[Bulliac]

Re: Stuart Gallagher : Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:06 am  

Errol Stock wrote:

There are some good memories on show here.. Mine is fuzzy - but I do remember Stuart as a player and I did rate him..

Was this game the one where they put the referee in a directors personal car - and the car got attacked on its way up the hill with the ref inside it?

[Not the good old days!]

Think something similar happened back in the Birch Lane days and no, I don't remember it, though stories from the time tell of the poor ref being taken by horse and trap to Forster Square to get the train away - though allegedly, the crowd wasn't far behind the horse..

[Bullseye]

Re: Stuart Gallagher : Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:47 am  

There's someting in the Bradford Northern Official History about a ref being attacked on his way to the dressing rooms after a game. The club got fined and a stern warning. Think is was early 50s but could be wrong.

That long walk was a bit fraught for refs and players alike.

Re: Stuart Gallagher : Mon Oct 20, 2014 12:13 pm  

Aye, we had an informal referee grading system, based on the number of police horses in your escort

Re: Stuart Gallagher : Mon Oct 20, 2014 12:42 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

There's someting in the Bradford Northern Official History about a ref being attacked on his way to the dressing rooms after a game. The club got fined and a stern warning. Think is was early 50s but could be wrong.

That long walk was a bit fraught for refs and players alike.

Early 50's !! I wasn't conceived at the time

I was there and I was very close to the action (say no more).. I know someone who will recall it perfectly, and I will post the detail when I get it.

Worrying - my days of youth are melting into lumps of forgotten dates

[Bulliac]

Re: Stuart Gallagher : Mon Oct 20, 2014 1:22 pm  

Think that may be the game I mentioned earlier. Nigel Williams has it in 1926 at Birch Lane. After an enquiry, Northern had to close the ground for the first two home games of the following season and play the games no nearer than 5 miles from Bradford, and also post warning notices. Funnily enough, it must have been a game which slipped my father's memory when he was busy telling how much better behaved kids were in his day..seeing as HE never mentioned it.

Re: Stuart Gallagher : Mon Oct 20, 2014 2:54 pm  

BeechwoodBull wrote:

If memory serves me right, Stuart signed at the same time with a prop, Brian Butler, maybe even from the same club. Butler was huge and built square, but props from rugby union don't always make it and he didn't have the same impact as Stuart. R.I.P big man.

Think this picture from earlier in the thread has Brian Butler in his Swinton days on the far left. Other Northern players are Brian Hogan, Bill Pattinson, Francis Jarvis and Peter Dunn as far as I can remember.