Re: Anthony Sullivan : Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:53 pm  

No1 Saint wrote: Inga was just massive and quick, if he'd have been up against full time players playing at professional clubs I'm not sure he would have had the same impact. He was and he did. He was also very skilfull, great hands.That try at KR when Connolly broke and gave Inga the inside ball was class. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc3yfpi9qIQ Then if you get a chance watch his tries for Wigan v Australia in that same (1994 season)

No1 Saint wrote: Inga was just massive and quick, if he'd have been up against full time players playing at professional clubs I'm not sure he would have had the same impact. He was and he did. He was also very skilfull, great hands.That try at KR when Connolly broke and gave Inga the inside ball was class. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc3yfpi9qIQ Then if you get a chance watch his tries for Wigan v Australia in that same (1994 season)

Re: Anthony Sullivan : Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:10 pm  

Scott Gibbs certainly wins the prize for the centre most likely to break someone.

Re: Anthony Sullivan : Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:44 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

Scott Gibbs certainly wins the prize for the centre most likely to break someone.

His own fingers in one try scoring movement against London Broncos at The Valley in '96.

Re: Anthony Sullivan : Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:55 pm  

Newlove is the best centre I've seen live watching Saints. Lyon a close second, with Simon Booth a close third.

Re: Anthony Sullivan : Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:57 pm  

[quote="Carlos Alberto"]Newlove is the best centre I've seen live watching Saints. Lyon a close second, with Simon Booth a close third.[/quote

Forget Lyon, newlove, Gibbs, talau, gidley etc because booth was all class!

Didn't he play most of his rugby in the backrow?

Re: Anthony Sullivan : Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:59 pm  

As great as Lyon was (and for two seasons he was the best centre to play for a team over here since Meninga or Danny Moore), Iro was unstoppable when he was on the top of his game and he did it for much longer than Lyon too. Similar with Newlove in that he was awesome when given the chance, however Connolly pretty much kept him quiet most of the time when they played against each other. Tuigamala was great but he was only in the game for a couple of years and so he'll always be a bit overlooked because he has no real period of longevity to assess.

Re: Anthony Sullivan : Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:12 pm  

Sully came over as very articulate and I also thought he gave a very honest appraisal of his own game.

He was definately a confidence player. On his day electryfying to watch and blisteringly fast and he scored some memorable tries. In other spells he was very erratic and lacked concentration and was very frustrating and he seemed to fully appreciate that himself.

Its an excellent programme and I do like Brian Carney's style.

Re: Anthony Sullivan : Sun Jul 24, 2011 12:40 am  

FearTheVee wrote:

Both better players than Connolly IMO. Connolly was very good and incredibly consistent, but Iro/Lyon were/are "X Factor" players, something Connolly never was as far as I'm concerned.

For raw talent, Lyon over Iro. Iro had a real physical presence that Lyon lacked though.

Can you imagine Lyon with Iro's physique? Jeepers.

That's Greg inglis isn't it?

Re: Anthony Sullivan : Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:11 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

I thought his attack was under rated, tbh. He was very quick over 100m, although he did have the luxury of playing for Wigan in 94 and 95 which may have given him extra freedom to show it. IMO, anyone who got to see Paul Newlove's tenure at saints is as privaliged as a speccy can be.
Would I have taken GC over Iro or Lyon? Mmmm.....

GC was very fast over 100m. I recall him chasing Dean hanger and hanger having a 20 meter start on him, he chased him down and got him just before our try line.

Moving GC from fullback to centre was a master stroke, he was to slow at picking the ball up on kicks at fullback, it used to take him ages to pick it up, then he'd just trott up to the defensive line.

When he moved to centre, he gave his side great defence and was very good with the ball as he was quick and very very strong.

Saints have had some great centres over the years, lockers, Gibbs, newlove, iro, Lyon, talau and gidley but IMO it's a close contest between Lyon and newy.

Re: Anthony Sullivan : Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:31 am  

Connolly was also one of these players who were naturally fit. I remember seeing him leaving the gound about an hour after a Wigan v Saints game at Central Park (he was still at Saints then) Connolly could hardly walk as he was leaving the ground, and looked in a lot of pain, and I thought that's him out for a few weeks.

Needless to say he was in the side for Saints the week after. He was a very strong and durable player.