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| Quote Barbed Wire="Barbed Wire"Not my favourite player, but when he first broke through you could feel the excitement when the ball went near him. Toa Kohe Love just had an aura about in, and was well before his time. In his first stint with the club, the way he could delay catching the ball, and step of either foot to skip back inside a ball watching defender was just brilliant, something that Matt Gidley and Martin Gleeson were experts at, but in '96 it was unseen and he could tear teams to bits. Really kicked on in 1998 and scored a bucket full.
When he left, he showed class and respect. Always saluted the Warrington crowd but not so much to offend the Hull fans.
Came back and while he didn't set the world alight , he contributed plenty. Considering everytime we got into decent field position we went right to Swann, Gleeson and Fa'afili.'"
Top bloke is Toa, his wifes' parents are friends of my mates' mum & dad |
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| Quote Barbed Wire="Barbed Wire"Not my favourite player, but when he first broke through you could feel the excitement when the ball went near him. Toa Kohe Love just had an aura about in, and was well before his time. In his first stint with the club, the way he could delay catching the ball, and step of either foot to skip back inside a ball watching defender was just brilliant, something that Matt Gidley and Martin Gleeson were experts at, but in '96 it was unseen and he could tear teams to bits. Really kicked on in 1998 and scored a bucket full.
When he left, he showed class and respect. Always saluted the Warrington crowd but not so much to offend the Hull fans.
Came back and while he didn't set the world alight , he contributed plenty. Considering everytime we got into decent field position we went right to Swann, Gleeson and Fa'afili.'"
TKL was my era and he was a very exciting player, scored loads of tries for us and was one of my favourite players at the time. His kids go to the same school as my kids and I still get star struck. |
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Here is the mission...
I would love to know the story behind the Roger O'Mahoney saga at the end of his stint at Wire.
As for as I'm aware he didn't play on for another club, well certainly not in Slalom Larger Division One anyway as I think it was back then.
I wish I'd had ask Okher, he would have known. Unless someone knows on here I'll try to get to ask John Bevan next time he is up a past players event.
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| Club Coach | 1209 | Warrington Wolves |
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Ian Knott.
Talented and versatile player for Wire in the 1990s who ended up going to Wakey then Leigh before having to retire due to a chronic back injury which has now left him in permanent pain/discomfort and having to use a walking stick.
A reminder, along with Grixy's sickener the other night, of what the players sometimes have to go through in this great game
of ours.
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| International Chairman | 32373 | Wigan Warriors |
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Billy Boston, along with Alex Murphy the best two allround players I have ever seen.
Salford v Wigan and Salford have a drop out which Boston collects around his own "25". He beats two players on the outside then cuts in around the halfway line where he beats another two. He then goes off his left foot and into what seems like the entire Salford pack. Somehow he comes out of all that sidesteps the fullback and puts the ball down under the posts. Such was the magnificence of the try that the Salford players actually applauded him and the Salford fans clapped him all the way as he walked back to take up his position for the kick off.
I saw Boston play fullback, wing, centre, standoff, and in his later years a few games as second row and loose forward.
A few weeks ago we were out for a meal with Alex and Alice Murphy and Alex reckons that Boston in todays game would be the best fullback in the world.
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Wow that's a name drop Rogues
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Robert "Rocky" Turner
Remember back in the days of the Granada live games he started sub after playing for one of the GB sides v France the night before.
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Danny Nutley - a bit small for a prop but ran hard and straight and great in defence with a bit of nasty. The player I hope Ben Evans can emulate.
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Rocky Turner takes me back to a tale Phil Chadwick told me about the time Wire played Bradford at Odsal. DvaDV sent the Chad on with some playing instructions to give to Turner before he took a kick at goal....When Chad got to him he'd completely forgotten what to tell him...Chad said *Listen Rocky, Daryl's sent me on to give you some instructions which I've now forgotten..I'll keep talking gibberish and you keep nodding your head cracking on your understand*....That was typical Chad....On the subject, the greatest for me was AJ Murphy whom I'm old enough to have seen in his prime...Not only was he the greatest talent he was as hard as nails and would take anybody on including his own players when he was coach at Wigan...He had a players pay dispute at Wigan and he told them if anybody disagreed with him he's see them at the back of the stand. There were no takers.
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| Quote rubber duckie="rubber duckie"Wow that's a name drop Rogues'"
There were a few of us who got "stranded" in Pattaya Thailand on the way back from the 2008 World Cup in Australia and we meet up every three or four months for a meal and a good rugby chat/discussion/argument.  |
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Hard to believe that 5 pages in and still no mention of Des Drummond! He may not have been at his absolute peak when playing for Warrington, but he still brought an intake of breath when he got the ball with a bit of space. Many a happy memory of seeing his jersey billowing out behind him as he streaked down the touchline to score in the corner. His defence was also pretty solid. Would love to see the use of today's technology, and its assessment of collision forces, cope when Dessie hit the opponents with his unique tackling style - which basically looked like he turned himself into a poleaxe to take out the attacker.
His best try for me was vs Saints. Now my memory is that he'd just scored and very good try running over half the length of the pitch and beating the defenders for pace on the outside, though could be wrong about that. Anyway, Paul Loughlin took the restart and kicked it straight to Dessie. He charged into the line, bust through the tackle, found space on the outside and burned Vievers off to score under the posts. He was puffing like billy-o when he got back to the Fletcher end.
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Hard to believe that 5 pages in and still no mention of Des Drummond! He may not have been at his absolute peak when playing for Warrington, but he still brought an intake of breath when he got the ball with a bit of space. Many a happy memory of seeing his jersey billowing out behind him as he streaked down the touchline to score in the corner. His defence was also pretty solid. Would love to see the use of today's technology, and its assessment of collision forces, cope when Dessie hit the opponents with his unique tackling style - which basically looked like he turned himself into a poleaxe to take out the attacker.
His best try for me was vs Saints. Now my memory is that he'd just scored and very good try running over half the length of the pitch and beating the defenders for pace on the outside, though could be wrong about that. Anyway, Paul Loughlin took the restart and kicked it straight to Dessie. He charged into the line, bust through the tackle, found space on the outside and burned Vievers off to score under the posts. He was puffing like billy-o when he got back to the Fletcher end.
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Barry Briggs . When he first broke into the side during the late 1960s Barry was a fearless tackling second row with a good turn of speed and a good rugby brain. He appeared to have all the attributes of a future star. He then had a spell in Australia where I think he captained he Brisbane Brothers. Sadly, when he returned in the early 1970s, his appetite for the game/Wire seemed to have gone - and it wasn't too long afterwards that he was transferred to Wigan. My final memory is of him scoring a cracking try for them at the Fletcher Street end having cut through what was a good Warrington side at the time. RIP Barry.
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