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Re: Doug Laughton : Sat Dec 07, 2024 7:20 pm  
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They should do he brought sinfield to Leeds and layer the foundations for the goldens GH owes him a lot IMO

I would have said the true architect of the Golden gen was Dean Bell. I loved the Dougie era though.
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Re: Doug Laughton : Mon Dec 09, 2024 11:44 am  
Doug was a great motivator style coach, with a talent scouts eye, those Widnes teams of the 80's were awesome and every bit as good if not better than the Wigan sides that over took them. I believe one of the reasons he came to Leeds was to be able to match Wigans financial clout, after they were cutting his junior supply lines to stem them. so he did indeed revamp our at the time awful junior development and pave the way for what was to come. we were unlucky not to win some silverware but to (and lost) lost 4 finals under him in about 4 seasons.

he was a great player as well often overshadowed in his era by the likes of Mal Reilly steve Norton phil lowe etc but was a world class international back row. Gb captain, (think ashes and works cup winner as well)
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Re: Doug Laughton : Wed Dec 11, 2024 7:09 am  
Sir Greg
Dougie limited as a coach?
Best of his era IMO
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Re: Doug Laughton : Wed Dec 11, 2024 6:23 pm  
Chesterrhino wrote:
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Dougie limited as a coach?
Best of his era IMO


Did he actually coach the team? Wasn’t the suggestion at the time that Ellery was doing most of the coaching and Doug used to just turn up once a week, put a video on for the players and then leave them to it?

This was a time when the “coach” was the manager.

I wish David Ward had been given the money that was made available to Dougie.
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Re: Doug Laughton : Thu Dec 12, 2024 7:04 am  
Paul Vautin's description of Alex Murphy's coaching is hilarious. All he knew about fitness was getting the squad doing laps, and apparently barely interacted during training unless the press turned up, and he's suddenly get involved. While the Aussies have more and better athletes, one reason for our relative decline in the 70s and 80s was the standard of coaching. Crazy because we previously had coaches like Roy Francis who were way ahead of their time.
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