Anyone know Offiah’s 100 metre times?
I actually think there are wingers now that are as fast as him. In his day their was only a small amount of players with pace but now they are in abundance. Tom Johnstone was Yorkshire junior sprint champion and is good over the full distance. I bet Bevan French will be another that even though they don’t stand out like Offiah it’s because their are loads that are quick over the 100.

I remember there being a young lad at Widnes who was rapid, remember a match where he covered Dallas for pace pretty handily. Can’t for the life of me think of his name, couldn’t of had much of a career.

Quote CobraCraig="CobraCraig"I remember there being a young lad at Widnes who was rapid, remember a match where he covered Dallas for pace pretty handily. Can’t for the life of me think of his name, couldn’t of had much of a career.'" Maybe Nicky Royle mate? He was rapid https://twitter.com/WidnesRL/status/1248173921691631616

Quote CobraCraig="CobraCraig"I remember there being a young lad at Widnes who was rapid, remember a match where he covered Dallas for pace pretty handily. Can’t for the life of me think of his name, couldn’t of had much of a career.'" Maybe Nicky Royle mate? He was rapid https://twitter.com/WidnesRL/status/1248173921691631616

Royle went on to England RU 7s he was at Widnes early 2000s

Dads caught Royle, Dallas, Albert and Sampson were all fast for the era, still think offiah was the fastest

Offiah was at his quickest in his Widnes days.

You'd expect him to have slightly more pace in his younger days though.

Offiah was fast but not as fast as he is made out to be. A lot of the tries he scored came from his abilty to swerve and run on an arc whilst sprinting. When Offiah was tight to the touch line with no room to run on an arc, he was run down a few times, once by Kevin Iro.

He was injured at the time of Iro catching him. there's no way Iro would be within 10 yards of him in a foot race. I don't remember anyone catching him in a straight race. I've seen people come across the field and tackle him, but they had a head start distance wise.

Mark preston was close to him for pace.

If only he had bionic implants....

Offiah was fast enough 99% of the time. Remember Dave Jones catching him at Wakefield as others have, not convinced Kevin Iro could though, but there are 100’s of others who haven’t got to him. I am told Billy was a bit like that, never pulled away from chasing players because he didn’t need to but always did enough to get over the line.