Just to add to my previous comment: I only discovered the fact myself last weekend while looking through some old League trade papers (making an arduous journey from garage to loft) smiling at the likes of Matty Elliott and Gary Hetherington seeking to ban overseas players of insufficient quality from cluttering up the British game preventing our own youngsters getting a chance. In the example given namely Tevita Vaikona, Stanley Gene and Dean Hanger and yes I found nothing remotely ironic in the fact two of the three enjoyed spells at Odsal further down the track and one with particular distinction including a three year stint under Elliott's guidance.

Can you out the poster, as a matter of interest?

I could but am minded not to as like I said previously I don't recall him ever drawing attention to it himself on here. I know I wouldn't appreciate someone doing that to me ...... not that I have any skeletons or anything you understand.

I have a suspicion he may have been known to you through the lost loiners but I could have just made that up.

Fair enough. I think, just think, I may know who you mean.

I'm trying to think of when Leeds & Hunslet schools were last in the curtain raiser, before it switched to the Powergen Champion Schools final...

The "greatest final" reference has me thinking 1985, which would put said poster into his late 30s now.

Wasn't me

Although I can make the proud boast that I was a part of the England cricket team that played Pakistan at Headingley in the early seventies but sat out the game on the balcony of the old pavillion building.

(Yes, the REAL England cricket team)

John Senior?

Hello again all!
To be honest this place 'went off the boil' a bit. Same with every forum I've ever been on. Still read stuff just haven't posted for a while.