Mumby Magic 795 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 An adaption from a great thread on twitter by Gav Wilson, I thought Id put together my Bradford did they really play XIII FB Phil Howlett RW Andy Hodgson RC Willie Tonga LC Toa Kohe Love LW Patrick ah Van SO Ivan Henjak SH Matt Orford P Michael Hogue H Micky Higham P E.Lauaki/Jamal Fakir SR Harry Pinner SR Adrian Morley LF Brad Mackay Quote Like poor jokes? Thejoketeller@mullymessiah Link to post Share on other sites
Chris22 1,372 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 This is tricky! I'll try Saints from the Super League era FB - Adam Quinlan W - Gray Viane C - Darren Smith C - Damien Smith W - Dom Feanuti SO - Darrell 'Tricky' Trindall SH - Gareth O'Brien P - Michael Smith H - Stuart Howarth P - Brett Goldspink (honorable mention to Lama Tasi) SR - Heath Cruckshank SR - Bryan Henare LF - Adam Walker Quote Twitter: @TrylineUK Latest Blog: Time for the Pragmatic Era? Link to post Share on other sites
Blind side johnny 6,467 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 58 minutes ago, Mumby Magic said: An adaption from a great thread on twitter by Gav Wilson, I thought Id put together my Bradford did they really play XIII FB Phil Howlett RW Andy Hodgson RC Willie Tonga LC Toa Kohe Love LW Patrick ah Van SO Ivan Henjak SH Matt Orford P Michael Hogue H Micky Higham P E.Lauaki/Jamal Fakir SR Harry Pinner SR Adrian Morley LF Brad Mackay You missed off Mario Fenech. Quote Sport, amongst other things, is a dream-world offering escape from harsh reality and the disturbing prospect of change. Link to post Share on other sites
Mumby Magic 795 Posted October 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 24 minutes ago, Blind side johnny said: You missed off Mario Fenech. Before my time....just Quote Like poor jokes? Thejoketeller@mullymessiah Link to post Share on other sites
LeytherRob 602 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 I went for 2 squads for Leigh, one of permanent signings to make it more challenging and one for loans/DR. The halfback position had a load of options I couldn't fit suck as Dennis Moran, Rangi Chase, Danny Richardson.. 1. Scott Grix / Matty Russell 2. Alex Brown / Adam Swift 3. Chris Hankinson / Matty Blythe 4. Toa Kohe-Love / James Bentley 5. Mathais Pala / Richard Owen 6. Samisoni Langi / Travis Burns 7. Bobby Goulding / Kevin Brown 8. Joe Bullock / Scott Taylor 9. Kurt Baptiste / Jonah Cunningham 10. Ryan Bailey / Greg Burke 11. Macgraff Leuluai / Tyrone McCarthy 12. Larne Patrick / Jack Hughes 13. Kyle Lovatt / Bryn Hargreaves Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Futtocks 15,668 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Blind side johnny said: You missed off Mario Fenech. And Nick Zisti. Quote "Men will be proud to say 'I am a European'. We hope to see a day when men of every country will think as much of being a European as of being from their native land." (Winston Churchill) Link to post Share on other sites
EagleEyePie 375 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 Here's my attempt for Wigan from the Super League era; FB - Michael Withers W - Jon Whittle C - Nathan McAvoy C - Liam Botham W - Dwayne West SO - Julian O'Neil SH - Willie Peters P - Ben Cross H - Shane Millard P - Wayne McDonald SR - Tim Jonkers SR - Oliver Wilkes LF - Andy Powell (former Wales RU international) Bench: Danny Hill Larne Patrick Jordan James Mark Reber 18th Man : Shem Tatupu 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Blues Ox 1,109 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 For Fax:- 1. Steve Hampson 2. John Scales 3. Greg Florimo 4. Jim Naylor 5. David Hodgson 6. Toa Ropati 7. Brad Davis 8. Craig Kopczak 9. Mickey Higham 10. Gill Dudson 11. Ridge Holland 12. Mark Flanigan 13. Stanley Gene Honourable mentions:- Peter Fox Ian Watson Chris Morley Danny Arnold Karle Hammond Marvin Golden Kelvin Skerrett Paul Anderson Emosi Koloto Mark Elia Mark Brooke Cowden 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mumby Magic 795 Posted October 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 37 minutes ago, Futtocks said: And Nick Zisti. Yeah lol Quote Like poor jokes? Thejoketeller@mullymessiah Link to post Share on other sites
Davo5 4,886 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 For Wigan you could list most of the players Millward brought in. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
latchford albion 811 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 Did anyone actually see Dallas Mead play for Wire? 1 Quote "I'm a traditionalist and I don"t think you'd ever see me coaching an Australian national side!" Lee Radford, RLW March 2016 Link to post Share on other sites
