Dean Clarke
Dave Barnhill
Setaki Tuipolotu....or was that just Damien Johnson?!

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Anyone remember Steve Pilgrim? He was a good RU player who Leeds offered a trial, to be fair he looked quite good but Leeds said no. Trouble was the RFU got wind of it and banned him from their code so he was left well & truly in the ......

cheers

of all the games forgotten in recent years that one sticks with me



looking @ the sides widnes were pretty much full strength.
was sure mark massa & wayne heron played but heselwood was largely a centre, wilkinson mainly a fullback, binder hardly played as did mitchell, & sykes & armitage must have been young.

2 other archive matches a semi final @ fartown i think against won 8-2 on penalties with conway chosen ahead of dick to play gregory.

And a home match against hull in the days they filled the south stand. Think we were losing by a point when heselwood put dick through & he really seemed to ttake a dive to get a match winning penalty.

David Dunkerley anybody???

Used to know his daughter a while back, no nothing about his rugby career though

I thought James Lowes...?

Kris Smith


Rugby League "star" now famous having the "X factor"

Remember him and it well, back in the days of A.N. Other on the team sheet

Now you say it I can see it. Another good shout and a player that played in the game.

Chapy was a centre/winger. Signed under Dean Bell I think, good junior went to Silcoates School Wakefield for a while, never had the attitude to make it as first team player despite great promise.

My God thats a name from the past... Dave was very much in the Big Roy Dickinson mould IIRC

IIRC as well he was signed from the Leeds Intermediates (U19s)

Calvin Wilkes also springs to mind as a very obscure signing as well for around that era

also Paul Pickup...... a relative of Fred IIRC

Gareth Brown

Something similar happend to Phillis Ford's brother, Steve Ford ...He came up from Welsh RU and played a game on the wing.

Leeds said no, but by then his name was well known as to who he really was.

Played a couple of games on trial for Salfard ... Including one AGAINST Leeds.

IIRC, given that he had quite a decent Cardiff RU career after turning out for Leeds, he was one of the first RL players to be allowed back in to Union.

Gavin Brown ?

Just obtained one of the ex-playing shirts from that year ...

I remember the game Steve Ford played for Leeds - had a pretty good game if I remember rightly? Would have been a pretty decent signing. He went on to play quite a bit for Cardiff - I often saw him on tv when BBC showed Welsh RU matches.

Not very often then.

Gareth Stephens then

All Had a sniff of the first team, usually in the floodlit trophey etc, then came Neil Lean, Maurice Lucas.......
A lot of these 'fringe players' support the ex- players association and still turn out at dinners etc.

David Hesslewood?

He was at the catalans game as part of the john holmes tribute, recognised him streight away. steady player in those barron years.

ian scott from dougies days - think he went to warrington
mike kuiti and another Nz loose fowrad we hand natathan pichi - think thats how you spell it if i remember rightly he dislocated his shoulder - think we signed him from a amateur club in NZ

A Aussie srum half cruckshank who got done for drink driving on cardigan road

and cavell heugh

No disgrace in being a "fringe" player they are the base that holds up the whole club so they could be described as the "strongest" players as well.

I never made it past the U19 Intermediates for Leeds so arent elegible to attend the ex players...pros only.

Anyone can attend as guests etc, its next week.
I know a few ex A teamers and plenty of them could have played elsewhere, but preferd to stay for the pleasure of playing for Leeds at headingley, and get the odd game alongside their mates in the first team.
No contracts then Just 15 equal win or loose paypackets on the table.

Wouldn't call Kuiti and Heugh obscure. Two of the better forwards we had in the arly 90's.

Remember Kuiti's debut against Bradford. Scored 2 tries one of which came after a ball steal from Paul Harkin. I think Heugh also scored on his debut v Hull on New Years day in 1990?


I think