[Bulliac]

Re: Try Scoring record : Thu Aug 11, 2016 10:40 am  

Bullseye wrote:

Well it was rarer than you think. Bevan topped 70 in a season just once when he got 72 in 52/53 season.

Nobody else had done that since Rosenfeld in 1913/14.

Nobody got over 50 after Boston retired until Ellery did it with us decades later. Only Offiah and Hanley have broken the 50 mark in the past 50 years.

I hope someone else comes along that good again, it was a privilege to see Offiah and Hanley at their best.

Well, that's right enough, though I never suggested it was common, just that it was done. Different times and futile to make comparisons, imo. The SL figures are really are just as great in context, and I'd guess we play fewer games nowadays - though that is only a guess, before FA does a spreadsheet....

Re: Try Scoring record : Thu Aug 11, 2016 11:24 am  

leedsnsouths wrote:

Oh well okay, they must have deemed McGuire the top due to assists or something

Anyway do you think his regular season record of 36 could be broken?

You can't have a try against your name if you've assisted someone else scoring, does that mean whoever scored it is not in the record books as scoring it but the man who gave the last pass is???

[Bullseye]

Re: Try Scoring record : Thu Aug 11, 2016 11:44 am  

I think he's making that theory up from scratch Roger.

Re: Try Scoring record : Thu Aug 11, 2016 12:03 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

I think he's making that theory up from scratch Roger.

I think the thread was designed to be inflammatory!

[Bullseye]

Re: Try Scoring record : Thu Aug 11, 2016 12:43 pm  

Poor effort then!

[Bulliac]

Re: Try Scoring record : Thu Aug 11, 2016 4:29 pm  

roger daly wrote:

You can't have a try against your name if you've assisted someone else scoring, does that mean whoever scored it is not in the record books as scoring it but the man who gave the last pass is???

Strangely enough.......going back to the early days - and I'm talking about before there was a rugby union, let alone rugby league - all tries were credited to the guy who kicked the goal. If he missed the conversion it was no points as the 'try' was just that - it meant you were allowed to try to score a goal!

On balance, think I prefer the current method..

Re: Try Scoring record : Thu Aug 11, 2016 6:16 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

Different game back then though, tbf. Wingers scoring 70 tries in a season wasn't unknown back in those days.

Plus 3 point tries

Re: Try Scoring record : Thu Aug 11, 2016 7:10 pm  

roger daly wrote:

You can't have a try against your name if you've assisted someone else scoring, does that mean whoever scored it is not in the record books as scoring it but the man who gave the last pass is???

No I was basing it on the fact that in the premier league for example if 2 players are on the same number of goals then the winner between them 2 is separated by their number of assists.
Look Sky and the SL website credited it solely to McGuire but they may have just been wrong and the record probably is shared

If I wanted to be inflammatory, Im sure I could have cooked up something better than this

Just pointing out that Vainikolo's regular season record was in jeopardy, and if you look at my previous posts you will find that I don't want it broken

Re: Try Scoring record : Thu Aug 11, 2016 7:18 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

Strangely enough.......going back to the early days - and I'm talking about before there was a rugby union, let alone rugby league - all tries were credited to the guy who kicked the goal. If he missed the conversion it was no points as the 'try' was just that - it meant you were allowed to try to score a goal!

On balance, think I prefer the current method..

If we played by them rules today we would probably be in league one next year

Re: Try Scoring record : Fri Aug 12, 2016 8:25 pm  

bulls2487 wrote:

Or the RFL have got something wrong again?. I can't see Solomona getting 8 tries in 4 games to match 36 in 28.

You were saying.