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62359_1690379119.jpg Wigan Rugby Club, Best in all the Land
[color=#FF0000:3czsb61p]Marching On to Wembley and Singing with the Band[/color:3czsb61p]
At Home We Are Unbeatable, Away We are Supreme
[color=#FF0000:3czsb61p]So Give Us a Cheer, The Lads are Here[/color:3czsb61p]
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| Outrageous that Edwards isn't there! No point in even voting, without prejudice we all know who it SHOULD be!
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| Quote: Nnibly_Warrior "Outrageous that Edwards isn't there! No point in even voting, without prejudice we all know who it SHOULD be!'"
Not sure how I feel about a statue of a rugby union coach to represent RL at Wembley . . . . .
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Mummy duck is now thoroughly depressed. SHE was the one that was famous for losing five in a row........until the 2011 GF!!!!!: |
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| Edwards may have won those final BUT that was at a time when Wigan were effectively the only professional RL club. No problem with him not being there. Offiah was a one trick pony..flat out speed. Put a decent defense in front of him and he got rid of the ball quicker than anything. Of the individuals listed I'd go with Murphy BUT think out of the options listed a general one is best.
Personally I still think it should have been Don Fox. Lance Todd winner and THAT miss all in the same game. Now that sums up the challenge cup final..... Ecstacy and heartache.
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44480_1390845286.jpg It's been fun.:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_44480.jpg |
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| Definitely Murphy, as a player AND a coach.
Offiah as good as he was, is a gobe.
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'when my life is over, the thing which will have given me greatest pride is that I was first to plunge into the sea, swimming freely underwater without any connection to the terrestrial world'
Yves Le Prieur, the real inventor of the aqualung: |
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| Quote: mikej "Edwards may have won those final BUT that was at a time when Wigan were effectively the only professional RL club. No problem with him not being there. Offiah was a one trick pony..flat out speed. Put a decent defense in front of him and he got rid of the ball quicker than anything. Of the individuals listed I'd go with Murphy BUT think out of the options listed a general one is best.
Personally I still think it should have been Don Fox. Lance Todd winner and THAT miss all in the same game. Now that sums up the challenge cup final..... Ecstacy and heartache.'"
or someone with a big foam stick on a podium, he jumped off before being hit ![Laughing icon_lol.gif](images/smilies//icon_lol.gif)
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23603_1336678755.jpg "Look, I'd never use injuries as an excuse..." Daryl Powell:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_23603.jpg |
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| Quote: Odem "He was also a winner in the 1985 final and lost the 84 and 99 finals.
9 wins in finals a Wembley, 11 appearances, he also captained GB there. How on earth is he not on the list?'"
As a Leeds fan it hurts me enormously but I agree - at least based upon the players I've seen in the flesh. It'd also be a good way to ensure that history isn't rewritten as it'd remind those union-freindly journalists exactly where Edwards was moulded.
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| Look there's already a statue of Edwards on Notre Dame. That's more than enough for the modern world.
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| Quote: Horatio Yed "Definitely Murphy, as a player AND a coach.
Offiah as good as he was, is a gobe.'"
surely there is no bigger gobe than murph? its what made him what he was.
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1673_1436275874.jpg Jamie Jones-Buchanan
"I'd never forgive myself if a child of mine was born in Lancashire"
And neither would any Lancastrian.:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_1673.jpg |
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| Quote: Starbug "Offiah could run fast , end of , he needed a team of RL players to make him look good and score trys
Alec Murphy is widely recognised in this country and Australia as probably the finest/cleverest player ever to play the game , between him and Offiah it is no contest'"
Finest/cleverest, that's just your opinion. As good as Murphy was, he isn't that well known outside of RL circles and of those mostly the over 50's. Offiah is generally recognised by many more people but I'd go for the group representation thingy.
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15996.jpg "I know guys that pay £25 for a facial up north"
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| Quote: Hopie "Has to be the group for me, preferably Offiah and Fox side by side with head in hands for very different reasons'"
I said that ages ago. Would sum everything up about the Challenge Cup and RL at Wembley. The two most iconic images are those two men on their knees.
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44480_1390845286.jpg It's been fun.:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_44480.jpg |
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| If i was Fox i wouldn't want a statue of me at the lowest point of my career, iconic or not it wouldn't be fair to immortalise failure regardless of the poetry of it, besides he's not in the shortlist so move on, it's not happening.
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9005.jpg kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg |
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| Quote: Ovavoo "Finest/cleverest, that's just your opinion. As good as Murphy was, he isn't that well known outside of RL circles and of those mostly the over 50's. Offiah is generally recognised by many more people but I'd go for the group representation thingy.'"
No, not just my opinion, as I said both over here and in OZ
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| Martin Offiah was a fantasic talent and player....but what grates on me if he was to be picked is that he is not a "real" RL man if you get my drift. in alot of his interviews he says many times that before Widnes approached him he had little or no knowledge of rugby league
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Dwarfs, Gnomes, Halflings/GNOME2.JPG The new young dynasty of super saints is coming to a ground near you.
Welsby-Dodd-Simms-Eaves-Rizzelli, not Eastmond...the future is coming.:Dwarfs, Gnomes, Halflings/GNOME2.JPG |
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| Would have any of those except Offiah,. Murphy or Ashton for me they something back into the game after there playing career.
Not impressed with Offiah at all, met and spoke to him quite a few times at Wigans athletic track and some seminars.......he,s all me me me me me me.
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9005.jpg kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg |
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| Quote: Judder Man "Would have any of those except Offiah,. Murphy or Ashton for me they something back into the game after there playing career.
Not impressed with Offiah at all, met and spoke to him quite a few times at Wigans athletic track and some seminars.......he,s all me me me me me me.'"
Same here, Offiah was a great player, but not a RL legend, any of the others fine
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