York I think

No, think he came from York or somewhere like that, isn't he a lot older than you think, like 27/28.

We desperately need a catalyst, an inspirational player. It probably won't be an obvious choice either. Any ideas?

Dunemann was at Leeds the year before Smith arrived, and Marcus Bai had agreed a deal with Leeds for 2004 before they hired Smith as coach.

On the question about the young players who were brought through, these are guys who were given their debuts by Smith and went onto be first teamers:

Huddersfield:

Eorl Crabtree
Hefin O'Hare
Matt Whitaker
Jon Grayshon
Paul White

Leeds:

Carl Ablett
Ashley Gibson
Lee Smith
Ian Kirke
Jordan Tansey
Danny Williams
Ryan Hall
Scott Murrell debuted under Smith at Leeds, but went onto be a first team regular with Hull KR

as well as those there were a few players who had made a handful of appearances before he arrived, but became regulars under Smith - Ben Cooper and Chris Langley at Hudds, and Liam Botham and Nick Scruton at Leeds. Smith have Botham (London) and Scruton (Hull) a loan spell to get some first team games under their belt before they established themselves at Leeds.

Most of the young backline Leeds have now came through under Smith. When he arrived at Leeds, there were already a lot of forwards and halves in their early 20s who were quite experienced in SL, but the backline had a lot of senior players. One by one Smith moved out Connolly, McKenna, Bai and Cummins - then Calderwood and Chev Walker left for bigger deals elsewhere. He brought in Donald and Webb to give some experience but he filled the rest of the spaces with the guys named above.

The one who he missed was Peter Fox, who was at Leeds Academy when he was there, but Smith rated him behind Smith, Gibson, Tansey etc in the pecking order. He was a couple of years older than them and Smith let him move on to Wakey.

Luke Robinson.