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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 20, 2020 13:37:46 GMT
They are. And Liversedge and Heckmondwike both had professional teams once upon a time. Quite the hotbed. It's quite amazing how many professional teams vanished. Take the 1901-1902 season. The winners were Broughton, with Runcorn third. The Lancs competition (which curiously featured Hull KR) included the long-dead Lancaster, Birkenhead, Altrincham, Radcliffe and Stockport. Yorkshire had Manningham (now Bradford City AFC!), Heckmondwike, Goole, Liversedge and Sowerby Bridge. Whatever happened to Bramley? Coventry had a fairly short-lived pro team, of course, and a book could be written about the many attempts to get established in South Wales ... The new Cov team are quietly doing well, quite a nice place to go for a game (they share with Coventry RUFC). Bramley went to amateur, in fact they reformed- the directors of the old club, in a familiar tale, shafted them by selling their ground for housing and tried to move them round West Yorkshire. Weird place, Bramley- an old core with a very Sixties build stuck around it. A bit like Andover and Basingstoke! |
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Chris from Brum
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Post by Chris from Brum on Nov 20, 2020 13:44:11 GMT
The new Cov team are quietly doing well, quite a nice place to go for a game (they share with Coventry RUFC). Yes, I'm aware of the Coventry Bears, and I've been to the Butts Park Arena a few times as a Moseley (RU) fan (we've even won there, once in a memorable game where the ref - Luke Pearce, then very young in his career and now on the international panel - awarded us three(!) penalty tries despite the disapproval of the home crowd). It did have a dreadful pitch, which turned into a mudbath after a light shower, but I think they've had work done on the drainage since. |
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Post by alien8ted on Nov 20, 2020 14:19:15 GMT
They are. And Liversedge and Heckmondwike both had professional teams once upon a time. Quite the hotbed. It's quite amazing how many professional teams vanished. Take the 1901-1902 season. The winners were Broughton, with Runcorn third. The Lancs competition (which curiously featured Hull KR) included the long-dead Lancaster, Birkenhead, Altrincham, Radcliffe and Stockport. Yorkshire had Manningham (now Bradford City AFC!), Heckmondwike, Goole, Liversedge and Sowerby Bridge. Whatever happened to Bramley? Coventry had a fairly short-lived pro team, of course, and a book could be written about the many attempts to get established in South Wales ...
Bramley resigned from professional rugby in 2000 to become a feeder club to Leeds; something that didn't work out.
A fans club Bramley Buffaloes now plays in the Yorkshire Men's League.
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Post by Merseymike on Nov 20, 2020 14:47:26 GMT
Do we not have a sports thread or two?
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alien8ted
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Post by alien8ted on Nov 20, 2020 15:49:09 GMT
Do we not have a sports thread or two?
Yes many.
Corbyn Labour v Starmer Labour is great sport for non Labour Party members.
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 20, 2020 15:54:54 GMT
Do we not have a sports thread or two?
Yes many.
Corbyn Labour v Starmer Labour is great sport for non Labour Party members.
"And here's Marx, let's see if he can put any life into the German attack. Evidently not".
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