Hall of Fame

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Congrats to Benji joining the likes of Jones, Wiki and Graham in the Hall of Fame


See the list of players already inducted here

Hall of Fame

Over a hundred years of rugby league history is celebrated with the Hall of Fame. Read about eligibility, inductees, immortals, and tributes through history.

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[JJ]

While Les Boyd was quite the player, I’m not so sure about that one…

 

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He is well before my time, Darryl Brohman has blown up about it though

 

[JJ]

Yeah, that’s understandable… the shit he did was disgraceful in that era…

 

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[JJ]

You'd have thought Boyd might have matured, but nope...

Brohman remains bitter, which is sad but understandable - but the decision to put Boyd in there isn't really understandable imo

 

[JJ]

Someone in the main thread mentioned Hugh McGahan as a possibility, interesting, certainly a premier lock at one point...

Lindner and Sironen are staggering omissions imo espcially with Boyd there now, Gary Larson too

 

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14th Immortal to be named tonight, here is the reported shortlist

According to the News Corp publication, the final Immortals shortlist for the 2024 induction includes Ron Coote, Allan Langer, Cameron Smith, Darren Lockyer, Brett Kenny, Peter Sterling, Laurie Daley, Glenn Lazarus, Bradley Clyde, Johnathan Thurston, Billy Slater, Ken Irvine and Brad Fittler

The current 13

The other 13 Immortals are John Raper, Andrew Johns, Wally Lewis, Reg Gasnier, Clive Churchill, Bob Fulton, Graeme Langlands, Mal Meninga, Dally Messenger, Arthur Beetson, Norm Provan, Frank Burge and Dave Brown

 

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I wouldn’t mind seeing Lazarus go in. Coote, Irvine, Kenny and Sterling a bit before my time. I don’t see Langer as an immortal at all, think Daley and Clyde fall a bit short. Wouldn’t be surprised to hear Lockyer called out tonight

 

[Meth]

I would probably go Brett Kenny or Peter Sterling, but I understand the call for Cameron Smith. It’s a matter of when, not if

 

[Big Marn]

Ken Irvine the oldest there by far. Was he a player that was just on the end of the line scoring tries that others had created?
Obviously in the hall of fame for being a great winger.

 

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Ken Irvine the oldest there by far. Was he a player that was just on the end of the line scoring tries that others had created?
Obviously in the hall of fame for being a great winger.

think he was a champion sprinter that came across, and if you gave him 5cm to work in it was game over

 

[JJ]

Kind of criminal that Sterling and Kenny aren't there - would be atrocious is they put someone like Langer in first imo. Kenny was something else - NSW had a winning record with him at 6, was always selected for Aust ahead of Meninga, and at times ahead of Wally - then of course they realised they could both be in the team... the difference in grand finals - I was just in awe of him as a young kid

Obviously Coote is way back, no doubt deserving but if they put him in now, the obvious question is why not earlier?

Smith obviously will be in at some stage - but I still struggle with the notion of the immortal - Meninga had longevity, but to be clear Kenny and Miles (strangely absent from these discussions) were better centres (and Kenny wasn't even primarily a centre), and Lewis was a better leader...

 

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I would probably go Brett Kenny or Peter Sterling, but I understand the call for Cameron Smith. It’s a matter of when, not if

If Smith gets it with only being retired a couple of years its a big piss stain to all those who are in contention that retired before him.

His time will come.

Id go Kenny or Sterling

 

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You'd have thought Boyd might have matured, but nope...

Brohman remains bitter, which is sad but understandable - but the decision to put Boyd in there isn't really understandable imo

Boyd gets a 12 month suspension for that elbow and a 9 month suspension for eye gauging.
Whats the criteria for getting into this hall of fame.
If its that then Hopoate would be a shoe in

 

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Just started watching, not sure I’ll get all the way through to the announcement but hopefully will be a good watch before then

Voss already annoying me a bit as host lol, Lara Pitt did a great job with the pre interviews and looked outstanding doing it

 

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Is it a bit petty from Wayne not bothering to fly to Sydney considering Sam Burgess has managed to make it from Warrington

 

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Ron Coote gets the accolade

Good on him and I hope he gets a Ronnie Coote tonight as well

 

[JJ]

Ron Coote gets the accolade

Good on him and I hope he gets a Ronnie Coote tonight as well

Interesting, do have to wonder why not sooner…. I’d have Kenny too tbh, perhaps Sterling as well