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A LOOK BACK ON THE #RFL125 GREATEST DEBATES...
With the sport of Rugby League now entering its 126th year, we wanted to reflect on some of the great memories stirred by last weekend’s 125th anniversary celebrations – and specifically the series of Legends debates that were carried on our digital channels through the week.
A distinguished panel came together to share their contrasting experiences of the game, and offer candidates to be rated as the Greatest in five categories – British Player, Overseas Player, Coach, Match and Try.
This followed a series of polls that the RFL had run through the year with a panel of 125 Super Fans.
It is fair to say that both methods of selection have provoked plenty of debate!
The Legends Panel was given additional gravitas by the inclusion of the distinguished Rugby League historian Tony Collins, the BBC’s Rugby League correspondent Dave Woods, the Leeds Rhinos legend Jamie Jones-Buchanan, and Kath Hetherington, who has been immersed in the game for more than six decades and became a trailblazing female President of the RFL in 1985.
After lively debates in each of the categories, their conclusions were as follows:
Greatest British Player – Neil Fox MBE – Rugby League’s all-time leading points-scorer, and an outstanding centre for Wakefield Trinity and Great Britain,
