Who is the best junior player you have seen ?

[Suitman]

Quite nostalgic reading through this thread and sad. The late, great fisheel also contributed. I miss his banter.

I do too mate.
The other thing about this thread is the amount of familiar forum names that don't post anymore. They were all probably Phàrtman anyway on an assortment of laptops.
Oh, and I got a vote. Lol.
FWIW, I reckon Eric Grothe Snr, David Penna and Mick Delroy were the most talented Eels jnrs I ever saw.

Suity.

 

[84 Baby]

For mine the most talented juniors were Jarryd Hayne and Ken Linsley (both of them)

 

[Green River Eel]

David 'the mule' Hosking
Very underrated player

 

[hineyrulz]

1 - Jamie Lyon - I remember watching him against the panthers in reserves. And me and a mate standing up everytime he touched the ball thinking this guys amazing. Blew me away how good he was and how he created something everytime he touched the ball.

I never saw Hayne as a junior and he was in first grade at 18 and never looked back.

Never fell for the hype of keating-Mortimer-Matterson-ZDC-Goodal-Lavaka-Falou. Thou did think Lassalo was a 100+ nrl player.

Amazing how you can still find a way to mention Penrith in a thread about best ever Parra juniors Hindy

 

[hineyrulz]

David 'the mule' Hosking
Very underrated player

Thought you would go for Timmy Mannah for sure???

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Rod Slater

 

[Green River Eel]

Billy Rogers.

 

[hindy111]

Amazing how you can still find a way to mention Penrith in a thread about best ever Parra juniors Hindy

That is where I saw him play you bastard

 

[Ivor]

Never saw him play as a junior, but Brett Kenny's first grade debut was the best I've seen. I was at Cumberland Oval that day and I said to my father, "This bloke will play for Australia one day". He just laughed.

 

[Green River Eel]

Probably Tim Smith, i had a chat to sterlo many years back when Smith was breaking onto the scene and commented how talented i thought Tim was, he told me that he thought Tim was a lot more talented than he ever was at any age and he said he was the best young half he's ever seen.

 

[Twizzle]

The Special One