What does your top 5 greatest NRL players of all time list look like?

[Tarasoft11]

so many players mentioned i totally forgot about!

 

[Tarasoft11]

so we all agree Andrew Johns is top 5?

 

[OVP]

1. Ken Hey
2. Lew Zivanovic
3. Ted Sulkowicz
4. Royston Lightning
5. Vic Hey

6. Phil "Howmuchisapacketof" Sigsworth
7. Phil "The Stork" Mann
8. Mark Bevan <-- This guy was such a Westie, everyone at school started calling Westies, Bevans, in his supreme honour. Westies are bogans from the west of Sydney btw.
9. Bronko Djura
10. Zbigniew Niszcott

 

[Canard]

so we all agree Andrew Johns is top 5?

I get the feeling that you have played the game at the highest level?

Am I right?

 

[Tarasoft11]

I get the feeling that you have played the game at the highest level?

Am I right?

Nope. not even close to the highest level

 

[The_Shield]

You look better with a $10m team around you than a $5m team.

You really have no idea. The Storm were nowhere near $5m over. They got done for $1.7m over four years.

Plus your argument has been proven wrong by Parramatta anyway

 

[dangerousdave]

so we all agree Andrew Johns is top 5?

Hard to say.

Objectively it's probably:
1. Thurston
2. Lockyer
3. Smith
4. Inglis
= 5. Andrew Johns and John Wilshere.

Picking 5th is totally up to the individual but for me it goes to Wilshere because of 'that try'. Others may disagree.

 

[dangerousdave]

You really have no idea. The Storm were nowhere near $5m over. They got done for $1.7m over four years.

Plus your argument has been proven wrong by Parramatta anyway

Anf your argument was that both Smith and Slater will be immortals?
Coz you realise they won't right?

 

[Tarasoft11]

Hard to say.

Objectively it's probably:
1. Thurston
2. Lockyer
3. Smith
4. Inglis
= 5. Andrew Johns and John Wilshere.

Picking 5th is totally up to the individual but for me it goes to Wilshere because of 'that try'. Others may disagree.

agreed

 

[THE CHAMP]

Craig Gower

Why do so many hang shit on poor old Craig?
Rarely agree with any of your drivel but Gower was a gun player.

 

[The_Shield]

Anf your argument was that both Smith and Slater will be immortals?
Coz you realise they won't right?

Why not?

 

[Pete Cash]

The immortals is a dumb gimmick nonsense that should be replaced by a proper NRL run hall of fame and to me Cameron Smith would be go straight in as soon as he was eligible.

 

[Phil McGrawhan]

1.Ben Czislowski

 

[The_Shield]

I agree that the immortals should be replaced with a hall of fame. And if the NRL don't wise up to that, I still believe that both Cameron Smith and Billy Slater deserve to be immortals. Two of the best to play the game.

Slater is the only player I've seen that had teams, consistently, deliberately kick the ball dead and give away a 20m tap instead of having him return the ball

 

[Tarasoft11]

I agree that the immortals should be replaced with a hall of fame. And if the NRL don't wise up to that, I still believe that both Cameron Smith and Billy Slater deserve to be immortals. Two of the best to play the game.

Slater is the only player I've seen that had teams, consistently, deliberately kick the ball dead and give away a 20m tap instead of having him return the ball

true

 

[dangerousdave]

Why not?

Not good enough.

 

[madunit]

1. Clive Churchill
2. Duncan Thompson
3. John Raper
4. Arthur Beetson
5. Frank Burge

 

[dangerousdave]

The immortals is a dumb gimmick nonsense that should be replaced by a proper NRL run hall of fame and to me Cameron Smith would be go straight in as soon as he was eligible.

Well yeah, the immortals is just a RLW marketing gimmick no doubt.

The question comes down to what standard we judge potential entrants. If the hall of fame was only to include the same echelon of player currently considered for immortal status, then both Slater and Smith miss out. Unluckily for them really because both could have good arguments made for them.

My personal opinion is that a proper NRL run HoF is the ONLY real solution. I'd even like to see the standard loosened slightly to include a whole plethora of players who havd missed out on immortal status. Both Smith and probably Slater would fall into this category.

 

[TheVelourFog]

aren't they only considered once they are retired?

 

[The_Shield]

Not good enough.

You seriously think Cameron Smith is not good enough? He's as close as a sure thing as you can get.