By JON NEWCOMBE
Famous day: Steve Smith clears the lines for the North v All Blacks in 1979
Coach: Tom Casson
MEMBERS of Otley Rugby Union Football Club have voted by an overwhelming majority to leave their iconic Cross Green home.
At an emotionallycharged SGM, 96.5 per cent of those members present agreed in principle to sell the ground, which has hosted the All Blacks and the Wallabies as well as staging a World Cup game, to retirement property magnates McCarthy & Stone.
“With a fair wind,” newly-elected chairman Paul Mackie hopes that the first team will be playing ...
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