Sharks Cult Players top best team ever.

[newman]

A change from the usual best sharks ever team threads in lieu of the M Wright/Covell thread.

Conditions:
-Must be retired.
- Didnt have to be good.
- You have to have seen them play.
- You had to love them.
- You have to miss them.

1. Peach
2. Cov.
3. E.T. I loved how much of a pretty boy he was.
4. Fraser Anderson- I thought he would be something special. Pumped him up every time he got the ball.
5. Rat
6. Speechley: Crim. Scheming 5/8. Classic Tackler.
7. Presto: The greatest tragedy in sharks history.
8. Chris Beattie: Epic battling thug.
9. Pat Gibson: Menace on the drink.
10. Davo
11. Danny Nutley: Weird sort of player who ran on passion alone but was smarter than most pundits realised.
12. Bang Bang: Was dumber than most pundits realised.
13. (uncle) Trent Barrett: I liked him. Classy player. Shame he didnt do better for us.

 

[Special K]

1. Jared Taylor
2. Laloa Milford
3. Jared Anderson (gk) (c)
4. Damien Mostyn
5. Nick Yongquest
6. Jye Mullane
7. Andrew Dallalana
8. Don Tweddle
9. Pat Gibson
10. Nathan Vagg
11. Dean Bosnich
12. Andrew Lomu
13. Darren Mapp

14. Richard Villasanti
15. Luke Harlen
16. Luke Branighan
17. Josh Hannay

edit - ok I'll do it seriously

1. David Peachey
2. Matt Rogers
3. ET
4. Chris McKenna
5. Luke Covell
6. Mitch Healey - I really became a fan during the Healey bomb era
7. Preston Campbell
8. Les Davidson - scared me as a kid
9. Dean Treister
10. Jason Stevens
11. Phil Bailey - Good player until he was picked for origin
12. Nathan Long
13. Tawera Nikau

14. Martin Lang
15. Lance Thompson - Hated him before he was a shark but gee he won me over. How good was that first try against the dragons
16. Danny Nutley
17. Adam Dykes

Just missing out - Beattie, Richardson, Howland, Richie Barnett and Michael Sullivan

 

[blacktip-reefy]

1. Jared Taylor
2. Laloa Milford
3. Jared Anderson (gk) (c)
4. Damien Mostyn
5. Nick Yongquest
6. Jye Mullane
7. Andrew Dallalana
8. Don Tweddle
9. Pat Gibson
10. Nathan Vagg
11. Dean Bosnich
12. Andrew Lomu
13. Darren Mapp

14. Richard Villasanti
15. Luke Harlen
16. Luke Branighan
17. Josh Hannay

Put Fraser Anderson in there & you have the worst Sharks team ever.!!! FMD that is cringeworthy.

 

[newman]

Way to be a ruin-er K.

 

[blacktip-reefy]

1. Peach
2. Whippet Pure, whites of eyes scared, speed.
3. ET
4. Sparkles
5. Cove
6. Panda (taught me to kick)
7. Paul Green. Our best ever half back(sorry Tommy)
8. Kurt(old numbers)
9. Davo toughest man in the world. Almost
10 Steve Kneen. He scares Davo
11. Stevo. Our best ever prop
12. Johm Mcmartin Bet hooker ever. Full stop.
13. Martin Lang

14 . Rat
15. Tawerah
16. Sludge
17. Tommy

hard thread.

 

[Special K]

Way to be a ruin-er K.

My bad!!

Let me add in some photos of the players

How good was that jersey?!! Our best ever imo.

up the sharks!!!

 

[newman]

love it k.
I didnt know we had Reebok on the "straight" hoops jersey (et photo).

 

[Special K]

love it k.
I didnt know we had Reebok on the "straight" hoops jersey (et photo).

Neither did I.. I'd love to get my hands on one of those!

Finally got a decent fitting Reebok one earlier this year. Love ebay!

 

[Alan Shore]

Photo of Treister bleeding in a victorious match is a great photo - is that from one of the 2001 or 2002 semis?

