Craig Innes was my favourite player for a while - temperament might not have been great but what a player.

Iro was the best to watch in full flight.

Senior the best for intimidation.

Liked Tonie Carroll as well come to think of it.

My hope is that in years to come, Newman and Broadbent might just wrap up that centre pairing. Leeds have tended to have good centres over the years. Back on topic I’m just not convinced LS is up there - happy to be proven wrong.

Craig Innes was a fantastic player, He was almost the ultimate centre as he had every skill set within his game.

I recall when Dean Bell was asked at that time who is the best player in the competition and that he replied Craig Innes

It's a real shame how it panned out when Innes had a stint at Perth and then signed for Manly (as he clearly had his head turned by the lure of the money on offer from the ARL versus Super league war down under)

That's my thoughts too Jim

IIRC we were running at a loss under Laughton but it was being managed. Then it was a financial disaster untill Cadick and Heathrington took over.

last result conceding 70 pts in fimal , no schoey , no ellery -- we'd have been hunslet mark 2 going to elland road

It makes me wince just thinking it was even close - I'd probably have stopped watching, at least every week but, regardless, the last 20 years of trophies would be vanishingly unlikely to have happened.

we'd have gone with the goldfish and i couldn't have sat in thrm seats weekly ------looking at 93 when goulding kicked us to death in the semi final i thought ward was in charge and i threw a scarf away did we have another semi final hammering under waed poss 91 ? 93 was the year of schoey's diary and alleged fall out in the semi final

92 and 93 at Pie Park, both under Laughton, the first a Regal Trophy final, are two of the most scarring experiences of my childhood. I don't think anything that happened under David Ward was so bad in such a big game. You compare his last game - the John Gallagher dropped bomb at the Boulevard - with Doug's - that '95 Premiership Final - and wonder whether the four years in between, fun as they were, had all been a cruel waste of time and money.

Sinfield was that hidden gem which paid off later I suppose although I wonder what he must have thought when Doug disappeared.

forgotten regal final will look it up later , was there for the gallagher drop and the spear tackle against sts - margaret varley captures it well in dave hadfields book

Seeing blue & amber scarves thrown in the River Douglas at Central Park after games wasn’t uncommon during that time. After the horrific Offiah ten try game there must have been a dozen.

Remember being at Central Park the time we beat Wigan in that infamous game where Cassidy almost decapitated Morley.

Still no official news on this contract but I’m guessing it’s a done deal.

Even with all that came later still one of my top ten Leeds games ever. Absolutely brutal and, yes, it was that man Godden again in the end.

Me and our kid went over to watch this game very early in order that we could have our lunch in one of the pubs close to the ground.
Upon walking into the pub with our Leeds shirts on, the landlord said "The only thing that you boys are getting from today is a bloody good Sunday dinner in here"

He was bloody bang on too as we got a right tonking

we both stood in the home stand behind the posts and didn't leave until the final hooter had sounded as we didn't want to give the Wigan fans the satisfaction of seeing us walk out early

The term "The Wigan Walk" will always be theirs

fortunately missed the offiah one and unfortunately missed the 19 nil win