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Re: Mal Meninga : Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:19 pm  

Lebron James wrote:

The now immortal Mal Meninga produced a man of the match performance by leading St Helens to a lancashire cup final victory against bitter rivals wigan on their home turf. To this day I think David Stephenson is still trying to escape Mal's pocket

Regards

King james

I was there. He was unstoppable that day.
There was no reason to have anyone in his pocket. He just brushed them off.

Re: Mal Meninga : Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:27 pm  

Bobby Fulton was born in Warrington....now thats English representation.

Re: Mal Meninga : Thu Aug 02, 2018 2:00 pm  

Mal is a legend no doubt desrves to be an immortal, power pace, but good hands and a bit of guile as well.
Beven probably should be in too, his day will probably come.

Re: Mal Meninga : Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:17 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I was there. He was unstoppable that day.
There was no reason to have anyone in his pocket. He just brushed them off.

I was there too. One good game. They give out legendary status far too easily on the other side of the hill.

Re: Mal Meninga : Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:43 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I was there. He was unstoppable that day.
There was no reason to have anyone in his pocket. He just brushed them off.

It was a fantastic display wasn’t it. He made Wigan look like mugs!

Regards

King James

Re: Mal Meninga : Thu Aug 02, 2018 7:33 pm  

Meninga was playing when I was took to my first Saints game as a kid. I don't think he arrived until October that season but his spell here will never be forgotten by anyone who saw it. He had a huge impact on the club and the town.

Two trophies, second in the league and 28 tries in 31 games was rather a decent return I'd say.

But for breaking his arm he would had a second spell with us in 88/89. But we ended up with Michael O'Connor instead...

I'll always remember his two interception tries in what was his final game for us. The Premiership final victory against Hull KR at Elland Road, particularly his second one where he went three quarters of the length of the field and a supposedly quick winger in Garry Clark couldn't get anywhere near him.

Very short period here but will always be a St Helens legend.

Re: Mal Meninga : Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:22 pm  

RuddyScoosers wrote:

Meninga was playing when I was took to my first Saints game as a kid. I don't think he arrived until October that season but his spell here will never be forgotten by anyone who saw it. He had a huge impact on the club and the town.

Two trophies, second in the league and 28 tries in 31 games was rather a decent return I'd say.

But for breaking his arm he would had a second spell with us in 88/89. But we ended up with Michael O'Connor instead...

I'll always remember his two interception tries in what was his final game for us. The Premiership final victory against Hull KR at Elland Road, particularly his second one where he went three quarters of the length of the field and a supposedly quick winger in Garry Clark couldn't get anywhere near him.

Very short period here but will always be a St Helens legend.

Please don’t remind me about the 2 interception try’s against us I still have nightmares but what a player he was

Re: Mal Meninga : Thu Aug 02, 2018 11:46 pm  

The 82 Aussies had some players that were on a different planet physically to anything we had at the time. Meninga was relatively lightweight by his later standards, but was almost 16 stone and quick. Perhaps his greatest career achievement was that during his spell at Sts he made Sean Day look good.

Re: Mal Meninga : Fri Aug 03, 2018 2:00 am  

Some might argue that Malcolm Meninga was the greatest player St Helens ever had.

Remember that St Helens has also had classy players like Jaime Lyon and Matthew Gidley as star centres in their times there. So to rate Malcolm Meninga as St Helens best ever player is quite an accolade.

Re: Mal Meninga : Fri Aug 03, 2018 7:41 am  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

Some might argue that Malcolm Meninga was the greatest player St Helens ever had.

Remember that St Helens has also had classy players like Jaime Lyon and Matthew Gidley as star centres in their times there. So to rate Malcolm Meninga as St Helens best ever player is quite an accolade.

One of the greatest impacts in the UK over a short period of time (one season), 38 tries in 30 games and countless assists.