Ball control was the problem. We could never hang on to the thing - especially when we played the Aussies. For me it was a hangover from contested scrums where dropping the ball didn't automatically lose you possession. Once scrums became a formality possession became critical. But we were still lobbing the ball everywhere. Great to watch though.

Agree about Leeds. For a few brief weeks when we had Crooks and Tunks together we had a big, ugly front row. Then Crooks did his shoulder and managed to double his body weight while recovering. And that was that.

Some examples of Leeds chucking it about to no avail versus Australia here, just it's a bit further on in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-XEqRGDWa4 Also the second part has some great highlights of the 3rd test in that series. The game was much more open and entertaining then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJGdJJNk9nc The clips of the game versus Bradford in the fog are funny, just for the commentators trying to work out what's going on. How good were the 86 Kangaroos?

Some examples of Leeds chucking it about to no avail versus Australia here, just it's a bit further on in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-XEqRGDWa4 Also the second part has some great highlights of the 3rd test in that series. The game was much more open and entertaining then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJGdJJNk9nc The clips of the game versus Bradford in the fog are funny, just for the commentators trying to work out what's going on. How good were the 86 Kangaroos?

Quote ="Bullseye"Some examples of Leeds chucking it about to no avail versus Australia here, just it's a bit further on in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-XEqRGDWa4 Also the second part has some great highlights of the 3rd test in that series. The game was much more open and entertaining then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJGdJJNk9nc The clips of the game versus Bradford in the fog are funny, just for the commentators trying to work out what's going on. How good were the 86 Kangaroos?'" best side i ever saw. better than the 82 team man for man. dont think Australia will ever have or a had that once in a gereration team. Garry Jack, Michael o connor. gene miles, brett kenny at centre, wally, sterlo, Mal meninga could only make the bench for tests. noel cleal, bob lidner, (and wayne pearce eric growth were left at home injured.

Quote ="Bullseye"Some examples of Leeds chucking it about to no avail versus Australia here, just it's a bit further on in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-XEqRGDWa4 Also the second part has some great highlights of the 3rd test in that series. The game was much more open and entertaining then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJGdJJNk9nc The clips of the game versus Bradford in the fog are funny, just for the commentators trying to work out what's going on. How good were the 86 Kangaroos?'" best side i ever saw. better than the 82 team man for man. dont think Australia will ever have or a had that once in a gereration team. Garry Jack, Michael o connor. gene miles, brett kenny at centre, wally, sterlo, Mal meninga could only make the bench for tests. noel cleal, bob lidner, (and wayne pearce eric growth were left at home injured.

Saw them against Halifax at Thrum Hall. The evening before the match, calendar or Look North had a couple of minutes on Noel "Crusher" Cleal and had filmed him running through the Aussie outback carrying a wild hog across his shoulders! Looked like Stone Age man!

Crooks increased BMI will have been due to his method of recuperation.

Spend most of you time propping up the bar in the Horse & Jockey in Cas.

Quote ="Bullseye"Some examples of Leeds chucking it about to no avail versus Australia here, just it's a bit further on in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-XEqRGDWa4 Also the second part has some great highlights of the 3rd test in that series. The game was much more open and entertaining then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJGdJJNk9nc The clips of the game versus Bradford in the fog are funny, just for the commentators trying to work out what's going on. How good were the 86 Kangaroos?'" That Leeds team was as bad as I remember it.

Quote ="Bullseye"Some examples of Leeds chucking it about to no avail versus Australia here, just it's a bit further on in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-XEqRGDWa4 Also the second part has some great highlights of the 3rd test in that series. The game was much more open and entertaining then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJGdJJNk9nc The clips of the game versus Bradford in the fog are funny, just for the commentators trying to work out what's going on. How good were the 86 Kangaroos?'" That Leeds team was as bad as I remember it.

A true athlete.

About that time the garden gate pub in hunslet hosted the Monday Club . A lot of the Leeds team and various members of other clubs used to participate in an all day session. Plus the usual hangers on.
Can't quite remember our hooker or hookers at that time.

It would most likely have been Colin Maskill and Richard Gunn mid to late 80's

Masky, Crooksy, Schoey and Creasser were thick as thieves back then.

Thanks, memory back on track. Great things expected from gunn when signed. Never fulfilled his potential. Maskill decent player, seem to remember him leaving Leeds for Bradford or Halifax?

