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A bit of fun on a boring Tuesday afteroon.
Our worst ever antipodean team
Murray
Henley-Smith
Vialeki
Bailey (expect some feedback from this one)
Koloi
Moran
Tim Smith
Goldspink
Reber
Davico
Seu Seu
Nadiole
Tatupu
Subs:
Florimo
Withers
Tamati
Maestrov
Hansen (Lee)
Not quite as bad as the Wire effort, but still pretty mediocre. A few were good players who for whatever reason didn't do it for us.
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wheres Desi Williams on that list or Jonkers.
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| Quote: wiganrl "wheres Desi Williams on that list or Jonkers.'"
They're not antipodeans |
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[b:2boqkfe7][color=#800000:2boqkfe7]WIGAN RLFC - SL ERA
WORLD CLUB CHAMPIONS 2017 & 2024
SUPER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 1998, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2023 & 2024
CHALLENGE CUP FINAL WINNERS 2002, 2011, 2013, 2022 & 2024
LEAGUE LEADERS CHAMPIONS 2010, 2012, 2020, 2023 & 2024
ACADEMY GRAND FINAL WINNERS 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2024
WOMEN’S GRAND FINAL WINNERS 2018
BEST SUPPORTED CLUB OF THE YEAR 2010, 2011, 2012 & 2024
CLUB OF THE YEAR 2010 & 2012
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Jamie Ainscough.
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[b:2boqkfe7][color=#800000:2boqkfe7]WIGAN RLFC - SL ERA
WORLD CLUB CHAMPIONS 2017 & 2024
SUPER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 1998, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2023 & 2024
CHALLENGE CUP FINAL WINNERS 2002, 2011, 2013, 2022 & 2024
LEAGUE LEADERS CHAMPIONS 2010, 2012, 2020, 2023 & 2024
ACADEMY GRAND FINAL WINNERS 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2024
WOMEN’S GRAND FINAL WINNERS 2018
BEST SUPPORTED CLUB OF THE YEAR 2010, 2011, 2012 & 2024
CLUB OF THE YEAR 2010 & 2012
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Kerry Hemsley
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Scott Logan? Never thought he was anything special whilst he was here...
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| Quote: Robbo "Scott Logan? Never thought he was anything special whilst he was here...'"
Completely disagree. IMHO Scott Logan went well for us the season he was here. |
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[quote="headhunter":lnxdgxk2]Union people are idiots. They almost universally accept that league is a better, faster game played by better athletes, yet for some reason they continue to disregard and belittle it. That game is tedious as hell from start to finish. If he'd ever played or even bothered to give more than a fleeting chance to league he would realise that the game is far more 'technical' than Union ever could be. Booting the ball into touch, scrummaging and forming rucks and mauls aren't areas that involve any skill, technique or mental capacity whatsoever. These are clumsy, outdated facets of the game that are also extremely uninteresting to watch and thus have to be defended in some way by people who are too prejudiced to see the truth.[/quote:lnxdgxk2]: |
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| Quote: Finfin "A bit of fun on a boring Tuesday afteroon.
Our worst ever antipodean team
Murray
Henley-Smith
Vialeki
Bailey (expect some feedback from this one)
Koloi
Moran
Tim Smith
Goldspink
Reber
Davico
Seu Seu
Nadiole
Tatupu
Subs
Seu Seu and Withers dont deserve to be in there IMO
For me Id go with
1. Doc Murray
2. David Vaeleki (out of position but surely deserving of a place)
3. Jamie Ainscough
4. Paul Koloi
5. Lusi Sione
6. Greg Florimo
7. Denis Moran
8. Shem Tatupu
9. Mark Reber
10. Lee Hansen
11. Stuart Lester
12. Brady Mallam
13. Gael Tallec
That side would get pasted by South Wales Scorpions!!  Worryingly half the team are from the 1997-9 seasons which shows what a gash recruitment policy we had at that time!!
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[color=#FF4040:2teu7uxz]CHERRY AND WHITE[/color:2teu7uxz]
[color=#000000:2teu7uxz]IT'S IN OUR BLOOD[/color:2teu7uxz]
[color=#FF4040:2teu7uxz]ANCIENT & LOYAL[/color:2teu7uxz]
[color=#000000:2teu7uxz]UNTIL WE DIE[/color:2teu7uxz]
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Jerome Guisset
Amos Roberts
Jamie Ainscough
Greg Florimo
Tony Mestrov
Mark Reber
Julian O'Neill
Matthew Johns
David Vaealiki
Cameron Phelps
Phil Bailey
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| Quote: gerr'emonside "Seu Seu and Withers dont deserve to be in there IMO
For me Id go with
1. Doc Murray
2. David Vaeleki (out of position but surely deserving of a place)
3. Jamie Ainscough
4. Paul Koloi
5. Lusi Sione
6. Greg Florimo
7. Denis Moran
8. Shem Tatupu
9. Mark Reber
10. Lee Hansen
11. Stuart Lester
12. Brady Mallam
13. Gael Tallec
That side would get pasted by South Wales Scorpions!! ![]()
How could I forget those 2 greats, Malam and Lester? Personally I have a soft soft for Jamie Ainscough, once he shaved his moustache off his performances improved no end. And I'll let you have Tallec as an honorary antipodean.
