Lord Bruce Burton wrote:
He got 3 international caps actually
He would have played for GB had not steadman, connolly, spruce, robinson, atcheson, gay, gary broadbent, radlinski, reardon and wellens all been active at full back during his career. All apart from Atcheson they were better players.
I don't really need to be told dictionary definitions as I have spoken english for many years and have become fluent. it is my opinion you are wrong and yours that you are right in spite of the evidence.
He got 3 SCOTTISH caps. Wow! Big deal, my friend played football for the isle of man team, it doesn't mean he was any good. Why is Danny Brough playing for Scotland and not England? Because he is an underachiever not living up to his potential. Sounds familiar to me. He should have been as good as Wellens was at his peak, and should have been playing for GB before Wellens even started at Saints. If he had lived up to his petnetial, he would have been pushing Radlinski all the way for the GB full back shirt. Steadman and Flowers didn't cross over at international level.
Spruce had peaked and was on his way down by the time flowers was in his 2nd season, robinson was not a rl full back rah rah made him a full back, connolly was a good centre and an awful fullback, gay - now that is scraping the barrel. Broadbent never played for GB, and wasn't as good as Flowers and Atcheson... Yea not a bad full back, but not that great. Flowers at full potential was better.
So in summary the only one who should have been in his way was Radlinski. He was nowhere near, but yet he could have been. I'm glad Alan Tate was past it when he came along or he might not have got a Scotland cap.