They only scored 69, and Offiah got 10 tries. But yes, he was, he resigned a month or two later, to be replaced by his recently installed assistant, Dean Bell. As I recall.

Factually incorrect alas and as Damo pointed out we can't allow any 'red rose county' types re-writing no stat history on here.

Edit: You've managed to combine an opposition score in a Premiership Final from the 1994/95 season with an individual scoring feat in the Premiership Semi-Final from the 1991/92 season. Throw one more event in there and we'd have an axis of humiliation.

ken dalby was the manager /coach in the 50s he signed lewis jones leeds won rl cup under him,and i think yorkshire cup too.
my top coach would be roy francis he was years before his time he started the youth policy and the wonderful football his teams played and his legacy carried on right through the 70s under other coaches

Oops. Yes, you're right. My memory has clearly merged several thrashings by Wigan into one as some sort of self defence mechanism. He did score 10, but it was semi final in 1992 wasn't it? The 69 point final was 1995. So Doug Laughton was in charge of the Offiah debacle, but remained in post until after the Radlinski-inspired 1995 debacle.

More or less, I was tidying up my first attempt as you were replying.

Does Dean Bell count as a solo coach though? What was Hugh McGahan's roll?

Aside from having the token club moustache, of course.

Brent Webb currently has it, btw.

Dean Bell - Coach
Hugh McGahan - Football Manager

It made for a strange sight seeing Bell and McGahan stood shoulder to shoulder at their press unveiling at Headingley, with Bell resplendent in his red blazer.

By the same token, was Doug Laughton ever the Leeds coach? I seem to remember him being installed as manager, above Ward's head which lead to him resigning, and then Ellery was given some sort of head coach title when he arrived.

Doug Laughton would only appear in my list of worst ever Leeds managers.

ham usually sometimes with salad

in pre war days apparently they did,nt have coaches .
they had trainers men who were,nt ex players some times, leeds had a man called billy morn who trained them for years ,leeds had a great side in the 30s renouned for playing expansive open football .
i wonder where the tactics came from?

Little plastic boxes.

Not read all this thread, BUT how can you judge who is the best team coach, and have McLennan in there when he is still the head coach?? He might go on to win all the trophies available for the next 10 seasons for all we know.

Ah Ken Dalby!!!!

What a smashing fella!!!

Knew him well.Fantastic stories and was the last century's answer to TVOC!

I even ended up in his last book!!

I didn't know him, but he sounds fantastic!

I never met Mr Dalby but his books inspired me to keep my own records post 1979. As a sheer coincidence mine start where his left off in the Headingley Story: Volume 2. Combined they'll always be incomplete though as his books didn't allow the space to record players making less than 10 Ist grade appearances and they'll have been very many of those if the last 30 years are anything to go by.

However I do know that tvoc and he's a right ****

This exact line up gets my vote.

Robin Dewhurst - was too young to know what he achieved but was best mates with his son at primary school.

I was just going on achievements to date. He is at liberty to move up (or down) the list as history deems appropriate later on.

Ken Dalby "coached" the Leeds team in the 50's.

But what about Ken Dolby?

The fifties were just before my time unfortunately although obviously not yours.



Still Roy Francis for mine.



Great full back at Leeds, the least said about his coaching Leeds soonest mended. He introduced Tony Binder to the club and that was a crime not easily forgiven.

Has to be Roy Francis. Don't know how his stats would have fared with Graham Murray though.

Your knowledge of the game has just been captured in just one post!!

Our current leader wouldn't even make the top ten and don't get me started on Powell!!

Did he not say he had based it on while he'd been watching?

Personally while I've been watching Leeds there isn't a top 10. Am I too to be excluded from having knowledge purely based on my age?

In either event, surely McClennan's place in any list would depend on what criteria you use? How many of those top 10 you would put ahead of him have won Championships? I'm not suggesting that league titles should be the only criterion used, but is it such a foolish one as to merit your smug laughter?

Your's has been consistently shown up on here by many,afterall you didn't even know which coach gave sinfield his debut in one of your usual bile filled rant's!!
You stick to gobbing off about yer car and money and your pointless aim of trying to get 1 over G1 and Danny!!