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Only if it plays a recording which repeats "the poor lad"
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| Quote: Rogues Gallery "Eleven Challenge Cup finals, nine times winner.
Edwards has to be favourite. It's the bloody RLs fault he is no longer involved with RL, not Shauns.'"
going to look a bit silly in the papers tho...."Wasps coach gets Wembley statue" |
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| Quote: barnsley bill "Ray French or Eddie Waring'"
strangely enough i thought Ray French was dead......until he walked past me at Widnes on play off semi day  |
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| Quote: wigan pie man "going to look a bit silly in the papers tho...."Wasps coach gets Wembley statue"'" When it's announced he could be England RU coach, so unfortunately a no for me.
Anyone of:
Jim Sullivan
Hanley
Don Fox
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| Quote: Rogues Gallery "Eleven Challenge Cup finals, nine times winner.
Edwards has to be favourite. It's the bloody RLs fault he is no longer involved with RL, not Shauns.'"
Exactly why is it the RFL's fault that Edwards is no longer involved in the sport?
Did they impose a ban?
The truth is, he - like a multitude of others with Wigan connections - turned his back on the sport to take up ranks with the enemy.
I, and I suspect many other RL fans, would be absolutely outraged if this once-in-a-generation honour was bestowed on him, no matter how good a player he was.
He shouldn't even be considered. |
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Martin Offiah?
Very high profile and scorer of one of the most memorable Wembley tries ever.
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Shaun Edwards, regardless of his union connections. His efforts in 1990 deserve the honour alone.
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| Quote: Rogues Gallery "Jim Sullivan or Shaun Edwards for me.
This is quite a question ,some may go for the player who has won it the most times, who happens to be Shaun Long. But in my opinion he carries to much baggage. (my opinion).
Another choice would be Shaun Edwards,most decorated player in the history of the game.
My opinion of Shaun was he was a bit of a machine,allways took the right option but did he exite me like some players not always.
The best for me was Andy Gregory,he would always going to explode when people did not expect it,a truly exiting player.
I will always remember talking to Dave Heron (Leeds Loose Forward) a couple of days before they played Wigan at Central Park in the Cup ( app 1990 ?). His comments went something like this,"Edwards is a good player but the player we fear the most is Andy Gregory".
The only reason I knew Dave Heron is because he was a rep in engineering who used to visit the firm I worked for in the Wigan area.
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Billy Boston and Tom Van Vollenhoven?
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| Quote: stillinthepast "This is quite a question ,some may go for the player who has won it the most times, who happens to be Shaun Long. But in my opinion he carries to much baggage. (my opinion).'"
Long didn't win any of his Lance Todd trophies at Wembley so we can easily discount him, given the statue is to commemorate RL's Wembley history. |
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| I think it should be the guy who captained Wigan when they won the first ever RL final at Wembley in 1929.  |
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Ged Byrne? Maybe not.
Richie Eyres got 2 medals when he played for Widnes against Wigan in the 90's. He got a losers medal and got an extra medal for putting 'Offiah' out!! He got sent off remember for snotting poor Martin!
Realistically no contest. Edwards all the way.
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Andy Greg never lost at Wembley for Widnes, Wigan OR Great Britain.
He was the first player to win two lance todds (ok Longy has done 3 but none at Wembley), first to win 5 challenge cups and first to play in 8 finals. Greg all the way for me.
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This shouldn't even be a debate - there's dozens of winners/try scorers from Wembley finals, but the most iconic moment is Don Fox on his hands and knees. The plaque should simply read 'Poor lad'.
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