Cheers Builth. Just to completely shatter my childhood memories I suppose you will tell me that the big red Tonka fire engine I received back then did not come from father Christmas but from a sweat shop in Taiwan. I won't believe that or that Offiah stuck 5 past Des

Bobby Fulton, Parry Gordon, Alex Murphy, John Bevan in any order..

This post surprises me ,as I feel you at Warrington only saw John at the end of his career , I agree though he was class , the FINEST RL player I have ever seen , the guy had everything , Speed , Sidestep ,could kick a ball tactically , and kick goals , could tackle , he was the complete player .Being a fellow Butts Bridger , I know John personally , he is a very modest guy , no airs or graces ,and would have been priceless in todays game .I once saw him score 4 tries against Ellery Hanley in a Leigh v Bradford game ,Hanley was good but not in Johns class.

We did only see the arris end of Woods' career at Warrington, would love to have witnessed him in his pomp as the man was an absolute genius. I remember the poster of his Locker Cup try in Open Rugby. Gliding past the world's greatest player who looked completely confused as he grasped at thin air. In the background you could see Tony Barrow and Dessie celebrating on the touchline......happy days.

Les Boyd.

Dessie, Blakey, Woods, etc were all superb players and massive favourites of mine, but I cant help but think that when We tell one tale of Dessie doing this that and the other, there are five of Offiah doing it to everyone else, similarly with Woody doing whatever to Hanley, we don't have time to listen to all the tales of what Hanley did to Everyone else.

But Boyd had no Peers ever......not on these shores or Australian..... he stood there week in week out while player after player tried to be the one that could put the hard man on his backside..... some occasionally got the lucky cheap shot in but in the midst of all this carnage he was consistently a superb leader, and an exceptionally strong, tough and skilfull player.

Morley was the closest I've seen in terms of having an aura about him and being able to lift a team on the back of his presence but he didn't have a fraction of Boyd's footballing skills.

my most favourite Modern day player was Brett Hodgson.

I cant disagree with that as a top four, but for me Parry gets top spot for his outstanding loyalty and for the fact that he carried a poor Warrington side for much of the late 60s and early 70s and never seemed to give less than 100%.

Silver2 wrote

Agreed..

Les Boyd - leadership, badass & all round skill set including that dummy in the 86 prem final
Jonathan Davies - the night he dropped a ball and the floodlights went out in disbelief
John Woods - just unbelievable skills, pace & step
Michael Monaghan - intelligence, class and toughness

This.

Waterhouse

Lol
Love it.

sir les for me...a superb professional who came here to give 100% for the wire and not a holiday or to top up his pension fund...closely followed by dessie phil blake johnny davies john woods..no doubt theres many more lurking around the back of my mind...

Sir Les for me too

Brian Johnson

Greg Mackey