Just have to blog about last night.
We beat the Pie Eaters in a tough battle of bodies and hearts and minds.
When I was just a kid
we played rugby in Gaskell Park
I must have been from aged 5 on upwards.
Always rugby league
never Football/soccer.
And then when I grew older it was #RugbyLeague at schools.
Never the other code - it was just the Grammar School who played Onion !
AND older still we went to all the matches at home and away.
Dougie Greenall - Glen Moses - Stan Vanvollenhoven
just some of the famous players of those many years.
Teenagers - we went to play snooker in a venue near St Helens railway station and then went off to the match.
Being player at school and after, every tackle every pass and kick was felt inside my soul.
Powerful.
I remember playing with Tommy Bishop at Blackbrook #RugbyLeague Club
I remember playing against Alex Murphy at school - he just run rings around my school team - then he was off - signed for Saints at an early age.
When I left school I played for several clubs - I was even Captain of one of the teams and we won a cup one year.
I remember standing on a table afterwards, in a local pub, doing an impression of
Little Richard in a loud gravelly voice - spilling beer as you do.
I love my #RugbyLeague
Really working class roots
real grizzly - hard fought rugby.
So much skill and speed.
I had neither - I was a Prop when younger and later played Hooker
when scrums were a place to fight for the ball.
I can remember many violent acts which I won't tell you about as it may seem as if I am boasting and agreeing with violence.
So me and MrsBeautiful Beautiful were watching the TV last night.
Nervous as we knew this Derby game as a big game for many people and always is.
Saints v Wigan
The biggest games of the season
we were scared of losing
passionate to win
so we jumped around as we scored and well thrashed the Wigan team - WE did it !
Saints 30 - Wigan 14
I went to sleep relieving
Woke up remembering
the blood spilled - the bruising tackles - the lives laid on the line for me and MrsBeautiful
Thank you our team - now let's stay as league leaders.
A big ask!
