Brian Lockwood RIP : Thu Oct 10, 2024 11:41 am  

Former Trinity Player and Coach Brian Lockwood has passed away aged 78 RIP https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/ ... 78-4818568

Former Trinity Player and Coach Brian Lockwood has passed away aged 78 RIP https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/ ... 78-4818568

Re: Brian Lockwood RIP : Thu Oct 10, 2024 5:01 pm  

A sad day when another RL great leaves us. A great player and ball handler.
RIP

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Re: Brian Lockwood RIP : Thu Oct 10, 2024 5:19 pm  

Great player. I'm old enough to have seen him play.
Great player and coach.
Hard man in the days of hard men who had a lot of skill.
Made it in NRL and over here.

Re: Brian Lockwood RIP : Thu Oct 10, 2024 8:54 pm  

Brian Lockwood was a winner, however, when he became coach at wakey, he got the team committed & playing right, Sammy Sanderson was the half back & Brian player coach at loose forward when his body let him play. But the committe was an interfering type & bought Mike Lambkowski without Brian being told, he was not happy & warned the committe if they continued this behaviour.
The committee wanted " Lampy " to play scrum half & not Sammy, the club sold Sammy to Leeds, thus Brian had enough & left the club. Next up was his No 2 & former playing friend Bill Kirkbride, the rest we know about @ Wembley 79, etc.
Rest in peace Brian, I remember you well !

Re: Brian Lockwood RIP : Thu Oct 10, 2024 11:01 pm  

Start@1873 wrote:

Brian Lockwood was a winner, however, when he became coach at wakey, he got the team committed & playing right, Sammy Sanderson was the half back & Brian player coach at loose forward when his body let him play. But the committe was an interfering type & bought Mike Lambkowski without Brian being told, he was not happy & warned the committe if they continued this behaviour.
The committee wanted " Lampy " to play scrum half & not Sammy, the club sold Sammy to Leeds, thus Brian had enough & left the club. Next up was his No 2 & former playing friend Bill Kirkbride, the rest we know about @ Wembley 79, etc.
Rest in peace Brian, I remember you well !

I was 17 when Lockwood came to Trinity... I didn't recall that his tenure was initially as a winter signing from Balmain Tigers... I do remember the furore when Lampy was signed and Lockwood quit (for the first time)... claiming never to have heard of "lumpchompski" ... I never really understood the politics (although 'lumpchompski" became my favourite all time player)...

I always looked on with jealousy when Brian was playing for Hull KR and then Widnes in cup finals my teenaged brain not capable of understanding why he was no longer a Trinity player. A true great of the game from a magical era!

...the game has come a long way since then and he was (perhaps) a little ahead of his time for UK coaching.

ps you missed that there was twelve months of Ian Brooke as coach between Lockwood and Kirkbride.

Vale Brian Lockwood !!

Re: Brian Lockwood RIP : Fri Oct 11, 2024 5:47 pm  

Start@1873 wrote:

Brian Lockwood was a winner, however, when he became coach at wakey, he got the team committed & playing right, Sammy Sanderson was the half back & Brian player coach at loose forward when his body let him play. But the committe was an interfering type & bought Mike Lambkowski without Brian being told, he was not happy & warned the committe if they continued this behaviour.
The committee wanted " Lampy " to play scrum half & not Sammy, the club sold Sammy to Leeds, thus Brian had enough & left the club. Next up was his No 2 & former playi
ng friend Bill Kirkbride, the rest we know about @ Wembley 79, etc.
Rest in peace Brian, I remember you well !

The committee made the right call but went about it the wrong way.
What a player Mike turned out to be ! Made for rl!
Lockwood was a good old fashioned ball playing prop forward- he had skills that aresimply not evident in todays forwards - different game then of course.
RIP