Mick Worrall! Ah! Happy memories of Leeds recruitment policy of the 90s.

On topic, always thought Gaskell looked a good prospect at 7, but don't realy understand why he's not had a sniff there at Saints when Wilkin and Wellens have been the halves. I'd want to know why that was. In 2011 he finished the season well and I'd have been delighted with the signing. Whether he'd actually be a good signing depends on what went wrong and whether it can be fixed. I certainly wouldn't see him as competition for Ward or Sutcliffe, but he might be the type of player that would allow one of them to play at 6 in the long term (and I'm thinking of succession planning here as our current squad numbers 6,7 and 13 are fine now but won't last forever) with the other at 13. They both look a bit like (very good) 13s at the moment, which means we need a proper 7 if we're going to accomodate both. IMO, obvs.

But that rumour seems to have gone a bit quiet, so I suspect there wasn't much in it anyway. Could be wrong.

Big thanks to the people dredging up the horrible memories of Doug Laughton's habit of bringing world-beating forwards from Widnes to Leeds and miraculously transforming them into overpaid wastes of space... *shudder*

Has G1 told his Mick Scott story yet...?

Well looks like my source was wrong or there still negotiations going on

Ian Scott, but as you have kindly opened the door, I'll give it a nudge.

Ian Scott was a big Cumbrian Forward signed by Douggie Laughton. Unfortunatley, he was gash. Couldn't catch, knocked kneed and very average.

One pre-season I found myself in the lavatories at the high class nightclub formerly known as Mr Craigs when who should be in the urinal next to me but said Ian Scott. Breaking the golden rule of mens lavs I struck up conversation, mid-.

I said to Mr Scott that I was very much looking forward to watching him play next season. As he smiled politely and said thank you I finished...

"yes, it will be good as I get the A team games for free with my season ticket".

I left without washing my hands before getting Pummelled as he didn't appear to find it funny.

Your source was wrong

Do u no this for sure

He does if he can count hours. You said 72 hours, and it's passed, your source was wrong.

Reliable source proved unreliable shocker.

You have a very short memory. Gaskell was good enough to play for Saints against you in the 2011 GF or weren't you watching? The half backs were good enough to boss the game for 60 minutes and Gaskell's kicking game was good enough to continually leave you pegged you back, until Burrow's brilliance won it for you.

Gaskell has had his problems at Saints mainly with the coaches since then. Nothing to do with his ability.

Of course he's "good enough" to play for you (IMO of course)!!!!

Bossed the game for 60 minutes.

Is your source still saying Gaskelll has signed for us and waiting for announcement or was it simply a false rumour?

had goodway down as lancastrian from playing most of his rugby there.

one lancastrian who played mainly for bradford rathbone

his time at leeds so brief it's not on his wiki page

Maurice bamford signed him to beef up our pack ,as the pack we had at that time was a bit timid. Ratbone was bit of a hard case both on and off the field.
I believe he may even have spent some time at her majesty's pleasure . He broke his jaw, possibly on his debut , so his playing days at Leeds did not amount to much.