I’LL PUT MY TEAM FIRST
Luke’s record bid on line
LUKE BRISCOE insists he’ll put his team-mates before his own record-breaking bid tonight.
The Featherstone winger needs one try to take him level with Eric Harris’ all-time record of scoring in 17 successive games.
Briscoe, 30, beat Martin Offiah’s 1987 mark of 15 games with his try in the Championship defeat by Toulouse at the weekend.
And now he’s determined to keep up the hot streak by gunning down Hull in tonight’s Challenge Cup sixth-round home tie.
But Briscoe insists his own dreams won’t come at the expense of what’s good for the cup underdogs.
Folklore
He said: “I’m mindful of Eric Harris’ record and will be doing all I can to beat it, although the team’s performance has to come first.”
Harris’ record stands from 1936 with Leeds – the club Briscoe’s brother Tom has played for since 2014.
Tom has his own place in Challenge Cup history after his five-try haul in the 50-0 Wembley final win over Hull KR in 2015.
And now Luke, who also started his career at Leeds, hopes to claim his own piece of cup folklore against Hull.
Rovers are fighting for promotion to Super League but are underdogs against Hull, who have won the cup for the last two years.
Airlie Birds winger Fetuli Talanoa insists the Super League side can take nothing for granted.
He said: “It is a big game for us and it does not matter who we play because it is knockout rugby.
“We have got to turn up with the mindset that we need our best performance to make sure we progress.” THE heartbreaking story of Don Fox’s infamous Wembley howler is the subject of a new BBC1 documentary.
Fox has cruelly gone down in history as the man who cost Wakefield the Challenge Cup 50 years ago this weekend.
Leeds led the “Watersplash Final” – nicknamed because the pitch was waterlogged by torrential rain – 11-7 in the dying moments.
After the referee had indicated that the next stoppage of play would be the end of the game, Fox set up a Trinity try under the sticks to put them within grasp of a sensational win.