Neil Hunt
Eric Grothe
Steve Bleakley
Wally Fullerton Smith
Gavin Jones
Trevor Patterson
Terry Webb
Trevor Clarke
Tony Currie

Ricky Lulham,

Trevor Patterson and Tony Currie produced the goods. The rest varied from reasonable to very poor in what was produced. Grothe was clearly a great player but not used properly.

I saw every game that season including away at Workington town with a crowd of less than 1,000, it may be lowest ever attendance for a competitive Leeds match. IIRC they were very unlucky to lose away at Hull KR in last game of year in premiership semi final.

I also attended the away fixture at Workington, courtesy of Wallace Arnold.

Seem to recall the feeling of being short-changed when the teams were announced over the tinniest sounding PA system imaginable that Eric Grothe wasn't playing.

Leeds scraped a win in a crap game.

Me too. Wally Arnold. Paul Gill came out in the 2 shirt. There were some French fans who also travelled up from London to see Grothe. He was a bit of a legend after the French leg of the '82 tour.

Probably on the same coach!

Paul Gill replaces Eric Grothe - LOL.

Wasn't funny at the time though.

Thanks for that. Yep..i remembered it was a hell of a lot of the antipodean buggers. All Aussies too, no kiwis?
I guess word must have got out ...Leeds a good shout for a bit of easy money and holiday. They certainly won nowt for us.

Only Kiwi was the afore mentioned Trevor Clarke.

Dean Bell was supposed to be coming back but didn't. Graham Lowe didn't want Kiwi internationals coming to England, well, not until he went to Wigan anyway. Then of course Bell appeared at Wigan and hence the chants of "Judas" whenever he played against us.

Rex Terp played a few A Team games that yr. He was a utility back really.

Some great memories on this thread. Izzard and Currie was 2 special players. Outstanding.

Im suprised Steve "the whizz" Martin hasnt had a mention tho guys.

The nickname thing was something that added to the exotic nature of Aussies back then. They all had nicknames when they came over - Whizz, Joe Cool (Dorahy), Guru etc etc. Seems a bit laughable and ridiculously contrived looking back. Especially when they didn't play much like their nickname (Steve Martin really wasn't much of a Whizz). The only nicknames I remember being chanted for English players tended to be ironic - "Diamond" Dave Creasser, Andy "Killer" Smith or just daft (Roy "Cozy" Powell).

When David "Cement" Gillespie came over to play for Hunslet, Dave Heron, in all seriousness, declared that from now he'd like to be called "Concrete". It didn't catch on for him, but the first rule of nicknames is you can't choose your own.

Speaking of nicknames, was it Steve Ella at Wakefield who was nicknamed "The Zip Zip man" ?....I quite liked that as a nickname !!