20 year anniversary for the joint venture

[Saints of George]

1. Ben Hornby (c)
2. Nathan Blacklock
3. Mark Coyne
4. Matt Cooper
5. Jason Nightingale
6. Jamie Soward
7. Matty Head
8. Michael Wayman
9. Nathan Brown
10. Luke Bailey
11. Ben Creagh
12. Lance Thompson
13. Wayne Bartrim

14. Trent Barrett
15. Brett Morris
16. Dean Young
17. Shaun Timmins

Coach: Wayne Bennett

 

[saints4ever]

As hard as it is, i went with my gut as to who on their BEST day, would be in there.
So, i present the following based on nothing but they could turn a game.

1. Boyd
2. B Morris
3. M Gasnier
4 M Cooper
5. N Blacklock
6. A Mundine
7. T Barrett
8. L Bailey
9. N Brown
10. C Smith
11. B Scott
12. T Frizzell
13. T Simms

14. B Hornby
15. M Weyman
16. P Vaughn
17. J Smith

Coach W Bennett

 

[muzby]

1. Patten
2. Wishart
3. McGregor
4. Cooper
5. B Morris
6. Barrett
7. Hornby

8. C Smith
9. Rein
10. Ryles
11. Fitzgibbon
12. Mackay
13. Timmins

Coach: Farrar

 

[Saint_JimmyG]

The simple answer here is the 2010 grand final winning team, but I’ll try mixing it up a bit.

Prepare for a few controversial choices.

1. Hornby
2. Blacklock
3. Coyne
4. Cooper
5. Nightingale
6. Widdop
7. Head
13. Smith
12. Thompson
11. Creagh
10. Bailey
9. Brown
8. Merrin

 

[Old Timer]

Hornby
Blacklock
Gasnier
Coyne
B Morris
Soward
Head
Smith (c)
Brown
Weyman
Creagh
Frizzell
Smith

Mundine
Ryles
Bailey
Mc Kay

IMO laughable people putting in Hunt and Vaughan who are yet to deliver on a week in week out basis.
I thought Vaughan was great in his 1st year but well down on that form last year prior to injury.
Hunt has a long way to go to show he can organise this current team and I'm positive Head would have loved to have been the half in the side above.

 

[DragonJ]

Your a hard man putting Ryles ahead of Craig Smith, even Weyman.

To me, Ryles costs us more games than won us.
Smith was a great captain and gave his all and Wyman was peaking with us.
Bailey was an excellent player for us as well.

I was trying to think who the player was that, 'had a head like a smacked A-hole' .............. and the name, Darren Tracey came to me. Every opposition player hated him but l liked his mongrel style.

Anyway, to each their own.

Were you drunk when you posted this? Reread my message slowly.

Ryles was a good player but was a soft target for refs to penalize and his running style wasn't so effective. Opposition got under him and drove him back a little often for my liking.

 

[Dennis Papaioannou]

WhatsYour top 17 players for the Dragons last 20 years.
A bit of fun[/cey QUOTE]
1. Darius Boyd
2. Brett Morris
3. Mark Gasnier
4. Matt Cooper (Jamie Ainscough)
5. Nathan Blacklock
6. Jamie Soward (Trent Barrett)
7. Ben Hunt (Mattie Head)
13. Wayne Bartrim
12. Tyson Frizzel
11. Tariq Sims (Lance Thompson)
10. Craig Smith
9. Nathan Brown
8. Paul Vaughn
14. Darren Tracey
15. Beau Scott
16. Michael Weyman
17.Anthony Mundine

In brackets honourable mentions

 

[RufusRex]

I'll just say anyone leaving Tingha out must have never seen him play.

He was points.
He was entertainment plus.
He was/is a good bloke.
He was all class.

Absolutely - 4 seasons in a row he scored 20 tries or more
120 tries in 137 games for the RedV

For perspective, Nighty scored 110 tries in 266 games for us.

 

[Forster Dragon]

Irrespective of feelings towards Mundine he has to be there.

 

[muzby]

Irrespective of feelings towards Mundine he has to be there.

I could only tolerate Mundine for a maximum of 80 mins a week.


Conveniently, a game of football runs for 80 minutes.

