Re: Top 10 groundbreaking signings : Fri May 22, 2020 8:17 pm  

Whilst Ferris was a big signing, Gaz Ellis got more of a fanfare on arrival. Leeds and Bradford had been chasing him between them for a long time before we finally got him. His welcome on the field on the Boxing Day game was huge.

I wonder where his career would have gone had he signed for the Bulls instead.

Re: Top 10 groundbreaking signings : Fri May 22, 2020 8:50 pm  

Craig Innes if i remember rightly he had just played in the RU World cup and he was a highly thought of ALL Black

He was a top centre and could have become a great player for leeds if he had not walked out of the club to go to Manley , always felt robbed not seeing him develop into a top RL player

Re: Top 10 groundbreaking signings : Fri May 22, 2020 10:00 pm  

Biggest signings are Peacock, Hanley, Harris, Lauitiiti, Schofield.

Re: Top 10 groundbreaking signings : Sat May 23, 2020 2:15 am  

I always think the significance of Keith Senior's signing and his contribution to our success gets overlooked. He was the best British centre in the competition for over a decade and amongst the best in the world in the early to mid 2000s.

Re: Top 10 groundbreaking signings : Sat May 23, 2020 5:02 am  

The Ghost of '99 wrote:

Whilst Ferris was a big signing, Gaz Ellis got more of a fanfare on arrival. Leeds and Bradford had been chasing him between them for a long time before we finally got him. His welcome on the field on the Boxing Day game was huge.

I wonder where his career would have gone had he signed for the Bulls instead.

Probably came to Leeds eventually

Re: Top 10 groundbreaking signings : Sat May 23, 2020 11:27 pm  

In terms of groundbreaking then signing Mullins and Clyde in the same off-season must be up there! Granted Mullins was a total bust and Clyde a partial bust but at the time they signed it was a big deal.

Going back a bit further that period of cliff Lyons, ET and Sam Backo was pretty special both on paper and on the pitch.

Re: Top 10 groundbreaking signings : Sun May 24, 2020 9:42 am  

Backo was a great signing on paper , on the pitch for us he was Garbage !

Re: Top 10 groundbreaking signings : Sun May 24, 2020 11:14 am  

ploinerrhino wrote:

Backo was a great signing on paper , on the pitch for us he was Garbage !

Ha, I knew someone would slate him. Agree he didn't have the impact we had hoped. He will always stay with me for that try he scored where he seemed to drag half the team over the line.

Re: Top 10 groundbreaking signings : Sun May 24, 2020 11:42 am  

Only telling the truth , he came with a great reputation , he scored a try in each of the three test matches against G.B IN Australia . I think the try you were on about was in the Yorkshire cup semi ? maybe against Hull ?

Re: Top 10 groundbreaking signings : Sun May 24, 2020 12:04 pm  

Peter Jackson


THREE THAT SIGNED WHO WENT WELL WITHOUT THE HYPE

Mark McGAW
Terry Webb
Mark Laurie