Quote: Big Jim Slade "Anyone who struggles to appreciate the reality of what Kevin Sinfield brings to a team and has brought to the game in his career has no understanding of this game and should not be taken seriously. He has been arguably the most important player in a team that dominated Super League for the best part of a decade, delivering consistently inventive play, seeing the game in a way that very few manage, and delivering some of the most attractive rugby seen on these shores but that has nothing to do with him because he has little creative flair? He can only play to set structures? Yes, the Leeds teams that Sinfield has captained for the last fifteen years really have been all about structure, certainly nothing off the cuff about the team that scored over a thousand points in a season.
If he'd been given the England/GB captaincy and run of the team when he should have been (circa 200icon_cool.gif then there's no doubt in my mind that we would have been dramatically more competitive. Hell, at the back end of his career he was the best England player at the World Cup.
You want to compare him to Brough? That's fine, Brough's very good, but he's no Kevin Sinfield. One of them will be remembered as an all time great because his career supports that claim, one will be remembered as a former Huddersfield captain, because his career supports that claim.'"
I'm not comparing sinfield to anyone- I'm judging him as an individual. Yes he will be remembered as an all time great because he played in a very successful Leeds team. If he had been playing the last 10 years as a hull FC player, I doubt he would be remembered in the same way-
