Heroes and Villians RLWC

[playdaball]

Which players from the RLWC thus far would you rate as heroes (those who were largely unknown before the event) and villains (those who came with 'big' reputations but failed to deliver):

Heroes;
Tonga
Sam Moa
Kimi Uase (sp)

Samoa
Wade McDade

Fiji
Uate

PNG
David Moore
Their Penrith hooker - name escapes me


Villians
Samoa
Lauitititi
Meli
Roberts

France
Justin Murphy
Taylor

England
Wellens
Sykes

NZ
Leuluai

 

[roopy]

heros -
PNG - Gene
Fiji - Noilea
Ireland - Richards
Samoa - Vagana
France - Wynne (that Hurts)
Tonga - not sure
Scotland - Brough

 

[brendothejet]

stanley gene's tears should be bottled and sold.

 

[Coastbloke]

Villians - Nein, Geoff Carr and Jim Dymock

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Blokes like Taylor and Leuluai came with reputations for being sh:t so it was no surprise when they were. Meli was the worst of the Samoans by far. Michael Platt was pretty bad for Ireland early on. Considering he is arguably their best credentialed player, along with maybe Richards, some of the blunders he made were embarrassing.

 

[God-King Dean]

Two villains I can think of off the top of my head is Solomona for his elbo shot.

And that wanker #4 for Tonga. You know, the wanker who scored the winning try against Ireland, & got in the face of the guy who tried to tackle him. Absolute tosser.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

Wayne Kerr = hero. he's helping put rugby league in Ireland on the map.

 

[Phillips]

And that wanker #4 for Tonga. You know, the wanker who scored the winning try against Ireland, & got in the face of the guy who tried to tackle him. Absolute tosser.

Esi Tonga?

what a champion

 

[watatank]

Heroes for mine

PNG- David Moore
Ireland- Ryan Tandy
France- Adel Fellous
Fiji- Aaron Groom
NZ- Sika Manu
England- James Graham (don't watch ESL)

Villains:
Ireland- No idea what rep he had before, but their fullback is terrible
Scotland- Michael Robertson
France- Take your pick.
Fiji- Wes Naiqama
NZ- Benji Marshall, to an extent.
England- Paul Wellens

 

[Brownie.Kougari]

Heroes:
Lockyer
Gene
Gordon Tallis & Roy Masters
Whoever thought of the Blarney Army
Vatuvei
Wayne Kerr
The Fijian singing teachers
Barmy Army (too bad they've got nothing to cheer about, similar to the cricket version?)
The Kumuls
Everyone who turned up

Villans:
Channel 9
The "fans" who didn't turn up because their club wasn't involved
The Tonan winger (as stated above)

Failures:
France
England (the team, not the fans)
France
France
Samoa
France
France

 

[XIII]

the poms are villians for being crap and makeing the comp worse

 

[aqua_duck]

Heroes for mine

PNG- David Moore
Ireland- Ryan Tandy
France- Adel Fellous
Fiji- Aaron Groom
NZ- Sika Manu
England- James Graham (don't watch ESL)

Villains:
Ireland- No idea what rep he had before, but their fullback is terrible
Scotland- Michael Robertson
France- Take your pick.
Fiji- Wes Naiqama
NZ- Benji Marshall, to an extent.
England- Paul Wellens

Have you watched fiji play at all?

 

[marv]

And that wanker #4 for Tonga. You know, the wanker who scored the winning try against Ireland, & got in the face of the guy who tried to tackle him. Absolute tosser.

one of Tongas wingers in the Ireland game too, he must have cocked his fist about ten times but never had the minerals to follow through with any, what a charlie big spuds :roll:

 

[Bowhunter]

Isaac Luke's modern interpretive dance dive was lower than whale dung.

 

[watatank]

Have you watched fiji play at all?

Yes I have. It's probably a harsh call as he hasn't been bad but to me he seems to be just another player rather than being more which is what I probably expected.

 

[cb4]

from wes?? he is useless at best

 

[IanG]

Villans
This mob

 

[dubopov]

Wes is a legend .. I loved Stanley .. and as a biased Saints supporter, I've been very impressed with Costigan and Jeremy Smith who'll be a great backrow with Ben Creagh. Boyd was impressive at fullback as I expected.

The villains were obviously 9 and from a personal viewpoint the Coaches for stuffing up the team I selected in the Courier Fantasy League last week ..

 

[screeny]

Heroes
Stanley Gene - for being unequivocally the tournament's brightest star, and one of its best players
PNG's dreadlocked hooker, Charlie Wabo - for his inventiveness at dummy half and his first touch in WC footy, a flick between his legs v England!
Wayne Kerr
The entire Fiji team, including management - for creating a truly quality RL side and RL experience that will arguably benefit the game more than anything else produced by this WC, an assault on RU in the islands that will see RL take over top spot.
James Roby - for sticking it to the Aussies
Issac Luke - I finally got to see him play and he's mental!
The Aussie TV commentators - for not being Eddie and Stevo.
Adel Fellous - for showing pride in the French shirt, and for his hits and hit ups. None better in the comp.

Villains
John Monie - for doing to the reputation of French RL what the Fijians have conversely done to theirs.
Ricky Stuart - I just don't like him.
Colin Love and Ch9
Tony Smith and Paul Wellens - gutless and useless
Jim Dymock - Lam and Dakuitoga showed him what can be done with less heralded Pac Rim players, in terms of a balance between structure, flair and heart.
Samoa's haka - all the high-pitched screaming at the beginning reminds me of a bad 1950s Western, when the Apaches attack and ride around a stagecoach getting shot, as ultimately futile an exercise in aggression as Samoa's bid.

 

[lolesi]

Charlie Wabo

Legend.