Eric Tierney News Today

The passing of former full-back star Tommy Vose at the age of 83 has been greeted with great sadness from those who knew him.

Rivington Road school featuring future Saints Eddie Cunningham and David Hull RIVINGTON Road often gets overlooked as a big rugby school - but from Duggie Greenall through to Neil Holding and Roy Haggerty the school has provided plenty of future stars. It was on the playing field here where Eddie Cunningham first got to grips with rugby league - and starting a journey which would see him eventually run out at Wembley, winning the Challenge Cup with his home town Saints and then with Widnes....

Les tales of Gerrards Bridge, Recs and the cup that disappeared Pilkington Recs before the Final against Blackbrook in 1964 . Hooker Les Kay is seated second from the left, with ‘Buck’ Casey is to his right. FORMER hooker Les Kay is a real mine of information about the amateur game in St Helens back in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He got in touch with Saints historian Alex Service to tell a tale or two about the oval-ball games fine history in the town - and his part in it. “I’...