NONE of the three lads in the front row of this week's Picture from the Past got to play for the clubs whose strips they modelled alongside established Leeds stars at a fund-raising fashion show for the junior section at Oulton.

The year was 1991 and David Creasser, Garry Schofield, Carl Gibson and Colin Maskill gave up their time to help raise £500 for an amateur club which continues to have a proud record for producing and developing rugby league talent.

Youngsters James Carmichael and Chris Thornton never made it to the professional ranks, but the fresh-faced kid on the right went on to fulfil his considerable potential as a junior by becoming a key figure for Castleford and Huddersfield in Super League.

Ryan Hudson, who will lead Huddersfield into the Carnegie Challenge Cup fifth-round tie at Hull KR on Sunday, spent his formative years at Oulton before taking up the game full time after a couple of seasons with Travellers Saints and Stanley Rangers.

Now 28, Hudson was just 12 when got to meet some of his heroes at the event at Blackburn Hotel in Rothwell and could not have known that within six years he would be training alongside Schofield during the Great Britain legend's ill-fated spell as coach of Huddersfield.

"I had a great time at Oulton, it's a club which has always known how to look after its junior," said Hudson, now back with Huddersfield for a second spell.

"I got into rugby when their junior coach Steve 'Rocky' Whitehead was doing a plastering job at my home. I was only three at the time and he said to my mum 'That lad's got too much energy – you want to get him playing rugby'.

"By the time I was four and a half I was training with Oulton and had become one of 'Rocky's Giants.'

"He's a great character and has just celebrated 25 years at the club.

"He used to pick us all up in his works van and we'd all pile in the back to get to training. When we got out we were always covered in plaster and artex, but that was part of the fun."