Re: Bulls best... Second Rower??? : Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:53 pm  

Was Solomona a flop signing then? As things currently stand he's got no votes, one less than Michael Worrincy!

IIRC Solomona was class when you first signed him (2007?), then his famed love of doing as little as possible during training set in and his weight ballooned. His fault or McNamara's?

Re: Bulls best... Second Rower??? : Fri Jan 11, 2013 1:05 pm  

Peacock, Menzies and Morrison

With honourable mentions to Gartner and Burgess.

Love the troll votes for Worrincy

Re: Bulls best... Second Rower??? : Fri Jan 11, 2013 1:18 pm  

About as hard as it gets, this one.

JP has to be in there. Anyone dare to disagree...?

Beaver perhaps the classiest player we have had in the SL era. Certainly one of the best to wach...and marvel at. Wonderful player, wonderful guy.

Sir Daniel Gartner HAS to be perhaps the most under-rated (by some, at least) forward we have had here in the SL era? Massive contribution to our all-conquering team.


So how the hell can I leave out the fantastic Morro? Or Forshaw when he played second row (although I preferred him at loose)? Or the great Sir Bernard Dwyer? To name but three? As I said, about as hard as it gets!

Re: Bulls best... Second Rower??? : Fri Jan 11, 2013 1:35 pm  

Guess this list shows one of the reasons we had so much success with players like this in the boiler room. You could get a pretty good 13 from these guys alone. Hopefully some of the young bloods here will move themselves up the pecking order in the next few years and I always thought it was a shame we did not keep Sir Beaver a few more seasons as if he had been able to pass on even a fraction of his skill and attitude to the younger players we would be in a better position now.

[Bulliac]

Re: Bulls best... Second Rower??? : Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:30 pm  

JP, Danny Gartner and Steve 'magic' Menzies. Apologies to all who missed my cut but it really is an embarrassment of riches in this department.

[Bulliac]

Re: Bulls best... Second Rower??? : Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:38 pm  

Exeter Rhino wrote:

Was Solomona a flop signing then? As things currently stand he's got no votes, one less than Michael Worrincy!

IIRC Solomona was class when you first signed him (2007?), then his famed love of doing as little as possible during training set in and his weight ballooned. His fault or McNamara's?

No, Solo wasn't a flop. He was just not the player we really needed at the time and to be blunt, if you needed the icing for a very rich cake then solo is as good as they come but sadly, we didn't have a rich cake and needed a grafter who wasn't going to throw away possession with flamboyant passes. Brilliant player, but a square peg in our round hole.

Re: Bulls best... Second Rower??? : Fri Jan 11, 2013 3:18 pm  

Like everyone says so hard to choose, so many good players, But JP, Steve Menzies and Danny Gartner for me. Pity is Concrete Karl isn`t in there he would have been one of my choices but who to leave out would have been a problem. Are we sure Karl never packed down in the second row for the Bulls?

Re: Bulls best... Second Rower??? : Fri Jan 11, 2013 3:34 pm  

I think (hope?) that by the end of next year Bateman might be demanding a place in the top three.

Re: Bulls best... Second Rower??? : Fri Jan 11, 2013 3:40 pm  

Very hard this one, had to go with Peacock and Menzies, but I popped in third, Lee Gilmour...he did a lot and also carried it on for Saints when he left us...a real unsung player... I think Karl did play Second Rower and ?? did he play in the very early season's of Super League ?? My mind cannot stretch that far back nowadays...

Re: Bulls best... Second Rower??? : Fri Jan 11, 2013 3:50 pm  

I thought Solomona was really good for us. Tackled hard, ran hard, but just threw the odd wild pass.

JP, Gartner, Menzies.