: Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:55 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

Not underrated, at all.

Number of International caps?

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:58 pm  

worthing wire wrote:

Number of International caps?

Played for the wrong team at the time, unfortunately.

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:10 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

Played for the wrong team at the time, unfortunately.

He played for "Wigan's main challengers at the time" according to another thread on here, so he should have got a sniff, surely. Who were his competitors - Goodway, Platt, Dixon, Divorty..???

Not having a pop, btw, Roberts was one of my favourite players, but he clearly wasn't especially highly rated outside of Wilderspool.

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:16 pm  

worthing wire wrote:

He played for "Wigan's main challengers at the time" according to another thread on here, so he should have got a sniff, surely. Who were his competitors - Goodway, Platt, Dixon, Divorty..???

Not having a pop, btw, Roberts was one of my favourite players, but he clearly wasn't especially highly rated outside of Wilderspool.

Gregory aside, who did we have that was a regular GB squad member?

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:25 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

Gregory aside, who did we have that was a regular GB squad member?

No-one. Forster got a couple of caps, Holden and Woods made a squad once, though all against France, I think.
McGinty probably got in the squad when he went to Wigan.

How the selectors overlooked Kevin Meadows, Barry Peters & Rocky Turner, I'll never fathom.

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:30 pm  

worthing wire wrote:

Number of International caps?

see you cant do that and the reason is ......
Billy Mcginty was half the player Roberts was and rightly so was no where near an International cap .......Mcginty went to Wigan and played no different to his time at wires but...............

hey presto have a Great Britain Jersey Billy......

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:32 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

Gregory aside, who did we have that was a regular GB squad member?

Ronnie Duane would have been a regular but for his bad luck with injuries like the first game of the 84 tour of Australia

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:54 pm  

worthing wire wrote:

He played for "Wigan's main challengers at the time" according to another thread on here, so he should have got a sniff, surely. Who were his competitors - Goodway, Platt, Dixon, Divorty..???

Not having a pop, btw, Roberts was one of my favourite players, but he clearly wasn't especially highly rated outside of Wilderspool.

Shows how good a coach barrow was that we reached all those finals and challenged a full time wigan side without a load of internationals. The GB side back then was basically anyone who was at wigan and british, i once watched a test when the entire pack were from wigan.

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:55 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

Gregory aside, who did we have that was a regular GB squad member?

Drummond

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:56 pm  

the flying biscuit wrote:

Ronnie Duane would have been a regular but for his bad luck with injuries like the first game of the 84 tour of Australia

Bloody hell! That gets me thinking; Duane, Holden & Roberts all careers that were wiped out by knee injuries. Potential career GB players. Quite gutting really.