More milestones fall, more to come

[CasRus]

Can anyone remember a Wigan winger in the 70s named Green Vigo from S.Africa - he scored 7 tries ! If anyone can remember, can you also remember a 15 minute documentary that Colin Welland did on grass roots rugby league that was shown by the BBC just before the CC Final I think in 77/78. It was showing amateur game up to professional and featured Green Vigo and a couple of his tries in this short documentary.

The reason I ask is that I was in this documentary as I was in my amateur days playing for my company team "Cameron Ironworks" in the Leeds league (note Welland showed a clips from a game we played against East Leeds and referenced us as Cameron Steelworks in his documentary) - I'd love to get my hands on it from the BBC if they still have it. If anyone knows how to go about requesting it from the BBC I'd appreciate some advice. Note if you remember George Claughton who played at Cas at around this time he also sneakily played for us in the Sunday League as he worked at Cameron (he brought Gary Stevens over to a couple of our training sessions - couldn't keep up with him on speed or acceleration...ha ha !!).

[lurcher]

if I remember correctly green vigo was a bit of a novelty as he played in bare feet.

[old cas lass]

if I remember correctly green vigo was a bit of a novelty as he played in bare feet.

Will be in vigo tomorrow. The one in Spain

[lurcher]

if I remember correctly green vigo was a bit of a novelty as he played in bare feet.

Will be in vigo tomorrow. The one in Spain

and I'm green with envy rub it in why doncha

[Fumper27]

if I remember correctly green vigo was a bit of a novelty as he played in bare feet.

Will be in vigo tomorrow. The one in Spain

You on holiday lass. Never said nowt on here or Facebook about it

[HuddsTigers]

I have spoken to Barry "Taffy" Walsh today as he is back from his holiday and he confirms he scored 5 tries against Salford "Daan Lane" but can't remember the date and unsure if it was late 50s or early sixties - there must be a record somewhere in the Cas archives ! He's 78 years old now but he'll be playing golf at 1pm today at Owston 9 hole course and I'll be playing at Ponte Golf Club with him tomorrow. He's very fit for his age. I note that Gary Stevens is also a member at Ponte Golf club and have seen him knocking around. Gary Hetherington is also a member there I believe.

Looking in this new Cas book.

The game you're talking about was on Sat 16 Sept 1961 vs Salford. Cas won 53-8 but according to this Walsh only scored 4 tries.

Other try scorers were Peter Small (2), Geoffrey Ward, Brian Marsden, Alan Hardisty, George Brown and Johnny Ward. Albert Lunn kicked 10 goals

[Fumper27]

Luke Gale needs another 23 points to beat Bob Beardsmore's points in a season record having scored 312 so far this season:

12 tries
128 goals
8 drop goals

[old cas lass]

Luke Gale needs another 23 points to beat Bob Beardsmore's points in a season record having scored 312 so far this season:

12 tries
128 goals
8 drop goals

I think he'll do that easy.

[Fumper27]

Now got the record for the biggest winning margin of the SL, at least 10 points, beating the previous record which was 9 points.

[Dez]

What's the latest with Greg Eden beating the snakes record.

[Tamworth Tiger]

Isn't he 2 short both on overall and Superleague only so needs 3 more to break both?

[Tiger53]

Isn't he 2 short both on overall and Superleague only so needs 3 more to break both?

Not quite. Think he has 38 in SL and 3 in the Cup. The records are 40 for SL and 42 for the club, so he needs 3 to break the SL record and 2 to break the club record.

[Tamworth Tiger]

Fair enough
I thought the overall was 43

[Aid]

Isn't he 2 short both on overall and Superleague only so needs 3 more to break both?

Not quite. Think he has 38 in SL and 3 in the Cup. The records are 40 for SL and 42 for the club, so he needs 3 to break the SL record and 2 to break the club record.

39 SL and 42 altogether, so he need two more tries to break both the SL and club records

[Fumper27]

Isn't he 2 short both on overall and Superleague only so needs 3 more to break both?

Not quite. Think he has 38 in SL and 3 in the Cup. The records are 40 for SL and 42 for the club, so he needs 3 to break the SL record and 2 to break the club record.

39 SL and 42 altogether, so he need two more tries to break both the SL and club records

Wrong. Greg has 38 in SL and 41 overall so needs 2 to break the club record and 3 to break the SL record.

[Tiger53]

Isn't he 2 short both on overall and Superleague only so needs 3 more to break both?

Not quite. Think he has 38 in SL and 3 in the Cup. The records are 40 for SL and 42 for the club, so he needs 3 to break the SL record and 2 to break the club record.

39 SL and 42 altogether, so he need two more tries to break both the SL and club records

Wrong. Greg has 38 in SL and 41 overall so needs 2 to break the club record and 3 to break the SL record.

That's correct, as I said earlier.