Barry Badrinath 285 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 44 minutes ago, latchford albion said: Did anyone actually see Dallas Mead play for Wire? I did, twice. The pre season game v Salford where he did his knee. And his comeback v Sheffield at the don valley, Also one for the eagles fans, this was the night Steve mccurrie was announced as signing for them from rah rah. Never pulled a shirt on iirc 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Old Frightful 6,237 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 Around 1979, Hull FC signed a prop forward named Alan Bancroft. Due to injuries to our forwards, he was put straight in the team for an away game at Cas one Friday night. He had quite a good game and a late drop goal from Brian Hancock saw us nick a point in a 14-14 draw. Alan Bancroft never played for Hull FC or any other professional RL club again. Quote "Son, can you play me a memory, I'm not really sure how it goes, but it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete, when I wore a younger man's clothes" Link to post Share on other sites
Scubby 11,873 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 7 minutes ago, Old Frightful said: Around 1979, Hull FC signed a prop forward named Alan Bancroft. Due to injuries to our forwards, he was put straight in the team for an away game at Cas one Friday night. He had quite a good game and a late drop goal from Brian Hancock saw us nick a point in a 14-14 draw. Alan Bancroft never played for Hull FC or any other professional RL club again. Perhaps he took his boots off and called it a draw. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tommygilf 7,333 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 I suppose for Leeds we could say James Segeyaro but considering he singlehandedly kept us up in 2016 I don't think that's fair. His predecessor, Beau Falloon, however must have only played a few minutes in Rhinos colours. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
arcticchris 186 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 8 hours ago, EagleEyePie said: Here's my attempt for Wigan from the Super League era; FB - Michael Withers W - Jon Whittle C - Nathan McAvoy C - Liam Botham W - Dwayne West SO - Julian O'Neil SH - Willie Peters P - Ben Cross H - Shane Millard P - Wayne McDonald SR - Tim Jonkers SR - Oliver Wilkes LF - Andy Powell (former Wales RU international) Bench: Danny Hill Larne Patrick Jordan James Mark Reber 18th Man : Shem Tatupu A lot of those were only ever intended to be short term desperation signings so I think it would be more fitting to include someone like Luke Davico at Prop. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Futtocks 15,668 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 8 minutes ago, arcticchris said: A lot of those were only ever intended to be short term desperation signings so I think it would be more fitting to include someone like Luke Davico at Prop. Sean Long's stints at Wigan (and Widnes) were pretty short. But there's a sortable list here: http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=1735 - including Gary Hetherington's single appearance in Cherry & White. 1 Quote "Men will be proud to say 'I am a European'. We hope to see a day when men of every country will think as much of being a European as of being from their native land." (Winston Churchill) Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Frisky 1,012 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 SBW for Toronto? Greg Eastwood - that NRL & NZ powerhouse who stormed SL for Leeds.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BrisbaneRhino 124 Posted October 18, 2020 Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 Here's mine for Leeds. I'll stick to more recent times and exclude WW2 where we had a huge number of guest players including the likes of Johnny Lawrenson (Wigan) and Alan Edwards (Salford) who both won Challenge Cups - Edwards only played 2 games in total and for Lawrenson his one and only game was a Challenge Cup Final: 1 - Steve Pilgrim - RU fullback played 1 game 1992-93 2 - Ikram Butt - one game for Leeds off the bench but did pretty well elsewhere 3 - Nathan McAvoy - one game between playing for other clubs. 