Second Division 1984/85

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Swinton

Order by: First appearance, Number of appearances, Player name (alphabetical), Most used players by position, Most successful lineup

Legend: FB = Fullback; C = Centre; W = Winger; FE = Five-Eighth; HB = Half-back; FR = Front Row; H = Hooker; 2R = Back Row; L = Lock; B = Bench.

Season Player Summary

Note: Hold the mouse over the game number to see the date and opponent for that match.

Player	L	L	1 LC	L	2 LC	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	1 JPST	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	1 CC	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L
Sean CONNOR	FB	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C
Derek BATE	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
Clive HUNTER	C	C	C	C	C			C	C	C	C		B	C	C											B				B
Alan RATCLIFFE	C	FB	FB	FB	FB	FB	C	W	W	W	FB	C	C	C	C	FB	FB	FB	C	C	FB	FB	FB	FB	FB	FB	FB	FB	FB	FB	FB	C
Ken JONES	W	W	W	W	W	W	W								W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
Steve SNAPE	FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	B	FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	FE
Martin LEE	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB		B	HB		B	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB	HB
Paul ARMITAGE	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR		FR			FR	FR	FR	FR	FR			FR		FR	FR	FR	FR	FR			FR		FR	FR	FR
Alex MELLING	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H
Gary ARROWSMITH	FR	FR		FR	FR	2R						FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR								FR	FR		FR	FR	FR	B
John ALLEN	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	L	2R			2R	2R	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	2R	2R	2R	B	2R		2R	L	B	2R
John STAPLETON	2R	2R	2R	B	B	2R	B	B	2R	B					B	2R	2R	B	2R	2R	2R									B
Alan DERBYSHIRE	L	L	L	L	L		2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R		B	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R			2R	2R
Dave BARRATT	B
Mark VILLER		B		B		B													B				B					B	B	2R	B	FB
Mark ROWBOTTOM		B	FR	2R	2R		FR	2R	B		B	2R	2R	2R	2R		B	2R	B	B	B	2R			B	2R		2R	2R	2R	2R	FR
Les HOLLIDAY			B			B	L	L	L	L	L											B	L	L	L	L	L	L	L		L	L
David MALONEY						C
William JOHNSON						HB	HB		HB
Bill LOMAX						FR		FR					B				FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR	FR
Andy RIPPON							FB	FB	FB	FB	W	W	W	W					FB	FB	B	B						B	B
Ian THOMSON								FR	FR	FR	FR									FR
Wayne RUTENE								B	FE	HB						B		B	FE				B	FE
Steven WALSH										FR	FR
Paul MELLOR												FB	FB	FB	FB
Danny WILSON												B				FE	FE	FE		FE	FE	FE	FE	B	FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	FE	B
Jeff BROWN													2R	2R	B	C	C	C			C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C
Gary HITCHIN																							H
Rodney HASLAM																								H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H
Alan HODKINSON																										FR	FR	FR	FR