 

[gitano]

1. Patten
2. Wishart
3. McGregor
4. Cooper
5. B Morris
6. Barrett
7. Hornby

8. C Smith
9. Rein
10. Ryles
11. Fitzgibbon
12. Mackay
13. Timmins

Coach: Farrar

What side of the JV are you from Muz? Asking for a friend

 

[since77]

I'll just say anyone leaving Tingha out must have never seen him play.

He was points.
He was entertainment plus.
He was/is a good bloke.
He was all class.

Obviously the moronic NSW selectors never saw him play.......

 

[blacksafake]

Hornby
Tingha
Gaz
Coyne
B Moz
Sowie
Head
Weyman
Brown
C Smith(as long as he can stay on the field)
Frizell
Creagh
J Smith

Bailey
Mundine
Timmins
Young

 

[AyiosYiorgos]

whats the team based on i see Mark Coyne is mentioned yet he played 15 games only and from memory played off the bench as well, so are you picking players on reputation or what they did for StGeorge Illawarra as opposed to their careers at pre merger

 

[Old Kogarah Boy 1]

1. Ben Hornby (c)
2. Nathan Blacklock
3. Mark Coyne
4. Matt Cooper
5. Jason Nightingale
6. Jamie Soward
7. Matty Head
8. Michael Wayman
9. Nathan Brown
10. Luke Bailey
11. Ben Creagh
12. Lance Thompson
13. Wayne Bartrim

14. Trent Barrett
15. Brett Morris
16. Dean Young
17. Shaun Timmins

Coach: Wayne Bennett

J. Smith for Bartrim and l'd love to find room for Beau Scott & Craig Smith but apart from that, it's a dam good team.

 

[Saints of George]

J. Smith for Bartrim and l'd love to find room for Beau Scott & Craig Smith but apart from that, it's a dam good team.

To be fair, my team was mainly built on who I considered good club men, but you're absolutely right, J.Smith, Scott and C.Smith were all guns too!

Maybe i'll include an extended bench

 

[Saints of George]

whats the team based on i see Mark Coyne is mentioned yet he played 15 games only and from memory played off the bench as well, so are you picking players on reputation or what they did for StGeorge Illawarra as opposed to their careers at pre merger

I always hold Mark Coyne in very high esteem for what he did in '99.

Yes it was his last year and the back end of it he saw injured on the sidelines and will be remembered as a St.George legend as opposed to a St.George Illawarra legend but, he was our first captain as a JV club (which I imagine wouldn't have been an easy task) and what's more impressive is that I remember reading at the time of the '99 GF, he actually overcame his injury in time for the '99 finals but unselfishly gave up his spot in the team and his spot to captain the team in the GF to not break up the winning combination that got the club there in the first place and essentially not taking the spot of Shaun Timmins.

That reason alone is why he's in my team. Unselfish leadership from our captain who put the team before his own glory. Unlike a certain other captain we had in 2008 who pissed off to France and cost us a promising Josh Morris.

 

[nontime111]

thats exactly why Gazz is not in my team, I have Mcgregor at centre above him......people forget how good Mary was at centre for us and he almost captained us to that 99 GF, we should have that game recorded as our first JV win you know......nothing to do with the last try

also for coach I have a certain D.Waite as our best coach above Benny..... same reason above, 99 trophy would have ( in an uncorrupt corporotocracy, or any time before 95, Super League involvement) been ours and he would have been coach of that......I far prefer his entertaining attack play to safe old Bennet and also admire the way he took us from a team of nobodys in his first year only days out from round 1 took over the utter wreckage left by selfish Reddy....and we made the GF in that year also

 

[RufusRex]

To be fair, my team was mainly built on who I considered good club men, but you're absolutely right, J.Smith, Scott and C.Smith were all guns too!

Maybe i'll include an extended bench

And you still picked Luke Bailey?

 

[FlameThrower]

1. Boyd
2. Morris
3. Gasnier
4. Cooper
5. Nightingale
6. Soward
7. Hornby
8. Costigan
9. Young
10. Weyman
11. Scott
12. Creagh
13. Smith
14. Fien
15. Merrin
16. Prior
17. Saffy

I’m all about results.

100% agree on this .. and you can’t argue on the results - minor premierships, premiership, world club championship.