"Taming The Tigers", Yorkshire Film Archive : Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:27 pm  

Click here for link to Yorkshire Film Archive When you're browsing t'interweb you just never know what you're going to find - like a half hour documentary on your 1999 challenge cup campaign for instance...

Click here for link to Yorkshire Film Archive When you're browsing t'interweb you just never know what you're going to find - like a half hour documentary on your 1999 challenge cup campaign for instance...

Re: "Taming The Tigers", Yorkshire Film Archive : Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:35 pm  

Thanks for posting that. I've never seen it before and it's just a shame we don't have the players of the quality we had at that time.

Re: "Taming The Tigers", Yorkshire Film Archive : Mon Aug 27, 2012 7:09 pm  

Have the video, but no player.
The name Steele Retchless still sends a shudder down my back.
Remember trying to work out if we were going into golden point or what as he went over...gutting!

Re: "Taming The Tigers", Yorkshire Film Archive : Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:16 pm  

Another teary semi final exit.

Re: "Taming The Tigers", Yorkshire Film Archive : Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:56 am  

waltontiger wrote:

The name Steele Retchless still sends a shudder down my back.

Agreed, I hated that guy!

Re: "Taming The Tigers", Yorkshire Film Archive : Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:21 pm  

I saw it when they showed it on the big screen down t'lane later that season (prior to a demolition job on Wigan if I recall correctly).

Makes me laugh when Deano refers to the Noddy's as "This bunch!" Little's changed for them since, it would seem, although that is as loud a "Landon" chant as I've heard anywhere, from their 20 fans in the film. Their coach at the time was an Aussie (surprisingly) called "Dan Stains". I remember reading a typo in the paper that morning where they'd printed his first name as a short form of "Richard" beginning with the letter D...