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 !!

Dave Heron already had a nickname ... Tetley's. Roy once tried adding a Fullerton to his Dickinson to get a game in '85.

underrated player Heron, great hands, pretty tough, but lacked size even by 80's standard. how good would he have been playing in a competitive side.

Wasn't Heron's nickname 'Flipper'?

Dave Heron was the quickest loose forward in the game. He would regularly run down wingers for fun and the wingers in his era were flyers.

The scorer of arguably the greatest non try 'scored' at Headingley - ruled out so the referee could send off Graham Eccles and Trevor Skerrett fighting in the back field.

Fairly obviously one of my all time favourite Leeds players. Saw him score some very special tries, and he was a great cover tackler. In reality he would have played 6 these days, which he did eventually move to just before he left Leeds.
If I could lift one player out of my Leeds watching history and plant him in the game now it would be DH. It was players like him that made the game so exciting to watch. Every time he touched the ball you thought something could happen.

Thought it was "Josh"? As in Joshua Tetley.

Yeah I'm sure it was Josh or Fish Lips.

Great player. Fox signed him as a 34 year old for Northern and he was still quick. He did a couple of seasons with us.

Can't say I ever bumped into Heron downing pints.

Plenty of other Leeds players from that era though who seemed to spend their entire lives supping in one boozer or another when not playing.

Did you rate his brother?

It was a mile forward. You were the RFL's pets back then as well.