A group statue of rugby league legends Martin Offiah, Alex Murphy, Billy Boston, Eric Ashton and Gus Risman is to be erected outside Wembley Stadium.

They have well & truly stuffed it up... for a second time!

As if the the fall out from the Wigan biased shortlist and the failure to have any player who had played the game in Yorkshire (for any longer than a season, before someone corrects me), with legends like Neil Fox & Clive Sullivan to name two, on the shortlist was bad enough. At least if they had picked one player that would have drawn a line under it, as the players picked were all probably deserving of the honour individually without a doubt.

So, what do they decide, to go for a group representation of the shortlist!!! Great, they are going to immortalise a shortlist of players that all played for Lancashire/Cumbrian sides and omit one massive part of the game and the role it plays in our great game.

What a load of horse crap!

Complaining about an anti-Yorkshire bias from the RFL? The irony is delicious.

Good to see Yorkshire is well represented.

An absolute disgrace that no player from Yorkshire represented.
How Neil Fox was not on shortlist amazes me.
Once shortlist formulated the bullet should of been bitten.
I would have gone for Billy Boston , which would have at least demonstrated the way the game embraced non white players, well ahead of other sports.

I like the idea of the group representation. Each player on that list (regardless of where they are from) are worthy of recognition and I think the group representation is a unique concept showing the history of RL at Wembley rather than highlighting an individuals acheivements

I think it's a great idea. The players were picked via public vote and are representative of our game, not parochial interests. I also submitted a group design for the statue so hope I get a decent fee when they use it

De-facto you clearly think there IS an anti-Lancashire bias at the RFL generally... which makes your post beyond ironic!

Don't put words in other people's mouths. I think the RL community has made a mistake not to include one single player who plied their trade in Yorkshire in a group representation to celebrate the Challenge Cup and RL's history at Wembley! I think that is sad and divisive, when clearly it could have been avoided.

What has Yorkshire really offered Rugby League other than easily beatable opponents

The public has spoken - take note

Not our fault players from the wrong side o' th'ills haven't made a big enough impression at Wembley.

Group representation probably the right way to go - though to be fair I liked the idea of Fox and Offiah at their moments of agony and ecstasy.

Let RL fans moaning commence...

Neil Fox - highest points scorer in a final (1960 - pre-4 points try), Lance Todd Winner (1962), 5 goals in beating Wigan (1963). Wakey won all three. Not a bad impression.



If you are referring to Fox with the agony, are you sure you have got the right Fox?

I have watched the game for over 50 years and all I can say is that you need to research the history of the game before you come up with such a crass comment.

Personally I would have liked to see just either Billy Boston or Clive Sullivan. Clive Sullivan was the 1st black captain of GB/England in any major sport and by putting either him or Boston up there would show how forward thinking and diverse RL is.

I think that colour should not be a factor in deciding. It is meant to be a celebration of RL not of racial breakthroughs.

Whilst it is great that RL has been so forward thinking in such subjects, the statue is to celebrate the importance of RL at Wembley, not the significance of RL in racial equality for sport.