I know. I was referring to the club he went on to play for after leaving Leeds.

Some of these ex-Leeds players are so obscure they never made a first grade appearance for the club.

Eddie Rombo.. I remember an interview after his only(?) first team try at Cas, where he said in a thick African accent, "there's more to come"...only there wasn't!

The best name was something like

Lorenzo Marquez Laynez

Indeedy - I'm surprised you didn't volunteer Errol Johnson's name as a contribution.

Some other bugger mentioned him first. I've been trying to forget about him for 20 years!

He cost £40k IIRC!

acorn

Bargain



Between him, Mark Wilson, David and Wayne Heron, Roy Powell, Jon Scales, Paul Cook and Paul Medley we were your feeder club for a spell in the late 80s and early 90s weren't we?

Ah yes, Lorenzo Marquez-Laynez yet another hooker, from Humberside I think.
I could be wrong but I think he may have had a spell at ' Her Majestys Pleasure'

W've had a fair few hookers down the years, ones I recall are
Tony Crosby
George Shepherd
Tony Fisher
Colin Maskill
Bob Morris
Wardy
and all the lesser lights mentioned in this thread

Steve Ford.

Gary hetherington anyone?? ended up at bramley

True and apart from Errol all those players had the pleasure of experiencing a win for Northern against the Loiners, even chuffin Mark Wilson!

Of those players I'd say the best we got were Powell, Dave Heron qand Medley. Scales was ok for a couple of seasons too.

Dave Heron might have been 34/35 when he joined but he was still class.

I could never understand why you wouldn't pay the entire transfer fee for Heron, meaning his moustache stayed at Headingly. I think the cleaning staff us it these days, if something needs a right good scrubbing.

I think you will find that I am actually posting on here!

i remember a home match we surprisingly won against widnes with a lot of injuries

iirc back row was poss wayne heron & the wingers massa & mark campbell

perhaps tvoc has more info

Has Jamie Bloem been mentioned?

Story has it he was a Leeds player for about 90 minutes before his drugs test was made public.

I heard that aswell but wasn't sure how true it was.

Ian Payne? Bearded David Ward understudy mid 70s

The story I heard was that Dougie Laughton phoned to ask how much Donny wanted for him, and was told there might be a problem....

I always maintain that if we'd have signed him fo the reported £250 000, and if he had been as good as he was without being a walking branch of Boots, then things would have been very different.

Donny probably wouldn't have gone bust, and we'd have had Bloem at fullback at Wembley that year and he wouldn't have dropped the high ball like Tait did, leading to a Wigan try.

I remember the game well.

Chucking it down and a completely unexpected 10-5 win. The best bit being John Myler admiring a John Holmes kick to the corner which was swooped upon by Alan Smith before it went dead. Fantastic.

Teams to follow when I dig them out.

More hookers, yes Ian Payne from York and I forgot Peter Dunn from Hunslet

Anyone want to see the press cuttings?

Me please.





Bloem was my hero when he was at Donny when I was 7, I was absolutely gutted when my uncle told me what he'd done.

He reffed our Titans game last week, he's still a fair unit.

Darren Stevens, Same year as Marty Gurr, Peter Jackson, tunks etc.