Greatest widnes national league 17 : Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:42 pm  

ok so i was thinking if we were in a grandfinal (yet again) which would be your greatest 17 players from the past 4/5 years that you would include

1) Full back - Scott Grix
2) Winger - Damien Blanch
3) Centre - Toe Kohe Love
4) Centre - Mick Nanyn
5) Winger - Sean Gleeson
6) Stand off - Dennis Moran
7) Scrum Half - James Webster
Prop - Adel Fellous
9) Hooker - Mark Smith
10) Prop - Oliver Wilkes
11) Second Row - Iain Morrisson
12) Second Row - Mick Cassidy
13) Loose Forward - Bob Beswick

14) Sub 1 - Gavin Dodd / Dean Gaskell
15) Sub 2 - Jordan James
16) Sub 3 - Terry O'Connor
17) Sub 4 - Anthony Thackeray

: Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:55 pm  

The 2007 team.

: Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:57 pm  

Oh go on then!

1 Grix
2 Blanch
3 TKL
4 Nanyn
5 Penny
6 Moran
7 Webster
8 Wilkes
9 Smith
10 Morrison
11 Noone
12 Cassidy
13 Beswick

14 Thackeray
15 Dodd
16 Gannon
17 Fellous - good call.

: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:14 pm  

Think I would go with..

1 Peachey*
2 Blanch*
3 TKL
4 Nanyn
5 Penny
6 Moran*
7 Webster
8 O'Connor*
9 Smith
10 Wilkes
11 Morrison
12 Cassidy*
13 Noone*

14 Thakerey
15 Fellous
16 Gannon
17 McDermot*

*Thats if they were all playing at their prime and not to the standard they were at when playing for us. Tho some were and still are playing quite well.

: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:47 pm  

Can't believe I forgot the Peach. What a player, even if he didn't fit in.

: Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:38 pm  

richardviking wrote:

Can't believe I forgot the Peach. What a player, even if he didn't fit in.

He thought he, along with Terry O'Connor and Barrie McDermott should not have been playing against smaller clubs and should have been saved for the big games only. He was supposed to have been injured, but two different specialists could find nothing wrong. Apart from paying that big outstanding tax bill thereby saving the club from going bust in 2006, the best thing Steven Vaughan did was get rid of Peachey, who was a drain on the finances of Widnes.
And when he went, no other club in the UK came in for him which says a lot. He was a big name, but on the field for Widnes he was no Sprogger.

: Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:56 pm  

1) Peachey
2) Blanch
3) Hall
4) Nanyn
5) Gaskell
6) Moran
7) Webster
Fellous
9) Smith
10) Wilkes
11) Fletcher
12) Morrison
13) Beswick

14) Penny
15) Thacks
16) Cassidy
17) Barry Mc

What a pack that would be

: Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:06 pm  

Interesting that most of you have picked Beswick when most of you said he was crap when Halifax signed him?

: Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:38 pm  

richardviking wrote:

Can't believe I forgot the Peach. What a player, even if he didn't fit in.

He was our MOM when we beat you one flooded Tuesday night in 2006

: Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:46 pm  

Pepsi Max wrote:

Interesting that most of you have picked Beswick when most of you said he was crap when Halifax signed him?

Its just like saying Moran wasnt as good on his last year as his previous year, but when he was good he was really good. When we signed Beswick he was one of our better players in the team and was loved by the fans. Thats why i chose him.