i remember a home match we surprisingly won against widnes with a lot of injuries

iirc back row was poss wayne heron & the wingers massa & mark campbell

perhaps tvoc has more info

Has Jamie Bloem been mentioned?

Story has it he was a Leeds player for about 90 minutes before his drugs test was made public.

I heard that aswell but wasn't sure how true it was.

Ian Payne? Bearded David Ward understudy mid 70s

The story I heard was that Dougie Laughton phoned to ask how much Donny wanted for him, and was told there might be a problem....

I always maintain that if we'd have signed him fo the reported £250 000, and if he had been as good as he was without being a walking branch of Boots, then things would have been very different.

Donny probably wouldn't have gone bust, and we'd have had Bloem at fullback at Wembley that year and he wouldn't have dropped the high ball like Tait did, leading to a Wigan try.

I remember the game well.

Chucking it down and a completely unexpected 10-5 win. The best bit being John Myler admiring a John Holmes kick to the corner which was swooped upon by Alan Smith before it went dead. Fantastic.

Teams to follow when I dig them out.

More hookers, yes Ian Payne from York and I forgot Peter Dunn from Hunslet

Anyone want to see the press cuttings?

Me please.





Bloem was my hero when he was at Donny when I was 7, I was absolutely gutted when my uncle told me what he'd done.

He reffed our Titans game last week, he's still a fair unit.

Darren Stevens, Same year as Marty Gurr, Peter Jackson, tunks etc.

Leeds V Widnes
10th April 1983
Referee: Kevin Allatt (Southport)
Result: 10-5 Half Time: 10-0
ATT: 4,081

Leeds:
Tony Binder
Alan Smith, Neil Hague, Ian Wilkinson, Andrew Smith
John Holmes, Mark Conway
Andy Sykes, David Ward, Keith Rayne
Dave Heselwood, Des Armitage, Mark Campbell
Subs:
Pat Mitchell, Paul Whitehead (DNP)

Tries: Alan Smith, Mark Campbell
Goals: Mark Conway (2)

Widnes:
Mick Burke
Fred Newton, Eric Hughes, Joe Lydon, John Myler
David Hulme, Andy Gregory
Mike O'Neill, Keith Elwell, Kevin Tamati
Fred Whitfield, Eric Prescott, Mick Adams
Subs:
Steve O'Neill, Les Gorley

Try: Hulme
Goal: Lydon

IIRC the game was on RL Action, Scrumdown or whatever the programme was called in '83.

I remember that game. We'd been 4 points clear at the top that year, right up until the last 3rd of the season then we couldn't buy a win - until good old Widnes came to town. We did have a remarkable record against Widnes in the league, even we were really awful. We had a huge injury list as I remember.

Eddie Rombo played nine times for Leeds and scored four tries. The scorcher at Castleford was his first for the club and he scored two in a Challenge Cup win at home to Dewsbury the following week and his final try came in his final appearance away at Rochdale. Rochdale were so afraid of Leeds' wide men they moved the touchline in 10 metres to the minimum. The game IIRC was played at Spotland.

A winger and a centre in the back row with another winger on the bench.

I can remember being "less than confident" when the team changes were announced over the tannoy, let's put it that way.

Click twice on the top image to read the text. Another example of the YEP disconnect between headline and article content.



And another from the game:

Is that Craig Innes on the floor?

I'd have perhaps gone for Gary Mercer. They both played in the match so it's one or the other.

And while I've got this scrapbook out

Quite an achievement for a RL player -




And what a fantastic night even if it were only for two comp points -



We mentioned this last week somewhere on here - with a Leeds connection



Right you can get back on topic now.

Cheers Teev. My uncle played in that game.

One of my earliest rugby memories is sitting on the wall at Headingley right near the pitch cheering him on.

I'm guessing it wasn't uncle Jamie, Vila, Sonny or Audley.

So one of uncle Terry, Mike, Dave, Alex, Mark, Wayne, Colin, Glyn, Brendon or Tony?

None of the above...

It's Brendan.

Gav’s Half-caste

I'm pretty certain that i went along to watch his first ever Leeds match, it was a pre-season game/or even a possible lazenby cup game against Bramley at McLaren Field

I can recall a quote from Rombo which goes along the lines of:
[i"You've signed the worlds best full back in John Gallagher, why not now go and sign the worlds best winger"?[/i

If it was the same year we signed John Gallagher, it was a pre-season game at Bramley, one of two we played that year, the other being at (Ryedale) York.

After the Bramley game I went onto the ptich and shook John Gallagher's hand and welcomed him to Leeds. Some say that the rot set in from there........

Lol not quite lad. Born and bred Yorkie me.

Uncle Bren played for York, Featherstone, Hull and Doncaster during his pro days. Although he was never close to playing for Leeds as far as I know.

As you were...

Thank you kind sir, I stand fully corrected!