Quote St pete="St pete"Don't ger me wrong, I rated Monaghan and I liked him as a player but KC was another level than Monaghan.
I'm pretty sure if you asked all the coaches in the world who they would have at 9, I think 99% will say KC.'"
i'm not bagging Cunningham, he was voted superleagues best ever player wasn't he? That's the territory we are in with KC....
but 50% of the worlds coaches probably never saw Cunnigham play. . And Really? they'd choose him over Buderus (Australian version not leeds) Cameron Smith Robbie Farah...etc etc ...
you have to agree hooking despite its "samey samey" role can produce a variety of players, Roby and Darryl Clarke are experts at running from Dummy half, Cameron smith however isn't, but with smith its like having an on field coach in the team. Former Hull kr Star Josh Hodgson is really impressing in the NRL with his kicking game in particular.
Cunninghams strength was his strength. So many players said he was the hardest player to tackle rather than some prop forward or a strong running second rower.
Monas could scoop up the ball one handed at pace and hand off with his other and make cross field runs and put someone through a gap, at Saints making that cross field run and finding that gap was Long's (and before that and much more so Goulding's territory).
they all had skills the others didn't. no one had everything but I love watching them all....and Cunningham did it year after year for many years that was his difference, that alone is a special skill.
I could talk about them all day long I played hooker once or twice you may have guessed.
