Rovers down...

[Barchullona]

When was that and who against?

It was way back. An experience they didn't repeat. They were showmen, they wouldn't have lasted 2 minutes in a competitive environment. A bit like putting .Best, Marsh, Worthington and others together. Marvellous entertainment against a bunch of saps put together who are willing to be beaten by them nightly for a decent wage but a different matter against a team who were really up for it.

 

[Barchullona]

Rugby Unions is a bigger sport than RL thats a fact.
If we're talking crowds NFL kicks the **** out of everything.

College football gets larger crowds. The only 100,000+ stadiums in America are college ones.

 

[over18and legal]

College football gets larger crowds. The only 100,000+ stadiums in America are college ones.

Do they pay to get in or does their college give them free entry?

 

[over18and legal]

It was way back. An experience they didn't repeat. They were showmen, they wouldn't have lasted 2 minutes in a competitive environment. A bit like putting .Best, Marsh, Worthington and others together. Marvellous entertainment against a bunch of saps put together who are willing to be beaten by them nightly for a decent wage but a different matter against a team who were really up for it.

I don't know their opponents but looking at google they've won over 25,000 matches and lost aprox 300.
Agreed about the showmen.

 

[steverico]

With school I saw the Harlem Globetrotters three years running after the rugby league!

Lucky sod, I went to Featherstone v Barrow an '67 with school, we went to see a musical Charlie Girl, it starred Derek Nimmo who was a big TV star then, but he pulled a sickie so we got an understudy, it was ****e, apart from a girl actor who appeared in bra and knickers for most of the play, and to dozens of us young lads was the only high point of the day.

 

[Barchullona]

Do they pay to get in or does their college give them free entry?

Ah, the implication that they get big crowds because they get in for free. City fans who moan about the prices at the KC wouldn't pay the price of most college games.

 

[Barchullona]

I don't know their opponents but looking at google they've won over 25,000 matches and lost aprox 300.
Agreed about the showmen.

They played against a team out together to play them. They weren't there to give them a match but let them showboat. They were on TV every year when they toured ere when I was young. You realised after seeing them a few times that the same things happened year after year, carefully orchestrated stuff no different to wrestling.

 

[Tigerglenn]

Do they pay to get in or does their college give them free entry?

I remember the Harlem globetrotter playing in boothferry park gym in the eighties ,arranged by the marketing master Don Robinson .They turned up later that evening in New Garden Chinese on Anlaby road after the game
And we're really friendly signing autographs etc

 

[over18and legal]

Ah, the implication that they get big crowds because they get in for free. City fans who moan about the prices at the KC wouldn't pay the price of most college games.

I wasn't implying anything, i was asking a question.

 

[over18and legal]

They played against a team out together to play them. They weren't there to give them a match but let them showboat. They were on TV every year when they toured ere when I was young. You realised after seeing them a few times that the same things happened year after year, carefully orchestrated stuff no different to wrestling.

True, except there is a risk of getting hurt at wrestling.

 

[Citygirl]

I remember being at the 1985 RL Challenge Cup final.99,801 .
The biggest attendance ive been in

A proper City fan was at Fellows Park that day . Pete Skipper one Walsall nil .

 

[over18and legal]

A proper City fan was at Fellows Park that day . Pete Skipper one Walsall nil .

This City fan had a weekend away in London. I aam sorry I never got your approval
Sorry I never joined you in Walsall

 

[over18and legal]

A proper City fan was at Fellows Park that day . Pete Skipper one Walsall nil .

Were the other 10 City players at Wembley

 

[Edelman]

A proper City fan was at Fellows Park that day . Pete Skipper one Walsall nil .

We all know that plenty of people claim to have been at certain games when they really wasnt there.
Wasnt there 15,000 at the Torquay 1,800 attendance

 

[City Man]

A proper City fan was at Fellows Park that day . Pete Skipper one Walsall nil .

What a day that was.

Remember seeing a City fan stood on top of a coach spraying everyone Nigel Mansell style with champers.
Happy days (minus the Fonz)

 

[Citygirl]

Were the other 10 City players at Wembley

No they weren't at Wembley , there were on the Fellows Park pitch celebrating promotion .

 

[over18and legal]

We all know that plenty of people claim to have been at certain games when they really wasnt there.
Wasnt there 15,000 at the Torquay 1,800 attendance

You are miles out mate. City took 25,000 that day.
I can honestly say I wasn't there.

 

[ElTigre]

I think they're at the Leeds Arena sometime early next year.

Is 'Curly' still playing for them? I guess he must be about seventy. He's the only one I remember.

 

[Citygirl]

You are miles out mate. City took 25,000 that day.
I can honestly say I wasn't there.

It was a home game you nugget .

 

[TwoWrights]

We all know that plenty of people claim to have been at certain games when they really wasnt there.
Wasnt there 15,000 at the Torquay 1,800 attendance

1775 actually.
Although that's better than the 553 that were there against Chester.




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