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| Quote: Finfin "If you've a few minutes spare, he wasn't too bad in Aus either.
A great bit of video, it was a great tribute to Pat from his fellow Aussies, I didn't realise Benji Marshall has been around so long.
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26.jpg Last league derby at Central Park 5/9/1999: Wigan 28 St. Helens 20
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| Quote: stillinthepast "A great bit of video, it was a great tribute to Pat from his fellow Aussies, I didn't realise Benji Marshall has been around so long.'"
Great video. Pat Richards, GF winner in NRL and SL, Two times CC cup winner, top try scorer 2010, MoS 2010, first Aussie past a 1000 points with Wigan, club record points scorer for Wigan.....and some say he is not a legend
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[quote="Frank Zappa":1sacjrvf]Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.[/quote:1sacjrvf]
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| Quote: DaveO "Great video. Pat Richards, GF winner in NRL and SL, Two times CC cup winner, top try scorer 2010, MoS 2010, first Aussie past a 1000 points with Wigan, club record points scorer for Wigan.....and some say he is not a legend
He just didn't convert enough chances off the back of David Vaealiki's top notch centre play in the early days. You can't just bandy the term 'legend' about with gay abandon DaveO or it loses its meaning. If every Aussie Wigan player with those qualifications was called a legend you wouldn't be able to move for them. Everyone would be a legend!
They don't make legends anymore, we used up the last of our legends quota in the 80s. Andy Farrell, Tomkins, O'Loughlin, Richards, Sinfield, Briers, Long, Sculthorpe, Cunningham, Fielden, Peacock and Vainikolo were/are all good, everyone else is average/poor. Thank God we have middle-aged posters to tell us about the true greats of the game!
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3076_1671446335.jpg SAINTS THE ORIGINAL AND PERENNIAL CHEATS
For sale full Saints kit (circa 1989). Shirts in pristine condition, but shorts badly soiled.
For 27 - 0 you get a trophy
For 75 - 0 you get sod all.
Wigan had eight in a row
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| Quote: stillinthepast "A great bit of video, it was a great tribute to Pat from his fellow Aussies, I didn't realise Benji Marshall has been around so long.'"
Ah the old Ashton to Boston back flip pass. Every kid in Wigan could do it back in the late 50's to late 60's.
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| Quote: Rogues Gallery "Ah the old Ashton to Boston back flip pass. Every kid in Wigan could do it back in the late 50's to late 60's.'"
That was when Billy could really run.
I almost preferred it when he dragged 3 or 4 opposition players with him over the line.
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| Quote: fleabag "That was when Billy could really run.
I almost preferred it when he dragged 3 or 4 opposition players with him over the line.'"
Quite a few times just for a bit of variety he left 3 or 4 opponents in a semi comatose position embedded in the mud 5/10 yards from the line (some of them with boot marks running the length of their bodies).
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3076_1671446335.jpg SAINTS THE ORIGINAL AND PERENNIAL CHEATS
For sale full Saints kit (circa 1989). Shirts in pristine condition, but shorts badly soiled.
For 27 - 0 you get a trophy
For 75 - 0 you get sod all.
Wigan had eight in a row
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| Quote: stillinthepast "Quite a few times just for a bit of variety he left 3 or 4 opponents in a semi comatose position embedded in the mud 5/10 yards from the line (some of them with boot marks running the length of their bodies).
Bernard Ganley developed the finest sidestep I have ever seen in an effort to get out of Boston's way.
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2572.jpg Ah, good taste!
What a dreadful thing!
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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| we have had so many good players its always difficult when it comes to rating them. eg when Inga was playing for us, he was sensational. One of the outstanding players of his time, yet now he appears to have been forgotten.
I am sure that I could find similar players who are as good as pat but because they are slightly older they are easily forgotten.
Pat is good player, but not a legend. he's just been a very good player in a decade of mediocrity for the Club as a whole.
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| Blimey, like other teams believe, seems that RL only started in 1996!!!!
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| Every generation has its memorable players, My kids don't remember Wigan without Pat Richards, they will remember him as superman & he deserves it.
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| Quote: ShortArse "we have had so many good players its always difficult when it comes to rating them. eg when Inga was playing for us, he was sensational. One of the outstanding players of his time, yet now he appears to have been forgotten.
I am sure that I could find similar players who are as good as pat but because they are slightly older they are easily forgotten.
Pat is good player, but not a legend. he's just been a very good player in a decade of mediocrity for the Club as a whole.'"
thats harder to do that be a good player in a good team.
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| Quote: Rogues Gallery "Bernard Ganley developed the finest sidestep I have ever seen in an effort to get out of Boston's way.'"
I remember the Ganley sidestep, he could read Billy like a book. Billy went one way Ganley went the other.
But the best example of Billy being one on one with a fullback was in a cup match at Hunslet when he faced Langton.
In the first half Billy trundled down the middle after receiving one of the Ashton back passes , he came up to Langton and Billy sidestepped to the right and Langton guessed right and brought Billy down. Much backslapping and rejoicing from the Hunslet players.
Ten min after the same thing happened, Billy off down the middle again with Langton waiting with a confidant look on his face.
Billy must have said "sod the sidestep" and he ran right over the top of Langton to put the ball down under the sticks..
Hunslet in those days where a force to be reckoned with.
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