FANS of the novel Billy Liar would have been chuckling into their coffee during last Saturday's sponsors' lunch prior to the win over Birkenhead Park.
For just like Billy Fisher, the hero of the Keith Waterhouse book, Richard Gudgeon, managing director of Holmfirth ironfounders J & JW Longbottom, had more than a few calendars to get rid of!
In the novel, which in 1963 was turned into a film largely shot in Bradford, Billy fails in his task of mailing them out from the funeral directors for whom he works and therefore has to dispose of them by other means.
Gudgeon, a long-time supporter of Huddersfield RU, ended up with a surfeit because of a mix-up at the printers, who produced three times the required number.
It meant there were a few more raffle winners than normal!
Having entertained his guests and handed out his calendars, it was a quick change from suit to waders for Gudgeon.
For the enthusiastic angler has the unenviable job of retrieving stray balls from the river which runs behind the stand at Lockwood Park!
