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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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Lance Todd, Jim Sullivan, Billy Boston.
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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Sam Tomkins doing the hand gesture
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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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I hope a heritage panel is appointed to put forward a list of candidates and then have an input on the result.the only problem I have with Edwards is when he is mentioned on thr media people listening think RU .I think it will be a wigan player ,my two choices would be Jim sullivan or Ellery Hanley,still the games most well known player.Please dont mention poor Don Fox he never recovered from that and his family say it contributed to his condition and carried it to his grave,but his brother Neil would be a fine candidate the games point scoring record holder
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If it's a Wigan player it's Hanley, not erm errr erm offiah and not Edwards the unionite, Hanley played for GB too so his Wembley ties are strong.
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| Quote: lionarmour87 "I hope a heritage panel is appointed to put forward a list of candidates and then have an input on the result.the only problem I have with Edwards is when he is mentioned on thr media people listening think RU .I think it will be a wigan player ,my two choices would be Jim sullivan or Ellery Hanley,still the games most well known player.Please dont mention poor Don Fox he never recovered from that and his family say it contributed to his condition and carried it to his grave,but his brother Neil would be a fine candidate the games point scoring record holder'"
It's not Shaun Edwards fault that the RFL were (are) incompetent and couldn't see his value to the game so more or less forced him into RU. |
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| I like the idea of Offiah on his knee's ( ) with his head in his hands, being immortalized as a statue. |
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Having had a think about it, probably the least contentious and most appropriate statue would be this onehttps://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b8/Jimbo70/Sullivan.gif" >
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Edwards.
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