Did anyone get to see them at the old ice ring, which is now the Odeon cinema?
Where they as good a team as some people have told me?
Would have loved to have seen them. Back in the day, bloody crap council turning ice rink into a muddy car park and a cinema, when we had the Cannon cinema all along.
Really were they that good?
Genuinely that good.
Ice hockey was a big time sport in the UK in the post war years but rinks were almost all municipally owned and as they were closed in the pressure for local authorities to redevelop in the 60's and 70's it slowly died and by the early 80's had almost disappeared. Brighton, sadly. was a distant memory by then but I often watched Solihull in the latter part of the 70's and would talk to regulars whose eyes lit up that I had been lucky enough to follow the Tigers
Real brighton born legends like Mike O'Brien are all to quickly forgotten.
My dad used to love them and watched them all the time in the 50s and 60s. He always said they were the best Ice hockey team England EVER had. Seem to recall him saying there were quite a few Canadians in the team. They were the final part of the holy trinity: Albion, Sussex CCC, The Tigers.