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| Quote Horatio Yed="Horatio Yed"Murphy was just a rugby gobe unlike Offiah who is an everyday gobe.'"
to be fair to Offiah...he's a first class agent. Look at the gigs he got worrency  |
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| Quote Starbug="Starbug"No, not just my opinion, as I said both over here and in OZ'"
Course it's your opinion and he's not that well known in Aus. If you'd said Mal Reilly, who really is well known down under and considered a great of the game, then you'd have a case but Murphy was one of the best in his era but not the best/cleverest etc of all time, unless that happens to be your opinion. Anyhow, he doesn't deserve a statue to himself. He's got enough of them at home. |
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| Quote Horatio Yed="Horatio Yed"Murphy was just a rugby gobe unlike Offiah who is an everyday gobe.'"
Love it, the best thing for RL would be Group Rep. |
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Sounds like a compromise is needed. I'd settle for a statue of Syd Hynes smacking Alex Murphy. That way the wishes of those who love/loathe Murphy would both be satisfied.
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| Quote Steve Fox="Steve Fox"Murphy won twice as player coach, 71 & 74 but lost twice as non-playing coach, 75 & 84, both times against Vin Karalius/Widnes.'"
He also lost in 1987 to the mighty Fax  |
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| Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"to be fair to Offiah...he's a first class agent. Look at the gigs he got worrency
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| Quote Leon Ashton="Leon Ashton"He also lost in 1987 to the mighty Fax
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And in 1989 to Wigan when he was coach of Saints. |
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| Amazed that even the myopic Pies think that Offiah is in the same class as AJM.
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| Quote Bartholemew Smythe="Bartholemew Smythe"Amazed that even the myopic Pies think that Offiah is in the same class as AJM.
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Not this Wigan fan !
Murphy is an all time great.
Offiah was indeed an exceptional player, but not in the same league as Murphy.
You have to realise of course, that not too many fans on these forums actually saw Murphy at his best. You have to be getting on in years unforunately.
For what it's worth, I think Edwards should have been on that list.
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Alex Murphy was a rugby genius. That he's not so well known outside RL circles matters not a jot. He's RL through-and-through to this day and represents the sport in a way that no Union convert ( pre or post League ) can ever do. In the build-up to the millennium The Guardian ( national ) ran a readers' poll for the greatest rugby player of all time and Murphy won it, deservedly.
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Alex Murphy in his prime best scrum half since Jonty Parkin.
I thought Neil Fox broke Jim Sullivans records.
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Quote jacques="jacques"Alex Murphy in his prime best scrum half since Jonty Parkin.
I thought Neil Fox broke Jim Sullivans records.'"
I was referring to his total length of service to the game. About 40 years at the top level as player, captain and coach.
The fact he captained the first team to win at Wembley in 1929.. He scored the first points at the first Wembley CC final in 1929.
Sullivan still holds the record for the number of kicks in one match - 22 goals.
When Sullivan played we used to beat the Ozzies almost for fun.
www.rugbyrelics.com/SW/sports/rl/sullivan.htm
Then there was his records for the Wigan club;
[iWhen he removed his Wigan jersey for the final time, he had made 774 appearances and amassed 2,317 goals and 4,883 points for the club.[/i |
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Quote jacques="jacques"Alex Murphy in his prime best scrum half since Jonty Parkin.
I thought Neil Fox broke Jim Sullivans records.'"
I was referring to his total length of service to the game. About 40 years at the top level as player, captain and coach.
The fact he captained the first team to win at Wembley in 1929.. He scored the first points at the first Wembley CC final in 1929.
Sullivan still holds the record for the number of kicks in one match - 22 goals.
When Sullivan played we used to beat the Ozzies almost for fun.
www.rugbyrelics.com/SW/sports/rl/sullivan.htm
Then there was his records for the Wigan club;
[iWhen he removed his Wigan jersey for the final time, he had made 774 appearances and amassed 2,317 goals and 4,883 points for the club.[/i | |
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