He is called Dan Scarbrough. He was born in Bingley. He used to play for Wakefield. He still supports Bradford Bulls. He probably has an account at the Halifax. There is no doubting the Yorkshire pedigree of the full-back who has again been the most eyecatching performer for Leeds Tykes as last season's Premiership wooden-spoonists have started with two impressive home wins.
That is partly to do with his shocking blond hair but there is sufficient substance to the 24-year-old's game for him to have spent last Monday and Tuesday at England's first squad session of the season.
"I'm very proud of where I come from - patriotic, I suppose," said Scarbrough, exactly the sort of local lad Leeds need to succeed if the union side of their cross-code operation is to have any chance of permanence - even if his surname is one "o" short of complete authenticity.
"There's been a lot of clubs around Yorkshire, rugby league and union, but to have a Premiership club of the standing we've got now is fantastic."
Life is pretty good for Scarbrough at the moment. He lives in one of the city's wharfside developments surrounded by bars and restaurants; he even gets to drive out of town against the rush hour to the impressive training base the Tykes share with the rugby league Rhinos in Kirkstall. And last Monday morning he was on a flight south with his team-mates Tom Palmer and Mark Regan for that England squad session.
"They were full days, long days," reflected Scarbrough, who returns to London today as the Tykes take on winless Harlequins at the Stoop and will go top if they win. "But they were a good bunch of lads - no real arrogance, everyone mucked in.
"For that Monday and Tuesday everything is international. Then, as soon as you get back, you've got to switch on to the club. It's a hard thing to do and something I don't think I did particularly well at the end of last year, which might be one reason why I dipped a bit in form. Hopefully this year I can make the switch a bit better."
Leeds's new coach Jon Callard, who has already added Scooby Doo to Scarbrough's long list of nicknames, should help on that score. After a first taste of international rugby at England A and sevens level last season, Scooby was selected for the senior team to face the Barbarians in May but had to withdraw with a knee injury which also ruled him out of the summer trip to Argentina.
He is hoping for the chance to stake a World Cup claim in this autumn's internationals and the way he has started with Leeds can have done him no harm. As well as two tries in the famous opening win against Leicester, Scarbrough was involved twice in a crucial score against London Irish, in the unfamiliar, unglamorous role of helping out at a ruck before providing the final pass to Gordon Ross.
He has reverted from the wing, where he scored 12 of Leeds's 37 Premiership tries last season, to full-back, where he was first spotted by the Leeds rugby director Phil Davies two years ago. "He played in the National Divisions XV which I coached against South Africa," said the Welshman, although he did not claim any credit for Scarbrough's current positional switch. "He's the only genuine choice we've got."
Davies, though, is clearly a big fan. "Dan's going to be a special player, I have no doubts about that at all. He's got pace and application and his step is sensational when he gets going. He's one of the better players I've seen who can step without losing too much of his pace, as Ieuan Evans used to do in his prime. There are a few other things that we're working on at the moment. He kicks the ball a mile if he strikes it but, if he doesn't, it's going off the side of the boot in completely the wrong direction."
But, as Davies points out, it is hardly surprising that Scarbrough is some way short of the finished article. "He's only been at this level for a season and a bit now - well, a season and two games," added Davies. "Before that he was playing at Wakefield and it's a massive step up."
Even Wakefield was quite a step up, as Scarbrough's previous experience had come with his father's club Bradford Salem, then across the Pennines for Broughton Park when he was studying manufacturing management in Manchester. "I was definitely a late developer," Scarbrough says. "I never looked on it as a career until I came to Leeds."
The larger question is how well things can go for Leeds this season: can they convert their winning start into mid-table respectability or will it fizzle away into another battle to avoid relegation, by fair means or foul?
"Now everyone's got at least a year's experience and it's shown on the pitch; we're playing a bit wiser. We've just not got to get too complacent with our first two wins, get our first win away from home down at Harlequins and hopefully the ball should keep rolling."
