Knocker, Topliss and Sterling are certainly worthy of the word "legend" as nearly 30 years after they last played for the club they are still put in most people's greatest Hull team and probably will be for many years to come.

Not sure you could say the same for Gareth Raynor, great player as he was.

It be interesting to see if you could pick a starting 13 of legends. You'd certainly need input from people who are much older than us (and from history books). We shouldn't confuse legends with personal favourites and very good players.

What happened to the Hull FC hall of fame?

Do those t shirts they used to sell with toppo, knocker and sterlo on officially make them legends?

Indeed, which is why Jason Smith is nowhere near legend status, he may have been a decent player, but he certainly wasn't a model professional.

Just found the hall of fame on the website and it has schofield in it. Maybe it should be the hall of infamy

And paul eastwood.

so does that mean that paul cooke is a hull fc legend seen as he won the chellenge cup with us

jason smith is a legend he made us a better team when he was on the field

Funny you mention that Jason Smith shouldnt be classed as a legend because of his off the field behaviour, but want Crooks included in the hall of fame?

I think we all kmow that Crooks was no angel off the field.

Compared to Smith he was!

Lets face it the Hall of Fame is a joke at present, how can it even be taken seriously without Big JW??
Cooke should not be in there for what he did to the club and neither should a few others mentioned as they were bit parts over two seasons

Don't need to read through any diaries my friend to know about Paul Eastwood. Saw pretty much all of his games for the B&W's.

He certainly wasn't a great

how strange that many including the GB selectors thought different, when on form he was electric, but not a legend and I for one thought he was a great player !!
I also seem to be in the minority that thought Wilby was a decent player when he first showed!! whats wilby doing now???

Defining a legend is difficult as we can all argue on differing players merits.

1) Its what the player did for FC eg champions 5 Challenge cup 5 pioint regal trophy 4 points Play offs 2 Yorks cup 1 point

2) His Length of service 1 point a year

3) His standing nationally/internationally 5 points for being a full GB international 2 point for Home countries/SOO

4) His personal life and off field activities 10 points for a national honour, 3 points for Lance Todd, 2 points Harry Sunderland etc


Using this sort of system to make it fairer.

A rough check of that would mean some like John Whiteley would end up with very high marks and Peter Stirling would score quite low.