List of Matches

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Competition	Date	Opposition		Score			FB1	W2	C3	C4	W5	FE6	HB7	FR8	HK9	FR10	2R11	2R12	L13	B14	B15
League	Sep  1	Blackpool B.	W	34	-	6	Connor   1T	Bate   2T	Hunter   1T	Ratcliffe	Jones   2T 3G	Snape	Lee   1T	Armitage	Melling	Arrowsmith	Allen	Stapleton	Derbyshire	Barratt		>
League	9	Bridgend	W	28	-	16	Ratcliffe   1T	Bate	Hunter	Connor	Jones   4G	Snape	Lee	Armitage	Melling   1T	Arrowsmith	Allen	Stapleton   2T	Derbyshire	Viller   1T	Rowbottom	>
LC (1)	16	Fulham	W	25	-	18	Ratcliffe	Bate	Hunter	Connor	Jones   2T 4G	Snape	Lee   1T	Armitage	Melling	Rowbottom	Allen	Stapleton   1T 1F	Derbyshire	Holliday		>
League	23	Fulham	W	31	-	10	Ratcliffe   1T	Bate	Hunter	Connor   1T	Jones   1T 3G	Snape	Lee   1T 1F	Armitage	Melling	Arrowsmith	Rowbottom   1T	Allen	Derbyshire	Viller	Stapleton   1T	>
LC (2)	26	Wigan	L	6	-	32	Ratcliffe	Bate	Hunter	Connor	Jones   1G	Snape	Lee   1T	Armitage	Melling	Arrowsmith	Rowbottom	Allen	Derbyshire	Stapleton		>
League	30	Rochdale H.	W	24	-	12	Ratcliffe	Bate   3T	Maloney	Connor	Jones   1T 2G	Snape	Johnson   1T	Armitage	Melling	Lomax	Arrowsmith	Stapleton	Allen	Holliday	Viller	>
League	Oct  7	Wakefield T.	W	23	-	10	Rippon   3G	Bate	Ratcliffe   1T	Connor	Jones	Snape	Johnson   1T	Armitage	Melling	Rowbottom	Derbyshire   1F	Allen	Holliday   1T	Lee	Stapleton   1T	>
League	14	York	W	30	-	28	Rippon   1T 5G	Bate	Hunter	Connor	Ratcliffe   2T	Snape	Lee	Thomson	Melling   1T	Lomax	Rowbottom	Derbyshire   1T	Holliday	Rutene	Stapleton	>
League	21	Southend Invicta	W	22	-	18	Rippon   3G	Bate   1T	Hunter	Connor   1T	Ratcliffe	Rutene	Johnson	Thomson   1T	Melling	Armitage	Stapleton   1T	Derbyshire	Holliday	Snape	Rowbottom	>
League	28	Huddersfield	L	14	-	20	Rippon   3G	Bate	Hunter	Connor	Ratcliffe	Snape   2T	Rutene	Thomson	Melling	Walsh	Allen	Derbyshire	Holliday	Lee	Stapleton	>
League	Nov  4	Blackpool B.	W	8	-	6	Ratcliffe	Bate	Hunter	Connor   1T	Rippon	Snape	Lee	Thomson	Melling	Walsh	Allen	Derbyshire	Holliday	Rowbottom   1T		>
League	11	Carlisle	L	14	-	15	Mellor   1T	Bate	Ratcliffe	Connor	Rippon   3G	Snape	Lee   1T	Armitage	Melling	Arrowsmith	Rowbottom	Derbyshire	Allen	Wilson		>
JPST (1)	18	Bradford N.	L	1	-	22	Mellor	Bate	Ratcliffe	Connor	Rippon	Snape	Lee   1F	Armitage	Melling	Arrowsmith	Rowbottom	Brown	Allen	Hunter	Lomax	>
League	25	Huddersfield	W	9	-	4	Mellor	Bate	Hunter	Ratcliffe	Rippon   2G	Snape   1F	Lee   1T	Armitage	Melling	Arrowsmith	Rowbottom	Brown	Allen	Derbyshire		>
League	Dec  9	Wakefield T.	L	24	-	26	Mellor	Bate	Hunter	Ratcliffe	Jones   1T 4G	Snape	Lee   1T	Armitage	Melling	Arrowsmith	Rowbottom	Derbyshire	Allen   2T	Brown	Stapleton	>
League	16	Bridgend	W	54	-	12	Ratcliffe	Jones   2T 7G	Brown	Snape   2T	Bate   2T	Wilson	Lee   3T	Armitage	Melling	Arrowsmith	Stapleton   1T	Derbyshire	Allen	Rutene		>
