Manly vs Great Britain Lions 1988

[@DHTCF]

Crusher Cleal, what a player!

[@peterhunter2298]

This may have been the Lions mid-week team, with the obvious exception of the likes of Ford, Platt and Offiah.....but look who Manly were missing. Shearer, O'Connor, Vautin, Cochrane and Daley. And their halfback was a rookie.

[@christopherdale8201]

I love that Wide World Sports theme Music,god I miss those days,I just wish they were still playing Lions and Kangaroo tours that's when Rugby league was Rugby league and in this Day and age it isn't to much to ask especially with all the money in the has not just in Australia and the UK but around the world.

[@stevenriley8235]

a youthfull keighley cougars legend in Ian Gately playing for Manly

[@poitty1978]

what year were the forward numbers changed around? saw dessie in the no8 thought he was playing prop until they said hes playing lock

[@aetd106]

+poitty1978 1988 was the last year that I know of where an alternate numbering system was used in Australian league. Lock was 8, 9 and 10 were second rowers, 11 and 13 the props and 12 the hooker. No longer used, and if I understand it was retired for the 1989 season

[@guodade2239]

That’s correct. It led me to confusion when I watched rugby league for the first time - reading a sporting manual led me to think Phil Daley, a specialist prop, was playing “loose forward” (lock) - back in 1986 if my memory serves me right. Between 1989 and 1991, although the numbers were changed, players were still listed by David Middleton’s ‘Rugby League’ annual in the old order of lock, second row, second row, prop, hooker, prop. From 1992, forward packs were listed in the stardard international order prop, hooker, prop, second row, second row, lock.

[@StrikingAlexa]

it is weird that the number 8 were the same position in both codes at the time

[@Holden308]

And note to Ch.9......it was Wigan who beat us in the 1987 World Club Challenge, not Widnes.

[@dleigh9997]

I'll let them know lol

[@Sq12Sq22u22]

Good lesson for ANY coach..if this is what is unfolding against you - YOU change the plan..you CHANGE the players...you don't wait - disaster IS happening!

[@HenriHattar]

Who WAS the Manly guy Pocock?

[@conanmcguire1750]

was there with my mate dave(hi dave) we got in for free saw Manly destroy the hapless poms i ran home and watched the replay almost as good as the 78 grand final one of the best days before 40 to nil melbourne grand final after the salary cap cheating

[@dalewilson5613]

conan McGuire gay boy

[@gcsbdatatrawl5916]

‘The big coloured fellow’ haha that’s classic Aussie speak or what 😂

[@gcsbdatatrawl5916]

And ‘a case of the ringworms’ he was on fire that night.

[@georgemacpherson1992]

Typical Manley fans celebrating as if they won something big. They clearly don’t know that this is a warm up game. RIP Manly.

[@ChimneyJuice]

Imagine not being able to spell Manly? What a tosspot.

[@auzziebri]

Manly,,, wahooooooo

[@conanmcguire1750]

maaanleee

[@HenriHattar]

Geoff Toovey was , perhaps, the second best rugby league player of ALL time....the BEST being Cliff Lyons..BUT I need to say...ON a good day, nevertheless they were both miles ahead of Mat Johns ..maybe Bob Fulton was the third best....If these guys had played with G. Eadie as full back , Brannigan and Hannigan on the wing and Fulton and Jesus Christ in the centre, NO one, even today could touch them.

[@PNGPJS]

as for below , with the greatest respect Manly thumped the Poms .....stop coming up with excuses ....30 -0 , we taught them how to play league .

[@stephendavies8510]

Obnoxious biased Aussie commentators not condemning the dirty play of manly but what do you expect from a nation of convicts.

[@ahhhhsavenya482]

hahahahaha dum ass...independent referee........u dimwitted pom!

[@stephendavies8510]

When we talk about dimwitted no one does it better than Australia and the most overrated country on the planet and also rugby league in the UK is only a peripheral sport.

[@ChannelGilly]

@@stephendavies8510 Typical Whinging Pom Bastard ! You Pricks couldn't win a Chook Raffle , even if you bought all the Tickets .The most useless sporting Nation in the World .

[@ZIGSVIDS]

@@georgemacpherson1992 phew what stinks ? Oh it's a filthy pom.

[@ZIGSVIDS]

And when you stinking filthy poms played Australia in the Test series, what happened ?| Ha,ha You filthy dogs...