Good to hear this, he doesn't get the credit he deserves. He just gets on with the job and is a good ambassador for the club and RL in the south through his colomn in RLW. Good on ya Wellsy!

Thoroughly deserved.

Good decision

Brilliant - is he the first in the club's various guises to get one?

if he is....WHY?
Super Rob should be ahead of him surely? Then again...Leeds will be his 200th SL game if he plays.....

I think it is because he has played every season of SL. Quite an achievement, there can't be more than a half a dozen others who have.

Great bloke Welsi and clever with it. A coaches dream.

Only one to be with us the ten years mate.

Great. I like him at full back, good positionally and confident really lifts the team having him there.

Not true. Jon joined the Broncos for the 2004 season, having previously been at Cas (check out the latest edition of [iRugby League World[/i for a picture of a youthful Jon and Danny Orr in Tigers colours in 1999) then Wakey for 2003.

He gets a testimonial for 10 years in the game.

Either way, very well done, mate.

Well done Wells

I stand corrected.

To be honest, while I knew he hadn't done 10 years in London, I did have to check an old Club Guide to get the date of him joining.

Isn't Purdo our longest serving player? 8 years I believe

Don't forget the current Club Guide is available on the Club website (in "The Club" section).

If Purdham has been with us for 8 years, he’ll have one for 10 with just us before his contract extention runs out.

Like everyone else has said, Wellsy deserves this, excellent pro, very reliable and a very nice fella too.

Lets hope the club do him proud during his testimonial and make it something memorable...Top bloke is Wellsy...

Future chief exec potential?

I agree. I would hope people turn out in force for it. As Jon suggested, Castleford should be the opposition - and I agree, and would look forward to it.

Only slightly straying OT but still relevant to Jon's playing career, has anyone got any details on his international appearances for the USA Tomahawks??, i.e how many and against which teams

Yes! He is a USA international apparently, reason I know I have a friend in the States who is a RL fan and also played for the Tomahawks but is unable to fill the gaps for me as he played for the USA pre Wells.
Jon is listed in the USA side for the 2007 RL World Cup Qualifiers. What I'd like to know is if he played for the USA prior to that and how he qualified. (There were a few Castleford/ex Castleford players in the side that year as Matterson was on the USA coaching staff, appears that some of the call ups were a bit dubious!)

I was there too, I think, 13th Nov. 2000. Remember Steelo playing but not Wellsi. BBC website says USA won 52-10.

Steelo even scored 3 tries for them - one in the 40-16 defeat by Italy and 2 in the 50-10 victory over Morrocco.

Count me in as part of that crowd, too. I know the 2000 World Cup was damaging in terms of both finance and credibility, but it was nice to go to games at the likes of Oxford, Reading and Gloucester-under-Water.