I remember him going down at the HJ and fearing the worst the way he fell. Whilst it may have been a genuinely bad fall I think he strung it out to give the team a breather Never waste an opportunity to give the team an advantage

Tried to copy and use for the updated table on page 66 - managed to edit this post instead by mistake.

The original table that was shown here (to reflect the positions prior to the 2011 final) can be found a couple of posts down.

Sorry about that.

You missed a corker in there.

Saints have 6 consecutive appearences not 5.

Or you didn't read (understand (?)) the second line of the post.

I imagine there will be an update after the Final.

not including this year

I hate it when the page flicks over like that.

Two (of the three) unbeaten Play-Off Coaches going head to head.

There can be only one ..... sort of.

Special milestone request...

So Ali made the 200 appearance mark in the GF and I understand this was pretty significant for an overseas player - so can the mighty stat machine TVOC (or someone else) give a list of overseas Leeds RL players by number of appearances (and preferably when they played)

PS also can we have an updated GF stats list

Let me start you off by directing you here: The list in order of appearances is as follows: Eric Harris 383 games 1930-1939 Dinny Campbell 258 games 1912-1920 Frank O'Rourke 240 games 1927-1933 Arther Clues 236 games 1947-1954 Keith McLennan 215 games 1952-1957 Jeff Moores 211 games 1927-1933 Bert Cook 201 games 1947-1953 www.therhinos.co.uk/news/17612.php

Let me start you off by directing you here: The list in order of appearances is as follows: Eric Harris 383 games 1930-1939 Dinny Campbell 258 games 1912-1920 Frank O'Rourke 240 games 1927-1933 Arther Clues 236 games 1947-1954 Keith McLennan 215 games 1952-1957 Jeff Moores 211 games 1927-1933 Bert Cook 201 games 1947-1953 www.therhinos.co.uk/news/17612.php

Where were you an hour ago when I needed you?

My list looks uncannily familar to that one except I have (or rather Ken Dalby had) Bert Cook playing 210 times for Leeds rather than the the 201 reported in that article.

On the plus side I now know the origins of some players with more than 200 appearances that were previously only names on a page so it's all good and highlights what a fertile area the Welsh valleys have proved over the years.

Aye!Look no further than Steve Ford, Bob Ackerman and David Young!!!

Rob rather than Bob but point taken although Ackerman was a little tarnished after he arrived via Whitehaven of all places. That has to have an effect. Steve Ford was an unknown (even in Wales) leaving only David Young as a genuine big expectation Welsh flop although his introduction to League was I thought poorly handled by Leeds and he aquitted himself fairly well out of the limelight at Salford.

However to more than balance those three there were the likes of: Evan Williams (415), Joe Thompson (390 - 3rd highest goal kicker in club's history - not a bad signing for £300), Lewis Jones (385 - still Leeds' top points scorer on 2,920), Dai Prosser (via York - 327 and Leeds' coach for their first Championship win in '61), Con Murphy (via Acton & Willsden - 295), Dai Jenkins (via Streathem & Mitcham 292), Willie Davies (278 - a member of the GB Ashes winning side after arguably their most famous Test Match - Rorke's Drift, Sydney 1914), Jim Bacon (276) and Dickie Williams (233)

All Leeds greats and those were just the ones who played more than 200 times for the club. How about including some that didn't: Tony Fisher (121 - if there has been a harder player I don't think I've seen him), Oliver Morris (61 - a casualty of the second World War), Ike Owens (124 - one of Britain's finest loose forwards) and Frank Young (159)

Never forgetting the inspirational and innovative coaching genius that was Roy Francis all the way from Brynmawr.

So overall I think the Leeds club owe a tremendous amount of gratitude to their many Welsh recruits - and I haven't even needed to mention Iestyn.