Lowdesert Posted March 23, 2020 Author Share Posted March 23, 2020 I'm amazed Jason Robinson hasn't been mentioned more and also Jamie Lyon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clwydianrange Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 25 minutes ago, Lowdesert said: I'm amazed Jason Robinson hasn't been mentioned more and also Jamie Lyon. I was just going to say Jason. When he got the ball no one, not even himself, knew what he was going to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrywebbisgod Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 John Holmes Thank you for your valuable contribution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superb Chops Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Phil Blake playing centre to a half-back partnership of Keith Holden and John Woods was just as worrying as Wire's hard as nails pack of the time. Brett Kenny for a few months in a Wigan shirt was sublime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleep1673 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Eric Grothe, and Mal Meninga, glad to say I saw both play. Danny Wilson was always a favourite of mine - until I met him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stirlin Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Graham Steadman , last time York were in the top flight Widnes were the first of the big guns to play at Clarence Street , they had done some research as whenever he had the ball some were backing off him as they did not have a clue what he was going to do , neither did we as home supporters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverback Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Tawere Nikau. T. always shouted at telly. GIVE HIM BALL. Dean Sampson. big yards and bigger hits with our without the ball. Danny Brough. always seemed to make things happen in his younger days. Brendan Toota. one a the toughest players have ever seen on a rugby pitch by far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigan Riversider Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Kevin Iro at his best. Ellery. Offiah. Sterling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxford Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 I thought about this for ages and ...... a list too long Thank goodness for Youtube. I think I turned into Harry Edgar. 2 warning points Non-Political Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookiepuss Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 When Widnes were in their pomp, Offiah, Davies, Tony Myler and Emosi Koloto. All were capable of something out of nothing and each brought something different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Taylor Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 More recently players like James Roby and James Graham. A few years ago, Featherstone played Saints in a cup tie and I knew they were world-class but, I didn't really appreciate it until that point. The same applies for people like Sean Long, Rob Burrow. 2008 RFL Wakefield & District Young Volunteer of the Year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willforminis Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 John Wolford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithful1865 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 He didn't play for my team (mores the pity) but I got excited every time I watched the great Lewis Jones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wollongong Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 With the excitement of being a Trinity (Watching live between 74 and 2008) and Sharks fan (Watching live between 2008 and 2020) Dave Topliss Mike Lampkowski Andy Fletcher Steve Ella Wally Lewis Tom Johnstone Val Holmes Andrew Fifita Mick Ennis in the opposition’s ranks creating fear and trepidation... Hanley Offiah Davies Millward Gregory Dyl Holmes Johnson (at the warriors) the Fox (at Melbourne) Thurston Lockyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Evans Thigh Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Hanley stands out most. Offiah was an obvious one as is Robinson. Very exciting players. Formerly Alistair Boyd-Meaney fifty thousand Poouunds from Keighley...weve had im gid." MIPM Project Management and Business Solutions " Discounts available for forum members contact me for details Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pigeon Lofter Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 One season in the early 1970s Oldham had a tall winger called Norman Hodgekinson. In his first season, he had the Midas touch running in tries from long distance and outstripping defences as though they were stuck in concrete. Every time the ball was funnelled his way a score was possible. Great times! The following season,he lost his bottle and struggled even to catch the ball. From a terrace hero to an absolute dud. Amazing how his confidence vanished like the morning mist. He disappeared without trace after being the darling of the terraces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meast Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 I think this thread has become a kind of "who was your favourite player" rather than the original topic. For me, watching Huddersfield in the lower divisions, i always used to dread Mike Kuiti and Brendon Tuuta, they always seemed to cause damage, Robinson and Offiah in their pomp at Wigan would always be excited, waiting to see what would happen, later, Rob