Honestly don`t know and trying to rely on memory instead of Google
I think Gary had just gone 17 and Keiron may have been close to 18 but quite happy to be wrong, as both were very good and stand out then, they both went on to be World Class with one being arguably the best ever in his position.
I remember going to Station Rd once as a kid but only remember it being a crap game and a cold, miserable place. If I had to guess it was around 30 years ago.
It's a tough call, isn't it?
I can see the boards point of view, but I can also understand why some of the fans are against it.
It does raise the interesting question of 'how much can a club change before it becomes a different club and not the one you'd continue to follow'?
I would be up in arms to be honest. I was when they tried to re brand us as "Saints RL" a few years ago.
Difference is a club that's been in the Doldrums for possibly half a century down to a hardcore of couple of hundred fans who's had a nomadic existence.
It's very sad but I think it was a last throw of the dice by Andy Mazey and it's been rejected.
It reminds me of a pub I used to live near
It was a medium to large pub with a real strong cohort of mature drinkers. The pub wanted to modernise and bring in food, there was uproar, claims of never going in again, ruining a good old pub, upsetting the locals etc.
They changed and the pub became very popular and profitable. Many of the drinkers who claimed they'd never set foot came back. Another pub about 500 yards away remained the same, tried to cater for the drinkers, that ones now shut down as all the old drinkers have passed away or returned to the Busy pub
Point is, cater for small numbers you will eventually have none
Saints v Wigan at Station Road 1971 in front of a crowd given of 20 000 add 5 onto that in reality and we won the Championship in the last minute thanks to William Benyon. It was in my opinion at that time a bit classier than Central Park and seemed bigger as well. RL own goal not buying it and making it a Twickenham of the north "not in Yarkshire though eh.
roy litherland it's happened i told you it would