Anyone know whatever happened to Scott Wilson?

[Dog-E]

I read a snippet of an article in one of thee Sunday papers about a team of ex-Aussie League players, playing against a 'pub side' in England not long ago - including Trevor Gillmeister, Mark Bell, and what they described as "The recently retired Scott Wilson"

I always wondered what happened to him! He was a fabulous player for all his personal problems and faults - an attacking fullback of real quailty and flair!!...And he just seemed to...disappear after he left us!! One year he was first choice fullback and killing 'em - next he was just GONE - with no explanation from Chris Anderson (But isnt that just his style! :roll: ), and Rod Silva was there - so we didn't lose much, if anything at least!!

Now I know he had a couple more seasons at the Gold Coast and the Western Reds after that thanks to stats.rleague.com (although i honestly don't remember him playing at the Gold Coast for SOME reason?!? And can only vaguely recall the sight of him in a Reds jersey!) - but then i can ONLY assume he went to England at the end of 1997 when he left the Reds!??!...If he's only just recently retired!

I've looked at numerous google searces etc - but can find nothing of him after he left Australia - Does anyone know where he went in the UK??

Cheers!

 

[Dog-E]

Bah!! After typing ALL that stuff....i just found out, wouldn't u know it!?!? :roll:

He went to Warrington!...Where he played, interestingly enough - with Danny Nutley!

So there u go....mystery solved!! Move along people - nothing to see here!!!

 

[PB]

Apparently Anderson wanted him for the 3rd test, but he told him it would be a waste of time as he would fail the drug test.

 

[Dog-E]

Apparently Anderson wanted him for the 3rd test, but he told him it would be a waste of time as he would fail the drug test.

Meh. If Anderson REALLY wanted him, he'd have taken the drug test himself on the sly and picked him anyway....Then again, maybe that wouldn't have been such a good idea, as Anderson must be on some SERIOUS drugs himself, given some of his selections, and behaviour over the past few years!!!...

 

[Bobby DIGital]

Kenny Nagas' big left-foot step and swerve in the 94 grand final buried his career.

 

[***MH***]

 

[CouldaBeenAnything]

He had a lot of ability that guy...never reached his potential though sadly..

That card has given me flashbacks to my younger days...I had bloody hundreds of those things

 

[Raider_69]

Kenny Nagas' big left-foot step and swerve in the 94 grand final buried his career.

yea pretty much ay
after that game he seemed to have disappeared into thin air!

Osbourne, Furner, Mal, Daley, Stuart, Clyde, Nagas and the rest of them pretty much buired the whole damn team, they wernt in it from the kick off, literally :lol:

 

[Canterbury]

Kenny Nagas' big left-foot step and swerve in the 94 grand final buried his career.

yea pretty much ay
after that game he seemed to have disappeared into thin air!

Osbourne, Furner, Mal, Daley, Stuart, Clyde, Nagas and the rest of them pretty much buired the whole damn team, they wernt in it from the kick off, literally :lol:

the last gf we played canberra in

ohh the flashbacks

 

[thickos]

I thought they were still peeling Scott Wilson off the grass at the SFS somewhere, he was hit by that Mal Meninga steam-roller on or around the vicinity of September 25, 1994. ;-) People don't make come-backs from things like that :lol:

'Nagas, Nagas.....oh Kenny Nagas, try-time Canberra! 10-0 in the Decider! Leaves Wilson in his wake!'

36 - 12....dont forget it scotty!

 

[miănfèinàn]

Now I know he had a couple more seasons at the Gold Coast and the Western Reds after that thanks to stats.rleague.com (although i honestly don't remember him playing at the Gold Coast for SOME reason?!? And can only vaguely recall the sight of him in a Reds jersey!) - but then i can ONLY assume he went to England at the end of 1997 when he left the Reds!??!...If he's only just recently retired!

It was a fair punishment for his shocking display in the 1994 Grand Final against Ricky Stuart for Anderson to sack him. Put it another way, it was common sense on Anderson’s part to realise the Bulldogs would never win a flag without a top-class bomb-catcher to counter Stuart.

The merest glance at the 1994 Grand Final shows that a fullback capable of taking Stuart’s bombs would have made at least a 20 point difference! In other words a genuine high-class fullback would by himself have put the Bulldogs into the game instead of being crushed from the start.

Playing in the position for which he was designed - five-eighth - Wilson did play one notable game in weather that is already part of Perth’s past history. The Reds beat a Manly side that conceded only 21 tries in seventeen games with Ridge (and did not concede more than two in any of those) with Wilson’s skill in conditions that were too much for that amazing Sea Eagle defence driving them forward to an 11-8 victory. I had of course long known of that huge upset but had never realised the role this misplaced five-eighth had played.

 

[butchmcdick]

Wasnt that raiders team cheating the cap ?

 

[Raider_69]

No.

 

[miănfèinàn]

Wasnt that raiders team cheating the cap ?

Problems with the salary cap (and injuries) affected the Canberra Raiders in 1990 and 1991, which led them to fall to twelfth of sixteen teams in 1992 owing to a terrible record away from Bruce. (Despite their low position the Raiders were only two-and-a-half games away from fifth place so close was the middle of the ladder that season).

They rebuilt amazingly quickly considering what I had expected of them when I was watching rugby league most closely at the end of the 1992 season. Before any more talk about the salary cap could come, Super League took hold and the Raiders were pretty much the first team to join up. Then, with the injuries to Stuart and Clyde in 1996, their golden age ended for good before the Super League war was over.