surprised nobody has mentioned Mick Collins,David Eckersley,Grimes,Clarkson,Smethurst all very good players in their era.Sorry in advance if anyone has mentioned them.My favourite player would have to have been ,going back a long way,Pete Botha

I remember Botha,he was full back in my first season watching Leigh, a very good goal kicker,but nowhere near as good as Stuart Ferguson, and Botha only played one season.

Probably because he was picking players he has seen play, it helps if you read posts properly.

1.Chris Johnson 2. Des Drummond 3. John Henderson. 4. Steve Halliwell 5. Liam Kay 6. Woody 7.Mike Ford. 8. Brian Gelling/ Fuifui Moimoi 9.Ray Tabern 10. Derek Pyke 11. Ian Potter. 12. Jeff Clarke. 13. John Westhead

Charlie who were the other south Africans we had I seem to remember Chris Landsberg and I winger called Ken Boonzia r something like that

We had Charlie Lands berg, Ken Boonzier ,and Ted Brophy.

thanks I had forgotton Brophy

Did Murphy play for Leigh since 1980??

Some good props have been mentioned, apart from my all time favourite. The great tim street, he carried us for years, very rarely got injured, a great leigh player imo.

We have had some good props over the years, one of the most underage was Derek Pyke ,a very skilful ball handling prop,though Dane Weston is not to bad at the moment,he also has some nice footwork.

so you're saying apart from Murphy he's not seen the others playing ?? I don't know how anybody can pick a player that's never played at top level were the defences are a lot better in ur all time leigh X111 when in the 80s we were actually winning at the top level

The clue is "My all time XIII", it means posters name their own team, using your reasoning all the players should be from the 80s.

People's opinions and favourite players will always be for different reasons.

None of them are wrong as they are YOUR choice and favourites.

I've watched through from the 70's and one of my favourite players was Trevor Cogger yet he only played one season in 85.

Gary Hughes won more balls against the head than any other hooker I can remember playing for Leigh and he sticks in my head for that reason.

David 'Daisy' or 'aunt Sally' Hill never looked like a rugby player but what a servant to the club he was.

John Woods was the greatest player I've ever seen.

I could pick various sides for various reasons but would struggle to name the best team of players to play for Leigh for various reasons.

I could pick differing favourite teams though.

All would be in my humble opinion of course, yet none would be wrong.

I was born in 1991. I have only seen us play 1 year in the top flight and there definitely aren't many from THAT team that would be in my best ever XIII.

Using that logic Steve McFlurry and Darren Fleary should make my team as they are the ones I have seen play top flight rugby... although not very well!

A list of my all time XIII that I've seen play

1 Chris Johnson
2 Dessie
3 Donlan
4 Bilsbury
5 Fox
6 John Woods
7 Mike Ford
8 Fui Fui
9 Higham
10 Pyke
11 Tony Cottrell
12 Ian Potter
13 John Westhead

14 Paul Rowley
15 Mike Davis
16 Neil Turley
17 Timmy Street

Some of those may not be classed as the best players ever, but for pure entertainment it was always worth the admission price.