Strangely enough.......going back to the early days - and I'm talking about before there was a rugby union, let alone rugby league - all tries were credited to the guy who kicked the goal. If he missed the conversion it was no points as the 'try' was just that - it meant you were allowed to[i try[/i to score a goal!

On balance, think I prefer the current method..

Plus 3 point tries

No I was basing it on the fact that in the premier league for example if 2 players are on the same number of goals then the winner between them 2 is separated by their number of assists.
Look Sky and the SL website credited it solely to McGuire but they may have just been wrong and the record probably is shared

If I wanted to be inflammatory, Im sure I could have cooked up something better than this

Just pointing out that Vainikolo's regular season record was in jeopardy, and if you look at my previous posts you will find that I don't want it broken

If we played by them rules today we would probably be in league one next year

You were saying.

Mind, although the rules were otherwise pretty similar, don't forget Vainikolo and McGuire had to avoid the corner post, not allowed to trample all over it!

Haha probably go and do it after I said that.

If Solomona achieves the record he has done it with a middling team not a stand out team Like Leeds and The Bulls were at the time.

Good luck to the lad. He's a great winger and always seems to play with a smile on his face. Is he any relation to the pie-loving forward formerly of this parish?

Remember Hanley getting 50 when Northern were crap

To be right, that's a bit subjective seeing as they won the championship twice during the early part that period....

Agreed but we weren't partucularly good the year he did it.

That 84/85 side that Hanley was in wasn't as good as the 2 championship winning teams IMO.

Oh you lot are so old

That year we were 8th out of 16, so just scraped into the top half of the table and were, by definition, extremely average, I guess...though mid table certainly precludes the team from being, "crap", as said earlier.

Wherever the club was, Ellery was the best player I've ever seen live, the stuff he could do with a rugby ball was just amazing.