The Million Pound Game - The players view by David Clegg
THE MILLION POUND GAME FROM THE PLAYERS’ PERSPECTIVE The official timekeeper’s clock was showing just fifty-three seconds remaining, as Hull KR restarted the game, following Nial Evalds’s unconverted try, which had brought the Red Devils to within four points of what had, hitherto, been a two score deficit - just enough, all being well, for one remaining set of possession, before the referee would bring the proceedings to their ultimate completion. What happened, thereafter, broke all the bounds of incredulity, and the story the team wrote will go down in the annals of the club’s history. There was a total of nine players, within the team, whose contributions were extremely significant in ensuring that Salford Red Devils would survive to fight another day, and each of those has their own specific recollections as to how it all unwound. It was Josh Jones who took the third carry forward, after the ball had been secured from the kick off, and he took it up drawing in a co...