Re: SL RD 17 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:20 pm  

Holmes wrote: I remember Gary Stephens as an assistant coach to Dougie Laughton in 1991-92 but don't recall him playing 1st team at all. Annoyingly there is a gap for season 1987-88 on the Leeds website "timeline": https://www.therhinos.co.uk/timeline/1980s/1986-1987/ https://www.therhinos.co.uk/timeline/1980s/1988-1989/ I'm not sure how accurate it is but the following website has him recorded as a Leeds player: https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/play ... mmary.html Does anyone else remember him? Yes, he played in one game against Salford at the Willows. Not sure of the exact year but I'd say 88ish.

Holmes wrote: I remember Gary Stephens as an assistant coach to Dougie Laughton in 1991-92 but don't recall him playing 1st team at all. Annoyingly there is a gap for season 1987-88 on the Leeds website "timeline": https://www.therhinos.co.uk/timeline/1980s/1986-1987/ https://www.therhinos.co.uk/timeline/1980s/1988-1989/ I'm not sure how accurate it is but the following website has him recorded as a Leeds player: https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/play ... mmary.html Does anyone else remember him? Yes, he played in one game against Salford at the Willows. Not sure of the exact year but I'd say 88ish.

Re: SL RD 17 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:24 pm  

Holmes wrote: I remember Gary Stephens as an assistant coach to Dougie Laughton in 1991-92 but don't recall him playing 1st team at all. Annoyingly there is a gap for season 1987-88 on the Leeds website "timeline": https://www.therhinos.co.uk/timeline/1980s/1986-1987/ https://www.therhinos.co.uk/timeline/1980s/1988-1989/ I'm not sure how accurate it is but the following website has him recorded as a Leeds player: https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/play ... mmary.html Does anyone else remember him? He played for Cas up until the early 80s when he went to Wigan. He also played in Aus. I think his less talented son Gareth also had a spell there.

Holmes wrote: I remember Gary Stephens as an assistant coach to Dougie Laughton in 1991-92 but don't recall him playing 1st team at all. Annoyingly there is a gap for season 1987-88 on the Leeds website "timeline": https://www.therhinos.co.uk/timeline/1980s/1986-1987/ https://www.therhinos.co.uk/timeline/1980s/1988-1989/ I'm not sure how accurate it is but the following website has him recorded as a Leeds player: https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/play ... mmary.html Does anyone else remember him? He played for Cas up until the early 80s when he went to Wigan. He also played in Aus. I think his less talented son Gareth also had a spell there.

Re: SL RD 17 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Tue Jun 11, 2019 4:57 pm  

Also seem to remember Kevin Harkin playing scrum half.
Did he come from Wakefield.
What was the deal that ended up with Mark Conway coming to us?
Wasn`t something like a 3 player swap?

Re: SL RD 17 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:21 pm  

chapylad wrote:

Also seem to remember Kevin Harkin playing scrum half.
Did he come from Wakefield.
What was the deal that ended up with Mark Conway coming to us?
Wasn`t something like a 3 player swap?

Paul Harkin came to us from Bradford Northern for the 1990-91 season then moved on to Halifax. (Kevin Harkin played for Hull and York).
Mark Conway came through the Leeds colts. He was transferred to Wakefield along with Phil Fox, Andy Mason and Keith Rayne in an exchange for John Lyons and Gary Spencer.

Re: SL RD 17 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:40 pm  

Holmes wrote:

Paul Harkin came to us from Bradford Northern for the 1990-91 season then moved on to Halifax. (Kevin Harkin played for Hull and York).
Mark Conway came through the Leeds colts. He was transferred to Wakefield along with Phil Fox, Andy Mason and Keith Rayne in an exchange for John Lyons and Gary Spencer.

Gary Spencer was probably the slowest FB to ever play for us,If you showed a slow motion replay of him in action then he would be stood still
Can't believe that he was preferred at FB in games whilst we shoved Ettingshausen out onto the wing in 1988?
He never really made that many appearances for Leeds (not more than 50 from memory)

Re: SL RD 17 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:05 pm  

The Biffs Back wrote:

Gary Spencer was probably the slowest FB to ever play for us,If you showed a slow motion replay of him in action then he would be stood still
Can't believe that he was preferred at FB in games whilst we shoved Ettingshausen out onto the wing in 1988?
He never really made that many appearances for Leeds (not more than 50 from memory)

He was Paul Wellens before Paul Wellens.

ET had a knee problem at the start of his second stint with us. A bit of floating bone or something, IIRC. That's part of why he was on the wing. Plus, lack of pace aside, Spencer was a good full back.

Re: SL RD 17 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Wed Jun 12, 2019 1:29 am  

Spencer's other problem was that he kept dislocating his shoulder. He was indeed snail-like, as was another full back signed around the same time, Gary Lord. What a footrace that would have been. Although to be fair to Lord he was transitioning to the second row (or did we even sign him for that?). Luckily we signed those two and not Graham Steadman...........

Re: SL RD 17 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Wed Jun 12, 2019 3:12 pm  

Holmes wrote:

Paul Harkin came to us from Bradford Northern for the 1990-91 season then moved on to Halifax. (Kevin Harkin played for Hull and York).

Harkin would be a brilliant modern day HB if he could get fit. His kicking game was fantastic for its day. He was tough, skillful & could direct play. (He played for HKR not Hull).

Re: SL RD 17 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Wed Jun 12, 2019 3:19 pm  

tigertot wrote:

He played for Cas up until the early 80s when he went to Wigan. He also played in Aus. I think his less talented son Gareth also had a spell there.

Ah, Gareth Stephens, the halfback we signed instead of Jason Robinson.

Re: SL RD 17 | Wakefield Trinity (A) : Wed Jun 12, 2019 4:23 pm  

DHM wrote:

Ah, Gareth Stephens, the halfback we signed instead of Jason Robinson.

Leeds RLFC, making monumental errors of judgement since 1953.