Greatest Side/Era put together!

[soc123_au]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Michael Jennings a brilliant footballer and sensational try scorer. Pity he was a DS off the field

Girds & Freddy have him covered. Great player, but 2 absolute stars ahead of him.

 

[MugaB]

He is but there a few positions stacked, So until a winger beats him

Wesser
Lewis
Girdler
Fittler
Mansour
Brandy
Gower
Geyer
Royce
Fish
Puletua
Waterhouse
Yeo

Cleary
Cartwright
Kikau
Waterhouse

Mansour over To'o.... seriously
Geyer in front row? A bit disgeniuos to other front rows weve had....he'd be my 2nd row over waterhouse, and id have one less waterhouse and add a Scotty Sattler and Dylan
Edwards for me need to nail a spots on yhe bench

 

[Iamback]

Mansour over To'o.... seriously
Geyer in front row? A bit disgeniuos to other front rows weve had....he'd be my 2nd row over waterhouse, and id have one less waterhouse and add a Scotty Sattler and Dylan
Edwards for me need to nail a spots on yhe bench

Hard to put current players in as their achievements are still going but for me wingers score tries.

I had guys that played 100 games
Played for state and country

So my list was smaller then most on here

 

[Iamback]

Girds & Freddy have him covered. Great player, but 2 absolute stars ahead of him.

That is it for me

Lewis is a winger
Freddy a centre because that is what they played mostly here

 

[Pomoz]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Michael Jennings a brilliant footballer and sensational try scorer. Pity he was a DS off the field

John, I was picking from our GF/Minor premier teams. Jennings won nothing with us. Likewise other good players like Gordon, Civoniceva, Roberts etc In any case it would be a cold day in hell before I would pick Jennings in front of Girdler of Fittler.

 

[Iamback]

John, I was picking from our GF/Minor premier teams. Jennings won nothing with us. Likewise other good players like Gordon, Civoniceva, Roberts etc In any case it would be a cold day in hell before I would pick Jennings in front of Girdler of Fittler.

That is it. Needs to be some sort of way to qualify the players

 

[BossleyPanther]

Wesser had maybe 3 good years and made an awful lot of errors. I'd take Dylan over him easy

More like 18 months

 

[ColdWetPanther]

More like 18 months

But those 18 months were glorious. The Parra try out of dummy half when we needed to win to take the MP is still my favourite ever Panther moment.

 

[Smug Panther]

But those 18 months were glorious. The Parra try out of dummy half when we needed to win to take the MP is still my favourite ever Panther moment.

Thats a cracker. Best I've seen live is the Sowie field goal in the final against the Chooks. I was in the SCG members section

 

[Fangs]

Wesser from dummy-half against Parramatta was a great moment. He also scored a similar one against the Bulldogs and completely blitzed Luke Patten. Its at 54 seconds:

 

[Pomoz]

Wesser from dummy-half against Parramatta was a great moment. He also scored a similar one against the Bulldogs and completely blitzed Luke Patten. Its at 54 seconds:

Thanks Fangs, I forgot just how good he was. Breathtaking to watch, especially in 2003. Nobody in our current team, or any team in our history, have got close to the speed, balance and acceleration that Wesser had. Jennings was the closest, but he was slow over 100m and got run down quite often. It was very rare to see Wesser run down. That clip showed him burning Brett Stewart on the outside. Stewart was no slouch, but I saw Wesser slice past him several times when we played Mankly.

 

[Fangs]

Thanks Fangs, I forgot just how good he was. Breathtaking to watch, especially in 2003. Nobody in our current team, or any team in our history, have got close to the speed, balance and acceleration that Wesser had. Jennings was the closest, but he was slow over 100m and got run down quite often. It was very rare to see Wesser run down. That clip showed him burning Brett Stewart on the outside. Stewart was no slouch, but I saw Wesser slice past him several times when we played Mankly.

Yes it is easy to forget. Close to 20 years since we saw him at the peak of his powers. He was absolutely devastating at his best.

 

[Fangs]

I can't find the footage but I do recall Wesser getting run down with a good head start. The fact he was caught was made even more impressive as he was blatantly offside from a Gower chip kick. We ended up scoring off the next play and stole the game in the dying minutes.

