blimey!..that is a surprise..I would have said 4 at the most!

Yes because Shelford was good in his first three seasons, outstanding in his fourth when we nearly won the league, and for the next four years he was less and less effective, so got forgotten about.



Similar pattern to Brent Grose.

I thought Brent Grose played 4 seasons at Warrington & not 5.

Think Brent played the last season at Wilderspool plus 4 at the HJ (04,05,06 and 07) leaving along with Fa'fili and Leikvoll.



If we're attaching a five season rule I'd go for -

1 Derek Whitehead

2 Dessie Drummond

3 Allan Bateman

4 John Bevan

5 Mark Forster

6 Lee Briers

7 Parry Gordon

8 Adrian Morley

9 Duane Mann

10 Bob Jackson

11 Tommy Martyn

12 Mark Roberts

13 Mike Gregory



14 Ken Kelly

15 Steve Hesford

16 Mike Nicholas

17 Ben Westwood



Considered but couldn't include Cull, Sandy, Paul Wood, Chris Bridge, Jon Clarke, Martin Gleeson, Bobby Wanbon, Chissy, Chris Rudd and Gary Chambers

Kings cat



Ronnie Duanne should be at left centre with John Bevan on the wing instead of Forster, suprised you left Kelly Shelford out, i would have included Bob Eccles.

Duane Mann 4 seasons

Nice memory recall, Rob. Can you imagine what Ronnie would have been like in today's game, with 5 days of training, and on good pitches, instead of a couple of short training sessions a week, and playing on mud heaps......and playing a lot fewer games...he'd tear it up.

With some of the great centres we've had over the years, (sadly) players like Ronnie, get forgotten.

clarke ahead of monas

Imagine what a player he would have been if he hadn't destroyed his knee within minutes of the start of an tour down under whilst still a teenager(?) or if he had access to modern medical techniques.

Yeah, I remember reading this sad news, when daily papers actually had a little rugby league coverage in them.



Just think of some of the dross with international caps in Ronnie's era.. Darrell Powell (he got LOADS) and Gibson

Bob Eccles always gets missed out doesnt he....37 tries in one Season they can say Phil Cantillon holds the world record with 48(in a lower divison aswell) and Hanley may have the record in the top flight but Eccles was an out an out second rower or even prop he wasnt a stand off/centre/loose forward and that was a tremendous effort that season.



probably the fact he usually needed a crack off someone to get really fired up for a game means he was often tagged as lazy but what a top top player.....in todays game he would have been ideal having a twenty minute spell then a rest then coming on again in the latter stages....

I haven't put a team into this thread because there are so many players to actually choose from. I did start a team, but then found that I was arguing with myself about the second row. How can you pick two from Nicholas, Martyn, Roberts, Eccles, and Westwood? My 13 would have to be Mike Greg, it couldn't possibly be anyone else, and I had a pair of centres, then someone mentioned Ronny Duane. My halfbacks were Fulton and Gordon (like the 13, there can only ever be one No. 7 for me), but what about Kelly, Shelford, Murphy, Langer, and Briers? To me, picking a best ever Wire 13 you've seen play is virtually impossible, but maybe that's what makes it such fun.