1986–87 Yorkshire Cup Explained

1986 Yorkshire Cup
Structure:Regional knockout championship
Season Champs:Castleford
Season Champ Name:Winners
Runner-Up Name:Runner-up
Second Place:Hull F.C.
Prevseason Link:1985 Yorkshire Cup
Prevseason Year:1985–86
Nextseason Link:1987 Yorkshire Cup
Nextseason Year:1987–88
No Of Teams:18

The 1986–87 Yorkshire Cup was the seventy-ninth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, and no "leavers", but another new entrant in the form of Mansfield Marksman and so the total of entries increases by one up to eighteen. This in turn resulted in the necessity to increase the number of matches in the preliminary round to reduce the number of clubs entering the first round to sixteen.

In a repeat of the 1983–84 Yorkshire Cup's final pairing, Castleford turned the tables, reversing the result and beating Hull F.C. by the score of 31-24 to win the trophy. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 11,132 and receipts were £31,888. This was the fourth time in the incredible eleven-year period in which Castleford. previously only once winners in 1977, will make eight appearances in the Yorkshire Cup final, winning on four and ending as runner-up on four occasions.

Background

The Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from outside the county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden).

The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars)

Competition and results

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Preliminary round

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

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P1Sun 17 Aug 1986Halifax56-0Mansfield MarksmanThrum Hall29621
P2Wed 3 Sep 1986Sheffield Eagles22-20DoncasterOwlerton Stadium6542

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

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1Fri 12 Sep 1986Leeds40-4KeighleyHeadingley2862
2Sun 14 Sep 1986Batley12-14Wakefield TrinityMount Pleasant1502
3Sun 14 Sep 1986Castleford16-10Halifax7594
4Sun 14 Sep 1986Featherstone Rovers40-13YorkPost Office Road1732
5Sun 14 Sep 1986Hull F.C.29-22BramleyBoulevard3580[2]
6Sun 14 Sep 1986Hull Kingston Rovers52-30Huddersfield BarracudasCraven Park (1)3736
7Sun 14 Sep 1986Hunslet12-40Bradford NorthernElland Road3101
8Sun 14 Sep 1986Sheffield Eagles9-10DewsburyOwlerton Stadium641

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

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1Wed 24 Sep 1986Bradford Northern42-10DewsburyOdsal2682
2Wed 24 Sep 1986Castleford38-16Leeds7198
3Wed 24 Sep 1986Hull F.C.21-12Wakefield TrinityBoulevard3737
4Wed 24 Sep 1986Hull Kingston Rovers20-20Featherstone RoversCraven Park (1)3841

Round 2 - replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

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RFri 26 Sep 1986Featherstone Rovers23-12Hull Kingston RoversPost Office Road2385

Round 3 – Semi-finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

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1Wed 1 Oct 1986Bradford Northern12-16Hull F.C.Odsal4727
2Wed 1 Oct 1986Featherstone Rovers2-30CastlefordPost Office Road5523

Final

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Saturday 11 October 1986Castleford31-24Hull F.C.Headingley11,132£31,8883[3] [4] [5]

Teams and scorers

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width=280 abbr=winnerCastlefordwidth=60 abbr="Number"No.width=280 abbr=runner-upHull F.C.
teams
Colin Scott1Gary Kemble
David Plange2Michael Brand
Tony Marchant3Garry Schofield
Chris Johns4Dane O'Hara
Gary Hyde5Paul Eastwood
John Joyner6Fred Ah Kuoi
Robert "Bob" Beardmore7Phil Windley
Kevin Ward8David Brown
Kevin Beardmore9Shaun Patrick
Barry Johnson10Andy Dannatt (Sent off)
Martin Ketteridge11Steve 'Knocker' Norton
Brett Atkins12Lee Crooks
Keith England13Jon Sharp
Gary Lord (for Gary Hyde)14Gary Divorty (for Steve Norton)
Alan Shillito (for Brett Atkins)15Neil Puckering (for Dave Brown)
Malcolm "Mal" ReillyCoachLen Casey
31score24
12HT18
Scorers
Tries
Kevin Ward (1)TMike Brand (2)
Kevin Beardmore (2)TDane O'Hara (2)
Martin Ketteridge (1)T
Brett Atkins (1)T
Goals
Martin Ketteridge (5)GLee Crooks (4)
Drop Goals
Robert "Bob" Beardmore (1)DG
RefereeJohn McDonald (Wigan)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the matchKevin Beardmore - Castleford -
sponsored by
Competition SponsorJohn Smith's Brewery Tadcaster
Scoring - Try = four points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point

The road to success

The following chart excludes any preliminary round fixtures/results

Notes

1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match to be played by newly elected to the league Mansfield Marksman

2 * This is the first Yorkshire Cup match played at Sheffield Eagles' Owlerton Stadium

3 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rugby League Project.
  2. Web site: HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results.
  3. Book: Raymond Fletcher and David Howes. Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. 1991. Queen Anne Press. 0 35617852 8.
  4. Book: Raymond Fletcher and David Howes. Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. 1990. Queen Anne Press. 0 35617851 X.
  5. Book: Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1986. YCRL Committee.