Quote Bullseye="Bullseye"We were pioneering the modern day "flat pass". Anyway Cas started that brawl on halftime and should've all been sent off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qvg-S7j2aY'" Dirty Northern B*******!

Quote Bullseye="Bullseye"We were pioneering the modern day "flat pass". Anyway Cas started that brawl on halftime and should've all been sent off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qvg-S7j2aY'" Dirty Northern B*******!

What? With mild mannered players like Skerrett and Fairbank in the side? Never.

And an honourable mention to everyone's favourite 1980's head hunter, David Hobbs.

Lack of an animal in the pack held Leeds back in the 80s IMO.

Losing Rathbone on debut didn't help.

While Dixon was as hard as they come he wasn't an enforcer/nutcase.

Rathbone did porridge for quite some time after retirement from the game.

Any idea what he went down for?

Can't find any record online but it definitely rings a bell.

He certainly met the "animal" criteria.

I seem to recall it may have had something to do with Class A drug smuggling.

Quote Bullseye="Bullseye"We were pioneering the modern day "flat pass". Anyway Cas started that brawl on halftime and should've all been sent off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qvg-S7j2aY'" "Phil Ford really shows his class" (by passing to nobody, having to pick it up himself and running aimlessly sideways. Classic Ford. Didn't take much to bamboozle a defence back then) Think little Paul Harkin was throwing more punches than anyone in that brawl. Even your backs, bar Mumby, were dirty gets.

Quote Bullseye="Bullseye"We were pioneering the modern day "flat pass". Anyway Cas started that brawl on halftime and should've all been sent off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qvg-S7j2aY'" "Phil Ford really shows his class" (by passing to nobody, having to pick it up himself and running aimlessly sideways. Classic Ford. Didn't take much to bamboozle a defence back then) Think little Paul Harkin was throwing more punches than anyone in that brawl. Even your backs, bar Mumby, were dirty gets.

Great thread this. Dave Heron would have been a great player in the summer era, particularly in his younger days, great balanced runner and ball player.

Mr Rathbone sadly passed away a few years ago. I heard a tale that allegedly led to a spell at her majesty's pleasure. I have never been able to verify it , so won't put details but it was far more colourful than the one noted by Mr Eve.

Imagine Sonny Corleone taking a phone call and reacting in a more aggrieved manner and you will be in the right ball park.

When Kevin Ashcroft thinks you are too fearless for your own good, you are in a rarified stratosphere of toughness.

Remember Alan Rathbone taking a particular dislike to Ray Price one Odsal evening during the '82 Kangaroo Tour. I think it was the foggy game that probably wouldn't have gone ahead otherwise.

IIRC, he blindsided Price hitting him as he was being spoken to by the ref. Not sure I'd seen anyone do that before or since.

Sounds a unique approach.Bet he didn't get 6 matches for it.