I can't recall the year. It might have been this one. Darren Albert played that night and he had plenty of toe so you could imagine him keeping him:

NRL 2006 - Round 24 - Cronulla Sutherland Sharks 28 lost to Penrith Panthers 32 - RLP

Match info page for the Cronulla Sutherland Sharks vs. Penrith Panthers game in Round 24 of the 2006 NRL season. Panthers won 32 to 28 at Toyota Park.

www.rugbyleagueproject.org

 

[Iamback]

I can't find the footage but I do recall Wesser getting run down with a good head start. The fact he was caught was made even more impressive as he was blatantly offside from a Gower chip kick. We ended up scoring off the next play and stole the game in the dying minutes.

I can't recall the year. It might have been this one. Darren Albert played that night and he had plenty of toe so you could imagine him keeping him:

NRL 2006 - Round 24 - Cronulla Sutherland Sharks 28 lost to Penrith Panthers 32 - RLP

Match info page for the Cronulla Sutherland Sharks vs. Penrith Panthers game in Round 24 of the 2006 NRL season. Panthers won 32 to 28 at Toyota Park.

www.rugbyleagueproject.org

Head gear Wesser was ordinary so very likely those years

 

[Fangs]

Head gear Wesser was ordinary so very likely those years

No I think it was later. It was a last minute victory at Shark Park, no head gear that night.

The only other match that was similar was decided by a Sammut field goal and I know he didn't play the game I am thinking about.

 

[Iamback]

No I think it was later. It was a last minute victory at Shark Park, no head gear that night.

The only other match that was similar was decided by a Sammut field goal and I know he didn't play the game I am thinking about.

That timing matches Darren Albert

 

[Kilkenny]

But those 18 months were glorious. The Parra try out of dummy half when we needed to win to take the MP is still my favourite ever Panther moment.

The thing about Rhys around this notion he was only good for 2 seasons is the fact he scored 113 tries in a 178 games for us. We as a team may have only been good for two seasons, but Rhys scored 113 tries. Given decent, very good players tend to do well if they score 20 tries a season in a good season what does that say about Rhys. Even his average of 13 tries a season across 10 seas is is fair given we were shithouse for most of his time at the club.

You can’t compare era’s, different sides , all I can say is in my 50 years of supporting this club, other than Brandy, Gowie (maybe), I’ve never seen a more explosive, faster, better player at his best than Rhys Wesser. Not just two seAsia’s,but over his entire time at our club. IMO the guy was a freak, at his best he was capable of doing the things now everyone bangs on about Tommy T, Trell and James T.

If Rhys had played for one of the competition heavyweights at his best he would have scored twice as many tries than he did with us.

 

[Iamback]

The thing about Rhys around this notion he was only good for 2 seasons is the fact he scored 113 tries in a 178 games for us. We as a team may have only been good for two seasons, but Rhys scored 113 tries. Given decent, very good players tend to do well if they score 20 tries a season in a good season what does that say about Rhys. Even his average of 13 tries a season across 10 seas is is fair given we were shithouse for most of his time at the club.

You can’t compare era’s, different sides , all I can say is in my 50 years of supporting this club, other than Brandy, Gowie (maybe), I’ve never seen a more explosive, faster, better player at his best than Rhys Wesser. Not just two seAsia’s,but over his entire time at our club. IMO the guy was a freak, at his best he was capable of doing the things now everyone bangs on about Tommy T, Trell and James T.

If Rhys had played for one of the competition heavyweights at his best he would have scored twice as many tries than he did with us.

Yeah he is my clear fullback

For that very reason

Our version of David Nofoluma really, would score tries despite the side struggling

 

[Kilkenny]

Rhys copped a lot of flack on the back of his sin binning in the prelim army final in the first minute of the 2nd half against the Bulldogs in 2004.

We led at half time as I recall but gave up 12 or more points while he was of the field and we never recovered.

I think a lot of our fans still hold him responsible for that loss and he is somewhat tainted by that moment.

Very unfortunate, we would have beaten the Bulldogs that day but for his sin binning , that day was saw the emergence of a player by the name of Jonathon Thurston who as I recall scored a try under the posts while Rhys was in the bin.

 

[Kilkenny]

I’ll never forget the try against the Eels, where he picked the ball up from dummy half and scooted thru the line to run 60 and score. I took my parents to that game, panthers tragics but despite there love for the club rarely have gone to games live. They still talk about being there the day Rhys scored that special try. It was a truly special moment.