Off season trivia

[Benny]

In what year did we first don the famous Red V?

 

[krayziedragonman]

1945.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

1929

 

[Benny]

Over to you Scott Gourley's Love Child

 

[Father Ted]

Seeing as it's been a while I'll ask a question . What was one of the main reasons given for needing to change to a red vee ?

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

During the war teams played in V style jerseys to conserve materials and ink needed for the war effort

 

[Father Ted]

correct

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Name the junior clubs the 3 St George Immortals played for

 

[Red Bear]

Langlands was the old Wollongong rugby league club
Raper was Camperdown Dragons in the Newtown junior competition

Gasnier - no idea

 

[Benny]

Graeme Langlands - Dapto

Reg Gasnier - Renown

John Raper - Revesby

Pretty confident with the top 2 but think 3rd one is a bit tricky as his first senior club was Newtown but he was a Canterbury Junior I am sure.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Close

 

[Benny]

Gasnier is definately Renown.

Raper is either Revesby OR Camperdown...it is possible he started with his local side Revesby before moving to Camperdown and that is how he was classed as a Newtown player.

Langlands is definately Wollongong and was confident he was Dapto but is referred to as a Wests Wollongong junior so maybe that is the answer.

Best I have

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

You eventually got the Camperdown part for Raper, so I will give it to you Benny

 

[Benny]

Name all the players who have Captained the St.George Illawarra Dragons in a First Grade Premiership match from 1999 to present.

From my calculations I have 12.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Coyne
MacGregor
Brown
Timmins
Bartrim
Bailey
Barrett
Ryles
Gasnier
Hornby
Cooper
Young

How's that?

 

[RedVDave]

13 by count:


+Jamie Ainscough
+Trent Barrett
+Matt Cooper
+Mark Coyne
+Jason Hooper
+Ben Hornby
+Paul McGregor
+Craig Smith
+Lance Thompson
+Shaun Timmins
+Jason Ryles
+Mark Gasnier
+Dean Young

and according to Big league Soward captained Saints once this year to what game is beyond me though, could potentially be a misprint.

 

[St. Linnane]

Young
Thompson

1 to go....

 

[Benny]

It could well be more than 12 and this could be some fun.

Scott Gourley's Love Child - You have 9/12. My list doesn't have Timmins, Bartrim or Bailey. I don't believe Bartrim did, not entirely sure on Bailey and Timmins I couldn't decide when making the list.

Red V Dave -You have 11/12 that I had. My list doesn't include Hooper or Timmins. Hooper does ring a bell so maybe he did captain the side. Hornby played every game in 2009 and only missed 2 in 2010 with Young Captaining 1 and Cooper the other - so I don't believe Soward has captained the side.

So all of my 12 have been listed in both sets of lists BUT there is questions marks over:

Shaun Timmins
Wayne Bartim
Luke Bailey AND
Jason Hooper

Anyone got anything on these 4 or any others?

 

[St. Linnane]

Timmins captained 8 games in 2004 - rounds 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 19. He also captained 5 games in 2003 - rounds 16, 17, 19, 25 and 26

Ben Creagh was listed as captain for round 16 2007, however Ben Hornby was a late inclusion in jersey 21.

Jason Hooper captained the side in round 18, 2002.

Neither Wayne Bartrim nor Luke Bailey captained the side according to my records.

 

[Willow]

There is no Bailey as captain.

I thought Bartrim ran on as skipper for one match but could be an error.

Timmins was definitely stand-in captain for a while.

Hooper was definitely captain for one match.

I thought Ainscough was captain for one match prior to 1999, happy to be corrected.

Same with Mark Coyne, not sure if he captained in 1999 (from memory Craig Smith, McGregor and Nathan Brown were captains that year). Again, happy to be corrected.