He's up there in the top three overseas players I've ever seen at this club. In reality he was more influential than both Boyd and Blake, the two others in my top three. He was just absolute quality.

In my opinion we equaled Boyd when we signed Morley (maybe i'm being kind to Moz) and we surpassed Blake when we signed Davies. I didn't manage to see Derek Whitehead play but saw all full backs after him. and non were better than Hodgson.

I wouldn't be bothered if Johnno was named at full back he was the next best....and quite rightly He's earned his Legend status as both player and coach.

Still the case for me. Even compared to the likes of Langer, Johns, Michael Monaghan and Briers, Davies for his brief spell at the club was the best player I've seen in real life.

Agreed. Davies best player ive ever seen in a wire shirt and second best player ive ever seen after Hanley.

Enjoyable thread this one. Spot on with Davies, magical player.

Johno in full flight getting the ball on the 25 and sything through the defensive line with his side step was a sight to behold.

Up there with Mark Roberts bursting onto a flat pass through the line. Happy days

It all comes down to your personal interpretation of the criteria for a 'legend'.

There is no doubt that both Davies and Hodgson were fantastically talented players, and a joy to watch in a Wire shirt, but when we signed them they were already fantastically talented players.

For me a club 'legend' is more like a long standing clubman who gave their all and perhaps never quite got all the accolades they might have deserved, or someone we saw developing into a great, or someone talented who stayed here despite temptation to go elsewhere.

Of course this is just my personal thoughts, and it'll differ for each of us.

Dessie for his speed and vicious tackling, John Woods was outstanding at stand off. Boyd and Moz for the fact they put sheer fear into opponents without doing anything other than being there.

Paul Cullen is there for me due the fact he has been through a lot with the club and always been 100% a Wire, not the best ability wise but a 100% player.

JD is the best I have seen overall though, he picked up the rest of a mediocre team and turned them into league leaders and bar a dodgy ref and points scored he would have single handedly put us on top of the pile.

Other have come close but not gone above the above for me, having said that my old fella would have none of the above as he was a 50's supporter and we know what happened there

Was going to put something similar about JD. I also agree on Cullen. I particularly used to enjoy his pre match interviews as a player, where he would emphasise the need for players to keep their discipline...
J Bevan was my first hero so has to be in the mix.

Legendary status should be reserved for the few, but here it's a bit of a PR thing to identify the "best" in the different positions. It's a bit of fun and each position will create a bit of discussion. Prop will be interesting with Boyd and Morley probably in everyone's shortlist of 3.

Wing will be the two Bevans and ANother - Dessie or Hicks? That'll get the generations arguing.

Ken Kelly fits the bill. Cheated out of a GB shirt

My granddad took me to my first ever game of RL.... Widnes 59-8 Salford.... It was Davies debut after he had been signed from RU by Dougie Laughton.

Offiah scored 5 tries and Rick Thackary got a hat-trick.. Davies came on with about 20 mins to go and got absolutely smashed.. he looked tiny, like a little ball boy.

I used to stay at my grandads in Widnes every friday night... he used to take me to the reserve games every Friday at naughton park, which Davies played in for about 3 months before he was tough (and big) enough to play for the first team again..... Think i watched him for a good few years every week at widnes with my grandad.. that widnes team was a bit special.. Laughton was very good at taking players from Union. Davies, Devreaux, Moriarty, Offiah, Kebbie.... a few more as well i think.

But i was a warrington lad and as soon as i started playing through the junior system and representing the town, i was a warrington fan.... Everyone else in my family supports Widnes... im a massive RL outcast.

Anyway my grandad used to say that Tony Myler was the best player he ever saw play for Widnes.

fb - johnno
w - johnny bev
c - cullen
c - jiffy
w - dessie
so - blake
sh - ken kelly
p - boyd
h - m monas
p - mozza
2nd r - mark roberts
2nd r - westwood
lf - mike greg

subs
langer
briers
woods
bob jacko

pay bloody good money to watch that team