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| Quote: p1e e8ter "Jerome Guisset
Amos Roberts
Jamie Ainscough
Greg Florimo
Tony Mestrov
Mark Reber
Julian O'Neill
Matthew Johns
David Vaealiki
Cameron Phelps
Phil Bailey'"
How can you say Amos Roberts is a bit of a Jonker?  He was a fantastic player before he got injured playing us last year. A brilliant player and I would love him to come and play at Wakefield! Injuries like he got take ages to heal properly and although has been very limited this year, I am sure he will pull through for next year and will be a threat once again in the league.  |
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[color=#FF4040:2teu7uxz]CHERRY AND WHITE[/color:2teu7uxz]
[color=#000000:2teu7uxz]IT'S IN OUR BLOOD[/color:2teu7uxz]
[color=#FF4040:2teu7uxz]ANCIENT & LOYAL[/color:2teu7uxz]
[color=#000000:2teu7uxz]UNTIL WE DIE[/color:2teu7uxz]
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| Quote: JRKx1 "How can you say Amos Roberts is a bit of a Jonker? ![]()
He's had 11 decent games in 3 years and at times has been more than abismal.
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What about Gavin Clinch. When Wigan won SL in 1998 Halifax had come 3rd and Clinch had been possibly the best overseas signing in 1998. Wigan signed him when Fax got into financial troubles next year and it was seen as quite a good signing at the time but he just didn't do it for Wigan.
I seem to remember reading a letter in one of the papers like League Express or Total Rugby League at the time, during that 1999 season, when Wigan had been linked with Allan Langer but then Warrington signed him for the next year (helped by the fact Daryl Van de Velde knew him) and some Wigan fan wrote into the paper saying what a farce it was that Wigan had let Warrington sign Langer and were left with Gavin Clinch at halfback.
In fairness, instead of Langer Wigan then signed Willie Peters from Gateshead to replace Clinch who went to Huddersfield-Sheffield, and although Peters overall career was a disappointment considering the high hopes people had of him as a junior, I thought his year at Wigan he was a good player, and Wigan replaced him with Lam who I reckon was possibly the best halfback of the SL era.
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[quote="headhunter":lnxdgxk2]Union people are idiots. They almost universally accept that league is a better, faster game played by better athletes, yet for some reason they continue to disregard and belittle it. That game is tedious as hell from start to finish. If he'd ever played or even bothered to give more than a fleeting chance to league he would realise that the game is far more 'technical' than Union ever could be. Booting the ball into touch, scrummaging and forming rucks and mauls aren't areas that involve any skill, technique or mental capacity whatsoever. These are clumsy, outdated facets of the game that are also extremely uninteresting to watch and thus have to be defended in some way by people who are too prejudiced to see the truth.[/quote:lnxdgxk2]: |
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| Quote: Finfin "How could I forget those 2 greats, Malam and Lester? Personally I have a soft soft for Jamie Ainscough, once he shaved his moustache off his performances improved no end. And I'll let you have Tallec as an honorary antipodean.'"
 Ooops!! Good point....got it into my head it was an overseas worst XIII and so slung tallec in there......Sure he did have some mixed heratige though and there was some Aussie /NZ in there somewhere |
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[quote="headhunter":lnxdgxk2]Union people are idiots. They almost universally accept that league is a better, faster game played by better athletes, yet for some reason they continue to disregard and belittle it. That game is tedious as hell from start to finish. If he'd ever played or even bothered to give more than a fleeting chance to league he would realise that the game is far more 'technical' than Union ever could be. Booting the ball into touch, scrummaging and forming rucks and mauls aren't areas that involve any skill, technique or mental capacity whatsoever. These are clumsy, outdated facets of the game that are also extremely uninteresting to watch and thus have to be defended in some way by people who are too prejudiced to see the truth.[/quote:lnxdgxk2]: |
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| Quote: JRKx1 "How can you say Amos Roberts is a bit of a Jonker? ![]()
I was going to comment on Roberts! Overall unless he performs as he did at the start of the season before last next year...he will be a massive disapointment, but that is mainly due to injury, and he does have undoubted class, something the others dont. To put him in an all time poor team is a little harsh IMO.
Also disagree with Phelps who was a very good utility signing I thought!
Matthew Johns and Phil Bailey are also a little harsh in the original guys list.....Matty Johns never lived up to rep but was still half decent, as was Phil Bailey....Unfortunately Bailey came to us at the wrong time as far as he was concerned....he was always going to be looked at as a poor mans Bryan Fletcher. Given how immense Fletcher was it was always going to be difficult following in those footsteps, in the same way SoL has always been unfairly judged on Farrells standards. Had Bailey come into the team before Fletcher while not being classed as a world beater, he would have been deemed a decent signing
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