League	23	Southend Invicta	W	28	-	10	Ratcliffe	Jones   1T 6G	Brown	Snape   2T	Bate	Wilson	Lee	Lomax	Melling   1T	Arrowsmith	Stapleton	Derbyshire	Allen	Rowbottom		>
League	26	Salford	W	18	-	5	Ratcliffe	Jones   3G	Brown   1T	Snape	Bate	Wilson   1T	Lee	Lomax	Melling	Arrowsmith	Rowbottom	Derbyshire   1T	Allen	Rutene	Stapleton	>
League	Jan  1	Runcorn H.	W	48	-	6	Rippon   1G	Jones   2T 4G	Ratcliffe   2T	Snape	Bate   2T	Rutene   1T	Lee	Armitage	Melling	Lomax	Stapleton   1T 1F	Derbyshire   1T 1F	Allen	Viller	Rowbottom	>
League	23	Sheffield	W	14	-	8	Rippon   1G	Jones	Ratcliffe   1T	Snape	Bate	Wilson	Lee   2T	Thomson	Melling	Lomax	Stapleton	Derbyshire	Allen	Rowbottom		>
League	Feb  3	Carlisle	W	38	-	10	Ratcliffe   1T	Jones   7G	Brown   1T	Snape	Bate   2T	Wilson	Lee   1T	Armitage	Melling	Lomax	Stapleton	Derbyshire	Allen   1T	Rippon	Rowbottom	>
CC (1)	20	Salford	L	6	-	31	Ratcliffe	Jones   1G	Brown	Snape	Bate	Wilson	Lee	Armitage	Melling	Lomax	Rowbottom	Derbyshire	Allen   1T	Rippon	Holliday	>
League	Mar  3	Whitehaven	W	38	-	10	Ratcliffe	Jones   2T 3G	Brown   1T	Snape   1T	Bate   2T	Wilson   1T	Lee   1T	Armitage	Hitchin	Lomax	Allen	Derbyshire	Holliday	Viller	Rutene	>
League	10	Whitehaven	D	17	-	17	Ratcliffe	Jones   2G	Brown	Snape	Bate	Rutene	Lee   1T	Armitage	Haslam	Lomax	Allen	Derbyshire   1T	Holliday	Wilson   1T 1F		>
League	17	York	W	24	-	21	Ratcliffe	Jones   4G	Brown   1T	Snape   1T	Bate   1T	Wilson	Lee	Armitage	Haslam	Lomax	Allen	Derbyshire   1T	Holliday	Rowbottom		>
League	24	Bramley	W	26	-	14	Ratcliffe	Jones   3G	Brown	Snape	Bate   2T	Wilson   1T	Lee   1T	Hodkinson	Haslam	Arrowsmith	Rowbottom   1T	Derbyshire	Holliday	Hunter	Allen	>
League	29	Sheffield	W	34	-	2	Ratcliffe	Jones   3T 5G	Brown	Snape	Bate   1T	Wilson   1T	Lee	Hodkinson	Haslam	Arrowsmith	Derbyshire	Allen	Holliday   1T			>
League	Apr  5	Runcorn H.	W	30	-	15	Ratcliffe	Jones   1T 6G	Brown	Snape   1T	Bate	Wilson   1T 1F	Lee   1T	Hodkinson	Haslam	Armitage	Rowbottom	Derbyshire	Holliday	Viller	Rippon	>
League	8	Salford	W	9	-	5	Ratcliffe	Jones   2T	Brown	Snape	Bate	Wilson	Lee	Hodkinson	Haslam	Arrowsmith	Rowbottom	Allen	Holliday   1F	Viller	Rippon	>
League	12	Bramley	W	18	-	10	Ratcliffe	Jones   2T 2G	Brown	Snape	Bate	Wilson   1F	Lee   1T	Armitage	Haslam	Arrowsmith	Rowbottom	Viller   1F	Allen	Hunter	Stapleton	>
League	17	Rochdale H.	W	44	-	8	Ratcliffe	Jones   8G	Brown	Snape	Bate   2T	Wilson	Lee   3T	Armitage	Haslam   1T	Arrowsmith	Rowbottom	Derbyshire	Holliday   1T	Viller	Allen	>
League	May  3	Fulham	W	26	-	19	Viller   1T	Jones   5G	Brown	Ratcliffe   1T	Bate   1T	Snape	Lee   1T	Armitage	Haslam	Rowbottom	Allen	Derbyshire	Holliday	Wilson	Arrowsmith	>

Contributions: Shawn Dollin, Greg Fiveash

Sources: Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook (1981-82 to 1999), Irvin Saxton's Record Keepers' Club