When Huddersfield RLFC nearly folded

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Listen to the interview at the bottom left of the page. Think about how far we've come since those days.

ponner wrote:

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Listen to the interview at the bottom left of the page. Think about how far we've come since those days.

That's top left !!

A fantastic man Keith Burhouse and his dad, (Ronnie? if I remember rightly), kept Fartown RLFC alive

I remember Mick Murphy coming in to save the club and along the way Neil Shuttleworth, Jimmy Collins and Joe Bramley.

Worked down at the old ground Painting changing rooms, working on the old wooden stand, doing work on the field ect, then back at night to train.

Was one of the 200+ that used to go watch em every week as well, home and away. Loved it

Me and Shogun were there too.

and me, used to sell souvenirs on that old trestle table under the west stand...........even A team games !

and me and our lass .............and the lads

Had been living in Wolverhampton and travelling up to matches before this sad episode but managed to get a job back in Gods county

At the time -- Andrew was 3 plus - and Matt was in a carry-sling on my back 4 months old !!

Used to go in stand so that it was a bit more sheltered for t`young-un and he could have a drink etc --biggun used to run his Dinky cars on the wood seats there was so much space !

Always remember one sweet day when JB was on the "gate" --and charged me kiddies price for matt (3 months) - but hey they needed every penny at the time!


Nuther thing was when they scored - and crowd applauded and cheered - Matt used to start crying ---and I used to have to take him round the back of stand and calm him down !! - didnt miss much play though!! ---still does it today I believe!! Worrying but still happy times and all part of life`s eich tapestry I suppose !!
But Im still grateful for ALL who at least TRIED (and obviously succeeded) in keeping our great club alive!!



Jimmy Collins, John Bailey, Les Coulter god bless em !! RIP and the Burhouses Joe Bramley and Mick Murphy amongst others

and the others who mucked in -- the souvenir and programme sellers - the Rotherys- Margaret - connie and others too at the supporters
Well done gang!!

Gotta stop ........................getting a little emotional ........................

oops ---and the ball boys of course (dont want a ban!!)

FLYINGPROP wrote:

A fantastic man Keith Burhouse and his dad, (Ronnie? if I remember rightly), kept Fartown RLFC alive

I remember Mick Murphy coming in to save the club and along the way Neil Shuttleworth, Jimmy Collins and Joe Bramley.

Worked down at the old ground Painting changing rooms, working on the old wooden stand, doing work on the field ect, then back at night to train.

Was one of the 200+ that used to go watch em every week as well, home and away. Loved it

yep at some away games FP --there were more Fartowners ON the pitch than off it it seemed!!
Thank goodness for the bus driver and big Stu as well!!

Aiiiiii and the old kit man was a great guy, his 1st name was Frank but cant remember his surname.

Bunged me an old jersey to keep and train in on a couple of occasions, funny thing is we were up the creek but everyone pulled together and I really enjoyed that time.

Afraid I didn't go to any A team natches - was too busy at the away game!

Watching the game from the terrace because the stand was closed!

I remember shaking Mick Murphy's hand & saying "Thank You" in the Supporters' Club when it was announced that he was taking over.

I later asked him if I could take photos at the last game there. To my eternal regret I didn't ask to take photos of the inside!

which was the last game there, was it the day we won the div 3 championship ... i used to watch us play at fartown and remember the div 3 winning season , but never went to leeds road to watch , left the game till we moved to the mac

In my opinion Keith Burhouse deserves an MBE for what he did. He is a very close friend of my Dad and myself. He saved the club and put hours of unpaid time, money of his own and effort in to keeping the Fartown club going when John Bailey without warning walked away. He told me he went straight from work to Fartown and was there usually from around 5pm until around 3 in the morning! That is an unsung hero if ever I heard one.

The club owes him a debt of gratitude. I am going to start a campaign if anyone is interested - a petition/list of signatures if anyone is willing to support me? I hope we can show our appreciation to a man who has given his all. He has been quite ill and still not well, but never moans. He is a true gentleman too!

So did Les Coulter mate. He went as far as re-mortgaging his house to save the club.

penninegiant wrote:

and me and our lass .............and the lads

Had been living in Wolverhampton and travelling up to matches before this sad episode but managed to get a job back in Gods county

At the time -- Andrew was 3 plus - and Matt was in a carry-sling on my back 4 months old !!

Used to go in stand so that it was a bit more sheltered for t`young-un and he could have a drink etc --biggun used to run his Dinky cars on the wood seats there was so much space !

Always remember one sweet day when JB was on the "gate" --and charged me kiddies price for matt (3 months) - but hey they needed every penny at the time!


Nuther thing was when they scored - and crowd applauded and cheered - Matt used to start crying ---and I used to have to take him round the back of stand and calm him down !! - didnt miss much play though!! ---still does it today I believe!! Worrying but still happy times and all part of life`s eich tapestry I suppose !!
But Im still grateful for ALL who at least TRIED (and obviously succeeded) in keeping our great club alive!!



Jimmy Collins, John Bailey, Les Coulter god bless em !! RIP and the Burhouses Joe Bramley and Mick Murphy amongst others

and the others who mucked in -- the souvenir and programme sellers - the Rotherys- Margaret - connie and others too at the supporters
Well done gang!!

Gotta stop ........................getting a little emotional ........................

oops ---and the ball boys of course (dont want a ban!!)

You didn`t mention the pork pies, that was one of the highlights of the game, the half time pork pie (the juice dribbled down your chin) It were great.

penninegiant wrote:

FLYINGPROP wrote:

Aiiiiii and the old kit man was a great guy, his 1st name was Frank but cant remember his surname.


DOYLE WASNT IT FP??

Bunged me an old jersey to keep and train in on a couple of occasions, funny thing is we were up the creek but everyone pulled together and I really enjoyed that time.

It was PG Frank Doyle Thats the fella

Cheers mate

yeah frank doyle, top bloke. remember helping out neil whittaker with the stats at a team games on a friday night. then 1st team games on the sunday.

I even had a spell commentating on the club videos that went to the RFL for disciplianary stuff. Dont know what they would have made of my dulcet tones lol

some great times though, it seems all different now, ish I could go back for a day to that last game at Fartown when we beat York in the yorkshire cup..........

Blimey Dan, if you have done commentating already, put in for Stevo's job, the old fart should be retiring soon.
You'd be 200% better than him thats for sure!

lol used to really enjoy climing gantrys, and rickety ones at that at places like tattersfield and houghton road......

hell get all mixed up between calaret and gold/ Stoke City and the American team he follows !!

Itd be bloody hilarious !!

it was all great fun though, as said earlier everyone mucked in and helped out.

farawayfartown wrote:

lol used to really enjoy climing gantrys, and rickety ones at that at places like tattersfield and houghton road......

I don't like heights anyway, so would have sheet meself wi' that lark!

penninegiant wrote:

hell get all mixed up between calaret and gold/ Stoke City and the American team he follows !!

Itd be bloody hilarious !!

What the "Green City Giants" lol

Stan Mathews throws out a long un to Buck Masters --and wait ---Wally gibson has scored a home run

lol i think wally scored a few "home runs" while in the uk

...and from some rumours --a few away ones as well Faraway!!