We've had some great players at Wakefield haven't we.

Steve ella, Wally Lewis, Ray price , Darren Fritz , Sid Domic , Ali lauiti’iti ,Henry Paul, Jason Demetriou , Sonny Whakarau ,David Solomona . Plenty of home grown players could have gone into this list ,but these players stood out for me over the years as they sent a buzz around the ground whenever they played . There are lots of players who have gone unnoticed, that gave their all for our club and have never got the recognition they deserved IMO .

I thought Steve Ella was brilliant when watching him at Belle Vue as a teenager….but Dave Topliss was always my favourite Trinity player hence my profile picture.

1) Wally Lewis
2) Neil Fox
3) David Topliss
4) Jan Prinsloo
5) Danny Brough
6) Tom Johnstone
7) Harold Poynton


Derek Turner
9) Ray Price
10) Bill Ashurst
11) Don Fox
12) Keith Smith
Sorry to put 12, but I just couldn't leave DF or KS out.

Michael Jackson what a player he was too

Quit the game to become a male model, as I recall. Wasn't he our last Great Britain International?

May we’ll have been. I seem to recall him getting a bad infection in his leg playing for GB I believe.

We had him and gary price in the second row. That was some pairing

Played against Gary Price as a teenager. What a player…..

Tell you what, if this thread was about heart and effort, I think JD would be top of my list.

Injury forced him out.

He might have done, handsome enough though I’m no expert.

I think the heart and effort thing is a bit overdone with JD to be honest. I’m not doubting there was plenty but in truth he was just a very good player.

I think at the time most Wakefield fans and certainly the wider game struggled to accept we had any real quality. The SKY ten in particular put any success we had down to us being a team of battlers. In truths we weren’t JD and Solomona and a fair few other were absolute quality.

Same now, why we can’t turn that into more I really don’t know.