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Re: Greatest winger in the world : Sun Oct 21, 2018 10:19 am  

Now that is tidied up. Pease discuss your views on the worlds greatest winger

My apologies to Willzay for accidentally deleting his post on this topic..

Re: Greatest winger in the world : Sun Oct 21, 2018 11:06 am  

nottinghamtiger wrote:

Greg Eden has 48 tries in 43 appearances for Castleford.
Is there (or has there been) anyone in the NRL or SL with a better tries:games ratio?

The only player I can think of from the modern era that comes close would be Vainikolo at Bradford with 152 appearances and 149 tries

Re: Greatest winger in the world : Sun Oct 21, 2018 11:07 am  

TJ.

Re: Greatest winger in the world : Sun Oct 21, 2018 11:15 am  

nottinghamtiger wrote:

Greg Eden has 48 tries in 43 appearances for Castleford.
Is there (or has there been) anyone in the NRL or SL with a better tries:games ratio?

Joel Monaghan while at Wire: 145 tries in 145 games.

Re: Greatest winger in the world : Sun Oct 21, 2018 1:44 pm  

I think you might need to check Offiah's stats. More than a try a game across an entire career!

Re: Greatest winger in the world : Sun Oct 21, 2018 2:13 pm  

I think you can build a pretty good case for numerous players, I would say the OP is very much baiting by saying nobody comes close.

Re: Greatest winger in the world : Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:00 pm  

Try tallies are all well and good but can just highlight the strength of the team/ability to get their winger in than truely judge how good the winger is. Eden at Cas is a great example of this, we know from Solomona previously that playing left wing for Cas gets you plenty of tries so it’s more the team than the individual. Would Eden get near his numbers at other clubs?

Plus try tallies are only one aspect of playing wing, granted it’s a key one but you need to do more than just finish off tries

Re: Greatest winger in the world : Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:41 pm  

roofaldo2 wrote:

The only player I can think of from the modern era that comes close would be Vainikolo at Bradford with 152 appearances and 149 tries

So not Vainakolo.

Re: Greatest winger in the world : Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:42 pm  

MorePlaymakersNeeded wrote:

Joel Monaghan while at Wire: 145 tries in 145 games.

So not Monaghan either.

Re: Greatest winger in the world : Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:43 pm  

Phuzzy wrote:

I think you might need to check Offiah's stats. More than a try a game across an entire career!

Not in SL or the NRL though (ie the modern game).
Undoubtedly the best winger of all time in my opinion though.