We
won’t talk about it!
fevnut is
over 70 and has a long-term health issue that means that we are now meant to
stay indoors for 12 weeks! We are going mad already. The off-season is bad
enough but to now have an off-season starting in March is unbearable. However,
we will try not to moan and we intend to attempt to write this without using
any words that begin with the 3rd letter of the alphabet!
Milestones
Well done
to our Australian/French scrum-half (the stipulation above means we are unable
write his surname) who passed 300 points for Fev in our match against Hunslet.
He has achieved that in only his 24th game for Rovers and is averaging 13
points per match. There is no question that he has been a vital part in the
revitalisation of the team.
And there
is another milestone that needs to be marked. One of the wonderful aspects of
Fev fans is that players who have given great service to the team remain in the
hearts of our supporters even when they have moved on to other pastures. One of
those who is most definitely in that position is Tim Spears. Tim grew up
supporting Fev and we know that Fev remains fervently in his heart even while
he is at York. Whenever our home match against them gets to be played he will
get a very warm welcome at Post Office Road. Last Sunday York beat Rochdale and
that was Tim’s 400th appearance as a professional rugby league player. That’s a
landmark that very few reach nowadays.
Many
moments with Tim playing for Fev standout in the memory but, ironically, one of
the most prominent of those was in a pre-season game. It was on January 14th,
2014 against Wakefield. Do you remember what happened? Fev kicked off at the
start of the match and a Wakefield player spilled the kick-off just yards from
his line. Tim had sprinted downfield (as fast as we ever saw him move) and
picked up the loose ball and went over for a try just 6 seconds after the game
had started. It is believed to be the fastest ever try in rugby league.
In the
match last Sunday Tim actually took a kick at goal. We believe that was the
first time he ever did so. Sadly the attempt was unsuccessful!
6
out of 6
Who would
have predicted that Fev would have begun the 2020 season winning their first 6
games. It will be little succour if the 2020 season gets written off but at least
we will be able to proudly boast that it was the year when Fev won every game!!
Mothers
We sat down in our usual
seat for the Hunslet match and a few seats down the same row was a lady who
seemed to get really animated each time Jack Bussey was involved. Surely it
wasn’t his wife or girl-friend. She did seem a little bit too old for Jack.
Maybe she just fancied him even though she looked old enough to be his mother.
And then the penny dropped. It was his mother!
When we got home we
posted up onto the blog our usual ‘Teams and Scorers’ page and noticed that it
got a like from an Ali Rose with a surname beginning with the letter of the
alphabet we are not using. Further research showed that she was in Australia. Was
this perhaps another Fev player’s mum? So we messaged her and discovered that
our hunch was right.
Two more examples of the
family nature of Featherstone Rovers.
Immediate future of fevnut’s blog
For the next few weeks we
will be unable to post many of the pages that we usually do during the season
but we do intend to write ‘fevnut’s musings’ each week and we are planning some
surprise articles from other people. Articles that look at rugby league and
Featherstone Rovers in particular from different perspectives. We hope you
enjoy them. With extra time on our hands we will also put together a few pages
looking back at memorable times for Fev.
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