Sinfield = Number 1

End of.

Totally agree..if only all profesional sportsmen behaved this way..I feel priviledged to have watched Kevin Sinfield play. I remember his first try at Huddersfield, Iestyn Harris bust a gut that day to get him in. Hopefully our youth system is in the process of producing a new hero.

Congrats Kev, a worthy record breaker!

I may be remembering this completely incorrectly but I do have a memory that his first game as a stand in captain was in a game against Warrington and we got a bit of a hammering

I remember thinking he was not really Captain material....

How wrong I was and how overwhelmingly glad I am that I was wrong. I agree with all of the above that it has been a real privilege to watch him and have him as the ultimate representative of our club and sport over the years

Long may it continue....

This is what I said to the missus last night.

It's a pleasure to watch this humble man at Leeds and he deserves all the above plaudits.

I'd like to offer my congratulations to Sir Kev on this remarkable achievement of surpassing the legendary Lewis Jones' points scoring record at the club

Sir Kev you are a living legend of our great club

Should we just put him in the hall of fame now....
Legend is used to much these days but this man is quite simply a Leeds legend up there with the great John Holmes...

all valid points even if a little one sided.

Indeed, I did fail to terminate my post with NUMBER 1, FACT and END OF, therefore it's a reasonable call that my opinion is valid [i'even if a little one sided'[/i

Whose record did Lewis Jones break?
I'm sure all the points that you make re Sinfield's achievement could have been made then too.
Talk about damning with faint praise or perhaps more accurately, expressing grudging admiration.
They were both fantastic achievements & I would argue that Leeds' current spell of winning major trophies, in which Sinfield's efforts have been a crucial contributory factor, exceeds even those of the Lewis Jones era.
I agree with the poster who said how fitting it would be for Jones to make a presentation at our next home game to mark Sinfield's achievement.

Very modest too saying he was lucky that most of his kicks have come in front of the posts when we all remember many (very important) touchline kicks.

Surely in the one division era there were plenty of uneven match-ups? (genuine question)

Also within my memory I can remember pretty uncompetitive pre-SL era seasons (eg 1994-1995).

I agree with your main point that its a completely different game now but it happened through gradual evolution not a step change (even if SL was a big step in that evolution). While it's impossible to truly compare players from different eras, records are records. IMHO you can't just pick and choose whether you compare them as their are too many factors - as you say theirs a more focus on attacking play an entertainment but on the other hand in the past kicking for goal from penalties (rather than going for a try) was more common with the try only being worth 1 more point.

I'm not likely to fall in line with any religiously reverent sheep on this forum anytime soon, particularly those who don't hold statistics in a very high regard unless those statistics fit snugly with their current agenda (eg, Pro-Sinfield or Anti-Kirke). After all, they usually prefer to make judgements based on their own personal matchday observations instead, don't they?

It's a Rhinos record during the Super League era IMO and not relevant in comparison to previous records set during the Rugby League era. I have no issue with you, Lewis Jones or anyone else disagreeing with that viewpoint.

I remember one conversion a few years back at Headingley against Warrington. He started to place the about 2 yards in from touchline in line with where the try was actually scored, then Briers starts bleating to the ref that the ball should be placed closer to the touchline, the ref agreed. While Sir Kev was repositioning the ball, I said to my mates around me, something like "Briers as f**ked up, that's going right between the uprights" and it did.