4 - Paul Bell - 4 games 2000 from the Storm before injury ended his career 5 - Steve Ford - Welsh RU trialist played 2 games - 'outed' by some public school kid, court case forced RU ban to end 6 - Mark Wilkes - worst stand off I've ever seen played once 7 - Gary Stephens - one game 8 - Kyle Amor (3 games) 9 - Phil Cantillon - 3 games 1997 10 - Neil James - 5 games over 3 seasons 11 - Kevin James - 1 sub game 1983 12 - Gareth Morton 13 - Alan Rathbone - probably shortest Leeds career ever at 35 minutes before breaking his jaw on debut. From SL era only I'd go with: Lee Maher, Gareth Raynor, Paul Bell, Chris Chapman, Nathan McAvoy, Scott Murrell, David Hulme, Kyle Amor, Phil Cantillon, Garreth Carvell, Eric Anselme, Dane Manning, Jason Netherton, Gareth Morton I don't know what its like for other clubs, but well over a third of all players to have ever played for Leeds played less than 10 games. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Blues Ox 1,109 Posted October 19, 2020 Report Share Posted October 19, 2020 7 hours ago, BrisbaneRhino said: Here's mine for Leeds. I'll stick to more recent times and exclude WW2 where we had a huge number of guest players including the likes of Johnny Lawrenson (Wigan) and Alan Edwards (Salford) who both won Challenge Cups - Edwards only played 2 games in total and for Lawrenson his one and only game was a Challenge Cup Final: 1 - Steve Pilgrim - RU fullback played 1 game 1992-93 2 - Ikram Butt - one game for Leeds off the bench but did pretty well elsewhere 3 - Nathan McAvoy - one game between playing for other clubs. 4 - Paul Bell - 4 games 2000 from the Storm before injury ended his career 5 - Steve Ford - Welsh RU trialist played 2 games - 'outed' by some public school kid, court case forced RU ban to end 6 - Mark Wilkes - worst stand off I've ever seen played once 7 - Gary Stephens - one game 8 - Kyle Amor (3 games) 9 - Phil Cantillon - 3 games 1997 10 - Neil James - 5 games over 3 seasons 11 - Kevin James - 1 sub game 1983 12 - Gareth Morton 13 - Alan Rathbone - probably shortest Leeds career ever at 35 minutes before breaking his jaw on debut. From SL era only I'd go with: Lee Maher, Gareth Raynor, Paul Bell, Chris Chapman, Nathan McAvoy, Scott Murrell, David Hulme, Kyle Amor, Phil Cantillon, Garreth Carvell, Eric Anselme, Dane Manning, Jason Netherton, Gareth Morton I don't know what its like for other clubs, but well over a third of all players to have ever played for Leeds played less than 10 games. You learn something new every day. I didn't know Eric Anselme played for Leeds. I remember him coming to Fax with 2 others in the 90's at some point but don't think any of them played 1st team for us. Did Ben Kaye start out at Leeds or am I imagining that? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Impartial Observer 179 Posted October 19, 2020 Report Share Posted October 19, 2020 22 hours ago, Mumby Magic said: An adaption from a great thread on twitter by Gav Wilson, I thought Id put together my Bradford did they really play XIII FB Phil Howlett RW Andy Hodgson RC Willie Tonga LC Toa Kohe Love LW Patrick ah Van SO Ivan Henjak SH Matt Orford P Michael Hogue H Micky Higham P E.Lauaki/Jamal Fakir SR Harry Pinner SR Adrian Morley LF Brad Mackay Geoff Tovey as coach? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Impartial Observer 179 Posted October 19, 2020 Report Share Posted October 19, 2020 Liam Finn at Newcastle Gavin Henson & Rangi Chase at WWR Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MrPosh 932 Posted October 19, 2020 Report Share Posted October 19, 2020 22 hours ago, Mumby Magic said: An adaption from a great thread on twitter by Gav Wilson, I thought Id put together my Bradford did they really play XIII FB Phil Howlett RW Andy Hodgson RC Willie Tonga LC Toa Kohe Love LW Patrick ah Van SO Ivan Henjak SH Matt Orford P Michael Hogue H Micky Higham P E.Lauaki/Jamal Fakir SR Harry Pinner SR Adrian Morley LF Brad Mackay I know Shaun Edwards was in the Twitter thread. I'd take Brad Mackay out. I still have fond memories of him - he was immense for one season. Perhaps we could bring in Harvey Howard or Ryan Hudson? 1 Quote People called Romans they go the house Link to post Share on other sites
Hela Wigmen 2,518 Posted October 19, 2020 Report Share Posted October 19, 2020 Tommy Hodgkinson made a second Saints debut twelve years after his last appearance for us against Catalans a week before the 2006 Cup Final in what was, Hodgkinson aside, a young team. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Barry Badrinath 285 Posted October 19, 2020 Report Share Posted October 19, 2020 how many games did solomona actually play at bradford? i actually can't picture him in a bradford shirt Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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