 

[carcharias]

I have one
I will be jogging in it this arvo

 

[wolverine]

1. The Peach
2. The Whippet
3. ET
4. McKenna or Mellor
5. Matt Daylight
6. Matthew Johns (c)
7. Hey Presto
8. Chris Beattie
9. Dean Treister
10. Martin Lang
11. Nathan Long
12. Tawera Nikau
13. Nick Graham

14. Danny Nutley
15. The Wedgie Machine Jason Stevens
16. Tony Caine
17. Phil Bailey

 

[wolverine]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cronulla-Sutherland_Sharks_players

I just had a flick through this after putting down my list and started laughing at some of the greats that I forgot. Matt Rieck, Bickerstaff, Donato etc

 

[Don Tweddle]

This is the best thread I have seen on here.

I would probably try to squeeze in Brent Grose. Not as talented as a lot of other players but gutsy as hell. He was huge for us in that tragic 2001 semi.

Dykes would be in my 17 as well.

 

[Frenzy.]

Cult players huh? Interesting and can easily just turn into a favourites team (which it is a bit)

Players who had cult followings that I have seen are

1. Greg Pierce. The bloke who went on to captain Australia started as a fullback. He had flowing blond locks and a troupe of footy molls a hundred yards long sniffing about after him
2. Cov
3. ET
4. Sludge
5. Ray Corcoran - had his own fan club for years this bloke. Was a fuggen hopeless winger but as fast as a synapse with wicked left and right steps. Would miss a tackle on a tackling bag though. Once scored 4-5 tries in a game after being recalled and dared coach J Raper to drop him after that. He was dropped :lol:
6. Roger Millward
7. Tommy Bishop
8. Vince Farrar
9. Dean Triester. Was not a great fave of mine but he certainly enjoyed cult status in his latter years. Mainly for sticking it to Ando.
10. Cliff Watson
11. Nana Kneen
12. Longy
13. Rick Baber - THE BIGGEST cult hero in the history of the club yet he never even played first grade. People went to reserve grade games just to see Rick play. Won't be many here who have even heard of him.

14. Langy
15. Critter. Everyone wanted to be around Critter. So they could see what he was up to probably :lol:
16. Jimmy Bryant - another who I don't think saw first grade but had cult status around the club and whole shire.
17. Terry Hughes. He won the first ever Rothman's Medal this bloke. After that he was like the god of halfbacks in the Shire till T Bishop arrived.

 

[snoozer]

1 peach
2 cov
3 sludge
4 et
5 rat
6 speech
7 russel

8 davo
9 triester
10 dane
11 gav
12 kurt
13 nikau

14 stevo
15 hatch
16 danny lee
17 kneen

 

[Don Tweddle]

13. Rick Baber - THE BIGGEST cult hero in the history of the club yet he never even played first grade. People went to reserve grade games just to see Rick play. Won't be many here who have even heard of him.

What was the story with Baber? big hitter?

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

1. David Peachey
2. Matt Rogers
3. Andrew Ettingshausen
4. Chris McKenna
5. Luke Covell
6. Adam Dykes
7. Preston Campbell
8. Marty Lang
9. Dean Triester
10. Jason Stevens
11. Tawera Nikau
12. Sean Ryan
13. Nick Graham

14. Danny Nutley
15. Chris Beattie
16. Les Davidson
17. Ritchie Barnett

 

[Frenzy.]

I was kid back then and me and my mates always made sure to be there for Second grade or sometimes even thrid grade.

Baber was nuts. Simply nuts. Wasn't that big but he didn't know that. Tried to hit like a fright train. Tried to run like a wrecking ball. Never ever stopped working but most of all tried to stay conscious :lol:

Oh and he was good on the bottle as well.

 

[Special K]

Some other players who had cultish fans

 

[Frenzy.]

Some other players who had cultish fans

What's spider? A one man cult?

:lol: :lol: :lol: