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.

Leeds V Widnes
10th April 1983
Referee: Kevin Allatt (Southport)
Result: 10-5 Half Time: 10-0
ATT: 4,081

Leeds:
Tony Binder
Alan Smith, Neil Hague, Ian Wilkinson, Andrew Smith
John Holmes, Mark Conway
Andy Sykes, David Ward, Keith Rayne
Dave Heselwood, Des Armitage, Mark Campbell
Subs:
Pat Mitchell, Paul Whitehead (DNP)

Tries: Alan Smith, Mark Campbell
Goals: Mark Conway (2)

Widnes:
Mick Burke
Fred Newton, Eric Hughes, Joe Lydon, John Myler
David Hulme, Andy Gregory
Mike O'Neill, Keith Elwell, Kevin Tamati
Fred Whitfield, Eric Prescott, Mick Adams
Subs:
Steve O'Neill, Les Gorley

Try: Hulme
Goal: Lydon

IIRC the game was on RL Action, Scrumdown or whatever the programme was called in '83.

I remember that game. We'd been 4 points clear at the top that year, right up until the last 3rd of the season then we couldn't buy a win - until good old Widnes came to town. We did have a remarkable record against Widnes in the league, even we were really awful. We had a huge injury list as I remember.