quickest player youve ever had is fielden .
never seen someone run as fast
especially when morleys running at him to get out of the way.

Not sure about straight line speed - I remember Offiah lost a race with Lee Onduryn (sp?) in Aus years ago. But ball in hand and adding a bit of a swerve, Offiah is the fastest I've seen. Add to that the fact that he was reasonably big and supremely confident at taking on and beating the man on the outside and I don't think I've seen a better 'classic' winger.

It's funny how the memory works though - some people have suggested Drummond wasn't that quick - and he probably wasn't by the time he retired, but if you watch clips of him in his pomp over 30m he was darned fast. I saw a bit of him against NZ on TV a few weeks ago and off the mark he was very quick.

I was signed for Wigan at the tender age of 16. I went to school with Rob and got into a training session with them.

Not bad for a 16 year old.

I used to run there or there abouts that, and while i was probably the fastest Academy player in the division at the time i do not think i would have been anywhere near as fast as Offiah.

I have seen different figures quoted for Offiah over a 100 meters, some as low as 10.2 some as claiming he struggled to break 11 seconds which for me is simply unrealistic.

Truth is we can only speculate but my money would be on Offiah.

Had my hair combed over like his in primary school.

I'll tell you about the fastest spectator I have ever seen.

In the early 1960's at Station Road Swinton, a Swinton "speccie" was abusing Billy Boston, "black b*st*rd, black c*n* etc"

At half time Billy jumped over the wall to "have a gentle word" with the man.

Offiah wouldn't have caught that speccie, it's just a pity that Billy didn't.

Des Drummond once did though

Didn't Des have the 100m record on Superstars after Keith Fielding? Not sure if Lydon came close to breaking it later on.

Don't tell me you're now an Insurance Broker

Preston could catch pigeons. Offiah was no slouch either.

But as some have mentioned 'off the mark', I have seen none quicker than John Ferguson.

The guy was a freak.

One step and he was at top speed.

Just look at his first try at Wembley in 1985, he took the ball stood still, and beat the full back on the outside.