Re: Wembley Statue - who should it be? : Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:41 pm  

Martin Offiah?

Very high profile and scorer of one of the most memorable Wembley tries ever.

Re: Wembley Statue - who should it be? : Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:50 pm  

Shaun Edwards, regardless of his union connections. His efforts in 1990 deserve the honour alone.

Re: Wembley Statue - who should it be? : Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:55 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote: Jim Sullivan or Shaun Edwards for me. http://www.loverugbyleague.com/news_649 ... tatue.html? This is quite a question ,some may go for the player who has won it the most times, who happens to be Shaun Long. But in my opinion he carries to much baggage. (my opinion). Another choice would be Shaun Edwards,most decorated player in the history of the game. My opinion of Shaun was he was a bit of a machine,allways took the right option but did he exite me like some players not always. The best for me was Andy Gregory,he would always going to explode when people did not expect it,a truly exiting player. I will always remember talking to Dave Heron (Leeds Loose Forward) a couple of days before they played Wigan at Central Park in the Cup ( app 1990 ?). His comments went something like this,"Edwards is a good player but the player we fear the most is Andy Gregory". The only reason I knew Dave Heron is because he was a rep in engineering who used to visit the firm I worked for in the Wigan area.

Rogues Gallery wrote: Jim Sullivan or Shaun Edwards for me. http://www.loverugbyleague.com/news_649 ... tatue.html? This is quite a question ,some may go for the player who has won it the most times, who happens to be Shaun Long. But in my opinion he carries to much baggage. (my opinion). Another choice would be Shaun Edwards,most decorated player in the history of the game. My opinion of Shaun was he was a bit of a machine,allways took the right option but did he exite me like some players not always. The best for me was Andy Gregory,he would always going to explode when people did not expect it,a truly exiting player. I will always remember talking to Dave Heron (Leeds Loose Forward) a couple of days before they played Wigan at Central Park in the Cup ( app 1990 ?). His comments went something like this,"Edwards is a good player but the player we fear the most is Andy Gregory". The only reason I knew Dave Heron is because he was a rep in engineering who used to visit the firm I worked for in the Wigan area.

Re: Wembley Statue - who should it be? : Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:57 pm  

Lance Todd, Jim Sullivan, Billy Boston.

Billy Boston and Tom Van Vollenhoven?

[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

Re: Wembley Statue - who should it be? : Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:16 pm  

stillinthepast wrote:

This is quite a question ,some may go for the player who has won it the most times, who happens to be Shaun Long. But in my opinion he carries to much baggage. (my opinion).

Long didn't win any of his Lance Todd trophies at Wembley so we can easily discount him, given the statue is to commemorate RL's Wembley history.

Re: Wembley Statue - who should it be? : Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:18 pm  

I think it should be the guy who captained Wigan when they won the first ever RL final at Wembley in 1929.

Re: Wembley Statue - who should it be? : Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:20 pm  

Ged Byrne? Maybe not.

Richie Eyres got 2 medals when he played for Widnes against Wigan in the 90's. He got a losers medal and got an extra medal for putting 'Offiah' out!! He got sent off remember for snotting poor Martin!

Realistically no contest. Edwards all the way.

Re: Wembley Statue - who should it be? : Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:24 pm  

Sam Tomkins doing the hand gesture

Re: Wembley Statue - who should it be? : Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:37 pm  

Andy Greg never lost at Wembley for Widnes, Wigan OR Great Britain.

He was the first player to win two lance todds (ok Longy has done 3 but none at Wembley), first to win 5 challenge cups and first to play in 8 finals. Greg all the way for me.

[JTB]

Re: Wembley Statue - who should it be? : Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:51 pm  

This shouldn't even be a debate - there's dozens of winners/try scorers from Wembley finals, but the most iconic moment is Don Fox on his hands and knees. The plaque should simply read 'Poor lad'.