Burrow was one player i always feared was going to tear us apart, Vainikolo at Bradford was the same, he seemed to be Jonah Lomu against our backs, and Luke Robinson, whenever he played against us, caused us problems, boy was i glad we signed him! For Huddersfield, I can't speak for the opposition fans, but Wally Gibson, Dean Hanger, Paul Reilly and Stanley Gene always had me on edge, at times they seemed unplayable! Huddersfield Giants Supporters Association Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One F in Wakefield Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 As a Wakey fan then David Solomona for me, I've never seen someone able to offload like he could - unreal and at nearly every play too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gooleboy Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 I have always liked players who do things of the cuff at times. Tommy Martyn at St Helens was one of them. Very unlucky not to get International recognition at a time when we used to persist with forwards playing Stand Off for GB, Farrell, Sinfield, Sculthorpe etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
del capo Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 how about mike gregory ? https://youtu.be/x8m9mvKilsk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiltshire Warrior Dragon Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 My first phase of watching our sport - live in the mid-1960s, Central Park one week and Hilton Park the next - never involved anything else but standing! However, I understand what the thread title means. The players who got me really excited were Billy Boston for Wigan and Alex Murphy for their mortal enemies, the Saints. Nowadays, as an almost exclusively armchair viewer, I enjoy seeing those players who display a somewhat maverick streak, precisely because they do that. in the recent past, there is Lee Briers, and currently, Tony Gigot and Hakim Miloudi at Toronto. My last game attended live was les Dracs' Wembley success. What was really exciting was to see very early on that Gigot was up for it, and willing to try things; whether they were in the McNamara playbook or not, who knows! Enough of them worked for him to rightly be given the Lance Todd Trophy. Briers was often very good and Gigot can be sometimes. Miloudi, well, not yet! But this thread is not, of course, necessarily about quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowdesert Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 54 minutes ago, Wiltshire Warrior Dragon said: My first phase of watching our sport - live in the mid-1960s, Central Park one week and Hilton Park the next - never involved anything else but standing! However, I understand what the thread title means. The players who got me really excited were Billy Boston for Wigan and Alex Murphy for their mortal enemies, the Saints. Nowadays, as an almost exclusively armchair viewer, I enjoy seeing those players who display a somewhat maverick streak, precisely because they do that. in the recent past, there is Lee Briers, and currently, Tony Gigot and Hakim Miloudi at Toronto. My last game attended live was les Dracs' Wembley success. What was really exciting was to see very early on that Gigot was up for it, and willing to try things; whether they were in the McNamara playbook or not, who knows! Enough of them worked for him to rightly be given the Lance Todd Trophy. Briers was often very good and Gigot can be sometimes. Miloudi, well, not yet! But this thread is not, of course, necessarily about quality. It isn't about quality or about your favourite player. It is about the Player that got you out of your seat, created panic (or havoc) for the opposition and was the one who could deliver. You have named 2 in Murphy and Boston. Murphy, as a younger player, had speed to burn and was capable of winning a game on his own. Boston, with the ball in his hands in full flight would certainly get you out of your seat. Very few in SL at present can do that imo. The evidence is within the thread also. Most are players from yesteryear. Speedsters in Johnstone and Aldo Carr are certainly that, especially in open field. One currently playing in SL is BMM. Virtually unstoppable from 5m out and would get the Wire fans of their butts just as much as opposition fans screaming for the defence to tackle him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 I'd echo a lot of the above. Barrie McDermott at his best always skittled a few. Steve Menzies and Brett Mullins always looked they could score when they had the ball. Wendell Sailor in his prime. Tuqiri at Brisbane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wollo Wollo Wayoo Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Tom Johnstone three years ago. This world was never meant for one as beautiful as me. Wakefield Trinity RLFC 2012 - 2014 "The wasted years" 2013, 2014 & 2015 Official Magic Weekend "Whipping Boys" 2017 - The year the dream disappeared under Grix's left foot. 2018 - The FinniChezz Bromance 2019 - The Return of the Prodigal Son Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigan Riversider Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 On 24/03/2020 at 10:12, meast said: I think this thread has become a kind of "who was your favourite player" rather than the original topic. Spot on, thus reverting back to the original topic: Ellery Hanley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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