I think Brian carney is very good on sky sports. He talks sense and shows no bias to any team.

Next week is Bobbie Goulding, according to Angela Powers on Twitter it's "powerful stuff"

so was the stuff he was drinking !

Bobbie is good mate of mine. He don't drink that much these days to be honest.

People have the wrong end of the stick with him, he's a top bloke.

He was always a top bloke, just like many of us has his demons

Well i have just watched the programme and surprise surprise he could not bring himself to say the word Saints or St. Helens. Not one mention of us. He went on about the emergence of Bradford from about 2000 onwards etc. but completely forgot to mention Saints or the derby matches or anything to do with us whatsoever. How petty is that. you had to laugh though. lol

It wasn't about St Helens though was it, plus the questions asked never really deserved a mention of St Helens did they?

I think your'e the one being a bit petty.

It was supposed to be mainly about SL though. He managed to mention the emergence of Bradford as being the main contributary factor in the demise of Wigan during the last 10 years. lol He never mentioned the derby games or anything like that.

I see your point to a certain degree, around the time of his return stint to Wigan, Bradford were emerging, St helens had already emerged! Like I say it was about him really and not much about Wigan either to be honest.

Maurice Lindsey is as bent as a nine bob note..

On the Wigan Forum, Rogues said he wished Mo would write a book, He already has for the Pies, it's called "The Rent Book"

His connection with Wigan and then as an RFL chief was unhealthy to say the least.

He left his mark on your club and on the game lets be fair...although I think he did damage we will never fully understand.
Lets not forget He seriously thought a Wires Widnes Merger was a good idea also a Wakfield Castleford Merger too. But never considered a Leigh Wigan Merger and thats what will always make him look as honest and fair as Maradonna to non Wigan fans.

I didnt like the way he lorded up the GB team with its stack full of Wigan players casually saying "although Gary connolly was still a Saints player we had signed him so we counted him as one of ours" how can you not Spew at that.....?

I wish him all the best in football, but the game of Rugby League has now moved on and for the better

If he is, what of it?

bent = corrupt

and thats not a libellous accusation?

Please explain.

But he was no different than any of us. He drank just as much as me and the lads, he wasn't in more trouble than me or mates, he was just a normal young lad.

Anything he did got blown out of proportion big time as you'll see him say next week.

He liked a beer but it never ever effected the way he played or trained. He trained harder than any player I've seen.

He's a good bloke but People beleive what they hear and read to much.

I don't know much about him and heard all the rumours but from watching the show on Thursday he came across very well.

He's a self made man from working class background who did a awesome job for the pies and then was the driving force for super league and summer rugby.

Nobody can say super league hasn't been a great success.

On the subject of summer rugby, he spoke about kids can't learn much on cold , wet, windy days/nights yet kids rugby is still played in the winter.

The three main stories I heard regarding Goulding and trouble (whilst at Saints) are :

-A disagreement between him and Alan Hunte led to huntey's transfer to hull and some fisticufts.
-He had a fight with Chris Joynt in the changing rooms at odsal before a match, in which Joynt inexplicably started on the bench.
-Andy Northey beat him up.

All of which were from rumour type sources and had little to back them up and none of them involved drink.

I believe that is being changed, there was a vote last week for the amateurs to go to a summer season. and I presume that will include junior RL.

One of the things that Mo tried but failed was to align the RFL and BARLA.

BARLA needs to be dissolved, its full of self important little men ruling they're own little kingdom and not helping the game as a whole.
That of course is a generalisation, there are many thousands of people who give their time willingly to help our game.

I remember speaking to Goulding at Wigan, well after he had left. He said than that his biggest regret was his balls up at Leeds,as he loved it there.
He is a great lad to have a chat with, but seemed to press the self destruct button wherever he went.

I'm not going to pass comment on the joynt rumour as I know nothing of it.

I know what the rumours are regarding hunte and maybe the was a falling out but I'll say 100% that it wasn't racial as suggested.

He loved his time at saints and often told us he's was an adopted saint. His best times was at saints. He was on cloud nine lifting that cup at Knowsley road after the Warrington game when we was crowned super league champs for the first time.

On the subject of kids playing summer rugby, it's a no brainer that it would help develop the kids games.

This part worried me.

He said " Although Connolly was halfway between Wigan and St Helens, we had him as a Wigan player that night."

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but that Test match at Princes Park was played in June 1992. Connolly played another full season with Saints, and only "officially" signed with Wigan in August 1993, making his debut in September 1993.

Is Lindsay admitting that Connolly had been tapped up over a year before and was committed to Wigan by the summer of 1992 ?