ah the good old days I remember those tapes well!! Those tapes where a highlight of my childhood!! Barkers on garfoth main street got nswrl vids in and would have the weekly rounds highlights with a main game!! I remember seeing my first origin on those vids!! I remember when the broncs joined the comp too!! Happy happy days!!

Think it might have been a Barkers in Chapel Allerton, can't remember.

Used to get the midweek Panasonic Cup games (the NSWRL equivalent of the old Floodlit Trophy) and some of the big junior and schools games on them too.

Fellow Garforthian.... I knew Barkers well... right blast from the past that name..

It's worth remembering that in the year we signed Tony Currie we also signed Ricky Lulham and Wally Fullerton-Smith.

Two players of richly contrasting pedigree - one Origin player and Australian international, one relative unknown.

I kinda liked Lulham, he could play a number of positions with equal mediocrity.

Now there's a trivia question - the 11(?) antipodeans who Leeds fielded that season.

The aforementioned Currie, Lulham, Fullerton-Smith plus Steve Bleakley, Terry Webb, Trevor Patterson, Trevor Clark, Gavin Jones?

Grothe, Hunt,

Another two who if their like were signed now would be slagged to death, Paterson won the player of the year, webb played consistantly well for Leeds over a few seasons, He was over last year, looks no diffrent, doing well for himself outside RL.
Used to stand behind an odd looking bloke the season in question, from the first whistle all he shouted was get f*cking ricky loofham on, he wasn't even on the bench.

Laurie?

Miraculously found himself rated in the World top 5 locks By Open Rugby in '84. Could just as easily be said that all he did was keep a superior British player out of the team.
A hard worker, but totally outgunned when British players discovered fitness in the mid 1980's.

Not that year...not after the Semi at Swinton in 1984.

Laurie's first season was webbs first season.

Yes, 1983/4. Laurie was due to play in the CC semi at Swinton but half an hour before kickoff an announcement was made summoning Roy Dickinson (who I was infront of in the crowd) to the changeing room.
Laurie wasn't seen again at Leeds until long after a certain scrum half had departed the club.

The others came over in 84/5 season

I can't believe theres been 21 pages on this.

What have you been talking about?

It's mostly all photos of me.

I know the story, thats right, webb came for his second stint with the other 10. Steve Martin was half back in webbs first season before going on to play alongside micheal caine in dirty rotten scoundrels.

was the 11th man slippery sam morris or was it the amazing scrum half cruickshank?

patterson was most consistent player that year, neil hunt had a very good sidestep

gavin jones steamed & rolled far too little due to injury

not sure, was he related to steve "slippery" morris who played on the wing for Leeds??

not sure, was he related to steve "slippery" morris who played on the wing for Leeds??

Slippery turn up with his missus and about 16 kids, including twins who are both playing 1st grade in the NRL, I felt old as F*ck when i read that.

Yet his club offered him a four year contract so they must have rated him don't you think?

Morris was 87-88 IIRC? Certainly not 84-85. A number of those lads signed in the mid 80s came straight from the Qld Cup when it was a very good competition in its own right, with the Broncos not having formed and a lot of Qld players staying up here despite offers to move to Sydney. Terry Webb was in that category.

What those sorts of players showed was how deep the Aussie player base was - Webb would never have got within a million miles of the NSWRL but was a regular in England for some time - he played stand off, Hooker, Loose forward, second row and even prop. He could do that just because he did the basics pretty well.

I suppose if Delaney stayed in the UK for long enough he'd qualify for England on residency grounds. He says clutching at straws...

Like Donald

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