Also, the "strong rumours" about Fax being behind with the rent have all come from one source - FCHT fans!

Suddenly these "strong rumours" lose all credibility.

There is also another that Sonny Bill is on his way for next season

so is anyone old enough to remember the rumours about Blanco and Sella?? now those were the days

Yes, especially Blanco. Wasnt that just after we lost Smokin Joe? Rumours he'd been sene up Thrum Hall etc.

Sadly my memory for when things happened is poor - i can usually get the decade but thats about it; I blame Websters Pennine bitter...now those were the days

anyone else know?

Yeah OK.

remember it all well....

remember the one about jeremy Guscott

Wasn't that a rumour that he once made a tackle ?



I clearly remember Wusscott refusing to play for Bath against Wigan at Man City's Maine road ground in the cross-code challenge match.

Like it or not, they're the ones who first mentioned it and they're the ones who have hijacked virtually every article in the Courier relating to Fax with their infantile comments.

Marillion!.....that Union ponce never made a tackle in his life! Think he would have had to mark Gary Connolly at the time.....Connolly would have made him look a right joke.

I thought it was Inga Tuigamala in his prime that he was supposed to be against? Either way he would have had a tough game !
Anyone watch "Living with the lions" on sky ? Changed my mind a little after watching that cos Guscott made some cracking tackles on that 1997 tour with John Bentley and co !

Never trust a man who has pockets in his shorts when playing.....dusty hare and hankerchief blowing his nose during an international springs to mind.......oh!!! ...and fake blood too

Saddest thing about the blood capsule saga is not the cheating but the fact that they did it to bring on a player that kicks the ball. That's what there should be an investigation into!

Kick and clap. Yawn

Guscott was awesome on that tour, it cannot be denied!

slightly off thread but I think Union backs have done better in RL than RL backs in RU.

Dont be too critical of the RU players, some are real quality.

I dunno, I thought Farrell was a revelation at centre!!!!



Agreed...Davies, Offiah, Gibbs, and our very own Bentley and Preston, certainly showed their worth, all class acts!

Best XIII Uni*n - League converts anybody?

Give over! Rugby Yawnion!

What he said X 2.


Offiah is the same for me, big girls blouses, they swan about on tv on any programme that will have them on. Offiah wouldn't have liked our modern RL as a winger, too much hard work to do instead of being a pretty princess on the wing.

Didn't do so much of that at Wembley during the 80's and 90's, recall a few crackers at thrum hall as well.

He would be a success now as he was then (pace), saints and Leeds would snap him up.

All good, but Bentos for me.

He scored for fun at Thrum hall and delivered on the toughest lions tour.

'That' try he scored on the Lions tour was labelled 'one of the best ever' by the Un*on commentators / journos at the time.

We were privileged! He scored one like that every other week for us, or so it seemed!.

A great player!

I always said that about Francis Cummins, try poacher extraordinaire!

Offiah was class, he who have been great in any era

He was different, he was a big strong bloke and amazingly fast, he had great hands, and his support play was amazing

People often slag him off but he made so many of his 500 tries out of nothing

If you watch that famous one at Wembley he breaks straight through 2 would be tacklers then goes 100 yards

He made his full Wigan debut at Thrum Hall and I remember Dave Watson (who was hard) trying to kill him most of the game - anyway he tried hard and the final outcome was an Offiah hattrick

That was when Watson tried to shoulder charge him over the wall down the bottom corner in front of the Scratching Shed. Can still picture that in my mind now.... but have forgotten all the tries he scored against us!