Best Rugby League Convert

[greeneyed]

The initial converts didn't play "rugby league" as we know it today. It was much closer to union rules, if not identical. The main difference then was that the players were openly paid. Therefore, it is the later converts who would rate higher in my book.

 

[disco1]

I think my nation has had the best union converts by a country mile:

Jonathan Davies
Billy Boston
Sullivan
Scott Gibbs
David Watkins

These are just a few of the many who made the top grades in league and became legends.

 

[Stagger eel]

Micheal O'Connor and Ray Price!!..just can't split them.

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

Manfred Moore.

 

[simon says]

Wally Lewis,Russell Fairax,John Brass,Ray Price,Michael O Connor,Ricky Stuart......all very good players.

 

[Up the mighty Phins]

Wally Lewis IS NOT A CONVERT. He played League from the very start (at 6) and only played union at school when he was a student at Brisbane State High (a GPS school).

 

[Tighthead]

He didn't play a Test for union......

He toured with the Wallabies in 1987, but I don't think he played in a test match - Nick Farr-Jones was ahead of him.

 

[simon says]

I thought Wally played rep at union level...

 

[simon says]

Wally Lewis IS NOT A CONVERT. He played League from the very start (at 6) and only played union at school when he was a student at Brisbane State High (a GPS school).

Well......didnt he rep in rugby before league??????I thought he toured with Price,Fairfax and co?????Is my memory out???

 

[Stagger eel]

I thought Wally played rep at union level...

I thought he toured with the Australian school boys in union??..infact in the same sqaud as the Ella's

 

[Tighthead]

Lewis played in the famed 77 Australian Schoolboys - Ella brothers, O'Connor, Hawker, Roche, Melrose, D'Arcy.

He didn't play any senior rubgy after that, as I understand it, and I wouldn't consider him a convert at all.

 

[simon says]

So let me get this right...he was a Wallaby scoolboy,toured with the 77 side.But isnt a convert....

I am confused.Sounds like moew wishful thinking than fact to me.

Cheers.

 

[Stagger eel]

So let me get this right...he was a Wallaby scoolboy,toured with the 77 side.But isnt a convert....

I am confused.Sounds like moew wishful thinking than fact to me.

Cheers.

who cares what the purists think.

I would call him a convert.

 

[Tighthead]

I understand that he also played in representative rugby league teams as a junior as well.

This is interesting:

rugby league family, he played junior rugby league in Brisbane and represented Queensland rugby league throughout his teenage years.

With a Wallabies Test centre spot in his sights, Lewis continued to play league for Valleys lower grades as an ‘amateur'. The QRU though decided for itself that Lewis had no intention of remaining "loyal" and Wally was informed indirectly that he would not be considered for selection. That was enough for Wally to end his flirtation with the 15-man game.

http://rl1908.com/Hoffame/Wally-Lewis-Rugby-League.htm

 

[rugged]

Wally Lewis played and repped for qld for rugby league throughout all his junior years.

He then went to State High and played school rugby, all the while continuing to play league. He came back for an extra year of year 12 with the hope of going on the schoolboys union tour to England and Europe, which he did.

That was the extent of his union. NOT a convert if he was playing league all the time and that was his original sport! Geez, get it through your heads!

 

[KFC]

Ray Price.

He was an absolute champion and he was a forward.

Not many successful forward converts.

 

[melon....]

Fairfax
Stuart
dayilight

 

[gregstar]

o'connor, price, f*ck whoever becomes a dual international is good!

 

[Quigs]

Barry Stumbles......

Willow, will you second my nomination.

Cheers
Quigs

 

[choisir]

o'connor, price, f*ck whoever becomes a dual international is good!

Andrew Walker