|
 |
Rank | Posts | Team |
International Chairman | 22703 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Feb 2002 | 23 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Mar 2025 | Feb 2025 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote Norman Stanley Fletcher="Norman Stanley Fletcher"John Bassett was with us a little before Dougies tenure.'"
Yes. Basnett was in the late 80's. Widnes got rid of him and signed some bloke called Offiah, IIRC. Not sure how he worked out for them, but Basnett never did much at Leeds.
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Club Captain | 3615 | Leeds Rhinos |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
May 2016 | 9 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
May 2022 | May 2022 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote William Eve="William Eve"I always forget that win because I didn't attend (rare back then) and didn't see it on TV either for whatever reason which I cannot recall. Probably a tedious wedding to attend instead which I couldn't get out of.
The 80's did involve some great days in spite of all the cruel disappointments in the CC that decade, when it meant so much more. I went mental jumping up and down (as did plenty of others) when Creasser kicked that 2 points in the dying seconds at Widnes for the 10-10 draw.
It shouldn't be difficult to work out why I always reserved more dread of Widnes than I've ever done for Wigan when you look at these CC results from that decade.
81-82 lost to Widnes 8-11, Semi Final, Swinton, Crossbar Job in last minute (utter devastation).
82-83 beat Widnes 12-6 at Naughton Pk, I didn't see it therefore no recollection.
83-84 lost to Widnes 4-15, Semi Final, Swinton.
84-85 lost to Widnes 4-14 at Headingley, Round 1.
85-86 drew 10-10, then beat Widnes 5-0 at Headingley in replay.
86-87 lost to Widnes 7-14 at Headingley, Quarter Final.
88-89 lost to Widnes 4-24 at Headingley, Quarter Final.
And if you thought you were getting over Widnes in the 90's... no chance!
92-93 lost to Widnes 4-39 in Semi Final at Wigan.
You drank in The Grange, eh?
I'm guessing you're a Gipton or Hollin Park lad then?'"
Until recently i still had nightmares about some of these horrific days. I finally get over it and you then go and bring them up again!!!
The 39-4 and the 24-0 Regal Trophy Final loss was as bad as it gets.
Im not going to sleep tonight now!!!
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Club Owner | 3479 | Leeds Rhinos |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Dec 2004 | 21 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Apr 2019 | Mar 2019 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote William Eve="William Eve"Probably why I hold the last-gasp 10-10 draw at Naughton Park and the 5-0 win in the replay at Headingley in 1986 with such affection. Shame about the semi-final and the replay in the very next round though

Over 80K in total attendance for Leeds QF and SF rounds (both went to replays) in the CC that year (1986).'"
I went to all of them. The first semi at Elland Road is one of my favourite games of the 80s. The less said about the replay, the better.
Quote William Eve="William Eve"81-82 lost to Widnes 8-11, Semi Final, Swinton, Crossbar Job in last minute (utter devastation).
'"
My first ever experience of a major defeat and just to rub it in, we made it home in time to see the last try again on TV.
Games like that one stay with you forever, for all the wrong reasons.
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
International Star | 2344 | Rochdale Hornets |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Apr 2013 | 12 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Jul 2025 | Feb 2025 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Not sure Offiah did much for them , i think they managed to offload him to Wigan where he played out an ordinary career . May have only scored a few tries for them , i seem to remember a figure of ten being mentioned .
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Club Captain | 3615 | Leeds Rhinos |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
May 2016 | 9 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
May 2022 | May 2022 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| I remember day Offiah signed for Wigan being at Headingley for an A Team game and saying to a guy who used to run his own coaches Ronnie Robinson that i wish we had signed him. "We dont want him all he can do is score tries" he said. I reminded him the day the flyer Offiah scored 10 against us!!!
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
International Star | 5087 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Feb 2011 | 14 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Jul 2025 | Feb 2025 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote Marty Grrrrrrrrrr!="Marty Grrrrrrrrrr!"I remember day Offiah signed for Wigan being at Headingley for an A Team game and saying to a guy who used to run his own coaches Ronnie Robinson that i wish we had signed him. "We dont want him all he can do is score tries" he said. I reminded him the day the flyer Offiah scored 10 against us!!!'"
He was right, all he could do was score tries, not many only 500 or so.
I wish we had signed him instead of Ellery, imagine how many offiah would have scored playeing outside Innes and with echoey throwing the long balls out wide, reckon he would have poutdone his own tally for wigan.
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
International Chairman | 1548 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Feb 2002 | 23 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Apr 2018 | Apr 2018 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| I remember being at the 10-10 Naughton Park game in the Cup. My Uncle told me he'd never seen me looking so ashen faced as David Creasser came across to take the kick. I missed the replay as my Dad worked nights and couldn't take me, but I went to both semi final games, although I hardly saw any of the replay as I was only 10 at the time and the Kop at Elland Road being busy to the point it was quite dangerous.
The cross bar semi final was the first time I had ever cried at a game of rugby, that was real pain, and I still get wound up about it now
I used to quite like Neil Hunt when he played for Leeds, although not sure he could be classed in the "best of" category.....I also quite liked Carl Gibson when he played on the wing, I very much enjoyed his 2 tries in the Yorkshire Cup final against Castleford....which being a fan at that time meant it was quite exciting to see Leeds lift a trophy, even if it wasn't any of the one's we really craved.
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Player Coach | 8895 | Leeds Rhinos |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
May 2006 | 19 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Jul 2025 | Apr 2024 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote William Eve="William Eve"
You drank in The Grange, eh?
I'm guessing you're a Gipton or Hollin Park lad then?'"
Can't say I "drank" in the Grange. My Gran lived on the end of Hollin Park Mount, we moved to Fearnville road when I was 4 from up near East End Park (where my Dad grew up). I spent many a summer lunchtime up the Grange with my Gran when I was a kid. I spent a lot of time at my Gran's when my Mum went back to work.
When I started going to pubs it was the Mansion, mainly because I went to Roundhay and that's where everyone we knew went. I decided that a CSE in metalwork was not the limit of my academic ambitions so dodged the Foxwood bullet.
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Player Coach | 2570 | Leeds Rhinos |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Aug 2008 | 17 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Feb 2024 | Oct 2023 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
TO BE FIXED |
|
| Quote Marty Grrrrrrrrrr!="Marty Grrrrrrrrrr!"I remember day Offiah signed for Wigan being at Headingley for an A Team game and saying to a guy who used to run his own coaches Ronnie Robinson that i wish we had signed him. "We dont want him all he can do is score tries" he said. I reminded him the day the flyer Offiah scored 10 against us!!!'"
Dear old Ronnie and his missus Margaret. Mr Leeds Rugby League Travel. Many happy memories on the Briardon Bezzer over't hill in the late '80s.
|
|
|
 |
|