Now come on.........I am only talking about mere mortals, not living legends

Keri Jones was very small,keen, fast and injury prone.

I raced Offiah and Rob Smyth in 1994. I could do it in just under 12 secs and Rob was quicker than me. Offiah was 10 yards in front of me, but he didnt look like he was at full speed.

12 seconds? Did you have rigger boots on?

Why did you race them?

quickest player youve ever had is fielden .
never seen someone run as fast
especially when morleys running at him to get out of the way.

Not sure about straight line speed - I remember Offiah lost a race with Lee Onduryn (sp?) in Aus years ago. But ball in hand and adding a bit of a swerve, Offiah is the fastest I've seen. Add to that the fact that he was reasonably big and supremely confident at taking on and beating the man on the outside and I don't think I've seen a better 'classic' winger.

It's funny how the memory works though - some people have suggested Drummond wasn't that quick - and he probably wasn't by the time he retired, but if you watch clips of him in his pomp over 30m he was darned fast. I saw a bit of him against NZ on TV a few weeks ago and off the mark he was very quick.

I was signed for Wigan at the tender age of 16. I went to school with Rob and got into a training session with them.

Not bad for a 16 year old.

I used to run there or there abouts that, and while i was probably the fastest Academy player in the division at the time i do not think i would have been anywhere near as fast as Offiah.

I have seen different figures quoted for Offiah over a 100 meters, some as low as 10.2 some as claiming he struggled to break 11 seconds which for me is simply unrealistic.

Truth is we can only speculate but my money would be on Offiah.

Had my hair combed over like his in primary school.

I'll tell you about the fastest spectator I have ever seen.

In the early 1960's at Station Road Swinton, a Swinton "speccie" was abusing Billy Boston, "black b*st*rd, black c*n* etc"

At half time Billy jumped over the wall to "have a gentle word" with the man.

Offiah wouldn't have caught that speccie, it's just a pity that Billy didn't.