Queue to hire Barry Russell

[Disinterested third party]

Not in Brisbane. Lewis never won one for example.

 

[Disinterested third party]

Again the fairness aspect.

 

[Pedge1971]

Plenty better too. Average half back. Played in some good teams. Rothmans Medal has always been a semi useful guide. The fairness aspect was a big factor at the time he won it. Also refs always noticed halves (they spent their time regulating the scrum feed a great deal more) and gave it to them half the time. Excuse the pun.

Yeah nah. Would have walked into the Qld team at the time and had some of the great halves ahead of him for NSW.

And typicalfan says he had a lot of injuries. He was tiny but he could play.

 

[typicalfan]

Not in Brisbane. Lewis never won one for example.

We aren't talking about Brisbane.

 

[txta2]

Not in Brisbane. Lewis never won one for example.

I can remember in 88' at Shark Park Russell absolutely schooled Lewis and Broncos with Gav Miller.

 

[roofromoz]

Was he better or worse than Corey Payne?

 

[Disinterested third party]

We aren't talking about Brisbane.

We are talking about the same award.

 

[Disinterested third party]

So by some accounts Barry was the finest half back ever.

You sticking with that?

 

[Disinterested third party]

Yeah nah. Would have walked into the Qld team at the time and had some of the great halves ahead of him for NSW.

And typicalfan says he had a lot of injuries. He was tiny but he could play.

Yeah he was better than Langer. The guy who dominated the comp some years of the early 1990s.

 

[Disinterested third party]

I can remember in 88' at Shark Park Russell absolutely schooled Lewis and Broncos with Gav Miller.

Miller was a great player but we aren’t talking about him are we. And yeah on balance Lewis just shades Barry as a player.

This is good.

 

[Miller was a legend]

So by some accounts Barry was the finest half back ever.

You sticking with that?

The most honest

 

[Disinterested third party]

These are strong arguments being run by the Sharks cohort.

 

[Generalzod]

New flash Barry Russel has dobbed himself in for cheating his math exam....

 

[Pedge1971]

Yeah he was better than Langer. The guy who dominated the comp some years of the early 1990s.

He was at the end when Alf came along. Better than Muppet Murray though.

 

[Pedge1971]

So by some accounts Barry was the finest half back ever.

You sticking with that?

Dont recall anyone saying that. Making it up eh....

 

[typicalfan]

We are talking about the same award.

There was one for each competition. I can't speak for the BRL as I am not as familiar sorry, but in NSW it was a highly respected award that was considered very accurate.

 

[Disinterested third party]

If you were a halfback. In that period. 1987-1995. In the NSW version.

 

[typicalfan]

Amazing, it is almost as if there were a lot of quality halves during that time.

 

[Disinterested third party]

Yep but Barry was the pick of them.

 

[Disinterested third party]

Amazing, it is almost as if there were a lot of quality halves during that time.

Glad to see you’ve come around.