my thoughts too

looking back how overrated was robbie paul? awful hands. all hype

He was OK behind the Bulls massive pack.

Yep, good stepper and evasive but not much else, easily make my team of flat track bullies and show ponies

Iestyn, was the one for me, caldwerwood was good but was never going to be truly great, Walker defo could have been great, every bit up there with The worlds best centres
Harris was grea, and if stayed would have been an all time great RL hall of famer.

Watched Leeds-v-London 2006. Someone remind what the hell was up with the pitch that year. It was in a terrible state.

And our home kit that year was bloody awful.

JJB at prop *shudder*

Iestyn is the best player I've ever seen by a country mile. I was so shocked he never ripped it up in Union.
Walker had bags of raw ability but his career never really took off as it should.
Calderwood was OK nothing special.
So agree with your comment

jp and donald shadow of 2007 too , hudds semi at odsal awful

Walker was destined to become a world class back row forward. Lee Smith also jumped ship at exactly the wrong moment - and he knew it. Clever player with a knack of turning up in big games.

I tried to watch the Leeds v Doncaster game from '95 last night. What a pile of brown stuff. I can see why at the time that team were interesting to watch live - they threw the ball everywhere (mostly side to side and back again), but they also dropped it a 100 times and seemed to want to run into touch at every opportunity. You could see that they couldn't defend either, the new 10 metre rule (which seemed to be 15 at times) was leaving gaps everywhere. I also can't look too closely at Schofield's shorts which seemed to be a slightly different design to everybody else's and considerably "shorter".

Yet people on here tell me the modern day players dont compare with those from that era. I find it laughable.

Depends what you mean by "era". I was talking about one game and one particular Leeds team that was completely gone (apart from Franny Cummins) 2-3 seasons later. I also watched Leeds from '98/99 and they were fantastic. But if you like the game as it is now then great. Nothing wrong with that.

indeed. infact, from the same season i think is the leeds v wigan december 94 game. one of the best games of rugby you will ever see. Wigan on the back of a 13 game winning run and we beat them in a breathless classic with some awesome players on both teams from the time. full game on youtube. probably mentioned in here already but can't be bothered reading all 17 pages.

I remember that game well, indeed it was a classic. I've watched a lot of old games now over the last few weeks and you can see the chaos the 10 metre rule caused for a couple of seasons - especially as it was usually way more than 10. By 98 everyone had gotten used to it, including refs and the game looked more normal. Games from pre 94 look very similar to those post 98, but in-between it's a total shootout.

One thing that hasn't aged well is the Sky commentary. Relentlessly obsessed with forward passes and any minor infringements "missed" by the officials. Stevo was a human headache.