Quote: sally cinnamon "Not all those Bradford players were there at the same time...Henry Paul never played with Vainikolo or Hape. They had Spruce, McAvoy, Brooker, Costin, Harris (Ben and Iestyn) in there at various times.
I think Hape was the best, he was maybe underrated, and he missed some long spells with injury.
Vainikolo...not as good as Tuigamala. He was a juggernaut when in full flow but he could be targeted too with teams putting kicks on the ground behind him, he was slow and could be clumsy on the turn.
But in the final third of that last Grand Final winning season, in 2005, the Hape-Vainikolo combination was unstoppable. They were savaging teams like Miles and Offiah.
St Helens had a good back line at the time as well, with Wellens, Albert, Lyon, Talau and Gardner.'"
Inga and Robinson were better, again with the saints team none were better man for man than that Wigan back line