Back in the very early 70s ,the HDM headlined that we had signed Bill Kirkbride (Cas 2nd row ) . He never did play for us . Not a lot has changed ,eh ? .

Phil Blake

Les Davidson!

Andy Gregory round about 1982/83

According to everyone in the City it was a done deal with a job lined up for him at Crest Hotel (he was a qualified chef allegedly). I'm still waiting for the announcement to be made.

This was at the same time that we made numerous attempts to sign John Woods from Leigh. What a pairing they would have made.

we were meant to have agreed to sign Solomona if Wakefield went down, but they stayed up and Bradford paid a transfer fee

Remember this well , being a young lad living around the Airlie Street area and alway in the ground doing odd jobs , sweeping stands -painting-cleaning boots-trying to shoot pigeons on the top of the 3p stand,Honest !!!. I witness a mini make-over of the main entrance . A full coat of gloss -the windows to the offices +broadroom cleaned -all the old rubbish was moved out of site ,there were even Flower tubs put inside the main Airlie strret entrance !!!!. The word was JPR was coming to sign for us . At the time he was a surgeon in Cardiff hostpital + his wife was a anaesthetist in a hostpital in Wales .The club had lined up jobs for both .

They were due around mid-day on a monday , The club got a phone call to say they wherent coming at around 3 pm . At least we may have got the money back on the flower tubs + the windows did need a clean. Happy days

And we got Willie Manu instead because Cas went down..... thank feck

He was once offered to us in a swap for Phil Hogan in his bad lad days.

Paul Newlove

Lee Crooks when we brought Divorty back in 1997

brett kimorley

is he still on his plane over here does anyone know

What a signing Woodsy would have been,a truly great natural off half.

Makali Aizue

menzies 2006
vella if hkr had gone down
lynch when he left cas and in talks this year.

almost forgot sculthorpe. his sponsored car must still be in a garage somewhere

Did we not make a £100,000 bid for Andy Goodway before he went and signed for Wigan ??

Ali Lauitiiti

Scott Gibbs . Turned around at motorway service station and went back home.

did he not play the under 21's /18's and hull let him go and he signed for castleford tigers

something to do with him wanting 500 quid a week at 14/15/16?

Sheridan and Pratt when they were released by Leeds, Danny Orr, Thorman the first two times, Nick Scruton, theres been a few recently, Gidley was linked for years before he signed for Saints.

No, he turned back at a junction on the M5, but we had 2 officials at the service station near Coventry on the M6 who were waitingfor him.

When we rang his agent he knew nothing about it, and it was only when Gibbs got home that the agent could get in touch with him, and he then let us know.

This was in the days before mobile phones and a lot of coin was pumped into a payphone at those services.

Andy Dannat must have been disappointed that he didn't join us, as Woodsy needed stitches in a scrotal bite (I kid you not) when Bradford visited Boulevard at start of 86/87.

i remeber us talking to his brother craig kimmorley..he'd only played about 3 first grade games and had 2 knee reconstructions...so near yet so far...

wasnt we after Jamie soward ?