Ok so Jarryd Hayne has beaten out Ken Thornett for the first spot in this team.
Now onto Wingers where one player is a guaranteed, i have added the 2 winners from modern day with another nominee. Jeez i wonder who one of them is???
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FXMPQ5N
1. Hayne*
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Well if that wasn't coming from JC I would have dismissed it! LOL..
NB Bluey, Sterlo was never the greatest of all........and putting Brett Hodgson in the same breath of Thornett and Hayne is like cask wine to vintage....
One thing in the "old codgers" group in our favour was that we actually saw those players that you didn't see including the greats of today.....i.e. I would not rate Andrew Johns in the same way that LB has, but that is subjective opinion i.e. we both saw him!
Ray Price I rate as the greatest Eel of the modern era, if 40 years ago is still modern......that said it is also a subjective opinion.
I agree with that summation . I'll throw another winger that was a reat moster and hard bastard of a winger Pops wasn't an Aussie but big pommie bastard named Billy Boston . Remember seeing him run over the top of one Keith Barnes .
Billy Boston, I remember him Bobbie, he was on the 62 English tour that the Poms won, the last one I think. Poms won first two tests (they were great side) Aussies the third with Ken Irvine (makeshift kicker) kicking the conversion from the side line in the last minute.....I think Peter Diamond may have squared him up.
Billy Boston was awesome, love the story about Vince Karalius (Wild Bull) playing for the Poms against a strong Newcastle side, one of the Newcastle forwards decided he would thump the Wild Bull who replied with "hey Laddie that'll be enough of that" next thing is this guy has another crack and that made the Wild Bull "very angry" so much so that the play drifted out towards the wing and this player had the ball in his hands! The Wild Bull let out a thunderous roar and yelled at his teammates "let him alone, he's mine" now the legend has it that Karalius took him over the sideline and through the picket fence on the ground......morale of the story....never mess with the "Wild Bull".
Now they were hard hard men .I think from memory they were Nth of England coal miners and the like hey Dave
I wasn't having a go at you pop and I don't think you took it that way but I, like many couldn't possibly vote for thornett because we never witnessed his apparent brilliance.
I'm sure in 40years time we will be having the same argument with the then youngsters about hayne and who the fuck is thornett.
Im glad you realise that . It was okay in the 50s and 60s as well
Jarryd made bad decisions by leaving parra and thinking he could make it in the U S
Guru Snr and Semi
Just as a matter of interest I believe that Ken Irvine and Eric Grothe Snr were the best all time wingers and a guy called Edie Lumsden from the St George 60's greatest team ever. In recent times I have kept raising the limit on Semi Ramrarda, everytime I see that highlights passage, I find it difficult to compare to who else I have seen. Probably the lack of longivity becomes the exclusion, but Eric Grothe played a lot of his career on one leg and was still faster than most!!
Great memories is one of the joys of old age, don't ever think you have seen the best, because there will always be someone better that you have not seen.....being a huge racehorse fan brings that home even more!
What a winger was Billy Boston but the league teams of the French in the fifties were wonderful entertainers than came the English teams of the sixties and seventies and so on
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