Which paid for his world-record wages...

Thought his wages were paid/funded by a local business man..

Correct it was local businessmen

Remember it well.. Bloke from Hull with a big foam stetson hat on with big bold letters we ain't got any wallys. Great crowd that day..

Barry Houghingley local celebrity and if I remember right he owned a construction company of some description, pretty sure he funded it.

A grand a game wasn’t it. Them young un’s don’t know what they missed..... class

Be a good seller if you could get that on dvd

Without doubt

Made me go on a certain site to watch 10 minutes of his highlights, his all round game was second to none, pace, distribution, quick feet, defence, support play, the list is endless. King Wally.... says it all.

Will try and find that! Thank YOU cough cough

A drummer with a group called the whales, won opportunity knocks then went solo as a drummer singer called Barry Santana

What?



Again?

Not that one BG



the other

Exactly

I get you.....

You'll have to give a better clue about what to search for...can't find owt useful...

I Google Wally's name every now and again just to see what greatness looks like.

Just put in Wally Lewis at Wakefield, it was an Wakey Express article I think about his recent trip over with a 10 minute video attached

Wally was way before I was born! Dave Solomon’s would be my equivalent.

Yes FC another with class, and a cracking right jab, Huddersfield’s Nero found that out.

I've read the book that Mike Rylance wrote about history of Trinity and tbh the name you put didn't sound quite right; just looking it up, it was Bob Hough who owned a building contractor that helped finance it, plus two other groups that seem to have got lost in time a bit except in the book. The others investors were London based - Overseas Bloodstock and Equine Investments, that put up the cash to best off Leeds, Saints and Wigan.



Funnily enough when wally was last over Barry hough got a mention and was in attendace, wo exactly the others were I don't know- would be interesting to kmnow how from the company's names peope involved with horses got involved.

Bary Hough was originally down to pay half of Wally's wages but allegedly the other party involved reneged on the deal.Barry told me that he gave Wally a cheque for the other half when driving him to the airport for his flight home!

Indeed Barry did pay wally - he’s hosting a table at the Wally event next week. He has lots of tales about when wally was over & how he came to sign him (and missing out on gene miles).

Learn something new every day, i didn’t know his wages were paid by a businessman. Well providing Trinity made bank in those 10 games then I don’t have a problem with it, I still don’t see why he’s regarded so highly.

I do and I wasn’t there, it’s not difficult.



Best player in the world from the vibrant up and coming Australian game. Joining a club that had been on the down for years in a comp that was going nowhere.



It’s like when the Beatles and the Stones first hit America, it just blew people away.



Maybe he was not quite as great as people recall I don’t know, there is always a level of exaggeration in nostalgia. That said who can blame them and even if Lewis was only half the player some make out he was still a superstar the like of which we have rarely seen since.



To put it in perspective, this was the equivalent of MC signing SBW five years ago when he was still worth signing and then bringing Tredesco along to make up the numbers, that is how stellar it was.



The only negative to his Legacy as far as I can see is his length of service. Ten games I think it was?? Not really enough to be a true Trinity in the real sense of the word, sorry. However as a player he transcends that and judging by the opinions of those who saw him he was pure magic in each of those ten games, what more do you want?



I count myself as jealous.