Hall of Fame Lunch 2023 : Sun Jun 25, 2023 6:39 pm  

Good event today, took my old man along. Kevin Dick, Keith Senior, Barry Seabourne and Jim Bacon entered the hall of fame. Syd Hynes was over from Australia and first team squad there as well.

Some good comedy moments from Kevin Dick and JJB.

Bit sad they could not trace any relatives of Jim Bacon but lovely emotional moments for Barry Seabourne and Kevin.

Re: Hall of Fame Lunch 2023 : Sun Jun 25, 2023 7:03 pm  

Sir Gregory ParsloeP wrote:

Good event today, took my old man along. Kevin Dick, Keith Senior, Barry Seabourne and Jim Bacon entered the hall of fame. Syd Hynes was over from Australia and first team squad there as well.

Some good comedy moments from Kevin Dick and JJB.

Bit sad they could not trace any relatives of Jim Bacon but lovely emotional moments for Barry Seabourne and Kevin.

Just old enough to faintly remember Dick's outrageous dummy at Wembley in 77. He was a real character. Used to drive Andy Gregory bananas.

Re: Hall of Fame Lunch 2023 : Sun Jun 25, 2023 7:10 pm  

ArthurClues wrote:

Just old enough to faintly remember Dick's outrageous dummy at Wembley in 77. He was a real character. Used to drive Andy Gregory bananas.

Kevin Dick was Andy Gregory before andy Gregory thought of it.

Re: Hall of Fame Lunch 2023 : Sun Jun 25, 2023 10:12 pm  

Kevin seemed to punch Andy Gregory on the blindside at the first scrum as a matter of course, it was as expected as kicking off.

Produced some great big match performances, think his best 2 were both at Fartown, in 79 premiership final where he gave the finest all round kicking display I think I’ve ever seen and won Harry Sunderland trophy and the year later where he did something similar to Hull KR in Yorkshire cup final.

When Phil Caplan introduced him he started going on about nicknames, and said he was known as the “Iron Teddy Bear”, I’ve never heard that one , can anyone else recall it?

Re: Hall of Fame Lunch 2023 : Mon Jun 26, 2023 6:06 am  

I've half a memory of Eddie Waring calling him that but dont remember it being widely applied by the fans

Re: Hall of Fame Lunch 2023 : Mon Jun 26, 2023 10:52 am  

It was a great afternoon. Kevin clearly not a fan of Parker pens though, eh.

Re: Hall of Fame Lunch 2023 : Mon Jun 26, 2023 1:29 pm  

YosemiteSam wrote:

It was a great afternoon. Kevin clearly not a fan of Parker pens though, eh.

Seemed very disappointed with the reward he and Toppo got in 1979.

I wanted someone to ask if he still had it.