Yeah I know, its a week early, but if I don't post these now I'll have forgotten most by next week!


Leeds once (in)famously signed 9 players from Keighley for £20k (I think). Can you name them?

Which 2004 Grand Final winner had previously played for Gateshead and which one for Workington?

Several ex-players have gone on to become licensees. How many players and premises can you name?

Which late 80s/early 90s forward was a painter & decorator?

Which 1990s forward had trained as a chef?

Which 1980s forward was also a coal merchant?

Which 2 other British clubs did Chris McKenna play for?

Can you name a player who has started first team games at both prop and stand off?

How about players who have started first team games at both scrum half and in the second row?

Onto which 1990s player’s kitchen floor did a friend of a friend manually deposit his man milk a few years ago, as an act of retribution for being excluded from a group sex session?

Will three be ok?



London Broncos, Bradford Bulls, Doncaster.

You b[iu[/igger. I'd forgot about poor old Donny.

You know the strangest people.


Anyway, Gateshead - Wayne McDonald
Pub licensees, there's loads and I can't think of any now, probably becasue of your "friend" and his strange habits in kitchens.
Painter & Decorator - Lee "I'm even more stupid than I look" Crooks
The players who started at both prop and stand off and scrum half and second row, I don't know but I'd have loved to have seen those scrums, did he have to run around the back after the ball had gone in ?

Oo Ah Georgie Mann

Hmm, cant name all nine, BUT off the top of my head........ Powell, Fleary(?), Farrell(?), Lawford,

Correct on Crooksy - but not on Wayne Macdonald - he joined just after the...er...'merger' between Gateshead and Hull.

Yup.

Robert Roberts

You started well with the first two...

From memory only one other played first grade and another played in a Boxing Day friendly then declined a contract. The others were all registered to Leeds but didn't play for the club (except one who was ex-Leeds anyway).

Workington - Tony Smith?

Good old Two Bobs - yep.

Three down 6 to go.

Was that Simon Irving?

Is andy hay the chef????????
Sinfield SH and SR????
Licencees,Blackmore,Schoey and..................

Will four be OK?

McKenna's also played for Gary Hetherington's Sheffield Eagles.

Leeds once (in)famously signed 9 players from Keighley for £20k (I think). Can you name them? Fleary, Powell, Farrell?

Which 2004 Grand Final winner had previously played for Gateshead and which one for Workington? Tony Smith for Workington

Several ex-players have gone on to become licensees. How many players and premises can you name? Richie Blackmore - Sin Bin, Can't remember what pub Schoey had.

Which 2 other British clubs did Chris McKenna play for? Bradford, Doncaster

I forgot McKenna's first British stint.

Omnibus i believe was schoey's establishment.

Was one of the 9 Keighley players Matt Foster?
He played in the Boxing day game and rejected a contract as i remember

Marcus Bai<but i'm sure that it was Hull that he played for and not Gateshead!>

Was that Ian Scott?

You git, that was my star, save it till the end answer. Good player IIRC, full back with lots of promise.

Nope, a good friend of mine, Gary Divorty. His lad, Ross, is playing for Doncaster.

Was one of the nine Gary Moorby or was that an earlier bail out exercise.

Lee Crooks Horse and Jockey

Steve Pitchford..Scarbourough Pub ????

Les Dyl ?????

Graham Eccles White Horse.