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LU PARRAMATTA EELS ALL TIME 17 - Best Ever Wingers

Vote twice for top 2 wingers.

  • Total voters
    35
  • Poll closed .
Robster

Robster

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Vote Twice:

Nominations

Eric Grothe Snr
Eric Grothe Jnr
Jason Moodie
Luke Burt
Semi Radradra
Neville Glover
Neil Hunt
Luke Burt
Scott Donald
Matt Peterson
Robert Muchmore
Arch Brown

Please study these players if you don't have any knowledge.
 
strider

strider

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wing is kinda hard one to pick tbh ... several guys who did well - Moodie was a quality winger
 
Someone

Someone

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yeah both grothe father and son was amazing for us, jnr had his ups and downs. Tossing between them and Burty, who holds the try scoring record.
 
John Kolc

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Guys this is an easy one. Eric Grothe Snr on his own as our best and close to the best the game has seen. The second is also easy Neville Glover by a long way. Great club man, played for Australia and after Eric a joy to watch him score try's. He was one of the only wingers I have seen out play the great Terry Faye from South's!
 
Someone

Someone

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I definitely think EG Snr gets one spot easily...from arguments put forward so far the second spot is between EG jnr, Burty, Glover.

some stats.


Neville Glover played for the Parramatta Eels from 1975 to 1981, playing 124 games and scoring 54 tries. In 1978 he played two games for Australia, scoring 2 tries.

Tryscoring rate of = 0.44
2 Test caps
part of 1981 grand final winning team
named in the 2001 Parramatta eels team of the century.
famously dropped a pass in the last 10 minutes of the GF vs Manly in 1976, bombing a try.




Eric Grothe Junior played for Parramatta between 1999-2001 and re-joined in 2004 -2010. He played 131 Games for 65 trys. represented NSW 3 times (2006 series) for 2 tries and Australia once (2005) for one try.

tryscoring rate of = 0.50
arguably the best Eel in the 2009 GF
kicked from the Australia squad for not turning up, or something like that..
despite the fact I wrote into RLW after a 30-28 lose to the Broncos in 2008 calling for Grothe to quit, not too many more wingers I enjoyed watching. His defence at times was terrible.



Luke Burt played for Parramatta from 1999-2012. Our very own Nathan Meritt, Burt played for 264 games scoring 124 tries (all time record) and kicking 646 goals and 5 field goals. Burts only rep footy was country origin in 2010 and the PM's XIII IN 2011.

tryscoring rate of = 0.47
played in both 2001 and 2009 grand final loses.
holds the all time record for most trys, 2nd most points (eels), 8th most points (nrl)
considered by many as too small and lucky to be playing first grade.
 
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Bigfella

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If junior's defense was sometimes bad Id hate to see how burt's rated.

The problem is the massive leap in class after Eric senior.

It's a choice of two marginal test players or a bloke who never had a chance of playing origin.

If you have to pick one of them Id take Eric Jr, on the basis that he could terrorise even the opposing wingers on the other best of sides. Burt and glover would struggle at that level.

but if you are fair dinkum about the best side then the second winger is whichever of thornett and hayne missed out on fullback.
 
John Kolc

John Kolc

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Someone said:
I definitely think EG Snr gets one spot easily...from arguments put forward so far the second spot is between EG jnr, Burty, Glover.

some stats.


Neville Glover played for the Parramatta Eels from 1975 to 1981, playing 124 games and scoring 54 tries. In 1978 he played two games for Australia, scoring 2 tries.

Tryscoring rate of = 0.44
2 Test caps
part of 1981 grand final winning team
named in the 2001 Parramatta eels team of the century.
famously dropped a pass in the last 10 minutes of the GF vs Manly in 1976, bombing a try.




Eric Grothe Junior played for Parramatta between 1999-2001 and re-joined in 2004 -2010. He played 131 Games for 65 trys. represented NSW 3 times (2006 series) for 2 tries and Australia once (2005) for one try.

tryscoring rate of = 0.50
arguably the best Eel in the 2009 GF
kicked from the Australia squad for not turning up, or something like that..
despite the fact I wrote into RLW after a 30-28 lose to the Broncos in 2008 calling for Grothe to quit, not too many more wingers I enjoyed watching. His defence at times was terrible.



Luke Burt played for Parramatta from 1999-2012. Our very own Nathan Meritt, Burt played for 264 games scoring 124 tries (all time record) and kicking 646 goals and 5 field goals. Burts only rep footy was country origin in 2010 and the PM's XIII IN 2011.

tryscoring rate of = 0.47
played in both 2001 and 2009 grand final loses.
holds the all time record for most trys, 2nd most points (eels), 8th most points (nrl)
considered by many as too small and lucky to be playing first grade.
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Guys here are the facts

  • Neville Glover played at a time of fewer games
  • In the 1976 grand final he was thrown two very poor passes and blamed for dropping them costing us the grand final when on both occasions the player passing the ball would have scored had he not passed it. He was a big reason we were so successful during this period and crowds came just to watch him play.
  • Luke Burt one of our most honest club men who gave his all and loved the club. Very smart footballer who helped a lot of team mates during a game as he had great vision.
  • Eric J was an untapped talent who had is dads talent but not his mongrel. Each year he would give us hope with a couple of wonderful tries but in other games lost his way and concentration. A wast of talent.
So in order Neville Glover is our second best, Luke Burt next and Eric the untapped talent a long way third. If you are not old enough to have seen Neville play speak to someone that has seen all of them over their playing days. I love them all but for me Neville is way a head of the other two.
 
Someone

Someone

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John Kolc said:
Guys here are the facts

  • Neville Glover played at a time of fewer games
  • In the 1976 grand final he was thrown two very poor passes and blamed for dropping them costing us the grand final when on both occasions the player passing the ball would have scored had he not passed it. He was a big reason we were so successful during this period and crowds came just to watch him play.
  • Luke Burt one of our most honest club men who gave his all and loved the club. Very smart footballer who helped a lot of team mates during a game as he had great vision.
  • Eric J was an untapped talent who had is dads talent but not his mongrel. Each year he would give us hope with a couple of wonderful tries but in other games lost his way and concentration. A wast of talent.
So in order Neville Glover is our second best, Luke Burt next and Eric the untapped talent a long way third. If you are not old enough to have seen Neville play speak to someone that has seen all of them over their playing days. I love them all but for me Neville is way a head of the other two.
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my last comments in the stats area under each player in my post was there to highlight the negatives of each player.

Actually, a lot of your post is opinion and not fact, where as most of mine is fact with a few off hand comments included
 
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John Kolc

John Kolc

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Agree some was opinion and some facts. 1976 Grand final was a fact. I was their on the fence in front of where it happened. Neville was made an ascape goat over the passes. They should both have not been thrown with the worst one passed to the back of his head. That is a fact my friend and to his credit he took it on the chin! Call Bob Futon who was the Manly captain on 2GB and ask him his opinion. That and scrum penalties lost us the game.
 
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