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Neil Holding being really honest
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Neil Holding being really honest
I wonder if a lack of a sense of humour is a chromosomal thing with pie people?
he silenced the Warrington fans in 1996 when he rubbed the pitch and said 'grass grass'. wilderspool didn't have any, just dry or wet mud!
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He'd probably be looking at a stretch now for that joke, especially with Stan Boardman as a character reference.
Alan Whittle would probably endorse that, Murph would quite often send out a disguised long bullet pass out to Whittle, if he didn't read it properly Murph use to rip into him. Same thing when he broke away from the scrum, Whittle didn't react quick enough and Murphy would give him a load of verbals.
I seem to remember only Karalius would have words with him, he was his minder though in the early Murph years.
I wasn't surprised by the Kenny quote so I must have heard it before from somewhere. Either way we'd have been happy I suppose.
I agree on Murphy. He was coach when I was a kid but despite older neighbours and relatives telling me about how great he was as a player it meant nothing to me really, I just thought of him as the coach and I usually felt like we failed to reach our potential. His programme notes most weeks consisted of 'we were unlucky to lose at (insert team) last week and we need a win here today to boost our chances of a home tie in the Premiership, so get behind the lads.' Inspirational stuff.
The one thing I will say about Murphy is this: Have a look at the 1971 RL Cup Final Leeds V Leigh. Bear in mind Leeds where 1/5 on with the bookies. At 31 he won that game on his own and heaven knows what he was like at 26. He is perhaps the best player ever in either code and would be as good today, pace over 25 yards is as relevant today as then, plus hid rugby brain would be unsurpassed today.
Now the personalities, which are opinion. I have met Alex lots of times and on his terms he is good fun and a bit of a rogue. I am about the same age as Neil and was in that peer group round the nightclub scene at the time. Honest opinion? An absolute arse as was Alan Hunte. The others like Ledger and Peters and Hagg great superb lads, as is Alan Hunte now, and perhaps Neil Holding is now.
it was a brutal game when Murphy played and yes he did Dennis O Neil of Widnes and that was not sport or part of the game. Winning money made players lets say more mercenary than was maybe healthy.