Different class but you try telling the youngsters today they won't believe you .... they won't.



Sorry no idea. Last time I saw him was at John Holmes' minute silence befor the Les Catalans game. Looked just the same, from a distance.

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Ellery Hanley at Leeds:
League - App 88 + 1, Tries 79, Goals 1, Drop Goals 1, Points 319
Premiership - App 3, Tries 0, Goals 0, Drop Goals 0, Points 0
Challenge Cup - App 14, Tries 19, Goals 0, Drop Goals 0, Points 76
JP/RT - App 6, Tries 6, Goals 0, Drop Goals 0, Points 24
Yorkshire Cup - App 2, Tries 2, Goals 0, Drop Goals 0, Points 8

Total - App 113 + 1, Tries 106, Goals 1, Drop Goals 1, Points 427

113 + 1 appearances and 106 tries is legendary stuff...

Agreed. It'll be good enough for 2nd place on my list of Leeds' #13s that I remember.

It isn't as good as lifting 4 SL trophies, 2 WCC and 2 hubcaps as captain, winning the Lance Todd and Harry Sunderland trophies at Leeds, being the club's all time top goal-kicker and SL's all time leading point scorer, amassing over 1000 points along the way. But it's pretty good.

Pah.

Ray Batten was a better footballer than both put together.

Oh Hanley wasn't a particularly good footballer, but he was one hell of a Rugby League player...

My brother taught Dave & Wayne Heron and Sonny Nickle at secondary school.

If he taught Sonny Nickle everything he knows, then your brother should be ashamed of himself.



My Dad's teacher was none other than Mr Joe Warham, or so he tells me in his more sane moments...

....and I can confirm that Joe (or Mr Warham to us then) was a very good Maths teacher.

Before my time I'm afraid Gramps.

last years wembley 2010,we were in the very big queue for our coach at headingley and we were stood just behind Ray Batten, Albert Eyre and Alec Dick we were chatting away with them and they just sounded like fans.I cant see you getting that sort of thing in the FA Premiership

I do wish work wouldn't get in the way of posting on these threads!! Joe Warham taught me maths (he was a good mathematician but no more than an okay teacher!) He also was my school rugby coach for a while at Roundhay. My abiding memory of which was him laughing as I puked up during the first fitness session of the season.

Ray Batten was great but never got the recognition at international level he really deserved. IIRC he was around at the same time as Mal Reilly and Dougie Loughton in an era when we used to actually beat the Aussies at RL!

Having said that I guess I would have to rank Sinfield ahead of him simply in terms of his sustained success, leadership, kicking and distribution skills. But Batten was a joy to watch in terms of slieght of hand and amazing distribution skills

What are we going to discuss when we start the vote for the Greatest ever Number 13....? It's all been done already.

Lauititi a close second

Graham Eccles gets my vote, just ahead of Bob Haigh. I never saw Arthur Clues play,but reading through some old Aussie magazines he was a hell of a brute !

Did I read of the death of Albert Eyre the other day ?
sincere apologies if I am wrong

Sonny Nickle was a big tough unit on the field but he gets my respect off the field for his decency in attending the funeral of my late brother some 15 years after leaving school.

Sadly I think you did, my Dad mentioned this to me too as Kenny and Albert were school mates of his. Kind of puts you in touch with your parents mortality I guess....

thats sad I was stood in the queue with him and chatting while we waited for the coach to Wembley

He was my teacher as well.

When were you at Roundhay?

From 1968- 1976, long time ago!

Long delay between posts...work get in the way of my leisure time and again!

Ah. I was 78-84. I don't think they let Joe teach maths when I was there, but he was head of games still. I gues it was not a Comprehensive when you started?

Went compreheensive when I was in the 5th form (1973 ish)

Shocking!

My school went comprehensive in September 1974 just in time to let my year in!

Half the toffee-nosed, bourgeois tosspot teachers kitted out in gowns and mortar boards, and who'd been stealing a wage there for decades, decided to move elsewhere pretty damn quick

Same happened at Roundhay, collective nervous breakdown just in time for DHM to misspend his youth by the sound of it

Roundhay, like all Leeds secondary schools, went comprehensive in September 1972.

belle isle middle? he may have taught me aswell.