Dream Team Announced

[wire31]

TOP CLUBS DOMINATE DREAM TEAM

Players from Leeds and St Helens, who claimed the top two places in the engage Super League, dominate the 2005 Dream Team announced on Tuesday.
There are five from Saints and four from Leeds, including skipper Kevin Sinfield, while Challenge Cup winners Hull have two representatives and Bradford and Warrington provide one each.

Leeds' New Zealand international Ali Lauitiiti is the only survivor from last year's team while, for the first time, there is no Wigan player in the mythical line-up, which is chosen by a panel of rugby league media based on form throughout the 28 rounds of the regular season.

Encouragingly for coach Brian Noble, the team includes 10 players eligible to play for Great Britain, including newly-appointed captain Jamie Peacock. The exceptions are Lauitiiti and Saints' Australian threequarters Jamie Lyon and Darren Albert.

Of the 10, only St Helens prop Paul Anderson and Hull stand-off or loose forward Paul Cooke are not in Noble's initial squad for the end-of-season Gillette Tri-Nations Series.

The 2005 engage Super League Dream Team:
Paul Wellens (St Helens)
Mark Calderwood (Leeds),
Jamie Lyon (St Helens),
Martin Gleeson (Warrington),
Darren Albert (St Helens);
Paul Cooke (Hull),
Rob Burrow (Leeds);
Jamie Thackray (Hull),
Keiron Cunningham (St Helens),
Paul Anderson (St Helens),
Jamie Peacock (Bradford),
Ali Lauitiiti (Leeds),
Kevin Sinfield (Leeds).

 

[bartman]

Cheers Wire31, nice scoop and welcome aboard.

Can't really argue with any of their choices too much on form. Interesting how twelve names are different to last year's...

 

[Evil Homer]

The dream team is rubbish IMO,as the journalists opinions are of no more value than yours or mine.

The opta team of the year is better,but that seems to have disappeared off the radar a bit in the last few seasons.

 

[Big Mick]

Go Martin Gleeson

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

Ali Lauiti'iti- overweight, lazy, disinterested, and the only player to make the dream team for the last two years.

 

[MONY]

Ali Lauiti'iti- overweight, lazy, disinterested, and the only player to make the dream team for the last two years.

:roll:

 

[bartman]

I believe Thierry is using sarcasm, which can sometimes be hard to pick on forums without a wink ;-).

 

[Scott]

Ali Lauiti'iti- overweight, lazy, disinterested, and the only player to make the dream team for the last two years.

How does he make a dreamteam? I thought Danny Tickle had a better season than Ali. Or maybe even Vinnie Anderson. Everything TH says above is correct, and is preety sad when you consider what he was before his health problems.

 

[douglasallen91]

How does he make a dreamteam? I thought Danny Tickle had a better season than Ali. Or maybe even Vinnie Anderson. Everything TH says above is correct, and is preety sad when you consider what he was before his health problems.

vinnie has had a shocker with injury this year.

 

[MrCharisma]

All I will add to this conversation... is GO MARC CALDERWOOD!

 

[League Freak™]

Paul Anderson......



The game in the UK is dead.

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

In defence of Paul Anderson, Shane Tronc plays in the NRL.

 

[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]

In defence of Paul Anderson, Shane Tronc plays in the NRL.

Hehe, too true.

 

[League Freak™]

Tronc isnt 47.

 

[suburbanknight]

Tronc isnt 47.

Neither is Paul Anderson.

Unless we are talking about his weight. In stones.

 

[League Freak™]

Well....I'd say that Anderson covered.


Now onto Cunningham....

 

[suburbanknight]

That fat, stoned, pussy has already been covered on RLFans Freaky.........

 

[lyon is a saint]

Nothing wrong with big Baloo.. he just loves his burger king!

Also exptect either Cunningham or Lyon win Man of steel.

 

[ESL - Wire]

Anderson should never have got into the dream team, he only got in there because the reporters were so impressed with his weight loss and being able to play more than 40 minutes in a match.

I would question Ali and Anderson in the dream team, there have been several second rowers and props better than these two.

 

[Special K]

So would it be fair to say Albert is the best winger in SL? Hmmm

Calderwood to me is a dark skinned Matt Rieck....