Widnes team of the decade? : Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:12 pm  

Mine would be as follows.........


1. Stuart Spruce
2. Damian Blanch
3. Jason Demetriou
4. Mick Nanyn
5. Paul Devlin
6. Steve Carter
7. Barry Eaton
8. Robert Relf
9. Phil Cantillon
10. Troy Stone
11. Mick Cassidy
12. Steve McCurrie
13. Daniel Frame

14. Mark Smith
15. Jules Oneill
16. Terry Oconnor
17. Anthony Farrell

Re: Widnes team of the decade? : Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:25 pm  

Is this class of player, or who performed the best for us?

I mean someone like Justin Murphy only had a few games for us but proved to be a real star at Catalans. I also liked Willie Peters in his short stay with us.

Shane Millard was good for us especially in 2003 and also went to bigger and better things after he left us. If I remember correctly he was a contender for man of Steel in 03.

Re: Widnes team of the decade? : Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:47 pm  

vikings 4 ever wrote:

Is this class of player, or who performed the best for us?

I mean someone like Justin Murphy only had a few games for us but proved to be a real star at Catalans. I also liked Willie Peters in his short stay with us.

Shane Millard was good for us especially in 2003 and also went to bigger and better things after he left us. If I remember correctly he was a contender for man of Steel in 03.

Just your own 17 over the last 10 years, i have based mine on performance but some like you say may have opted for peters at scrum half but he was only here a very short period.

Adam Hughes for instance was devastating for us at times but absolutely awful at others so he doesnt get in, i can only think of points machine when thinking of Nanyn so he got the nod and generally played very well for us.

Re: Widnes team of the decade? : Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:15 pm  

I`ll play...

1. Stuart Spruce
2. Damian Blanch
3. Jason Demetriou
4. Mick Nanyn
5. Damien Munro
6. Richard Agar
7. Barry Eaton
8. Robert Relf
9. Phil Cantillon
10. Terry O Connor
11. Troy Stone
12. Daniel Frame
13. Tommy Hodgkinson

14. Steve Carter
15. Jules Oneill
16. Shane Millard
17. Barrie McDermott

(But stuck wether to have Frame at Loose, Big Julian at back row and drop Tommy)

Re: Widnes team of the decade? : Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:51 am  

1.Spruce (better for us but Peachey was a better player)

2.Blanch (class)
3.Hughes (was at times superb in SL others done it in NL)
4.JD ( solid, I will put Moule ahead of him in 2 weeks though)
5.Munro (solid with a bit of pace)

6.Scarts (when he left was never replaced big reason of our downfall)
7.Eaton (only cos theres nobody better worst position for us)

8.Relf (good solid)
9.Millard (got us moving round the PTB)
10.O'Connor (top metres in a relagated side says it all)

11.McCurrie (for jibbing dire to come back to us then scoring that try against them)
12.Cass (workhorse)

13.Frame (solid)

subs:
14.Jules (was excellent for us at times)
15.Cants ( off the bench in SL he still looked good)
16.Stone (never really replaced him but only 1 season)
17.Julian (never let us down)

Re: Widnes team of the decade? : Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:11 pm  

A.N.Other Viking wrote:

1.Spruce (better for us but Peachey was a better player)

2.Blanch (class)
3.Hughes (was at times superb in SL others done it in NL)
4.JD ( solid, I will put Moule ahead of him in 2 weeks though)
5.Munro (solid with a bit of pace)

6.Scarts (when he left was never replaced big reason of our downfall)
7.Eaton (only cos theres nobody better worst position for us)

8.Relf (good solid)
9.Millard (got us moving round the PTB)
10.O'Connor (top metres in a relagated side says it all)

11.McCurrie (for jibbing dire to come back to us then scoring that try against them)
12.Cass (workhorse)

13.Frame (solid)

subs:
14.Jules (was excellent for us at times)
15.Cants ( off the bench in SL he still looked good)
16.Stone (never really replaced him but only 1 season)
17.Julian (never let us down)

I'd probably go with that. Not a great deal of choice at scrum half is there. Looking back we haven't really been that strong in the centres either have we. We've had some decent players but Moule was always 'injured', Hughes went completely off the boil and then there players like Nanyn and TKL.

Anyone consider putting Gray Viane in?

Re: Widnes team of the decade? : Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:43 pm  

vikings 4 ever wrote:

I'd probably go with that. Not a great deal of choice at scrum half is there. Looking back we haven't really been that strong in the centres either have we. We've had some decent players but Moule was always 'injured', Hughes went completely off the boil and then there players like Nanyn and TKL.

Anyone consider putting Gray Viane in?

We have been very poor in the centres like you say, you could also argue that Deon Bird should be in, he had a very good try scoring record with us and played well in his spell. Viane scored some like 14 in 16 games or something like that and at one stage i was hoping we could get him back (wonder what he's up to these days?)

Blake Cannova anyone?

Re: Widnes team of the decade? : Fri Jan 01, 2010 6:45 pm  

Sure this has been done!


I don't think you can really justify someone like Peters or Peachey being in, despite their talent. I remember Chris Giles started his career like a house on fire, but dwindled to the lower divisions after an injury lay-off hampered his progress.
For me..

Spruce
JD
Nanyn
Hughes
Blanch

Jules O'Neill
Eaton

Relf
Millard
Stone

Cassidy
Finnigan
Frame

14 Cantillon
15 Super League Terry O'Connor
16 Julian F O'Neill
17 Beswick


Never really rated the contribution of O'Connor and McDermott in NL1.

Re: Widnes team of the decade? : Fri Jan 01, 2010 8:39 pm  

I totally forgot about Bird and Finnegan.
I would probably move JD to the wing instead of Munro and put Bird in.
I only picked players who have done stuff in SL hence no Nanyn.

We could pick a team of our best NL players obviously some would be the same.

I know Blanch didn't play for us in SL but he played there before and since so he's proven quality.

Re: Widnes team of the decade? : Fri Jan 01, 2010 9:54 pm  

Kieran Kerr or Brad Watts anyone? lol they came when we were poop but actually turned out to be decent players. I think one of them got knocked out in town after a heavy defeat and then that seemed to be the end of them. Happy Franks side was shambolic, i had high hopes before the season but looking back now having Gary Hulse at scrum half and Ste Rowlands at Full Back we never stood a chance.