Re: Dream Team Nominations : Tue Aug 23, 2016 12:33 pm  

Shaul
Solomona
Atkins
Fonua
Broughton
Turner?
Gale/Sneyd
Hill
Houghton
Taylor
Stewart
Minichiello
Ellis

Shaul has dropped off recently and struggling to name the best 6 this season. Minichiello has been unreal again this season, although I think he'll miss out.

Re: Dream Team Nominations : Wed Aug 24, 2016 8:45 am  

Judder Man wrote:

Quality of Players for the Dream team is poor these days. 10 out of the 13 below played in the same seasons these individual players nominated the most (*) for there team position.

Paul Wellens (4)
Jason Robinson (5)
Gary Connolly (3)
Keith Senior (5)
Ryan Hall (4)
Danny McQuire (3)
Rob Burrow (3)
James Graham (4)
James Roby (5)
Jamie Peacock (11)
Gareth Ellis (4)
Ben Westwood (4)
Andrew Farrell (6)

Quality players who didn't get on the list but played in a couple of those seasons: Fielden, Long, Lyon, Sculthorpe, Barret, Cunningham, Newton, Lam, Briers.

I don,t think any of todays players could dislodge any of that list from the ultimate dream team.

I reckon Gareth Ellis could

Re: Dream Team Nominations : Wed Aug 24, 2016 3:19 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Shaul
Solomona
Atkins
Gelling
Manfrani
Williams
Gale
Hill
Houghton
Taylor
Currie
Stewert
Ellis

Gale over Sandow? behave.

Re: Dream Team Nominations : Wed Aug 24, 2016 3:31 pm  

Shaul

Solomona
Atkins
Fonua
Broughton

Williams
Sandow

Hill
Houghton
Taylor
Currie
Bateman
Cahill


The team will probably include half the Wigan team, a couple of pity picks from Warrington Saints and Hull and Kevin Sinfield.

...

Oh. and Sean O'Laughlin will be nailed on for loose forward after them blinding 3 games he had.

Re: Dream Team Nominations : Wed Aug 24, 2016 7:39 pm  

Bitter small club fan alert.

Re: Dream Team Nominations : Thu Aug 25, 2016 11:21 am  

moving on... wrote:

Shaul

Solomona
Atkins
Fonua
Broughton

Williams
Sandow

Hill
Houghton
Taylor
Currie
Bateman
Cahill


The team will probably include half the Wigan team, a couple of pity picks from Warrington Saints and Hull and Kevin Sinfield.

...

Oh. and Sean O'Laughlin will be nailed on for loose forward after them blinding 3 games he had.

Cahill over Ellis? Behave.

Re: Dream Team Nominations : Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:40 pm  

Shaul
Solomona
Currie
Atkins
Thompson
Sandow
Gale
Taylor
Houghton
Ellis
Moors
Minichiello
Westerman


Honourable mentions for Dorn/Hanbury at full-back, Talanoa and Manfredi on the wing (though Charnley has better stats), centre Fonua/Cudjoe are worth a shout but we've really struggled for a decent consistent one this year. I did think about throwing Gildart in there too.

Halves tough. Sandow has been injured a lot and Sneyd has generally been good. I'd also throw in Joe Mellor too.

Props you can throw in Hill and Walmsley and I'd have put Lynch in was it not for injury either.

Hooker was Roby and I'd also chip in McShane from Cas who has had a fab season.

Back-row Bateman and Murdoch-Masila (for the first half of the season) and maybe Sika Manu.

Re: Dream Team Nominations : Thu Aug 25, 2016 9:30 pm  

Fully wrote:

Shaul
Solomona
Currie
Atkins
Thompson
Sandow
Gale
Taylor
Houghton
Ellis
Moors
Minichiello
Westerman


Honourable mentions for Dorn/Hanbury at full-back, Talanoa and Manfredi on the wing (though Charnley has better stats), centre Fonua/Cudjoe are worth a shout but we've really struggled for a decent consistent one this year. I did think about throwing Gildart in there too.

Halves tough. Sandow has been injured a lot and Sneyd has generally been good. I'd also throw in Joe Mellor too.

Props you can throw in Hill and Walmsley and I'd have put Lynch in was it not for injury either.

Hooker was Roby and I'd also chip in McShane from Cas who has had a fab season.

Back-row Bateman and Murdoch-Masila (for the first half of the season) and maybe Sika Manu.

Some odd selections there.

Re: Dream Team Nominations : Fri Aug 26, 2016 7:27 am  

A unknown superstar wrote:

Some odd selections there.

If you mean in the actual team I selected, I don't think so.

Thompson is the only obscure one but if you take the primary aim of a winger is to score tries, then he's scored more than Manfredi, Charnley, Broughton or any other winger mentioned in this thread, other than Solomona. I know wingers do some dirty work too but that's the premise.

We don't have a lot of centres this year have shone and Currie actually started this season in the centre position.

Taylor, Houghton, Ellis have been fantastic for Hull and there's no doubt they have played a part in their success. Junior Moors has been unplayable this season at times and his stats are comparable to the best of them (Bateman, The Coal Train). There may be bias but it's also worth mentioning that Moors was injured for a period this season so his stats should be higher in reality.

Gale and Sandow have a combined 70 try assists so should be the halves, even if one is technically played out of position. Both have scored more tries than Sneyd, more metres, better average gain.

If you're on about back-up options, I've thrown a few underrated Cas players into the mix. Gildart has played a lot of game this season and has contributed 9 tries and over 2000 metres in the process. I think he's a decent player. Certainly one to look for in the future.

Re: Dream Team Nominations : Fri Aug 26, 2016 1:34 pm  

Fully wrote:

If you mean in the actual team I selected, I don't think so.

Thompson is the only obscure one but if you take the primary aim of a winger is to score tries, then he's scored more than Manfredi, Charnley, Broughton or any other winger mentioned in this thread, other than Solomona. I know wingers do some dirty work too but that's the premise.

We don't have a lot of centres this year have shone and Currie actually started this season in the centre position.

Taylor, Houghton, Ellis have been fantastic for Hull and there's no doubt they have played a part in their success. Junior Moors has been unplayable this season at times and his stats are comparable to the best of them (Bateman, The Coal Train). There may be bias but it's also worth mentioning that Moors was injured for a period this season so his stats should be higher in reality.

Gale and Sandow have a combined 70 try assists so should be the halves, even if one is technically played out of position. Both have scored more tries than Sneyd, more metres, better average gain.

If you're on about back-up options, I've thrown a few underrated Cas players into the mix. Gildart has played a lot of game this season and has contributed 9 tries and over 2000 metres in the process. I think he's a decent player. Certainly one to look for in the future.

Thompson, Currie and Westerman were the ones I meant.

Ellis has got to be a shoe in for 13 imo. He's had a ridiculous season for Hull. Thompson started well for about five games and Currie is good but there's been better centres than him (barely played centre anyhow).