Misty Bee
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Talking about the Crow got me thinking.....
The side I would choose from the Eels that I have personally seen wear the clubs colours is thus: (since 1975)
1 Paul Taylor
2 Eric Grothe snr
3 Mick Cronin
4 Jamie Lyon
5 Clinton Schifcofske
6 Brett Kenny
7 Peter Sterling
8 Graham Olling
9 Aaron Raper
10 Dean Pay
11 Nathan Hindmarsh
12 Ray Higgs
13 Ray Price (c)
14 Steve Ella
15 John Peard
16 Ron Hilditch
17 Bob O'Reilly.
COACH....Jack Gibson (and not frigging Brian Smith!!!!)
To explain:
Taylor shades Scott Mahon because of his workrate, and his very low mistake rate. Guru and Crow pick themselves. I'd have Killer shading Ella, as Killer has got to the very top on his own merits, rather than slotting between 2 alltime gerats like Zip did. However, Zip HAS to be in the side, so a bench spot is his.
Clinton Schifcofske was brilliant in our time here. One of the best tries I have seen Parra put on was his try v Canterbury in the ill fated semi of '98. Brilliant stuff.
Sterlo and Kenny are unchallenged (although I did spare a thought for Johnny Kolc - so underrated and forgotten as the brilliant dwarf that drove our pack forward in '76 and '77- - he was awesome!)
Props were hard. Shovells Olling deserved a spot. What a legend he was. I chose Dean Pay as the other - he was a great hard man and brilliant forward leader. Aaron Raper at hooker was hard, but Steve Edge wasn't a great hooker (low percentages, and without the flair of blokes like Krilich). Ditto Hildtich at hooker. Raper was a great dummy half, and a good clubman in his time.
Nathan Hindmarsh will leave Parramatta as an all time gerat. Enough said.
Ray Higgs - bar Price, I have never seen a more passionate Eel. He was fantastic to watch ripping and tearing at the big packs in 75-77, in a much more rugged game. Leading the Eels with a broken jaw in the '76 grand fnial was an effort that deserved to be enshrined in Eel folklore - and the simpering idiot Fitzgerald has done us a great disservice by not ensuring that.
Ray Price - imposible to leave out. The greatest Eel ever. Why his statue is not erected at Parra Stadium I'll never know!!! I'm convinced that Christ DID return, and beat the crap out of Manly and Canterbury forwards at every opportunity from 76-86!
The Bench? Impossible to leave out Zip. John Peard, the brilliant bomber that ALMOST took us to glory in '76 - has to be there. (Interesting to see that, 25 years on, the bomb is still he most potent attacking weapon we have today! And I am yet to see a greater bomb partnership than Peard/Price)
Hilditch was a great clubman. He is the for fronting the wedge in '76, if not for the biggest hit ever (Belmore in '82 when the creamed Krilich!)
And the final bench spot? The Bear. Second half, 1981. 32 year old Bear took the game by the scruff of the neck and delivered a premiership with some of the sweetest short passes you will ever see!
The side I would choose from the Eels that I have personally seen wear the clubs colours is thus: (since 1975)
1 Paul Taylor
2 Eric Grothe snr
3 Mick Cronin
4 Jamie Lyon
5 Clinton Schifcofske
6 Brett Kenny
7 Peter Sterling
8 Graham Olling
9 Aaron Raper
10 Dean Pay
11 Nathan Hindmarsh
12 Ray Higgs
13 Ray Price (c)
14 Steve Ella
15 John Peard
16 Ron Hilditch
17 Bob O'Reilly.
COACH....Jack Gibson (and not frigging Brian Smith!!!!)
To explain:
Taylor shades Scott Mahon because of his workrate, and his very low mistake rate. Guru and Crow pick themselves. I'd have Killer shading Ella, as Killer has got to the very top on his own merits, rather than slotting between 2 alltime gerats like Zip did. However, Zip HAS to be in the side, so a bench spot is his.
Clinton Schifcofske was brilliant in our time here. One of the best tries I have seen Parra put on was his try v Canterbury in the ill fated semi of '98. Brilliant stuff.
Sterlo and Kenny are unchallenged (although I did spare a thought for Johnny Kolc - so underrated and forgotten as the brilliant dwarf that drove our pack forward in '76 and '77- - he was awesome!)
Props were hard. Shovells Olling deserved a spot. What a legend he was. I chose Dean Pay as the other - he was a great hard man and brilliant forward leader. Aaron Raper at hooker was hard, but Steve Edge wasn't a great hooker (low percentages, and without the flair of blokes like Krilich). Ditto Hildtich at hooker. Raper was a great dummy half, and a good clubman in his time.
Nathan Hindmarsh will leave Parramatta as an all time gerat. Enough said.
Ray Higgs - bar Price, I have never seen a more passionate Eel. He was fantastic to watch ripping and tearing at the big packs in 75-77, in a much more rugged game. Leading the Eels with a broken jaw in the '76 grand fnial was an effort that deserved to be enshrined in Eel folklore - and the simpering idiot Fitzgerald has done us a great disservice by not ensuring that.
Ray Price - imposible to leave out. The greatest Eel ever. Why his statue is not erected at Parra Stadium I'll never know!!! I'm convinced that Christ DID return, and beat the crap out of Manly and Canterbury forwards at every opportunity from 76-86!
The Bench? Impossible to leave out Zip. John Peard, the brilliant bomber that ALMOST took us to glory in '76 - has to be there. (Interesting to see that, 25 years on, the bomb is still he most potent attacking weapon we have today! And I am yet to see a greater bomb partnership than Peard/Price)
Hilditch was a great clubman. He is the for fronting the wedge in '76, if not for the biggest hit ever (Belmore in '82 when the creamed Krilich!)
And the final bench spot? The Bear. Second half, 1981. 32 year old Bear took the game by the scruff of the neck and delivered a premiership with some of the sweetest short passes you will ever see!