Many of the Leeds players could also be seen at regular intervals in the following...

Town Hall Tavern
Richmond
Trotters

I'm sure there were other pubs frequented on a regular basis by the squad.

The Leeds team against Australia in 1986 on the youtube link above was Gill, Creasser, ET, McGaw, Francis, Holmes, Gascoigne, Grayshon, Morris, Smith, Owen, Price, Heron... Subs: T. Skerrett, Medley.

Maskill and Gunn played that season at hooker. Trevor Clark may also have done. The 1985/86 season witnessed a lot of changes in personnel throughout the season.

It was Doncaster

Quote ="Bullseye"Some examples of Leeds chucking it about to no avail versus Australia here, just it's a bit further on in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-XEqRGDWa4 Also the second part has some great highlights of the 3rd test in that series. The game was much more open and entertaining then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJGdJJNk9nc The clips of the game versus Bradford in the fog are funny, just for the commentators trying to work out what's going on. How good were the 86 Kangaroos?'" That 3rd Test at Central Park in 1986 was a joy to watch. Thoroughly entertaining. Great ball movement. Dodgy penalty try awarded to Australia at a key juncture in the game at 12-12 for that tackle off the ball on Shearer by Basnett. That would have been a penalty awarded today with 10 minutes in the bin for the transgressor.

Quote ="Bullseye"Some examples of Leeds chucking it about to no avail versus Australia here, just it's a bit further on in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-XEqRGDWa4 Also the second part has some great highlights of the 3rd test in that series. The game was much more open and entertaining then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJGdJJNk9nc The clips of the game versus Bradford in the fog are funny, just for the commentators trying to work out what's going on. How good were the 86 Kangaroos?'" That 3rd Test at Central Park in 1986 was a joy to watch. Thoroughly entertaining. Great ball movement. Dodgy penalty try awarded to Australia at a key juncture in the game at 12-12 for that tackle off the ball on Shearer by Basnett. That would have been a penalty awarded today with 10 minutes in the bin for the transgressor.

Stoggys on Burley rd springs to mind.

Richard Gunn had a good run under Laughton, was hooker in that classic 19-0 win at Wigan with john Bentley scoring a long range special, gunn was dropped a few weeks later, he asked Laughton why and he was told "because your f**king crap"

As did the Fav, at least until certain elements were barred following an "altercation"*.

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I saw all our towelings live at central park either side of that game during the great Wigan run from the late 80's to SL but missed that as my old man was running late after work and said' agh, it doesn't matter tonight son, certain walloping we have most of the first team out' watched it on SKY in amazement.. think it was where Schoey kicks it from the scrum and was it Ford? or Bentley? under the sticks. Looked to be only a handful of Leeds fans braved it that night but what a reward, still gutted we never went to this day.

Twas a good night. I remember singing as we went back up that hill to where the coaches parked back then.

Quote ="gulfcoast_highwayman"Twas a good night. I remember singing as we went back up that hill to where the coaches parked back then.'" I'll bet it was the Ford and Bentley show! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oFo-ZXkSvw

Quote ="gulfcoast_highwayman"Twas a good night. I remember singing as we went back up that hill to where the coaches parked back then.'" I'll bet it was the Ford and Bentley show! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oFo-ZXkSvw

Quote ="Biff Tannen"I'll bet it was the Ford and Bentley show! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oFo-ZXkSvw'" Nice,

Quote ="Biff Tannen"I'll bet it was the Ford and Bentley show! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oFo-ZXkSvw'" Nice,

I used to work on Burley road in the late 80's and used to have my dinner and a swift pint in there each day

On a Monday you would regularly see the "Mad Monday boys" guzzling ale whilst playing a few games of snooker in there before they went to the Town Hall Tavern where the serious drinking started!

Was snowing on the M62. Had a few beers in the Mustard Pot before my mate drove us over. When Bentos scored I'm afraid some arctic white bum cheeks were exposed to the Wigan fans. At the final whistle we had to invade the pitch.
Great night.

Richie Blackmore putting a few of our travelling friends to sleep in Stoggies pool room, good old days.

unbelievable win that was the more you think about it, and to nil that wigan team with the team we put out that night at Central Park. Backside exposure fully understandable