Tigers vs Toulouse 1997

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Re: Tigers vs Toulouse 1997

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That’s my recollection as well Loretta. I think it took us a while to give in to the powers that be though.
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Re: Tigers vs Toulouse 1997

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It had obviously happened by 2001 as it was numbers in Paris and I have a vague memory of being at Twickenham when Backy shoved Lander and that being numbers. Was that 1999 ?
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Re: Tigers vs Toulouse 1997

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Just on the time lines:

Tigers wore letters until 1998/99 season. First game we ever wore numbers in was September 1998 against Quins.

At the time there were a number of unusual unique identification schemes, as above Bristol wore letters the otherway round, Bath and Richmond did not use 13, West Hartlepool did not wear the number 5 and just used a bank jersey.

Quins wore squad numbers in 1996/97 & 97/98, see page two on this link to Bath's heritage site:

https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer ... f&hl=en_US

https://www.bathrugbyheritage.org/conte ... harlequins

It was Premiership Rugby that decided this situation was "amateur" and "confusing", so needed to be scrapped. Rather than a celebration of each club's unique history and therefore something to be used to sell the game to the masses.

I was too young to have a view at the time but looking back I really like the squad numbers! Fun and quirky.
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Re: Tigers vs Toulouse 1997

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sk 88 wrote: Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:01 am Just on the time lines:

Tigers wore letters until 1998/99 season. First game we ever wore numbers in was September 1998 against Quins.

At the time there were a number of unusual unique identification schemes, as above Bristol wore letters the otherway round, Bath and Richmond did not use 13, West Hartlepool did not wear the number 5 and just used a bank jersey.

Quins wore squad numbers in 1996/97 & 97/98, see page two on this link to Bath's heritage site:

https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer ... f&hl=en_US

https://www.bathrugbyheritage.org/conte ... harlequins

It was Premiership Rugby that decided this situation was "amateur" and "confusing", so needed to be scrapped. Rather than a celebration of each club's unique history and therefore something to be used to sell the game to the masses.

I was too young to have a view at the time but looking back I really like the squad numbers! Fun and quirky.
Thanks that’s great. For the record Back pushing Lander was 1996
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