Who is the best winger to have played the game in the last 40 years? Semi or Grothe?

[blue bags]

jeff fenech the boxer played wing for the eels

 

[Eelogical]

jeff fenech the boxer played wing for the eels

The relevance? Just asking.

 

[blue bags]

i liked neville glover, semi rad trailer, grothe, sharp ? jeff fenech , the current fiji winger sivo .fui fui moi moi, he is great, blake furgo, as all eels wingers , im missing alot, just memory lost, sorry

 

[Bazal]

i liked neville glover, semi rad trailer, grothe, sharp ? jeff fenech , the current fiji winger sivo .fui fui moi moi, he is great, blake furgo, as all eels wingers , im missing alot, just memory lost, sorry

Fui was a bit lame under the high ball, to be fair

 

[blue bags]

atkins was a good eels winger if my memory is right ? he was around in the golden times. tell the truth , most eels wingers have been good

 

[Frank Facer]

Is this about the Parra wingers Grothe v Semi or all wingers in the game and Parra halves?

It is about all wingers ever. Parra just happen to have the 2 best wingers I have seen and they also had the best pair of halves I have seen.

 

[Suitman]

tuqiri f**ked off to a soft code at the height of his powers so we will never know what he could have been.

some of my favourite names to consider:

manu vatuvei
Ricky walford
Taniela tuiaki
Rod wishart
Martin offiah

Lol.

 

[T.S Quint]

Semi.
Unfortunately he didn’t play NRL for long, otherwise it wouldn’t be much of a contest. Perfect combination of size, speed and strength.

 

[Gronk]

jeff fenech the boxer played wing for the eels

Never played played first grade. Never played wing.

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/04/09/april-9-fenech-tackles-league-chisholm-tackles-the-ref/

 

[strider]

I swear i remember the news report of jeff fenechs first ever game with him on the wing in jumper twenty something

 

[Eelementary]

I didn't think you where old enough to see Grothe. I have only seen highlights.

I'm not, really - I am 35 years old.

But I have VHS tapes of the entire '81, '82, and '86 seasons (my dad was a massive fan).

 

[Gronk]

I swear i remember the news report of jeff fenechs first ever game with him on the wing in jumper twenty something

My recollection was that he was a benchy in reserve grade and he played hooker.

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[Twizzle]

hard to compare when Semi only played a handful of seasons, we may never see him at his full potential as he is only playing for a big payday atm and he is not playing in the best league in the world

 

[golfer]

hard to compare when Semi only played a handful of seasons, we may never see him at his full potential as he is only playing for a big payday atm and he is not playing in the best league in the world

It is very hard to compare the two. I was fortunate to see Grothe play his whole career he had strength and elusiveness whereas Semi used his strength and speed. I would have to say that Grothe gets my vote purely on the fact that he was so hard to contain. Just a side note that Ken Irvine was pretty good as well.

 

[blue bags]

I swear i remember the news report of jeff fenechs first ever game with him on the wing in jumper twenty something

yes i remember the marrickville mauler Jeff fenech , came off the bench into the 1st grade top side game, for 10 mins on the wing, and got smashed a few times in tackles, and thats about it, it was set up, with the tv crews on sidline, and a small celebration, that jeff got to play 1st grade with the big boys , it was at parramatta stadium

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

I'm not, really - I am 35 years old.

But I have VHS tapes of the entire '81, '82, and '86 seasons (my dad was a massive fan).

I have the 81-83 ones on Betamax. Even more useless.

 

[blue bags]

I have the 81-83 ones on Betamax. Even more useless.

you can get all tapes, vhs , betamax,sega24, burned onto disks

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

yes i remember the marrickville mauler Jeff fenech , came off the bench into the 1st grade top side game, for 10 mins on the wing, and got smashed a few times in tackles, and thats about it, it was set up, with the tv crews on sidline, and a small celebration, that jeff got to play 1st grade with the big boys , it was at parramatta stadium

He never got on the field in a 1st grade NSWRL match. I know there's some blokes on the other site who state that they saw it happen, but I suspect they're thinking of him running onto the field off the bench in reserves.


https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/04/09/april-9-fenech-tackles-league-chisholm-tackles-the-ref/

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

you can get all tapes, vhs , betamax,sega24, burned onto disks

I'm not sure they're in that good a nick

 

[blue bags]

I'm not sure they're in that good a nick

get the film , tapes cleaned, check out the quality , tranfer onto cd . worth a try