Turley was a real talisman for you guys.
Around the same time we had a guy at full-back called Craig Lingard playing for us, who was just as (if not more?) proflific than Turks and played in what was a pretty average team during his time at Batley. I think Craig scored something like 130 tries for us in 160 appearances.
Linners never really got the praise and credit he deserved, unlike Turley.
Great player though Turley, bet he'd still be playing and scoring for fun now if he'd not picked up his injury

Turley was good but didn't play at a high level for long enough to be considered GREAT.

Don't forget Neil Turley was voted into the dream team:


This is our dream team.

1 Turley

2 Drummond

3 Lewis

4 Donlan

5 Walsh

6 Woods

7 Murphy

8 Wilkinson

9 Ashcroft

10 Street

11 T.Martyn (Snr)

12 M. Martyn

13 Bristow

Subs:

14 Pyke

15 Rowley

16 Smethurst

17 Clarke

Coach: Alex Murphy

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WHAT


Seen him pull off some terrific one to one tackles

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Anyone who scored as many points as N. Turley did in his short career
is special no matter what level of RL they play at he was a points machine
Mick Nanyn is the same absolute brill when it comes to point scoring
Turley in my opinion is the best full back ive ever seen at Leigh and ive been watching them since 63 Dave Eck was good as was C . Johnson but Turley was a very special player and a great pity is career was cut short
some of the trys he scored for Leigh where outstanding and he had a habit of scoring trys when we had our backs to the wall, it will be a long time before we see someone as good as N Turley in a Num 1 shirt here at Leigh

Make no mistake I was a big fan of Turley but for he to be voted in to a Leigh dream team ahead of full back who all whilst playing for Leigh was regarded as one of the greatest of his generation, played full back in a GB side that won the World cup final, toured Australia with GB, helped Leigh to major domestic success, to countless final appearances and who previous to that had signed for the club for a then world record fee no less...

Is I would say comical in the extreme

To be fair in these dream teams, they are always dominated by players in 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s as there are probably not as many older people around to give tales of the likes of the Ledgard's of this world other tan perhaps a few former team-mates.

I prefer to call them generation players.

Neil Turley, Tim Street, Paul Rowley, Adam Bristow, even Dave and Andy Ruane are mine whereas others would say Drummond, Woods, Pyke, Wilkinson and others would speak of Eckersley, Ashcroft, Murphy and Smethurst.

My grandads raved over the likes of Ledgard, Egan, Robinson, Owen and Trevor Allen.

Agree 100% with all of that.

Well said.

Yes ok, I can only say you must be old and a tad senile

Turley was ripped to bits on here when he was playing.