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Just a little light hearted fun.
My father in law introduced me both to rugby league and more importantly to Cas.
Tonight he will be sitting in the stand with my wife (his daughter)
He prefers to stand but it tends to wear him out.
Plus there may be a lot of celebratory dancing about.
So he's Eighty Eight and a half years old and has been watching Cas for more than eighty years.
Does this make him our oldest fan and the one who has watched them the longest?
Prize for anyone who beats this ,taken on trust of a bottle of Malt Whisky or Gin.
Just a distraction seven and a half hours to go.
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My father in law introduced me both to rugby league and more importantly to Cas.
Tonight he will be sitting in the stand with my wife (his daughter)
He prefers to stand but it tends to wear him out.
Plus there may be a lot of celebratory dancing about.
So he's Eighty Eight and a half years old and has been watching Cas for more than eighty years.
Does this make him our oldest fan and the one who has watched them the longest?
Prize for anyone who beats this ,taken on trust of a bottle of Malt Whisky or Gin.
Just a distraction seven and a half hours to go.
.C.O.Y.F.
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I bet he is over the moon and never thought he would see a night like tonight down the lane. Superb. I'm lucky at 28 to see this and hopefully it will only be a start of things to come.casjunction wrote:Just a little light hearted fun.
My father in law introduced me both to rugby league and more importantly to Cas.
Tonight he will be sitting in the stand with my wife (his daughter)
He prefers to stand but it tends to wear him out.
Plus there may be a lot of celebratory dancing about.
So he's Eighty Eight and a half years old and has been watching Cas for more than eighty years.
Does this make him our oldest fan and the one who has watched them the longest?
Prize for anyone who beats this ,taken on trust of a bottle of Malt Whisky or Gin.
Just a distraction seven and a half hours to go.
.C.O.Y.F.
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Hammers me by more than 45 year.....only been watching since 81
Hope he (and the rest of your family) really enjoys the night and he finally gets to see what we all have been waiting for all these years....
Hope he (and the rest of your family) really enjoys the night and he finally gets to see what we all have been waiting for all these years....
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Think OCL and Lurcher will run him close!!!
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I think most on here know I've been watch since I was a nipper of 3yrs old.
I'm 61 now 62 next month, so that makes it nearly 59yrs.
Never thought I'd see us finish top of the pile.
So glad am here to witness it.
I'm 61 now 62 next month, so that makes it nearly 59yrs.
Never thought I'd see us finish top of the pile.
So glad am here to witness it.
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Fumper27 wrote:Think OCL and Lurcher will run him close!!!
Haha, not quite.
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Some performances in the distant past have made me feel very old, not saying I am a spring chicken neither. But this team all round will take some beating, and we have them for at least a couple of seasons more if not longer, and we are' buying', as my mate said, Liverpool bought when they were a top team, we are doing the same.
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just for info my dad is 91, a season ticket holder and was born in 1926 when cas entered the RFL
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Night like last night mean probably more for our older fanbase than it does at the younger end of the scale. My Grandad is 83, Cas and proud, followed them all over. I'm so proud for him more than anything that he got to witness this, especially now being someone who is finding it difficult to get down to games.
In the spirit of the final Blackadder episode - Goooodbyeee!
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Wow that's fantastic.hawktiger wrote:just for info my dad is 91, a season ticket holder and was born in 1926 when cas entered the RFL
He should of been on pitch with the Trophy.
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Top Trumps that man.hawktiger wrote:just for info my dad is 91, a season ticket holder and was born in 1926 when cas entered the RFL
I hope you and your dad enjoyed yourselves last night.
Pm me to arrange to receive your prize.
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That is brilliant Hawktiger. :clap:hawktiger wrote:just for info my dad is 91, a season ticket holder and was born in 1926 when cas entered the RFL
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Ironically he played for Wakefield
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I am 78 years young started watching CAS when I was about 17 , Kenny Pye Albert Lunn Tonkinson John Sheridan if I remember rightly were playing at the time, we were bumping along at the bottom of the league what a journey it as been
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I remember all of them gateman and many more. in later years ken pye was my coach at cutsyke.
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I'm 67 and started watching at 10. I remember Kenny Pye, didn't he come from Westfields in Cutsyke? I also remember us selling Albert Tonkinson to Bradford, who were in dire straits at the time (1959 ish) and the story went around that they never paid us what they owed. At that time us and Bradford bumped along the bottom of the league, we started to improve in the mid sixties.lurcher wrote:I remember all of them gateman and many more. in later years ken pye was my coach at cutsyke.
As I explained to a few Wakey fans last week when they were chanting "Where were you when you were sh*t?", I was behind the sticks at the railway end.
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My reccollection is that we gave Albert Tonkinson to Bradford for free, along with a number of other clubs who "donated" players. This was after Bradford Northern went bust and folded and in an effort to help them get upon and running again.cogito ergo sum wrote:I'm 67 and started watching at 10. I remember Kenny Pye, didn't he come from Westfields in Cutsyke? I also remember us selling Albert Tonkinson to Bradford, who were in dire straits at the time (1959 ish) and the story went around that they never paid us what they owed. At that time us and Bradford bumped along the bottom of the league, we started to improve in the mid sixties.lurcher wrote:I remember all of them gateman and many more. in later years ken pye was my coach at cutsyke.
As I explained to a few Wakey fans last week when they were chanting "Where were you when you were sh*t?", I was behind the sticks at the railway end.
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You could well be correct. I wasn't sure if there was some kind of buy now pay later arrangement, or if they reneged on a debt or if he was free. Time blurs the edges! If we had had social media in the 60's instead of button A and B we would have known!usacas wrote:My reccollection is that we gave Albert Tonkinson to Bradford for free, along with a number of other clubs who "donated" players. This was after Bradford Northern went bust and folded and in an effort to help them get upon and running again.cogito ergo sum wrote:I'm 67 and started watching at 10. I remember Kenny Pye, didn't he come from Westfields in Cutsyke? I also remember us selling Albert Tonkinson to Bradford, who were in dire straits at the time (1959 ish) and the story went around that they never paid us what they owed. At that time us and Bradford bumped along the bottom of the league, we started to improve in the mid sixties.lurcher wrote:I remember all of them gateman and many more. in later years ken pye was my coach at cutsyke.
As I explained to a few Wakey fans last week when they were chanting "Where were you when you were sh*t?", I was behind the sticks at the railway end.
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Top trumps, replica shirts.....
Looking around the crowd last week, the replica shirts on view were from a range of years. Who or what was the earliest example and when did they start?
My mother was an avid knitter, and I claim the first replica cardigan! It was around '62 when we wore the black kit with the yellow and white horizontal stripe. My mother made two identical cardigans, one for me and one for my pal John Davison (fruit and veg), which we wore to games looking like twins. Just wish we had a picture,
Looking around the crowd last week, the replica shirts on view were from a range of years. Who or what was the earliest example and when did they start?
My mother was an avid knitter, and I claim the first replica cardigan! It was around '62 when we wore the black kit with the yellow and white horizontal stripe. My mother made two identical cardigans, one for me and one for my pal John Davison (fruit and veg), which we wore to games looking like twins. Just wish we had a picture,
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I think the first time they became widely available was when hickson became the first shirt sponsor in 1986. I have just one from before that year but its just a very poor copy with no badge.
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