Tony Currie was a fantastic player at Leeds, another one who used to glide round the pitch. I've always found it strange that despite playing centre for the majority of his time at Leeds they chose to play him full back in a JPS Trophy Semi Final against Hull at Boothferry Park....that back fired as we lost 6-18 I believe, not that it was Currie's fault.

I was only young at the time but I'm sure he had 2 spells at Leeds, 1 when we had about 100 Aussie's in the squad, and the 2nd time being the year him and Cliffy Lyons helped us get to the CC Semi Final versus Hull KR. I seem to remember being in a panic as after the draw it was rumoured that both Currie, and Lyons were having to go back to Australia and wouldn't be able to play in the reply, although as it turned out it didn't matter at all.

I think we were looking to get him back for the 86-87 season too, but instead we got ET, I would have loved to see them both in the same team, as they were both my early Leeds heroes.

Sorry sgtwilko, I'm not sure I understand your post about me trolling ?

nor me. this is off the link Sgt Wilko provided:-

Overseas recruitment was similarly feted, with Leeds desperate to recruit a top line centre. Tony Currie was approached by Canterbury which scuppered a return for the previous year's 'Player of the Season'; Dean Bell looked like he would be coming back but the lure of Kiwi Graham Lowe's appointment at Wigan put a stop to that and terms were agreed with Peter Jackson until he was tempted from Brisbane Souths to Canberra.

In the end, once the 1986 Kangaroo squad was announced, Leeds got their man; bringing over young, Cronulla superstar Andrew Ettingshausen - who was to prove a revelation - followed by his team mate Mark McGaw, who were both omitted from the Green and Gold's.

which indeed implies Leeds did attempt to bring Currie back and ended up with ET, not a bad alternative.

I have to admit my own memories of this time are pretty vague as i had only just started out as a fan at 8 years old, my earliest memory being ET flying in for some wonderful tries that season

Sorry I thought he was looking for someone to bite with his statement saying he wished he could have seen Cliffie and ET player together? ET and Cliffie obviously did play together for Leeds in 88/89.

When I re-read his post he was talking about Currie. My bad.

No probs, easy done. We had so many great Imports back then its easy to get mixed up

What about the Blackmore try (circa 199icon_cool.gif against London away, where he ran in to score backwards for the match winner....,