So, looking like Offiah - Trophy - Fox. Triumph and tragedy of the Challenge Cup. I like it.

Can I claim some kind of financial reward for this suggestion?

End of debate, cannot believe it took so long.

Stands astride the game like The Colossus Of Rhodes.

Great idea whoever's decided on, be nice if it went to a public vote though! Clive Sullivan would get mine.

Terrible post, a lot of people will have empathy with that iconic image a Don Fox and sums up what Wembley means to people better than any other image.

Better than the elation of being a champion?

I'm sure when people dream of playing at Wembley Stadium as a kid, they are dreaming of winning at the same time.

It's terrible because you don't agree, only this country would celebrate a loser

Leroy or Ellery for me....

How about Ernest Ward, he captained the great Northern team of the 40's who seemed to be at Wembley every year, if not him Ellery all the way!

I would think that rather than any single person , which will always bring argument from many no matter who is chosen , it should be something iconic to the sport .
It would be outside wembley so why not an oversized stone copy of the most iconic trophy in the rugby league world the Challenge Cup itself . Also as an after thought if you have a large enough plinth the names of every team who has won the trophy including pre-wembley winners with the years they won leaving space for more wins and other names to be added annually .
This way no club or player are made to appear more important than any other .

Good news for the sport but I'm sure there will be a few arguments along the line about who deserves to be on it. I'd just make it a combination of a few - Lance Todd, Ellery Hanley etc spring to mind

How the heck is he a loser, when he won the lance todd trophy?

Success and failure are two sides of the same coin, nobody will ever always be successful and nobody will ever always fail and both are imposters on normal routine ,mundane life.
How good a life you will have depends on how happy you are during the mundane and routine.
But go ahead and be shallow and champion someone lifting the challenge cup which could be anyone from any year hardly iconic.

It should be Rangi in his England shirt flanked by heighington and Faasavalu

The Offiah / Fox combo is a great suggestion.

You are missing the point altogether. We are talking of a statue, which is by definition a work of art, here to commemorate the sport and its relationship to Wembley. Art does not always have to just acknowledge who won so it stands to reason that one of the most incredible sporting moments in the history of world sport should be a contender for the statue (how many people see the event does not make this claim any less credible).

If Fox's pose was commissioned (and I may have talked myself into saying it is now my first choice) then what better moment to capture exactly what rugby league is about and I don't just mean with Wembley either. Rugby league is about heroes, magic, flair, and physical/mental commitment of the highest order. However, most of all rugby league is about drama. Drama on the pitch every week unlike any other professional team sport in the world. Our sport creates so much drama that we call it entertainment because it is both. When Fox missed that kick it was dramatic but it was also the exact entertainment that gets me, you and everybody else going back for more week after week after week. If it wasn't we'd have stopped watching long ago.

Vote Fox!

Johnny Whiteley has an MBE and was also the last coach of GB to beat the Aussies in a test series. That was also achieved in Australia. He still devotes an incredible amount of hours to charity and is still helping sports youth in the community even though he is in his 80s. Plus he is as passionate about our sport today as he has ever been. Offiah and Hanley good players but everything they did was for financial rewards.Im not old enough to remember John playing but by all accounts he was a player of great skill and probably a bit before his time, a great athlete and a gentleman. Thoughts!