biggest win by a rugby league club now goes to york who won today 144-0

previously held my huddersfield beating blackpool 142-4

.......they obviously didnrt slacken off 2nd half!!!

I remember that game. I’d been at Uni for a few weeks and I had a feeling something interesting was on so I planned on visiting home to watch it.

Then I persuaded myself that it would be an 80 point bore, and didn’t bother. Thereby missing the chance to see a world record being set.

I’d have been really annoyed if Greg Austin had scored ten - it’s only ever happened four times! He scored nine.

Bonus points if you can list the four players who’ve scored ten or more tries in a match...

I was there ,it was played on a Saturday afternoon for some reason and was the same day as the first ever national lottery draw

I was also there and I have the game on VHS somewhere, also if memory is correct Greg Austin could have had more tries but passed with the line at his mercy.

Your memory is indeed correct. Can’t remember who to but he passed when he could have put the ball down himself.
He said afterwards it’s because he didn’t want to take Lionel coopers record.

I know three of them, Shaun Edwards (10) for Wigan (v Swinton IIRC), Martin Offiah (10) for Wigan (v Leeds) and George West (11 - the record holder) for Hull KR (v Brookland Rovers). West also held the record for points in a match (he also kicked 10 goals in the same game) prior to Chris Thorman breaking it for York v Northumbria Uni.

The fourth is Lionel cooper!

Who did Lionel Cooper score his ten against?

Keighley, I think. I remember my grandad telling me about it. He used to say that Cooper went back to pick all the players off the floor that he had flattened once he scored his tries. A proper gentleman apparently.