No, I don't think you could possibly infer that from my post. Some of them were average to reasonably good players in their day like Ford and Lyon and others were good to fantastic like Whitehead, Johnson and Davies. The point was, Padders places them all above Hodgson which was a) completely wrong and b) comparing apples with pears. Hodgson is a different type of full back and the only one who could have played a simialr game was Davies.

Just can't let a discussion on best Wires full back go on without remembering the tactical genius of putting Lee Briers there !

Well they are all fullbacks (apart from Davies didn't play there much for us) so its fair enough to compare them, he said Hodgson wasn't in the top six for him, people challenged him to say who was better and he named some names that were credible contenders, not like the Hulse, Teitzel or Fogerty analogies you made. For me Hodgson is the best I've seen but Padders is entitled to have his own controversial view without everyone making fun of him.

I started watching just after Johnson finished (he had just become coach) so the fullbacks (that played a decent number of games there, not occasionals like Hunte) of my Warrington supporting lifetime in order would be:

Hodgson
Harris
Grose
Lyon
Cardiss
Penny
Reardon

There's no right answer in 'Who's the best player you've seen' questions.

My favourite Batman is Adam West. My lad goes mad at me. He nearly combusted when I told him Cesar Romero is my favourtite Joker.

Favourite and best you've seen are always objective if the players you compare are of similar talent.

Yes and we got them in their mid 20s too so should have had them in their prime. With Cardiss injury took its toll which was a shame because he was superb to watch at Halifax, great pace and agility.

Not sure what the situation was with Reardon but he had looked a terrific prospect during his brief loan spell at Salford in 2002, winning the Harry Sunderland medal in the 2003 Grand Final and then having a Ryan Hall-esque start to his international career in the Tri Nations 2004. I thought he was a superb signing for us when we signed him. But he was a shadow of his former self with us. In the latter years of Cullen's rein there were a few players in our squad that had taken a step down from top clubs and seemed to be treading water with us: he was one of them.

I just googled Stuart Reardon to see where he is playing now. Turns out he is a model and some of his pictures are a bit NSFW so be careful if you google image search him.

Paul f'ing Ford better than Hodgson!!!!!!!!!!

I obviously missed the re-writing of history in which Paul Ford became anything more than a half decent back-up.

I seem to remember Cardiss starting pretty well for us, he came in a couple of months before the end of the 2003 season and helped give us some impetus in our charge for 6th spot. Then 2004 came round and he wasn't the same, I think he had long standing injury problems after that and was never properly fit.

Grose in his first season at fullback was right up there with Hodgson, the difference between him and Hodgson was Grose had one outstanding season and two rank average ones and Hodgson had two outstanding seasons and one good season. In fairness to Grose though he had had two very good seasons at centre before that.

I agree with you there Sally - that's 3 times this year.
Wierd !

The club cut Cardiss's contract short by a year - same with John Wilshire who played well for Salford.

Re Grose - I came across an Ausie wensite that were 'dissing' Grose as the worst player ever !
Unbeliveable and total cr@p

Back up centre who then played a few games at FB and played the first 20 minutes of the 1986 Premiership Final. after that he was virtually never heard of again. Certainly nowhere near the top 10 fullbacks I've seen at Wire.

Quite right. We've missed his defence and he has great hands too. Not as slick as Brett in attack though. Both great guys too.

Mathers arrival was probably the best regular fb we had had in 2 decades.

Id still have him now. We wouldn't have won the cc in 2009 without him.

I forgot Mathers. I would put him in between Lyon and Cardiss on my list.

Mathers was pretty good but he was error prone.

Forgot Rob Myler! Had all the potential in the world, took a bad knock to the head and was never the same again.