BP1:
With Leigh's defeat last night, next Saturday will see the current top two in SL go head to head. I reckon the last time the pair of us stepped out as 1st & 2nd was Good Friday 1984? Unless any of the old heads can recall such an occasion over the past 41 years!!?
Good Friday 1984 at old Craven Park (Holderness road next to the bus depot!!), and the infamous Len Casey sending off after Fred Ah Khoi baited him once too often and Casey bit, but it was the aftermath of the sending off that caused all the subsequent kerfuffle!!!
Seem to recall those of us stood at the old greyhound scoreboard end going mental as the linesman fell over!!!
We ended up running away with game, winning comfortably by the end, although it wasn't enough to stop them from taking the League title crown we had won twelve months previous.
Fairly sure that was the last time we faced off as 1&2 at the top of the league.
I was at the game too. Think Rovers had already won the league, but Hull destroyed them that day, Fred Au Khoi scoring a brilliant individual try regathering his own kick.
With regards to the Len Casey sending off, he actually pushed the linesman after he got sent off. He was suspended Sine Die (indefinitely), but think it was reduced to 12 matches on appeal!!
