I remember that match, didn't LMS make his debut in that. As I remember the weather was awful, hammering down with rain.

Correct twice...LMS off the bench and it was tipping it down

[size6 L. DORN
5 N. BRADLEY-QALILAWA
21 T. HARTLEY
4 T. SMITH
18 M. GAFA
24 P. WEISNER
7 T. LEULUAI
17 M. TOOKEY
23 C. RANDALL
20 F. LOLOHEA
16 J. MBU
12 L. HOPKINS
14 D. WILLIAMS
9 N. BUDWORTH
10 D. HECKENBERG
15 D. MILLS
26 L. McCARTHY-SCARSBROOK[/size

....with the exception of Hartley and Weisner, that team is not bad on paper at all.

I'll let someone else mention the crowd of 5,208...................OH DAMN IT!

Hartley was Phil Clarkes "Player to Watch" that year...he thought he was going to be a v good SL player (as we know, it didn't happen sadly).

I'm prepared to let "Fat" Weisner off on the basis that I thought he was damn cute.

Would love to know how that team unravelled in 2006...may give us a clue as to what is happening now.

They won 6 and drew 1 game out of 18 that year before Tony Rea was bounced and Mac stepped up IIRC.....Rea got moved "upstairs" because of a 33% win ratio.......anyone else see the irony there when looking at the clubs results over the last 18 games?

To be fair to Mac, he did grind 5 wins out of 9 that year, so maybe it was a "player power" thing?
2007 first round team below.....I think we all looked at that side and believed we would be there or there abouts......
1[size6 C. MELLING
2 J. WELLS
3 P. SYKES
4 T. SMITH
18 M. GAFA

6 S. HILL
7 D. ORR

8 K. TE MATA
9 C. RANDALL
15 D. MILLS
13 R. PURDHAM (c)
12 L. HOPKINS
23 H. PAUL

14 J. RINALDI
17 L. McCARTHY-SCARSBROOK
20 J. GRAYSHON
22 M. WORRINCY[/size

That is a team. Our lot our misguided individuals.