Re: Is Senior worth a punt : Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:14 pm  

I think he's worth a punt. In fact I'd pay money to see him punted...

Re: Is Senior worth a punt : Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:16 pm  

the_grobs wrote:

I remember it now, from Headingly??. Yes B J Mather! Big lanky streak....of P. He's involved with the RFL now under Richard Lewis isn't he?

Not Headingley, it was down the lane. I looked it up on youtube, and surprisingly it's not there. I know the game was televised because I seem to remember Jonathan Davies saying that he "should've been sent off for that." I also remember the atmosphere just after that incident was so heavy on the pitch you could have cut it with a knife. I was expecting war to break out.

We'd beaten Leeds at Leeds (last minute of the game, Andy Schick scoring a try off the last kick by a certain Mr. Vowles) and Bradford at home (I think Stevie McNamara missed an easy kick that day, I remember it being really windy and it may have been Viva Brad holding the ball for (Maloneys?) place kicks) so we were up for a decent cup run, only to be taken out by Sheffield. Senior got a ban and it ended so he could appear in the final (which they went on to win!)

Edit... weren't all of those games on the box? Has anyone got them on video? I'd quite like to see them again

Re: Is Senior worth a punt : Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:17 pm  

Disco wrote:

I think he's worth a punt. In fact I'd pay money to see him punted...

Re: Is Senior worth a punt : Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:43 pm  

Georgie Best on a Bloomer wrote:

Yup. That's when my opinion of him was formed. 1998 Cup QF Cas v Sheffield when he flattened Mather, the ref (Connolly I think) let him stay on and he went on to score the two tries that sank us that day.

For me, never in a Cas shirt. Ever.

I remember that incident my self , how the ref missed it I don't no ,BJ was out cold, it swung the match in my opinion and I've hated that thug ever since

Re: Is Senior worth a punt : Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:47 pm  

No thanks, rather keep Isa & Arundel.

Re: Is Senior worth a punt : Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:49 pm  

the_grobs wrote:

I remember it now, from Headingly??. Yes B J Mather! Big lanky streak....of P. He's involved with the RFL now under Richard Lewis isn't he?

I thought he was a half decent player myself , scored a few trys from kicks in the air close in

Re: Is Senior worth a punt : Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:56 pm  

Georgie Best on a Bloomer wrote:

Not Headingley, it was down the lane. I looked it up on youtube, and surprisingly it's not there. I know the game was televised because I seem to remember Jonathan Davies saying that he "should've been sent off for that." I also remember the atmosphere just after that incident was so heavy on the pitch you could have cut it with a knife. I was expecting war to break out.

We'd beaten Leeds at Leeds (last minute of the game, Andy Schick scoring a try off the last kick by a certain Mr. Vowles) and Bradford at home (I think Stevie McNamara missed an easy kick that day, I remember it being really windy and it may have been Viva Brad holding the ball for (Maloneys?) place kicks) so we were up for a decent cup run, only to be taken out by Sheffield. Senior got a ban and it ended so he could appear in the final (which they went on to win!)

Edit... weren't all of those games on the box? Has anyone got them on video? I'd quite like to see them again

It's all coming back now!! Yes, at the time my Mrs worked at Hicksons with Keith Seniors best mates mum, (Nora Crowther mother of Sheffields Matt Crowther), and after the game she kept going on about how Keith was such a lovely lad and it was so out of character. But I remember B J Mather dropping like a stone, all 6'7" or so of him, and I remember thinking he isn't half as much sweetness and light as you think, Nora!!

Our thug of the time was Lee Harland, if I remember rightly. He was always good for a dust up aswell.

Re: Is Senior worth a punt : Tue Jul 26, 2011 7:29 pm  

He certainly is.

Edit - sorry, misread the thread title.

Re: Is Senior worth a punt : Tue Jul 26, 2011 7:34 pm  

nottinghamtiger wrote:

He certainly is.

Edit - sorry, misread the thread title.

Re: Is Senior worth a punt : Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:35 pm  

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo