigerade wrote:

The triumvirate of Nikau, Blackmore and Kemp will never be beaten IMO.

Agree with that. They were also around at a time when we had a number of quality players and were one of the top 4 teams in the 1st division.

I often refer to them when talking to a Bulls supporting work colleague who's only known the Superleague era. There's undoubtedly many younger fans around that are completely unaware there was a time when Cas were one of the top sides and the likes of Bradford, Huddersfield etc etc were no-marks.

Unfortunately unless a miracle happens and we get the new stadium built I can't see us ever returning to such happy times for Cas...

Re: Brad Hepi : Sat Dec 01, 2012 6:08 pm  

they were happy days but they came at a cost, when Vanderveld was the coach, he had no interest in the academy and let it go to pot, he put a quality team together, but when the brass ran out he left, & tried to take the players with him, that was start of the decline, the only way Cas will get to the same high-ts is 1, we get a sugar daddy, or 2, the fans buy in to the tigers, and we start getting 8000+ gates

Re: Brad Hepi : Mon Dec 03, 2012 9:46 am  

Dead Man Walking wrote:

Absolutely correct on that definately. Three legends of Castleford Tigers over the years. If only we could have them back in their prime and throw in Dean Fritz and Adrian Vowles...Brad Davis too and we'd be so difficult to beat.

Who was Dean Fritz, Dale's brother?