Trivia Question

[Mad_Rabid_Rooster]

The club should make more of these achievements of past players especially as he was a member of the first premiership winning side - one of only 460 men who have played test cricket for Australia in 144 years - test cap 106- 1196 have played for the Tri-Colours/Roosters in 113 years

I agree. More generally, I would like to see the club highlight and boast about our long and fabulous history more as part of the match day experience. We are getting better at it, no doubt, but I think we can go even further. Facts and stats should be referred to a lot more IMO.

[Rooster1908]

I agree. More generally, I would like to see the club highlight and boast about our long and fabulous history more as part of the match day experience. We are getting better at it, no doubt, but I think we can go even further. Facts and stats should be referred to a lot more IMO.

I think we should have boldly printed across the front and back , the only foundation club since 1908 ,

[Thirteen]

I think we should have boldly printed across the front and back , the only foundation club since 1908 ,

How about F**K SOUTHS as well?

[Rooster1908]

How about F**K SOUTHS as well?

I'm hearing ya

[Bansai Pipeline]

The minor premiers being entitled to a GF re-match would have suited us in the Sticky years.

[Big Dog]

Correct - Herbert (Herbie) Lesley Collins- Tri-Colours / Roosters player # 60- Also Captained Australia for 2 test against South Africa due Warwick Armstrong not touring because of illness.

19 Tests - 1352 runs 4 hundreds (high score 203) and 6 fifties - average 45.06 - 4 wickets @63- 1920 to 1926 - 100 on debut vs England - WW1 Veteran (Middle East/Western Front-1915-18)

Collins also played first grade rugby league in the NSWRL Premiership He played at 5/8 in Eastern Suburbs First premiership win in 1911 playing alongside the great Dally Messenger.

Tri-Colours/Roosters won the final 22-9 against Glebe- As Glebe finished 1st in the regular season they were entitled to a re-match - Tri-Colours/Roosters won the re-match 11-8 for their first title and went onto win premierships again in 1912 and 1913.

Good stuff mate.

[King Salvo]

The minor premiers being entitled to a GF re-match would have suited us in the Sticky years.

1980 GF loss and 1981 too even though the Chooks got done in the preliminary final

[Paddo Colt 61]

I woulda said Lindwall but there you go.
The "Fcuk Souths" suggestion is certainly not a goer since that record score in the final round. It says that you're hurtin' bad. Wrong move imo.
I do however like that old custom where if you won the minor premiership you could challenge the GF winners. It diminishes the fluke factor in the finals.

[Thirteen]

I woulda said Lindwall but there you go.
The "Fcuk Souths" suggestion is certainly not a goer since that record score in the final round. It says that you're hurtin' bad. Wrong move imo.
I do however like that old custom where if you won the minor premiership you could challenge the GF winners. It diminishes the fluke factor in the finals.

I suggest anyone on this forum who isn’t hurting bad from that final round loss is a troll.

[Paddo Colt 61]

Sure but you don't broadcast it. It's called dignity.

[Rooster1908]

I suggest anyone on this forum who isn’t hurting bad from that final round loss is a troll.

See that's why I block the bloke so I don't have to read his dribble , but then you go and quote him so I still do

[Jacks Fur Coat]

I suggest anyone on this forum who isn’t hurting bad from that final round loss is a troll.

Well ya better troll me up now mate!

Seriously, it means SFA to us...a nothing club game that we were pretty half assed about and got what we deserved with a lopsided result.

What is very very funny though is many Souths fans now bring that one irrelevant scoreline up as a trophy moment, amidst our modern times dominance of the game and them, for all to see.

They see straws, they clutch. Bit sad but funny too.

[Thirteen]

Well ya better troll me up now mate!

Seriously, it means SFA to us...a nothing club game that we were pretty half assed about and got what we deserved with a lopsided result.

What is very very funny though is many Souths fans now bring that one irrelevant scoreline up as a trophy moment, amidst our modern times dominance of the game and them, for all to see.

They see straws, they clutch. Bit sad but funny too.

BS! I don’t care what round it is or what the circumstances, a thrashing by our arch enemy always hurts. That night hurt and you know it. Maybe you weren’t there to experience it first hand like I was, but I can tell you the players and their feral fans were laughing at us and by putting 60 on us they earned the right to.

[Paddo Colt 61]

[QUOTE=Rooster1908; See that's why I block the bloke so I don't have to read his dribble , but then you go and quote him so I still do.

Yeah well...can't say I miss the Allan Jones' Climate change opinions or the Tele's bellicose propaganda angle on China. (Some old flip down the park said to me the other day, "They've sold the barley". Well whoopee do, that just leaves the coking coal, wine, seafood, meat, education etc etc...but I digress). I did, however, find a great deal of amusement in those patriotic declarations that 08 went in for big time - always delivered with the passion common in those too old to ever be put in harm's way. Add a disdain for education and that nauseating aspirational stuff and you gotta think no loss really.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

BS! I don’t care what round it is or what the circumstances, a thrashing by our arch enemy always hurts. That night hurt and you know it. Maybe you weren’t there to experience it first hand like I was, but I can tell you the players and their feral fans were laughing at us and by putting 60 on us they earned the right to.

Of course they earned the right to, and they will still be bringing up a 'nothing' game for a long time, which only serves to highlight their lack of any real achievements vs us.

They play for obscure one off bragging rights, we play for premierships.