T’Other Side: Hunslet Club Parkside

T’Other Side: 
Hunslet Club Parkside

Finding information about a community club is difficult but we have done a little research. Below you will find the players who they used last weekend. In addition we do know that they have  Jamie Bradley and Jamie Fields, both of whom have been selected for this year's Great Britain Community Lions tour of Australia together with Craig McShane, Kieran Murphy, Josh Murphy and Ben Shulver.

Club History

Hunslet Club Parkside was the result of a merger of Hunslet Old Boys and Hunslet Parkside in 2012. In 2015 they entered the National Conference League in the bottom tier. Remarkably, each year since they have won promotion culminating in an amazing season last year when they won every match in the National Conference Premier Division and beat West Hull 26-18 in the Grand Final (played at Featherstone). Peter Smith (the rugby league correspondent of the Yorkshire Post) wrote "Hunslet Club Parkside got what they deserved at the end of possibly the greatest season in amateur rugby league history".

Former players of Parkside and Old Boys include Mick Shoebottom, Alfie Barron, Gary Schofield, Jason Robinson, Jimmy Lowes, Wayne Heron, Graham King, Dave Creasser, Karl Pratt, Chev Walker, Paul McShane and Carl Ablett.

LAST TIME OUT

Head Coach: Paul McShane

Paul played his first professional game for Leeds Rhinos in 2009 and he remained at Leeds until 2013, but had loan spells with Hull FC, Widnes and Hunslet Hawks. In 2014 he joined Wakefield Trinity and then moved to Castleford during the 2015 season. There are many people that his form in recent years has merited a place in the England squad, something that has failed to materialise thus far. His remarkable achievements as coach at Hunslet Club Parkside suggest that he might well, in future years, become a head coach of a professional team.

Paul McShane was at school with former Fev player Jason Walton. That's a fact well known to fevnut who taught Maths to both of them! But whereas Jason would always sit in the corner as far away from the teacher's desk as possible Paul usually sat at the front because he knew that there was likely to be a copy of League Express on my desk and when I went to the back of the classroom he could usually manage to 'borrow' it for a few minutes!! He was quite a bright lad but both Paul and Jason are very definitely better at rugby than at Maths.