Best example of a player standing up when the first choice becomes unavailable

[butchmcdick]

ET replacing Paul Mellor.

Boom

 

[Saint Doc]

ET replacing Paul Mellor.

Lock thread. We have a winner.

 

[Charlie124]

When everyone found out Jonathan Thurston was gone for the season I’m sure most people wrote off the cowboys chances for this year. However as we have all seen Michael Morgan has risen out of Thurstons shadow and announced himself as a genuine superstar of the game in his own right.

What are some other examples of players who arrived when they were called upon to fill in for a first choice player who was injured or unavailable?

I see your Michael Morgan coming for JT in 2017 and raise you a Michael Morgan coming in for Lachlan Coote in 2014. Following Matty Bowen's retirement in 2013, new fullback recruit - Coote blows his knee out in the Auckland Nines a couple of weeks before the season kicks off. New coach, Paul Green sees something nobody else does in this makeshift, middle of the road fill in halfback/five-eighth, Michael Morgan and decides to throw him into the FB role. Morgan goes on to have an absolutely stellar year in a position pretty much foreign to him to the point that many Cowboys fans (myself included) were questioning where/if Lachlan Coote could even come back into the squad once he got fit. Morgan was outstanding and could've gone on to make a career fullback until Green had other ideas, and shit I'm glad he did.

#InGreenWeTrust

 

[carcharias]

ET replacing Paul Mellor.

Hahaha

When that happened a woman at my work asked me about it ...and wanted to know if I still thought ET was a legend.

I looked her in the eye and said Paul Mellor should be happy.
It's ET... that means you've got a hot wife.

The joke went right over this woman's head.

 

[carcharias]

Liccha for Ennis

Ennis for liccha

 

[veggiepatch1959]

Lock thread. We have a winner.

ET sure went fishing that day....

To be honest, I didn't know this happened.

 

[King hit]

I remembered Brett Finch's origin game in 2006 when he was called into the team on the day of the game. Alan Langer being controversialy picked to debut in 1987 origin over Laurie Spina and being outstanding in a beaten team.

 

[Pedge1971]

Trent Hodkinson for Mitchell Pearce.

Robbie Farah for Damien Cook..

 

[The_Shield]

I know it's not rugby league but Kareem Hunt has been awesome to start the year for the Chiefs. If not for the injury to Spencer Ware he would of been the backup

 

[myrrh ken]

Trent Hodkinson for Mitchell Pearce.

This

 

[billygilmore]

Adam Mogg when qld had no other winger to chuck in

 

[veggiepatch1959]

I know it's not rugby league but Kareem Hunt has been awesome to start the year for the Chiefs. If not for the injury to Spencer Ware he would of been the backup

Who are these strange people you speak of?

 

[The_Shield]

Who are these strange people you speak of?

NFL players

 

[Cherry_poppins]

First one I thought of. Easy to forget but no way me make the grand final without blokes like Leo and Brett Grogan coming from the clouds in 1997.

Or steroids

 

[Pedge1971]

Or steroids

Ha ha. Whatever Shmerry. Drink a cup of shit flavoured tea..

 

[Danish]

Matty Johns for whoever went before him during the bunning

 

[no name]

Or steroids

There was always speculation about it, I mean, look at the size of him, especially those arms......

 

[Life's Good]

Matty Johns for whoever went before him during the bunning

This will now make me think differently about a certain hardware chain.

 

[Fangs]

Shannon Donato for Luke Priddis.

 

[justdave]

I know it's not rugby league but Kareem Hunt has been awesome to start the year for the Chiefs. If not for the injury to Spencer Ware he would of been the backup

Wot m8?