1/Eckersley
2/Drummond
3/Lewis
4/Donlan
5/Fox
6/Woods
7/Murphy
8/Chisnall
9/Ashcroft
10/Owen
11/Martyn T
12/Martyn M
13/Boyd

14/Risman
15/Martyn T jnr
16/Clarkson
17/Wilkinson

There are many great players left out, ball playing loose forwards,Pinner & Foster,hard men, Pawsey,Grimes and Smethurst etc however, with Murphy in the team we didn't them, Murph was simply the best player& Coach I have ever seen and with these players at his disposal we would have been unbeatable! my opinion, of course!

I think some people are still missing the point - this is a 'dream' team, not the 'best you have watched' team. What I'm really after is a mix of new and old players who could be considered the best ever Leigh team.

TBH I don't want the dream team to consist of players from the mid seventies onwards because frankly most of them aren't a patch on the older players, however there are one or two that do deserve their place. Just consider that a player doesn't get a reputation of being a great player because one person thinks they were good, they get it because they were good.

I know what you are trying to achieve but it is difficult to comment on players you have not seen and have only heard about. The problem here is that maybe there are not as many "mature" keyboard operators who frequent this site.

Tell you what I will do, I will interview the old fella who is nearly 78 and come back and put his dream team down. Its only been the last couple of years were he has not managed to get to many games so 70 years or so for him to choose from!

Maybe others on here could do the same?

I've only been watching Leigh this season and im struggling

Cheers pal, that would be a great help.


I just can't get my head around the fact that Alex Murphy for example wouldn't make our dream team!!

People can only comment on what they've seen really but I know where your coming from Mish Mash.

Here is mine.

1. Chris Johnson
2. Des Drummond
3. Steve Donlan
4. John Henderson
5. Joe Walsh
6. John Woods
7. Alex Murphy
8. Tim Street
9. Kevin Ashcroft
10. Derek Pyke
11. Ian Potter
12. Jeff Clarke
13. Adam Bristow

SUBS

14. Jimmy Ledgard
15. Shane Varley
16. Alf Wilkinson
17. Tony Cottrell

Thanks everyone - now your getting the idea

I watched a lot of games with my grandad and he use to say to me who he thought were quality leigh players

1/Hogan
2/Drummond
3/S.Donlan
4/S.Halliwell
5/J.Walsh
6/Woods
7/Murphy
8/T.Cotterell
9/K.Ashcroft
10/T.Liku (bit bias he's a mate)
11/T.Martyn snr
12/J.Westhead
13/A.Bristow
14/P.Smethurst
15/T.Street
16/P.Rowley
17/D.Pyke

Ledgard
Drummond
Lewis
Allan
Walsh
Woods
Murphy
Chisnall D
Egan
Owen
Clarkson
Pawsey
Foster

Eckersley
Grimes
Martyn T snr
Chisnall E

coach Murphy or Milward

From players Ive seen Id go with

Turley
Drummond
Bilsbury
Donaln
Ingy
Woods
Murphy
Street
Rowley P
Pyke
Baldwin
Rathbone
Bristow
subs
Varley
Ashcroft
Fox
Tommy Junior

coach difficult as ive picked Alex in the players the next best was Tersis

Well as promised here is the owd fellas team:

1. Jimmy Ledgard
2. Joe Walsh
3. Trevor Allen
4. Teddy Kerwick
5. Des Drummond
6. John Woods
7. Alex Murphy
8. Charlie Pawsey
9. Kevin Ashcroft
10. Bill Robinson
11. Mick Martyn
12. Rex Mossop
13. Peter Foster

14. Steve Donlan
15. Gordon Lewis
16. Alf Wilkinson
17. Walt Tabern

Coach: Alex Murphy

Other possibilities just missing out: Joe Egan, Derek Pyke, Bill McFarland, Ray Tabern, Bill Kindon, Norman Harris, Alan Ackers, Neil Turley, Martin Ryan, Terry Bilsbury, Mick Stacey.

By the way, he did mention that he knows Pawsey played predominantly in the 2nd row however, this would still be his "dream team"

i know a few people who reckon Trevor Allen was leighs greatest ever player?

As voting stands at the moment John Woods is considered to be Leigh's best ever player - he's the only one who got 100% of votes for his position. The next would be Des Drummond because one person didn't put him in his team at all!

This is Leigh's dream 1-7 line up at the moment

1 Turley (7 votes) Hogan (6 votes)

2 Drummond (25 votes)

3 Donlan (13 votes)

4 Lewis/Bilsbury (8 votes each)

5 Walsh (13 votes)

6 Woods (26 votes)

7 Murphy (19 votes)


Those numbers may not be exact because I've just done a quick count - but I think our dream team is looking pretty good up to now.

Thanks everyone but keep 'em coming, the forwards are bit harder to count but I'll get round to it soon.


BTW I've obviously treated Vikingman's contribution with the contempt it deserves!