Which are the best players from the dark side to grace our game.
There have been some belters like Offiah,Boston,Davies,Coslett and so on.
For me(and this is going of my Dad)I will go for Tom Van Vollenhoven,who is your best,thoughts please.

1. dally messenger
2. chris mckivat

going forward :

3. ray price
4. ricky stuart


uk :

1. trevor forster
2. davies

cant think of any more

Van Vollenhoven was a great winger, but Boston was greatest player, and along with Alex Murphy the best player I have ever seen because they were brilliant in many different positions.

Other great converts Jim Sullivan (probably the best) but I never saw him play and he was a coach supreme, Lewis Jones, Trevor Lake, Kel Coslett, John Mantle, Johnny Freeman, Colin Dixon, David Watkins and John Bevan.

Shem Tatupu

Wally Lewis

(light the blue touch paper and retire to a safe distance)

Has to be Paul Franze.

Didn't he start out in rugby league, then also play union before playing only league... and going on to become the legend that he is?

Ryan Cross and Garrick Morgan.

yeah wally lewis was a RU player.

lewis was a RL junior. he played junior RL 5 years before he tried union, and he never stopped playing RL.

for a couple of years he went to an exclusive school where RL wasnt played so he also played union, in conjunction with RL on the weekend

went on a wallabies schoolboy tour to GB whilst still being a RL junior before and after

found union boring and threw it in

but because he was so good the union trolls claim him as one of their own

the way it works it :

if you play 1 year of RU as a junior this overrides any number of years playing RL

basically in australia 80 - 90% of the kids who play union as juniors also play league because we are the dominant sport

RL isnt played in exclusive schools, its only union and soccer so some try it in school, but still play RL on the weekends

many current wallabies had extensive RL junior careers

Craig Innes played in two grand finals with Manly and was a former all black

Matthew Ridge (watch the hate come on now) pretty much similar

For example Rocky Elsom (Wobbilies flanker) played in the same Jersey Flegg side as Jonathon Thurston, Matt Utai and Roy Asotasi