Are you talking about Rocky Turner here Sal?

Rocky Turner came through in the 1980s!

Of course he did! Damn you failing memory lol

Chris Bridge!...lol

Seriously...
....Jason Roach, Steve Roach.....Roy Asotasi!
but more respectfully...Mike Wainwright, Roger O'Mahoney and Roby Muller.

If only Harris and Sculthorpe had come through the system 10-15 years later what a backbone to a team that would have made. With a mature club management and decent coaching team you can only dream of what would have been had they stuck around.

Still, didn't work out that way so no crying over spilt milk.

Interestingly, can anyone think of a player with as much natural talent and Rugby League skills as Harris to come through RL since then? Not sure I can, no disrespect to the likes of Tomkins et al.

Difficult one to answer because the game changed since then and meant a talent like Harris wouldn't have been as effective. He would have still been a very good player but as he didn't have express pace he wouldn't have been able to break the line as much in the era of more organised defences and those long cut out balls that created tries from nothing would have been picked off as interceptions too often for it to be worth the risk.

You could take Briers v Harris and say Briers was a player that emerged after Harris, but who was better suited to the direction the game was going. I am a big fan of Harris but in fairness he dominated SL at a time when the game went through a dip in standard. After the decline of the great Wigan sides and the retirement of a lot of legends like Hanley, Schofield, Davies, there was a dip in the late 90s where a lot of SL felt like lower division standard and even the teams at the top had a lot of ordinary players, before a spate of big NRL signings and a crop of very good young players at Leeds/Bradford/Wigan/Hull boosted standards in the 2000s. It was in this late 90s dip that Harris was dominant. Robbie Paul was another player who dominated in that era who maybe would not have been [ias[/i dominant outside of that dip.

So yes definitely one of my all time favourite Warrington players and terrific to watch but I think you can make a case that Briers, Sinfield and Leon Pryce, who all came through after Harris, had talents that were more suited to the direction the game was going.

Scottty, I think you are being either extremely harsh or have misread the thread title here
Keith Holden was an outstanding young prospect who in my humble opinion was neither of Sally's criteria. If I recall he fell in a pot hole whilst playing for us against Swinton at the old Station Road and wrecked his knee and never really recovered.

A potential star for me who suffered rotten luck with injury.

Not wire players but I liked to watch Harvey Howard n sorensen when not playing us!!

John Dalgreen

Mike Nicholas

We had a few wingers whom I admired greatly. Notably, Dennis Curling who played in the 1970s on the opposite wing to John Bevan most of the time. He was very quick and elusive as well as sporting a very 1970s 'disco Stu' hairstyle. At the start of the 1980s we unearthed Rick Thackray whom I was convinced would go on to be an all-time great. Think of a British Deny Solomona. He did play for GB Under 21s (including a match at Craven Cottage against the touring Aussies). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw8q3qf7ZFE but never really fulfilled that early potential.

We had a few wingers whom I admired greatly. Notably, Dennis Curling who played in the 1970s on the opposite wing to John Bevan most of the time. He was very quick and elusive as well as sporting a very 1970s 'disco Stu' hairstyle. At the start of the 1980s we unearthed Rick Thackray whom I was convinced would go on to be an all-time great. Think of a British Deny Solomona. He did play for GB Under 21s (including a match at Craven Cottage against the touring Aussies). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw8q3qf7ZFE but never really fulfilled that early potential.

...come on...own up.
Who ran on the pitch lol?

I did. I used to get autographs and tie ups

Seem to recall him getting sent off against us for clothes lining John Atkinson. That, and the hair, stick in the memory.

If I remember correctly he broke his neck at Central Park,got up and played the ball...apparently if he had attempted to run with the balll he would've been paralysed!