gulfcoast_highwayman wrote:
We were looking like we could hang on for victory, when Trinity did a kick downfield and brain-dead Jimmy Lowes cleaned out their kicker, meaning they got a penalty in our 20. That gave them position to score and win the game, I think.
That's a quality recall right there. The kick downfield cost Leeds 60 yards and led to a Darren Fritz try and the Peter Benson conversion to level it up at 16 a piece with ten to go. Nigel Wright followed up with a 35 yard winning drop goal on the hooter. In the commotion Morris missed the hooter and play restarted for a good 30 seconds before he finally heard it screeching in the background.
Having Morvin Edwards sent off for a high shot on Wakey winger David Jones on 25 minutes didn't help much either. Leeds were leading 6-2 at the time and extended that to 16-4 at the break. The second half was Trinities though but Leeds looked to be hanging on for the draw until a sloppy Craig Innes pass in his own half gave the field position for Wright's winner.
JOGGER wrote:
Wasn't that the one just before the World Cup Final and we played without our internationals - and iirc the hooter wnet haywire so there was a LOT of injury time?
More quality recollections.
The game should have been played on the wekend before last but was called off as Wakefield and Sheffield battled it out in the last (?) Yorkshire Cup Final at Elland Rd (?). The usual rearranged date would be the week on Wednesday following a postponement (Leeds United were at Ibrox as per GCH's memory that night) but Leeds were pushing for a date in December. David Topliss (Trinity's coach) mused that Leeds are going around re-arranging Wakefield's home fixtures and that simply wasn't on and he suspected that Leeds didn't want to go into the game without the embargoed Tait, Schofield and Hanley who were indeed on World Cup duty that week.
Wakefield won the fixture row and the match.
