He had plenty of faults but, I'd go along with that.

I always thought he was ok, put in plenty of effort.

Still feel a bit sorry for Gallagher, seemingly ostracised by Schofield and his Town Hall Tavern drinking cronies.



Whats Gallagher doing nowadays ? a damn sight better than Schofield I would imagine

Rugby and PE teacher at Uppingham school I believe. Calls himself Mr Gallagher and turns out some great rugby players.

Has he moved on - I know he was Director of Sport at Colfe's at one point?

Out of the two, Brooke Cowden was definately the worst. I can't recall ever seeing him brak a tackle.

I think you may be right on that one Andy.

The only mystery bigger than how Brooke-Cowden ended up at Leeds is how he ever got a place with 'All Blacks.'

The clue is in the name..I would also check which school he attended...

Only worked that way in England. He as an open side I think in Union, so I suspect he was very skilled at that part of the game. I read an interview with him and his height was the main issue in Union. At 5'10" he was too short for a back row in the 1980's. Lifting was banned then and lineouts were actually a contest (a fairly shambolic one at times). If he'd played now it wouldn't have mattered how tall he was.



I don't really remember too many of his performances, even though I saw quite a lot of them. I guess that sums up his Leeds career.

I have never heard confirmation of this, but heard a rumour at the time that we signed the wrong player. The player we were actually after was someone with a name like Zim Zam Brookes. If the rumour was true god knows what happened.

Mark BC was a very average player, but he did want to play for Leeds and never could be accused of lacking in effort or commitment. Something that cannot be said for a lot of the team at that time.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinzan_Brookehe was good player[/url

He was about as good as david young, RU forwards as good as they are hardly ever make it in RL, He was reserve for Micheal Jones? a bible bashing flanker who refused to play for the all blacks on a sunday, so Brooke Cowden got a couple of games in the world cup & maurice barnpot signed him, poor lad was stuck in RL then, Would not have even entertained leaving RU nowadays.