That was when he was chasing Blue Sox winger John Bentley.
The two did know each other from the time before "Bentos" turned professional with Leeds.
Andrew was the newly appointed coach at Newcastle Falcons and needed readymade players.
Rugby Union had finally legalised professionalism the previous summer and plenty of players fancied playing all the year round combining both codes.
Enough have done it locally since that time with the likes of Jamie Bloem, Graham Holroyd, Oli Marns and Gareth Greenwood enjoying spells at Halifax RUFC.
And Graeme Hallas had shot off to Saracens in August 1995.
Bentley had already been to the club to ask permission to play for Rotherham RUFC for a few months.
And to be honest the suggestion hadn't been rejected out of hand.
The reason was the usual one, money.
The club had been fulltime for effectively two seasons.
But Super League monies had not been scheduled to come through until the start of the first summer season.
When you factor in the fact that the club had actually made a slight operating loss in 1994/95 the result was that finances were strained.
That's before capital outlay on things like the £40,000 training ground at West Vale and the hundreds of thousands of pounds tipped into the black hole called Thrum Hall!
An arrangement had been brokered with a merchant bank to advance some of the Super League monies but that merely solved immediate cash flow problems.
Gates had been lower than anticipated for whatever reasons and so any way of reducing the payroll was snatched at.
And Bentley was certainly one of the higher paid performers. Anyway, Andrew was determined to get his man.
A long meeting took place in the Thrum Hall boardroom between him, Nigel Wood, Bentley and his solicitor/agent.
The upshot was that a loan transfer was agreed between Halifax and Newcastle with the latter paying a monthly fee.

MUCH-travelled second row Kris Smith may have had a chequered Halifax career but he's in the headlines again - as the new boyfriend of Danii Minogue!
He met the X factor judge on his 30th birthday in Ibiza but probably didn't mention his time at the Shay!
Smith had started with Leeds but fell prey to a bad knee injury and was trying to resurrect his career with the Blue Sox under Steve Linnane.
He played one game at Wigan but then the injury flared again.
Fax second row Paul Smith (no relation) was on the same holiday - he coaches the other Smith at Eccles - and swears she got the right name, wrong forward!