Wakefield Trinity • Re: Fulham v trinity
Redscat wrote:
:D
Harold Poynton was my newsagent on Heeley Road, Kettlethorpe for many years before he moved to Dewsbury Road...... Smashing chap.
It all boils down to the fact that your average semi-professional rugby league player was just an ordinary, working class, bloke next door with an ordinary working class job; usually in this area a miner, welder , mechanic or such like. The professional classes tended to lean towards the other oval ball game. Many ex-players tended to take up jobs in the licensing trade,pub landlords, pub managers and the like. Neil Fox had a string of bookies for a period.
I get all that but the fact that Mal Reily who was working as the Cas Coach at the time and had been employed continuously by the sport since the 1960's baffled me and still does. Most football clubs even those in the 4th division had full-time managers even though the clubs themselves were in many cases far less well supported than Cas.
It makes you wonder where the money went in RL. You often hear that the sail if a player paid for the chairman's new Jag. A ludicrous theory for the past 30 years at least but in the sixties and seventies, it makes you wonder. This I suppose is a whole new issue and I'm damn certain older (than me) fans like you probably know the truth.
Statistics: Posted by vastman — Wed Feb 17, 2021 11:40 am