Re: FASTEST PLAYER YOU'VE SEEN PLAY RUGBY LEAGUE : Thu May 17, 2012 3:34 pm  

Airborne Eagle wrote:

I suppose if depends what they mean by fastest?

Over what distance?
Does that include carrying a ball which may prevent arms being used as a sprinter would?
Boots instead of running spikes?

fastest with the ball presumably under match conditions

Re: FASTEST PLAYER YOU'VE SEEN PLAY RUGBY LEAGUE : Thu May 17, 2012 5:51 pm  

Airborne Eagle wrote:

I suppose if depends what they mean by fastest?

Over what distance?
Does that include carrying a ball which may prevent arms being used as a sprinter would?
Boots instead of running spikes?

Very true, I'm the fastest man in the world over one yard.

FACT.

Re: FASTEST PLAYER YOU'VE SEEN PLAY RUGBY LEAGUE : Thu May 17, 2012 7:14 pm  

To the bar ESO?

Re: FASTEST PLAYER YOU'VE SEEN PLAY RUGBY LEAGUE : Fri May 18, 2012 4:28 am  

without the added weight of a wallet too maybe ?

[Hillsborough Lad]

Re: FASTEST PLAYER YOU'VE SEEN PLAY RUGBY LEAGUE : Fri May 18, 2012 7:58 am  

Airborne Eagle wrote:

To the bar ESO?

No way would ESO beat me to the bar.

Re: FASTEST PLAYER YOU'VE SEEN PLAY RUGBY LEAGUE : Fri May 18, 2012 9:07 am  

Hillsborough Lad wrote:

No way would ESO beat me to the bar.

Challenge accepted.

Unless you're paying.

Re: FASTEST PLAYER YOU'VE SEEN PLAY RUGBY LEAGUE : Fri May 18, 2012 10:04 am  

Darren Albert in his prime at Saints, quickest player i've ever seen...

Re: FASTEST PLAYER YOU'VE SEEN PLAY RUGBY LEAGUE : Fri May 18, 2012 1:55 pm  

Keith Fielding of Salford could also run a bit. I wonder what he could have achieved with a more glamorous club. I think he also did well in various versions of Superstars.

Re: FASTEST PLAYER YOU'VE SEEN PLAY RUGBY LEAGUE : Sat May 19, 2012 1:54 pm  

You couldn't have had a much more glamorous club than Salford at the time Keith Fielding played for them.

Re: FASTEST PLAYER YOU'VE SEEN PLAY RUGBY LEAGUE : Sat May 19, 2012 7:28 pm  

Maybe glamorous was the wrong word. In terms of big names they certainly had plenty (David Watkins and Mike Coulson come to mind) but apart from a Challenge Cup Final in 1969 (against Castleford. I lived near Pontefract at the time. The town was divided with the Featherstone half wanting Salford to win) they were more style than substance and never quite reached the heights. A case of the whole being less than the sum of the parts.