Big name players at "Small" Clubs.

[DavidM]

1 minute ago, Havenfan10 said:

Class player was Friend. 

Kurt Sorenson

Rock hard little so n so , i remember that

[Dallas Mead]

Ben Barba at St Helens.

[Jughead]

Adrian Morley at Swinton. 

[Futtocks]

Sam Burgess sank so low at one point in his career, he was playing for England RU.

[sentoffagain2]

1 hour ago, Cumbrian Fanatic said:

Dean Bell played at Carlisle too

  The money must have been right.

[sentoffagain2]

51 minutes ago, Jughead said:

Adrian Morley at Swinton. 

  Thats a good one Although when i was a youth Swinton were the best team in the League.

[sentoffagain2]

  Ray Ashby full back Liverpool City/Stanley Great Britain and then Wigan.

[corvusxiii]

I remember Jamie Bloem trailing for Cas back in the day. He was ok but no better than what we had at the time. A few years later he was gruesomely good, famously so.

[Clinton Baptiste]

Lewis Jones played for Wentworthville Magpies in the NSW league

[George Watt]

12 hours ago, graveyard johnny said:

flares are not fashionable? no one told me?

They are when worn with Shocking pink and green socks. Those socks not to worn with a Safari suit though!

[dealwithit]

Craig Gower at London

[Old Frightful]

Mitieli Vulikijapani at Hull FC.

[Wollo Wollo Wayoo]

Neil Fox playing for Huddersfield?

[Wollo Wollo Wayoo]

17 hours ago, Live after death said:

Wally Lewis at Wakefield, he could have played for any club in England but he choose them, they lost every game when he went home and got relegated.

Don't know who's memory has gone but as I recall Wakefield won quite a few with Wally in the team.  Losses v Hull and Leeds and win against Saints are the only games I still have in my head though.

[Harry Stottle]

11 hours ago, Stuff Smith said:

I'd put Scott Hill in this category before Soward for London. But I'd say neither of them are really under the remit of the OP.

But as for underperforming "big name" players (and the inverted commas are deliberate): Spud Carroll by a country mile.

This is a difficult topic: you could say Bob Lindner at Oldham, but Oldham were a decent team back then.

Edit: thought of someone definitely on topic, Gary French for Springfield Borough.

I remember the same Bob Lindner leaving Oldham then returning to these shores with the Kangaroos not to long after, he must have been 3 stone of solid muscle heavier, I wonder how he managed to do that?

[RP London]

Trevor Leota (then Samoan RU Hooker) at West London Sharks.. c2004

[plug]

Andy currier signed for fev got injured pre season think it was againt dews and dont think hw played a league game for fev that season 

[David Shepherd]

14 minutes ago, plug said:

Andy currier signed for fev got injured pre season think it was againt dews and dont think hw played a league game for fev that season 

Too soon mate, too soon.

[sentoffagain2]

  Clive Sullivan at Doncaster.

[Pigeon Lofter]

Keith Jarrett, RU points machine and star British Lion going north and signing for Barrow.

[roughyed8]

12 hours ago, corvusxiii said:

I remember Jamie Bloem trailing for Cas back in the day. He was ok but no better than what we had at the time. A few years later he was gruesomely good, famously so.

Thanks to the Juice

[Mumby Magic]

6 hours ago, Old Frightful said:

Mitieli Vulikijapani at Hull FC.

I got it if no one else did?

[dkw]

2 hours ago, plug said:

Andy currier signed for fev got injured pre season think it was againt dews and dont think hw played a league game for fev that season 

He signed for Town too, played 3 or 4 games I think.

Town had 2 big name signings that almost happened and would have been fun. First season in the big league and apparently got very close to signing Paul Harrogan and Dewi Morris. 

[creditwhereitsdews]

Dewsbury had Les Holliday circa 1993, only a year or so after he played for Great Britain.

[Pigeon Lofter]

Oldham signing Terry Clawson after the 1972 World Cup.