DAISYHILL, that was far too quick............well done !

he had a very young squad when he lost in the first final against a very experianced team and coach i think?.
After that he never stood a chance against fully pro clubs.
Still it was a very enjoyable time watching his teams play especially the season we romped the league but lost in the playoffs to oldham and widnes.

To be fair 90% of overseas signings at SL clubs probably do the same as in the times we are in they expect a full sponsored training kit to be ready. I guess Kevin has come to terms with the UK SL now or should I be saying European SL !!

Those were the days a young Stu Donlon, Mickey Higham, Timmy et al....... The 2000 GF was a game we should ve won against a very strong Dewsbury side,whom we had some tough encounters that year.I seem to recall a miss hit drop kick from Barry Heaton taking an eternity to crawl over the bar. A top turnout from the Leythers as well.

SL europe mate. If you put the E first that means engage SL,just thought i'd put you right on that one

lol

It was Richard Agar who kicked the drop goal mate. Came straight after we wasted an almost certain try at the other end when Simon Baldwin kicked through instead of passing the ball out wide when having a massive overlap.

Big problem was getting KH to do anything on the training pitch!

Coaching team - "Right, now we'll do some sprinting". KH "Can't, I've got a bad knee."

Coaching team - "Now for some tackling practice." KH " Can't, I've got a bad shoulder."

General manager - " Here's your pay packets." KH - " No problem mate, my hands are ok!"

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Which players would you have back from the 2005 squad though? I wouldn't have Henderson, bad attitude. Oli Wilkes, John Wilshere, Craig Stapleton....that's it I think, we've re-signed all the other good ones.

I know hes retired but Add paul rowley and thats about it.

Paul Terzis lost us that match in the dressing room at H/T. Who can forget Tim Street and Dave Whittle sat quietly, filling in clip boards during Leigh's biggest match for 2 decades? Utterly ridiculous !!

And Dewsbury's coach at the time was Neil Kelly.

I thought Turk was a great coach btw.

You will find that was one year later in 2001! For what its worth some of PT's coaching techniques were by far ahead of the times.