Quote: The Biffs Back "I always thought that the above quote from Douglas was aimed at John Bentley rather than Vince Fawcett?
Or did he say it about both players?
I was there that day, and.........If i remember correctly, Bentley kicked the ball out on the full straight from a scrum, and in the dying minutes too, against Warrington at Wilderspool
They subsequently scored from this mistake to win the game......hence that quote!
TVOC please help'"
Here it is but you're not going to like it.
As it happens and by pure coincidence the game at Wilderspool to which you refer was the game before Paul Worthy's solitary Leeds appearance where Bentley partially redeemed himself with the hat-trick.
The Warrington game was a proper sickener as Leeds were trying to chase down Wigan in the title race at the time. In a game where they were hammered in the penalty count by John Holdsworth (10-3) and had Paul Dixon sin-binned for next to nothing after he tangled with Tony Burke on the ground. Leeds had produced the one moment of quality as Rob Ackerman got Carl Gibson away to finish from 45 yards. Then John Bentley on the second tackle went to dummy half (15 out from the Leeds line) and hoofed it directly into touch. From the scrum and after a couple of drives Mike Gregory fed Des Drummond and he was over in the corner. To add insult to injury the conversion from Paul Bishop sailed wide but up went the flags to make it 9 - 6 and reduce Leeds' chances further of rescuing anything from the afternoon.
Now here's the bit you're not going to like - the Leeds coach that season was David Ward.
