Career Record for Featherstone
Appearances			Tries	Goals	Drop Goals	Points
Total	Start	Sub
108	103	5	14	0	0	56

Castleford hooker Bob Spurr had played 323 games over fifteen years during a long career at Wheldon Road before he decided to take up Rovers’ offer of a new challenge aged 32. What Featherstone got was a dependable and likeable team player who won his fair share of ball from the scrum, worked hard on defence and had perfected the art of the ten yard scoot, those dashes from acting halfback which win valuable ground. Bob was a fitness fanatic and it told in his contribution to the team. In his first season he was an ever-present and didn’t miss a match until November 1984. At the end of his first season he won the club’s Player of the Season award.

Spurr was our first hooker after the introduction of the sixth tackle ‘handover’ rule in 1983 which was the beginning of a radical change in the role of the hooker. With many less scrums and against-the-head heels becoming increasingly uncommon, hookers had to adapt to survive. Spurr’s work-rate in the loose guaranteed his value to the team.  As Bob came to the end of his career he had a short loan spell at Bradford, and then decided to retire, having played 108 games for Rovers and scoring 14 tries. He had proved to be a dependable and loyal servant, who then did some coaching with the Academy side before seeing both his sons make the grade professionally, Chris Spurr playing 47 games for Rovers.