David Seaman er nr 39 og Mark Gavin er nr 42.
Nr 40 het Simon Tait, tror jeg. Og nr 48 er Hinchcliffe.. et eller annet...
I "gamle dager" hadde jeg nok tatt de fleste på strak arm, men det er ikke lengre alt som fungerer som det engang gjorde...
Dette bildet illustrerer forfallet i juniorarbeidet i Leeds på siste halvdel av syttitallet.
Av den gjengen der var det kun Seaman som fikk en karriere å snakke om - men dessverre ikke i Leeds.
Såpass. Så at Bengt'n var innom uten å legge igjen noen kommentar heller.
Da får vi ta det her:
i used to follow Leeds Reserves and Youth teams in the 70's, 80's and 90's so it is fairly easy to remember most names and faces. Brendan Carr back row far right had me scratching my head for an hour though
Back Row, Ashley Burrows, Simon Tait, David Seaman, Steve Cornes, Mark Hinchcliffe, Robert Peel, Brendan Carr.
Front Row: Colin Thacker, Mark Gavin, Alfred Holton, Duane Percival, Gerrard Hill, Paul Harriskitt
The youth team was basically an u19 side playing in the Northern Intermediate League.
It would be made up of 1st and 2nd year apprentices aged 16-18 and 1st yr pros 18-19
Seaman only played in 1st team friendlies, Rob Peel made the bench for the 1st team, Southampton away c1981 I think.
Duane Percival featured on a kids tv programme in his Leeds kit c1981 time, Alfred Holton was the nephew of the Scum United Centre Half Holton
-----
Seaman, we all know about, even back then his weakness was a high ball looping over his shoulder.
Cornes and Hill were mainly right backs.
Harrisskitt was a left back
Ashley Burrows was a busy type in the middle.
Mark Hinchcliffe captained the juniors and played at centre back with Colin Thacker
Mark Gavin as we know was a winger
Bobbie Peel i'm sure was an unused sub for the 1st team a couple of times, Southampton c 1980-81 seems to ring a bell.
I think Eddie Gray exiled Peel off to Australia for a while, can't quite remember the story behind that
….
I tip my hat to you sir.
Agreed, Bob Peel unused sub away at Southampton November 1980.
I wonder what's become of all these lads?
---------------
Ellers har jo vettis'en rett.
Det var skrale saker på akademifronten disse årene.
Men det var ikke mange årene etter Tommy Wright, John og Darren Sheridan, Denis Irwin, Scott Sellars, John Scales & co kom frem.