Steve "Knocker" Norton for me closely followed by Peter Sterling although they always say never meet your hero's as when the 82 challenge cup winners came together the majority stopped off for a drink in Sportsman late on and whilst chatting ( or should I say slurring ) to our three great New Zealanders I spotted a rather blurry eyed knocker sat at the bar and started to say how as a youth I looked up to him as a great rugby player and his reply was to flat palm me on my forehead and proceed to laugh. It wasn't until I was telling John Edison that he told me this was knockers and Lee Crooks party piece as most people fell over looking silly. To my surprise I just looked silly.

Difficult for me to have a favourite, so many bloody era`s have passed.
Whiteley when I was a nipper,
Keegan when growing up,
Knocker when I knew what was really happening,
Sterling when I appreciated the silky stuff,
Crusher when i got slower,
Mahre and Swain when I needed a reminder of how good we used to be and
Whiting when I needed to be reminded what loyalty and effort where.

That'll do for me too, Dean was a very underated player, plied his trade at Hunslet before coming to us and I think only did 4 seasons/53 appearances. Mercurial dropkicker, didn't mind mixing it either.

Notable mention of Paul Rose whom I tried to emulate as a 2nd rower, loved his no nonsense style

Knocker for me and still never seen another 13 do the things what he did with a ball in hand and he was a hard bugger as we'll.for 1season though,Sterling was the best player I have ever seen.

Tony Grimaldi he was good.

Past, Knocker, Crooks.
Present, Whiting ,Houghton.