thackerays takes some beating

Think people are getting bit carried away by Dunemann and Mcdonald. Good players but not world beaters.....

At the time (2002-2004) Dunneman was superior in all around game to Burrow and McGuire. He also filled in brilliantly at 9 when we lost Diskin in 2005. I still am convinced that if Joe Vagana had not fallen on Senior's leg in the home league game- basically ending his season (even though he "played" in the CC final) we would have won everything in 2005 and Dunneman would have been a key part of that. We played the best rugby I've seen from a Leeds team and were so close in everything (and let's not forget the Bulls salary cap breach that year and Adrian Morley appearing for their playoff games).

He was a bit of an enigma.

for some reason smith flogged the players every session in 05. they had nothing left come gf time.
having said that the bulls should have been stripped of that title. blatant cheating the cap

didn't hull and wigan also breach everyone we came to 2nd to .............................best rugby that season ali at his best but faded , dunneman great transitional link
.mcdonald , feather thackray had their moments but missing the mongrel/attitude of jp/dicko (paul but even a bit of big roy would have done)

any link to this and the big roy/gorley incident

was at hull then and hanley got jeered by some at the boulevard , last player i saw in tht was cookson with no hair didn't recognise him, schoey once only other customer in stoggies, days of smiths arms too;;;post match david ward used to have all players visit each supporters bar when they were all in main stand, murray's side drank together at marquee and skyrack .......ts culture ended drinking a lot though remember bluey celebrating gf at walkabout

Lordy is a good friend of mine and he hasn't changed much in that regard!

Long arms

The 89/90 game v widnes is on Leeds Rhinos YouTube channel, the Roy/Les Gorley incident is only available in my head viewed from the SS.

It's also in mine DHM as I was stood bang inline with the incident on the old Eastern terrace

Any sign of them uploading the Phil Ford tackle yet? One of Headingley's most iconic moments.

I was stood in exactly the same spot on the Eastern Terrace when "The Rubber Man" chased Offiah down and nailed him
Everyone in the stadium at the time couldn't believe what they had seen and tbf it was a rare occasion when any player got the better of Offiah in full gallop

Irrespective of Offiah's loss in that sprint race with Lee Oudenryne prior to the game in 1992 V Parramatta he is still the fastest RL player that I have ever seen live

Great post. Agree

Quote ="The Biffs Back"Irrespective of Offiah's loss in that sprint race with Lee Oudenryne prior to the game in 1992 V Parramatta he is still the fastest RL player that I have ever seen live'" Offiah got a bad start/Oudenryn got a false start but by all accounts Offiah wasn't quite expecting it to be taken quite so seriously by the Aussies! Here it is - https://twitter.com/NBiffs/status/11491 ... 32640?s=20

Quote ="The Biffs Back"Irrespective of Offiah's loss in that sprint race with Lee Oudenryne prior to the game in 1992 V Parramatta he is still the fastest RL player that I have ever seen live'" Offiah got a bad start/Oudenryn got a false start but by all accounts Offiah wasn't quite expecting it to be taken quite so seriously by the Aussies! Here it is - https://twitter.com/NBiffs/status/11491 ... 32640?s=20

That 2005 team was immense, peak Tony Smith and the best rugby I've seen them play. Because they never won anything that season it's definitely been lost to history

Quote ="The Ghost of '99"Offiah got a bad start/Oudenryn got a false start but by all accounts Offiah wasn't quite expecting it to be taken quite so seriously by the Aussies! Here it is - https://twitter.com/NBiffs/status/11491 ... 32640?s=20'" offiah doesn't look to gain any ground

Quote ="The Ghost of '99"Offiah got a bad start/Oudenryn got a false start but by all accounts Offiah wasn't quite expecting it to be taken quite so seriously by the Aussies! Here it is - https://twitter.com/NBiffs/status/11491 ... 32640?s=20'" offiah doesn't look to gain any ground

I was on that terrace as well that night, Gorley hit Roy 3 or 4 times, big Roy crouched down protecting himself and launched an upper cut from about a foot off the ground. Gorley was covered in blood and his legs had gone, I remember both being sent off big Roy ran past us up the slope into the old changing rooms with a daft grin on his face. It took 2 small Widnes trainers forever to get gorley off as he could not support himself. He got dogs abuse from the terrace.. reckon it was around sept 1983.
That’s how I remember it anyway,

On the Fordy tackle, rumour has it that it wasn't old Phyllis that stopped Offiah from scoring, more when Martin's chin hit the floor at the the surprise of being caught and dug a wedge out of the turf. I was right behind it on the West Stand, looked magnificent two real speedsters in full flight. Be great to see that kind of speed and footrace these days instead of the biff barge kick to the wing stuff we have nowadays.

Quote ="batleyrhino"On the Fordy tackle, rumour has it that it wasn't old Phyllis that stopped Offiah from scoring, more when Martin's chin hit the floor at the the surprise of being caught and dug a wedge out of the turf. I was right behind it on the West Stand, looked magnificent two real speedsters in full flight. Be great to see that kind of speed and footrace these days instead of the biff barge kick to the wing stuff we have nowadays.'" Offiah was a total freak of a player and he also read the game so well that he popped up on the field and in areas to score tries that i have never seen any other winger do in any era. Defenders simply couldn't get anywhere near him due to both his speed and evasiveness and plenty of those weren't slow either. I have found this video montage of Offiah in action and it's well worth a watch even though he never played for us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TsCBgCp4M

Quote ="batleyrhino"On the Fordy tackle, rumour has it that it wasn't old Phyllis that stopped Offiah from scoring, more when Martin's chin hit the floor at the the surprise of being caught and dug a wedge out of the turf. I was right behind it on the West Stand, looked magnificent two real speedsters in full flight. Be great to see that kind of speed and footrace these days instead of the biff barge kick to the wing stuff we have nowadays.'" Offiah was a total freak of a player and he also read the game so well that he popped up on the field and in areas to score tries that i have never seen any other winger do in any era. Defenders simply couldn't get anywhere near him due to both his speed and evasiveness and plenty of those weren't slow either. I have found this video montage of Offiah in action and it's well worth a watch even though he never played for us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TsCBgCp4M

Offiah was a natural athlete. He nailed us on many an occasion. The 10 in a game against us was probably the darkest days in our clubs history. Embarrassing.

Offiah in his day was special tho.

Darkest day until last season's cup match at Bradford.

Lucky enough not to go, was away that weekend.

Instead decided to watch it in the caravan sites bar which was stuffed to the gills with Cas fans and a Bradford supporting bloke I know through work who couldn't believe his eyes.

Was an absolute inept performance that, the harder they tried the deeper they sank.

Think the majority of our section coach went back to the pub / never left it that day also.

I was doing an afternoon/evening shift so couldn't go but managed to avoid the result so I could watch it 'live' when I got home. What a night that was.. .