Most underrated player in the NRL

[jet23]

Just wanna get your thoughts on who you think is the most underrated player in the NRL - one back & one forward. I don't have one at the mo so fire away. (We already know who the most overrated players are; don't we all)
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[International RL]

Aaron Payne. Great Dummy half runner, smart play maker, is often the key to a Cowboy win, if the forwards can set a platform.

 

[TV Ted Ellery]

Cronk, Rovelli, Tongue, Collis, McKinnon, Anasta, O'Dwyer, Quinn, Masur... just off the top of my head.

 

[Sugar]

braith anasta & nate myles oops i thought it says over rated

 

[Sugar]

tongue & rod jensen

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Alan Tongue - Will never play Origin or Tests but is all heart, never has a bad game, tries hard no matter how poor the team is around him, makes a thousand tackles and runs hard. A good guy too.
Anthony Quinn - A bit angry but he is very strong, quick and gets involved when he's needed. He finally got a Country jersey this year. He has done some very good things in some big games, the kind of things you expect from Test players, yet he rarely gets much credit. He was also close to Newcastle's best when the Knights were struggling last year. That's a sign of a good player, one that can shine in a badly beaten team.

I guess the key to many of these players in consistency.

 

[KevinArnold]

Tongue & Dykes.

 

[Carlito]

Gotta be allan tongue and what's that centre for the raiders, graham?

 

[Raider_69]

Tongue for a forward
cronk for a back

 

[lockyno1]

Forward- Peter Cusak.
Back- Steve Turner

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Gotta be allan tongue and what's that centre for the raiders, graham?

Phil Graham.
Interestingly Tongue and Graham grew up within a few miles of one another in country NSW. Both good guys and good players of very different styles.

 

[number8]

Nigel Plum

PJ Marsh

 

[_Johnsy]

Tongue & Hornby - by a country mile

 

[Ari Gold]

Grimaldi, Tongue

 

[Raider_69]

phil graham would be talked about as a possible rep player if he played for a sydney team, very under-rated.
Cusak is a great call, very good player, absolute star for souths

 

[sheet_ed]

Nathan Friend - the 2'6" subby for the storm that would tackle a Mack truck if he thought it was going to the Storm try line.

 

[strewth_mate]

phil graham would be talked about as a possible rep player if he played for a sydney team, very under-rated.

I used to think the same about Joel Monaghan; it was a huge shame to see him move to a Sydney club.

 

[jet23]

Now that I've thought about it, I'd totally agree with allan tongue. I think jake webster is a pretty underrated back in that talent-laden storm backline.

 

[Raider_69]

I used to think the same about Joel Monaghan; it was a huge shame to see him move to a Sydney club.

Monaghan is tall and strong, thats about it, in league talent, he isnt fit to shine the shoes of phil graham
if phil could iron out his defencive issues, he'd be one of the best centres in the game

 

[East Coast Tiger]

You could name a lot of Storm players. Basically the Storm was an underrated team. They were pemiership tip last year and they didn't go close. This year I liked the look of them again but with Orford and Bell leaving I thought they'd fall short again. Cronk never looked like a world beater when playing for Brisbane Norths and certainly didn't look like a halfback but he is the form half, if not the form player of the comp. Webster was just as good as Vatuvei in the 3N last year if not better but for some reason Vatuvei got all the wraps. He's got even better since and is now a centre of note. Hoffman, Johnson, Kaufusi - they're all outperforming supposedlt better players. Dallas Johnson is possibly the Dally M lock of the year (if there is one) and was a standout for Qld but is probably still very underrated. Turner, Friend, Brett White, they're all playing exceptional footy.