He wasn't the only one like that was he? Daniel Anderson had a part to play in this IIRC

His reputation would have been even better had Smith not fattened him up and misused him for a year or two

Without doubt one of the best overseas imports Leeds and the English game has ever had.

A game-breaker, simple as. Absoloutley devastating when he's on form. I remember his debut against Salford, wasn't going to go to the game before he signed (didn't have a season ticket that year) and he put in a huge hit on his first tackle, my jaw dropped and i couldn't stop smiling at what we'd just brought to HQ.

The night he ran the length of the field at Knowsley road in the play offs will be remembered for a few more years yet.

Remember it well. I got there late and was in the west stand, so quite a distance. The thud it made put a smile on my face.

A special player

Indeed it will.

Probably the best ball handling forward I have seen at the club. I would put him along side Furner,Lyons and ET for the impact made on the team.

Definitely the best overseas signing of my time watching Leeds. Others have been great players, but generally the better ones have not been around for as long. He can drift in and out a bit, but actually even when he's not producing magic he never lets anyone down in terms of defence and making hard yards up the middle. As many people have said he can, when on one of those inspired nights (or afternoons), produce things that 99.9% of the rest of the players in the league simply aren't capable of.

Ellis said in his little review of his team mates "he does things with the ball in training you couldn't even imagine"

Does Eddie say it's like a peanut in his hand every time we're on TV?

I once met a woman in Bangkok you could say the same of.

Burrow may have been MOM in the 2007 GF, but it was Ali that won us that game. It think we were 6-8 points up at the time, we won a scrum down their end, and Ali was geeing the crowd up, three plays later Ali had the ball in one hand, showed it and went over himself.

The infamous "heralding in of the new millenium" on the Graham Norton show springs to mind.

Did it have a big adams apple and bollox????????

Wait a minute.................. if she was a............ I if mean he did the........

Just what i was thinking!!!

If you watch again (if it shows on TV coverage) McGuire was doing a fair bit of that too

He didn't score straight after though

I hear the same can be said of "Lady" GaGa.

True. He was probably backing up though. As that is all he is good for

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be mate. I offered up the opinion that Danny McGuire was 'almost as good as Schoey' the other day, my dad was having less than nothing of that one.

well you've managed to isolate a whole culture there, please do expand on that one!

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He could be Ron Atkinsons ghost writer

Even on his off days he's a great player to have in the side. Other teams are well aware of his talents, so are always watching out for him. That gives other members of the team that little bit of extra room/time they need. To me, that's the mark of a very special player.

Can't really add to the majority of the other comments, it's been a pleasure to watch him play for Leeds this past 5 years.