naturally gifted rugby league players for scoring tries, who you rate ?

[Walk On Home Boy]

Ah yes...ol' creeping Jesus

 

[blue bags]

Can't have an all time great tryscorers thread without mentioning The Guru....
" The boy Grothe,well he's diseased with speed.".....Jack Gibson.

radradra

 

[Hutty1986]

B.Moz and Blacklock, as well as Hayne in 09/14. Just lethal.
Matty Bowen, so electric at his best. Andrew Walker just a freak too, just such a natural with footy in hand. Bomaderry boy too. 2541 baby!

 

[skeepe]

This list isn’t complete without mentioning Jarrod Croker. A natural try scorer and a freak in the air, he always looks like he might find the line.

4th highest active try scorer, and he ain’t near done yet.

 

[THE CHAMP]

Agreed on Tuqiri. And the Broncos had a string of great all-time wingers in the 90’s/00’s.
Carne, Hancock, Sailor, Tuqiri. All Australian rep players..

Don’t forget the brief glimpse we all got of Jarral yow yeh.

Club is still recovering I reckon I know I am

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Don’t forget the brief glimpse we all got of Jarral yow yeh.

Club is still recovering I reckon I know I am

mate chin up after tonight. Doesn’t make it easier right now I assume, but I’ve seen my mob cop similar hidings in the past. Know the feeling.

 

[Phil McGrawhan]

Bowen 04-07 was in a class of his own

 

[Marshall_magic]

Brett Stewart. Positional/support play was sublime and had incredible pace. Has over 150 tries to his name and missed two seasons in his prime due to injury. Had he got on the field in 2009-2010 he would have bagged 200.

 

[Wests is Best]

Brett Mullins/Phil Blake/Brett Kenny

 

[Chimp]

As a Sharks man, it pains me to say it, but Blacklock was very special - he’s the first name that came to my mind when reading the title.
ET was great, and whilst I’m sure everyone rates B.Moz, I think he’s still underrated - I reckon he’s one of the best all round wingers to ever play the game. Imagine if he’d played his career at Melbourne.
Englishmen in the NRL, Schofield and Hanley both scored tries for fun, throughout their career both in England, Australia and at international level.

 

[mxlegend99]

Josh Mansour has an incredible strike rate for a winger. Between 2019 and 2020 so far he has bagged 1 try.

 

[myrrh ken]

Ben barba could find the fat white stripe now and again

 

[Todd Hoffman]

Josh Mansour has an incredible strike rate for a winger. Between 2019 and 2020 so far he has bagged 1 try.

Have you seen his misses? That is where he is doing his scoring.

 

[Todd Hoffman]

Cliffy Lyons my favourite player growing up. His partnership with Menzies was a thing of beauty.

 

[Whip Whitaker]

Matty Bowen. Defences would panic if he started dancing around the field.

 

[Vozzy]

I think currently Brett Morris is involved in a lot of tries despite being a winger. He seems to be both gifted in scoring and being one of the last passes for a try to be scored. Even last night he chimed in at fullback better than most who have played a whole career there.

Obviously teddy and turbo are on this list as well.

Back in the day Slater, Renouf, Semi and Menzies.

 

[T.S Quint]

Ken Irvine.

 

[Whip Whitaker]

Ben barba could find the fat white stripe now and again

He loves the white line. That's for sure.

 

[gerg]

No mention of Tommy turbo. Amazing player.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Where is that stats guys?

Tries per game.

Now this is about naturals, there will be blokes who stats are better as they played outside a genius.

Ken Irvine. May not have seen the guy play, but considering he played 236 first grade games from 1958 to 1970 for the North Sydney Bears and then from 1971 to 1973 for Manly scoring 212 tries, he would classify as a natural. I mean in his career, he played 432 first class games and scored 385 tries (source: https://www.nrl.com/hall-of-fame/players/ken-irvine/), as such that would put him in there.

You would also add in Brian Bevan. May have played most of his career in England for Warrington in the 1940s thru to the mid 1960s, but he played 696 first class games scoring a staggering 796 tries. He was a complete freak from all reports, a pure natural with ball in hand, but looked very scrawny (source: https://www.nrl.com/hall-of-fame/players/brian-bevan/).

Of those I have seen I'd nominate Arthur Beetson. The guy had it all pace, strength, football brains, a good passing game, more elusive than you'd think, and could tackle too.