John Holdsworth: Master of Communication and Tact

[4eyesbetter]

This is from an early-90s match in the USA between Wigan and Warrington, intended to spread the game over there. Which obviously was a raging success, just ask Cody. One of the many things they used to make the game more comprehensible was this strange innovation of putting a microphone on the referee, so that the TV audience could hear what was being said. Includes subtitles for those who have mislaid their Kippax-to-English dictionaries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvX6lybLyZ8

Warning: this video contains scenes of contested Rugby League scrums that some forwards may find disturbing. Particularly the novel hooking technique on display at about 2 minutes in.

 

[DrSTU]

Thank Jebus that League has moved on since then!

Interesting technique. I think I might lose marks for trying that nowadays

 

[Toby Warren]

That is quality! So many tips to try on Saturday!

 

[Adam]

What a very angry man.

 

[Taff]

What a very angry man.

Just what I was thinking.

Sorry, but that was painful to watch and I only managed 45 seconds. :frown:

 

[SimonSmith]

You forgot his official title: Mr Holdsworth from Kippax.

That's how I remember him

 

[4eyesbetter]

Just what I was thinking.

Sorry, but that was painful to watch and I only managed 45 seconds. :frown:

Seriously, mute it if you have to, but just skip ahead to 2:04 and watch the hooker.

 

[Bryan]

1. Shaun Edwards with curls. Wow.

2. Doesnt Jo Lydon coach somewhere now?

3. These players seem so non-plussed by the referee. Was he like this at EVERY game?

 

[Lee Lifeson-Peart]

What was wrong with that?"

I speak to players like that all the time.

Les Boyd was a dirty b@stard even by Australian standards. :biggrin:

There was some fresh faced youths in there. Edwards, Betts,Hampson, Lydon, Paul Cullen and the unfortunate Mike Gregory

Geddem on saaad Herldswerth!" (Boulevard and Craven Park c 1990)

 

[Taff]

Seriously, mute it if you have to, but just skip ahead to 2:04 and watch the hooker.

What can you say? Apart from :wtf:

Seriously, did that ref go far?

 

[Lee Lifeson-Peart]

What can you say? Apart from :wtf:

Seriously, did that ref go far?

Of course he did. He was (believe it or not) the top knobber in RL after Billy Thompson until the arrival of Cummings and Smith

 

[Rit Hinners]

Looks like there is a 400m track around the pitch and, for safety, the touch lines are well short of the track

On a pitch that narrow, it's no wonder tempers run so high.