A PLAYER who figured in record lows for the club and in Peter Roe's Third Division title-winning side of 1992-93 has been inducted in the Cougars' Hall of Fame. Paul Moses - 'a model professional,' says Brian Jefferson - and Joe Flanagan, who had his heyday in the 40s and 50s, are the latest to be elected. Keighley's Hall of Fame, set up in November, is run independently of the club and is the only one in the game run by supporters for supporters. The fans vote themselves on who to admit.

Next Hall of Fame evening comes on Friday, May 14, in the supporters' bar at Cougar Park, at 8.30pm. All fans are welcome to attend and admission is free.

Moses began his career at the Central YC coached by Roe and Joe Bardgett and Keighley Albion U17s. He joined Keighley in 1978 as part of the re-formed Colts team under guidance from Jefferson and another Lawkholme legend Terry Hollin-drake. The colts folded and Halifax came in for the pick. He signed for them in 1981 making his senior debut the following year and becoming a regular in the first team in 1983-4.

He returned to his roots when Halifax signed a host of Australians. Initially on loan he later became a permanent and indispensable regular at scrum-half and later hooker.

He tried his hand in Queensland, Australia with the Ingham Life Savers Club in 1987 and 1988. He returned to Keighley in 1988 playing through a very lean spell at the club When Cougarmania took off he played a big part in the title win with 21 appearances, nine of them as sub and scoring seven tries.

His appearances became fewer but whenever called on he always gave 100 per cent. He was awarded a testimonial after making 205 appearances scoring 35 tries, 17 goals and 37 drop-goals. Putting his immense knowledge back into the amateur game he moved to Silsden Park Rangers as player/coach and then on to Keighley Albion in their first National Conference season.

Paul is in a unique position of being part of Keighley teams that have reached the highs and lows including a record 92-2 defeat by Leigh in 1986. "I was there to be counted," he says. As his boyhood hero Brian Jefferson once said: "People often talk about the 'model professional' but it is surely eptiomised in Paul Moses."

Flanagan began his long career with the St Anne's amateur team and played his first match at the start of the 1939-40 season. Essential war work prevented him from joining the services and so he continued to play throughout the war in a Keighley side which consisted of a good many guest players from teams which had closed down.

He played in the Yorkshire Cup final team who were runners-up to Bradford Northern in 1943-44 in a two-legged final. Joe's record of his first spell at Lawkholme was: played 156, tries 49, goals 129 making 175 points. In the 1947-48 season he was sold to Leeds for £1,000, a then Keighley record. Injury in the Yorkshire Cup final against Wakefield Trinity, in which he scored a try, ruled him out of a county call-up.

New club Whitehaven enlisted him for the 1948-49 but the travelling proved an ordeal and he returned to his home town club in 1949 before moving to Bramley in 1951-52. Joe's record for his second spell at Keighley was: played 46, goals four, tries six, making 22 points.

Flanagan turned to refereeing, the highlight being a match between Wakefield and New Zealand tourists.

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