As i have said previously it was a mistake posting the same thing so many times.

From my era i'd say

Sid Baldwin
Neil turley
Paul Rowley
Chris hill
Tommy martyn

In no particular order

I've been watching Leigh since the mid sixties, and John Woods has to be no 1 for me. The team we had late 70's early 80's was a joy to watch with Dessie, Donlan ,Bilsbury, Big Alf, ect.. One of my favourites from the 60's was Rod Tickle he could shift and don't forget he got the winning try in the floodlight final v the pi
e's at Central Park

John Woods
Steve Donlan
Chris johnson
Alex Murphy
Tin Street

Humble signed at the same time has a centre named Collins, early sixties I think.

But I go back to the fifties watching Charlie Pawsey, Reg Mossop, Mick Martyn, Stan Owen and his partner in crime Walt Tabern in the forwards.
In the backs players that stood out were Frank Kitchen, Brian Fallon, Brian Chadwick and Gordon Lewis, but one player who really stood out to me was a fuulback named Hewitt.
He was so brave it was unbelievable, what makes me say this is in regard to when Wigan played at Leigh and the amount of times he had to face Billy Boston striding down the middle towards him.

Time after time he threw himself at Billy, sometimes he made the tackle and other times Billy ran over him but Hewitt never shirked.
After one particular match Hewitt was praised for the amount of times he had brought Billy down, but in the press afterwards he said he had never been so sore after a match and he would be booking an appointment at the dentist, because of the amount of teeth he had lost in the collisions.

Memories.

Fair enough, though it takes some doing to post the same thing 10 times and even quote other posts in some of your replies too.

Brian , im sorry but you are wrong ,Humble was a few years before Mick Collins signed for Leigh , he was in the same Leigh team as Piet Botha a South African full-back , and a centre called Howard , as for Mick Collins he signed a couple of years later from Waterloo RU club along with Mick Murphy , they both became great servants to the club .

stillinthepast, Jim Humble must have signed for us in the late 50's because I started watching in 1958/59ish and he was already an established player then. If you're talking about Mick Collins the centre then you're right, he signed early 60's from Waterloo RU along with prop/2nd row Mick Murphy.

Can't remember ever seeing Fred Hewitt but I 'm sure I must have done as he was definitely around in those days.

He is immortalised for me in the song I posted a thread about a while ago.

Now Billy Boston has the ball
And he's running for the line
Here comes full back Hewitt
And poor Billy's down for nine

Tin Street

bet he was a Hard man





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Thanks for the correction Charlie, it was in my mind that Collins was signed at the same time, What's a few years when you are talking about players from 50 years ago.

That's the same Fred Hewitt, he would attempt to tackle anything, it was amazing the amount of times he brought Billy down when he was in full flight.