1990–91 Yorkshire Cup

1990–91 Yorkshire Cup
1990–91 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	18
Winners	Castleford
Runners-up	Wakefield Trinity
	← 1989–90 1991–92 →

The 1990–91 Yorkshire Cup was the eighty-third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Castleford won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 11-8

The match was played at Elland Road, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 12,420 and receipts were £61,432

This was the seventh 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. It was also the first of what would be two victories for Castleford in two successive finals. within that eleven-year period.

Background

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the same at eighteen.

This in turn resulted in the necessity to continue with a preliminary round to reduce the number of clubs entering the first round to sixteen.

Competition and results

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Preliminary round

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Notes

P1	Sun 19 Aug 1990	Bradford Northern	20-12	Sheffield Eagles	Odsal	3477
P2	Sun 19 Aug 1990	Nottingham City	6-100	Hull Kingston Rovers	Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield	1010	1 2 3

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Notes	Ref

1	Sun 26 Aug 1990	Batley	17-10	Huddersfield	Mount Pleasant	1734
2	Sun 26 Aug 1990	Dewsbury	26-14	Keighley	Crown Flatt	1056
3	Sun 26 Aug 1990	Doncaster	4-40	Halifax	Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield	2989
4	Sun 26 Aug 1990	Featherstone Rovers	36-4	Bramley	Post Office Road	2445
5	Sun 26 Aug 1990	Hull F.C.	6-10	Castleford	Boulevard	6591		^[3]
6	Sun 26 Aug 1990	Leeds	16-24	Bradford Northern	Headingley	13968
7	Sun 26 Aug 1990	Ryedale-York	0-10	Hull Kingston Rovers	Ryedale Stadium	2264	4
8	Sun 26 Aug 1990	Wakefield Trinity	28-18	Hunslet	Belle Vue	3150

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Notes

1	Sun 2 Sep 1990	Bradford Northern	12-42	Castleford	Odsal	7974	5
2	Sun 2 Sep 1990	Dewsbury	18-8	Batley	Crown Flatt	2924
3	Sun 2 Sep 1990	Featherstone Rovers	22-31	Hull Kingston Rovers	Post Office Road	4357
4	Sun 2 Sep 1990	Wakefield Trinity	26-17	Halifax	Belle Vue	6492

Round 3 – Semi-finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att

1	Wed 12 Sep 1990	Castleford	29-6	Hull Kingston Rovers	Wheldon Road	7940
2	Wed 12 Sep 1990	Wakefield Trinity	25-2	Dewsbury	Belle Vue	5640

Final

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

	Sunday 23 September 1990	Castleford		11-8		Wakefield Trinity	Elland Road	12,420	£61,432	6	^[2]

Teams and scorers

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Castleford	№	Wakefield Trinity

	teams
Steve Larder	1	Kevin Harcombe
St. John Ellis	2	David Jones
Shaun Irwin	3	Andrew "Andy" Mason
Grant Anderson	4	Phil Eden
David Plange	5	Andrew "Andy" Wilson
Graham Steadman	6	Tracy Lazenby
Gary Atkins	7	Mark Conway
Lee Crooks (c)	8	Adrian Shelford
Roy Southernwood	9	Billy Conway
Dean Sampson	10	John Thompson
Neil Battye	11	Andrew "Andy" Kelly (c)
Jeff Hardy	12	Gary Price
Neil Roebuck	13	Nigel Bell
Keith England (for Gary Atkins 49 m)	14	Chris Perry (for Andrew "Andy" Kelly 55 m)
Martin Ketteridge (for Neil Battye 77 m)	15	Richard Slater (for Billy Conway 38 m)
Darryl van der Velde	Coach	David Topliss

11	score	8
4	HT	8

	Scorers
	Tries
Gary Atkins (1)	T	Andrew "Andy" Mason (1)
David Plange (1)	T
	Goals
Lee Crooks (1)	G	Kevin Harcombe (2)
	Drop Goals
Neil Roebuck (1)	DG
Referee		James "Jim" Smith (Halifax)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match		Tracy Lazenby - Wakefield Trinity - stand-off
sponsored by
Competition Sponsor		John 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

First round		Second round		Semi-finals		Final

Leeds	16

Bradford Northern	24
		Bradford Northern	12

		Castleford	42
Hull F.C.	6

Castleford	10
				Castleford	29

				Hull Kingston Rovers	6
Featherstone Rovers	36

Bramley	4
		Featherstone Rovers	22

		Hull Kingston Rovers	31
Ryedale-York	0

Hull Kingston Rovers	10
						Castleford	11

						Wakefield Trinity	8
Wakefield Trinity	28

Hunslet	18
		Wakefield Trinity	26

		Halifax	17
Doncaster	4

Halifax	40
				Wakefield Trinity	25

				Dewsbury	2
Dewsbury	26

Keighley	14
		Dewsbury	18

		Batley	8
Batley	17

Huddersfield	10

Brief report on the final

According to the League Express match reporter Mike Beevers (abridged as follows) :-

In front of almost 12,500 fans paying over £60,000, Castleford finally got rid of their Elland Road bogey, having lost all three previous Yorkshire Cup finals played at this ground, by beating local rivals Wakefield Trinity 11-8 in this year's Yorkshire Cup final.

Wakefield stand-off Tracey Lazenby made the break that produced the first try of the match for Andy Mason, which Kevin Harcombe converted from touch.

Castleford hit back through Gary Atkins, but Lee Crooks failed to convert.

Before half time Wakefield went further ahead through a penalty from Kevin Harcombe.

Lee Crooks cut the deficit with a penalty of his own on 49 minutes.

The introduction of international prop Keith ‘Beefy’ England changed the game and, shortly afterwards, winger David Plange, playing his first game of the season, followed up a great trysaving tackle on Andy Mason by scoring the game’s crucial try, which came from a long ball from hooker Graham Southernwood. Skipper Lee Crooks converted to pick up his fifth winners’ medal in the competition, after having won three times with Hull and once with Leeds.

Wakefield stand-off Tracey Lazenby won the White Rose Trophy as man of the match^[4]

Notes and comments

1 * Match transferred from the home ground of Harvey Hadden Stadium to Doncaster,s Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield in hope of bigger attendance etc.

2 * At the time this was the Hull Kingston Rovers record score

3* The highest score and winning margin and first time over 100 points scored - in a Yorkshire Cup tie

4 * The first Yorkshire Cup match to be played at Ryedale-York's new stadium

5 * 'Match played at Valley Parade, home of Bradford City A.F.C.

6 * Elland Road, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds United A.F.C. with a capacity of 37,914 (The record attendance was 57,892 set on 15 March 1967 for a cup match Leeds v Sunderland). The ground was originally established in 1897 by Holbeck RLFC who played there until their demise after the conclusion of the 1903-04 season

References

^ ^a ^b "Rugby League Project".
^ ^a ^b ^c Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
^ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
^ "Mike Beavers on the 1990 Yorkshire Cup final".

External links

[RLP.orgMisc-1] "Rugby League Project".

[Roth1991–92Misc-2] Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.

[HullMisc-3] "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".

[LeagueExpressMisc-4] "Mike Beavers on the 1990 Yorkshire Cup final".

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