Agree. Of all the kickers I've seen, he was the best.

I remember in the game when Offiah got ten tries v Leeds, he kept deliberately scoring as far in the corner as possible just to test Botica. He just kept kicking them over!!

Didn't see Maloney but Sammy's record is superior in terms of kicks per game played; 366 in 103 appearances (18 as sub)

As a point of fact aside from the 1978/79 season Lloyd & Maloney played in very similar average points per game seasons.

Maloney played 6 seasons I believe with Hull's league av points from 1965-71 as 13/14.4/15.5/14.5/12.3 & 18
Lloyd's main goal kicking seasons we averaged 27/15/15/ per league game not sure how many games he played in the 82/83 I know he shared the kicking with crooks at one point and was injured for a fair few games.
Even in the cup comps we only averaged 13/15/14.7 (78/79,79/80,80/81) so really Lloyd wasn't in much more high scoring games than Maloney to be fair. In Batesons 4 seasons we averaged 24/21/20/16 points per league game as a comparison.

Paul prendiville if only for his outstanding tache, massive smile and his full length runs down the threepenny stand side for kicking one from in front of the sticks.

told my 76 year old dad about this thread and he went for peter bateson

" boot" bateson .He could kick a heavy sodden leather ball full length of boulevard .Maloney for me was aboUt the best, followed by Sam Evans LOL

Nice to see John Maloney get a mention. Absolutely terrific gent, and still knocking about the Batley/Dewsbury area. I got to know him from working behind the bar at a club in Batley he frequents, and subsequently sold him some furniture for his spare bedroom by way of my then full-time occupation - half-price due to staff discount. That was about five years ago, and he still always buys me a drink when I bump into him. I reckon he could have carved out a career as a top coach, but only dabbled in the trade and preferred to concentrate on various business ventures.

Mark Hewitt hands down, he rarely missed !

I remember one friday night Hewitt coming onto the pitch at half time to do a goal kicking competition which included a player from Penrith Panthers at the time.

Hewitt stumbled on the pitch half ed and a bottle in his hand and kicked 3 goals from infront of the threepenney stand.

John Maloney best goal kicker we had ,trying to put stats against him and Sammy is impossiable never saw Sammy kick one from half way line .
Maloney kicked 2 from there on his debut against NZ .

H.Oulton was some thing special as a kicker thighs bigger than any props and he was a winger saw him kick one from just out side his own 25 line at the Boulevard , pity could not score tries

F.Miller was good to but loved the old kicking jewel bit like RU fullbacks of 60's .

Arthur Keegan was a good kicker to highest point scorer on tour down under but your not allowed to say that as he didn't play for Wigan

and me...after beating ryan girdler at boulevard that makes him definatly a worthy winner for me, cus girdler could kick em....

Super taff was excellent ,after missing a sitter in front of the posts in a JP 1/4 final against Leeds at Boothferry park , then went on to kick quite a few that season.
How about Radders effort a couple of years ago when we had no other kicker on the pitch 1 from 1 for a 100% career total ?

It was his party piece.

We would score and the opposition would kick off. If they messed up and kicked into touch or didn't make the 10 yard line, we'd get a penalty. The Threepenny stand would launch into 'Go for Goal, Go for Goal, Go for Goal!'. Going for touch was not an option. Sammy would step up to the plate and rarely missed.

As previosuly mentioned this was also winter rugby and the game was not played on the bowling greens of today. Unlike the later years, in the late 70's/ early 80's the Boulevard was a poor pitch. One year they dumped about 600 tonnes of sand on it running from each 20m line. If the sun came out, you could have booked a week's holiday on 'the beach' as it was known at the time. ... don't get any ideas there Adam

How about Joe Oliver?? Most famous legacy at least.

Hewitt, despite been a grade a t****r, was a great goal kicker. 2 steps and kick. They only just reached but more often then not, they reached.