Re: SL Squad #7s? : Sun Feb 28, 2021 8:28 am  

coco the fullback wrote:

Seasons @7
1 Glen Tomlinson 2 1999 & 2000
2 Brad Davies 2 2001 & 2003
3 Nathan Wood 1 2002
4 Ben Jeffries 3 2004 & 2005 & 2007
5 Sam Obst 2 2006 & 2011
6 Danny Brough 5 2008 to 2010 & 2019 & 2020
7 Kyle Wood 1 2012
8 Tim Smith 2 2013 & 2015
9 Pita Godinet 1 2014
10 Liam Finn  3 2016 to 2018
11 Mason Lino 1 2021

We've only finished in the top 8 eight times in SL from 22 attempts. 5 of those were when we had a 'stable' No. 7.

*all data subject to verification by experts

I’ll be honest I don’t remember Wood ever playing at 7, might have Isaac John and Tim Smith that year.

Re: SL Squad #7s? : Sun Feb 28, 2021 8:36 am  

Ditto Obst almost exclusively a hooker for us.

Jeremy Smith was 2011.

Of course a lot of this depend on whether you see 6 & 7 as different positions or both as interchangeable HB positions. It’s the latter imho.

So Rooney counts imho

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Re: SL Squad #7s? : Sun Feb 28, 2021 8:46 am  

vastman wrote:

I’ll be honest I don’t remember Wood ever playing at 7, might have Isaac John and Tim Smith that year.

That is right in terms of what position they played but Smith didn't play in 7 in his first year. Wood had the 7 shirt and Smith played in shirt 20

Re: SL Squad #7s? : Sun Feb 28, 2021 9:11 am  

PopTart wrote:

That is right in terms of what position they played but Smith didn't play in 7 in his first year. Wood had the 7 shirt and Smith played in shirt 20

He may have had the 7 shirt but he didn't play at 7 and oddly I don't think was ever intended that he would, he played mainly from the bench. The HB partnership that year was definitely Smith and Johns. It was Smith second season that saw him take off with the addition of Paul Sykes.

Woody had a lot of competition that year in Aiton and Ellis.

Re: SL Squad #7s? : Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:54 am  

vastman wrote:

Ditto Obst almost exclusively a hooker for us.

Jeremy Smith was 2011.

Of course a lot of this depend on whether you see 6 & 7 as different positions or both as interchangeable HB positions. It’s the latter imho.

So Rooney counts imho

SL 16 2011
1 Matt Blaymire
2 Kevin Penny
3 Aaron Murphy
4 Daryl Millard
5 Luke George
6 Ben Jeffries
7 Sam Obst
8 Michael Korkidas
9 Julien Rinaldi
10 Paul King
11 Kevin Henderson
12 Dale Ferguson
13 Glenn Morrison
14 Tommy Lee
15 Motu Tony
16 Jeremy Smith
17 Paul Johnson
18 Chris Dean
19 Dale Morton
20 Ben Gledhill
21 Frankie Mariano
22 Stuart Howarth
23 Josh Veivers
24 James Davey
25 Liam Higgins
26 Matthew Wildie
27 Kieran Hyde
28 Russ Spiers
29 Greg Johnson
30 Josh Griffin
31 Kyle Amor
32
33 Tyrone McCarthy
34 Chris Annakin
35 Gareth Moore
36 Jarrad Hickey
37 Semi Tadulala
38 Sammy Maselot
39 Ryan Tongia

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Re: SL Squad #7s? : Sun Feb 28, 2021 11:28 am  

vastman wrote:

He may have had the 7 shirt but he didn't play at 7 and oddly I don't think was ever intended that he would, he played mainly from the bench. The HB partnership that year was definitely Smith and Johns. It was Smith second season that saw him take off with the addition of Paul Sykes.

Woody had a lot of competition that year in Aiton and Ellis.

I understand that, but that is the whole point of Coco's thread. We are talking about who wore the 7 shirt.

Of course personally, I preferred it when the match day shirts were numbered 1 to 13 no matter who plays.

That does beg the question how they handled it in the pre squad number days.
If you play say Sam Obst at 7 but the week after Tim Smith plays or maybe someone like Tony Kemp. They can all play the position but they don't all fit the same shirt
Maybe they restitched the numbers on different shirts.

Re: SL Squad #7s? : Sun Feb 28, 2021 3:15 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I understand that, but that is the whole point of Coco's thread. We are talking about who wore the 7 shirt.

Of course personally, I preferred it when the match day shirts were numbered 1 to 13 no matter who plays.

That does beg the question how they handled it in the pre squad number days.
If you play say Sam Obst at 7 but the week after Tim Smith plays or maybe someone like Tony Kemp. They can all play the position but they don't all fit the same shirt
Maybe they restitched the numbers on different shirts.

Oh come on that’s pedantry even for you. The OP states the no7 position, doesn’t mention the shirt number. Since squad numbers came into the game 7 refers to the position only ie scrum half. Any number of players have played that position whilst never wearing a 7 on their shirts, have you not noticed this? It’s who played the season in the no7 position not the shirt who was our no 7.

In the old days where you seem to live, whoever was SH that day would wear the 7 shirt even if he was normally a prop. Now Fifita could play at 7 but he wouldn’t wear that number. Sorry to appear condescending but I can’t think of any other way to put it.

Do you take every aspect of life as literally as this?

Re: SL Squad #7s? : Sun Feb 28, 2021 4:34 pm  

The past few threads it’s been whose worn the actual squad number, not postition.

Re: SL Squad #7s? : Sun Feb 28, 2021 4:41 pm  

Willzay wrote:

The past few threads it’s been whose worn the actual squad number, not postition.

I was sure it’s the 7 shirt as well, looked at the OP to confirm and it says squad No7 which I took as the shirt number.

Re: SL Squad #7s? : Sun Feb 28, 2021 6:01 pm  

Yeah, deffo "Who wore the No. 7 shirt".