Was Jamie Bloom banned at this stage Bruce? . Seen him play a few times recentley for Old Risworthians against Thornensians. Hes definatlely quietened down a bit since them days. In fact he was on radio Leeds after last sundays game.

He was tested positive November 1994 Dave,a couple of months before this game.

Jamies last game for The Dons was the away game vs Leeds, he scored an hat trick in the game and it was strongly rumoured that he would have been a Leeds player on the Monday if he had not been banned.

Doug Laughton the then Leeds coach was a great admirer of Jamies.

Thats right Steve and it was Loughton who took him to Widnes as soon as his ban had finished.
Would the club be in this position now if Jamie had not tested positive. With the three figure sum that was rumoured to be coming from Leeds we would have been able to keep the squad of players that started the Big league season together and would have got the full Super league monies instead of the F.A that we did get.
But ha ho

Three figure sum?

Sorry six figure sum.

It would have all ended up in Desmonds pocket, I doubt the club would have seen a penny of it.

As I was about to say...at best it would have prolonged it all briefly

no

Gareth Thomas got a similar welcome to RL in the friday night Sky match.

that match last night was one of the worst games of rugby i've ever had the misfortune to watch