Your best XVII (any stipulation)

[DeeJ]

The Utilities

1. Kurt Gidley
2. Mat Rogers
3. Beau Scott
4. Shaun Timmins
5. Brett Plowman
6. Preston Campbell
7. Greg Alexander
13. Matt Gillett
12. Jason Croker
11. Chris Flannery
10. Ruben Wiki
9. Craig Wing
8. Paul Gallen

14. Reni Maitua
15. Matt Adamson
16. Jeff Hardy
17. John Plath

Left out the greatest utility of them all who could cover 1-7, 9, 11-13 even at rep level, Shaun Berrigan.

 

[anjado]

Left out the greatest utility of them all who could cover 1-7, 9, 11-13 even at rep level, Shaun Berrigan.

I left out Craig Wing originally i knew i was leaving someone else out. Berrigan is a terrible oversight.

 

[jonno_knights]

What about a team of red heads? I'll name a few feel free to finish it off


1. Aku Uate
2. B Dallas
3. J Reed
4. Alex McKinnon
5. Nathan Green
6. Anthony Watts
7. P Wallace
8. Ben Creagh
9. Ben Jones
10. K Galloway
11. L Thompson
12. P Vautin
13. A Tongue

14. B Meyers
15. S Southern
16. Tom Symonds
17. Dan Tolar

 

[bubblesunlimited]

So homies, here is a thread for you to list your ultimate team. Is it your best of all time? Best in your lifetime? The best you've seen on tele? The best you've seen live?


What's the stipulation and what's your top 17?


Best XVII I've seen play live (excluding Easts)
1 J Hayne
2 H El-Masri (gk)
3 P Blake
4 N Vagana
5 M Vatuvei
6 D Lockyer ©
7 B Marshall
8 S Price
9 C Smith
10 P Civoniceva
11 P Sironen
12 N Hindmarsh
13 P Gallen

14 S Burgess
15 A Blair
16 R Wiki
17 B Elias

W Bennett (coach)


I don't really want Benji at half, but there's no awesome alternative (Stacey Jones or Cronk) so I gotta keep Locky at 6 and Benji at 7



Best Roosters XVII I've seen live

1 A Walker
2 A Minichiello
3 M Sing
4 D Bell
5 N Blacklock
6 B Fittler ©
7 C Wing
8 J Cayless
9 S Bonetti
10 A Morley
11 H McGahan
12 C Fitzgibbon (gk)
13 L Ricketson

14 D Barnhill
15 M O'Meley
16 W Mason
17 C Flannery

R Stuart (coach)
P Gould (coaching director)


I feel really dirty picking Mason in there, but he'd have real impact off the bench. I'd prefer Craig Wing as the apex, but a lack of quality halves (Wiz or Lam) means he moves to halfback with the dependable Bonetti getting the #9 jersey

The Paul Gallen XVII (somebody had to do it)
1 Paul Gallen
2 Paul Gallen
3 Paul Gallen
4 Paul Gallen
5 Paul Gallen
6 Paul Gallen (gk)
7 Paul Gallen
8 Paul Gallen
9 Paul Gallen
10 Paul Gallen
11 Paul Gallen
12 Paul Gallen
13 Paul Gallen (captain/coach)

14 Paul Gallen
15 Paul Gallen
16 Paul Gallen
17 Paul Gallen

List away!

Bryan Fletcher would consider himself unlucky not to make your roosters team.

 

[jonno_knights]

Team of Brothers:

1. Brett Stewart
2. Brett Morris
3. Josh Morris
4. Matthew Gidley
5. Adam MacDougall
6. Matthew Johns
7. Andrew Johns
8. Ashton Sims
9. Kurt Gidley
10. Tariq Sims
11. Ian Hindmarsh
12. Nathan Hindmarsh
13. Glenn Stewart

14. Nathan Cayless
15. Jason Cayless
16. Steve Walters
17. Luke MacDougall

Coach: Kevin Walters

 

[Dragon_psa]

My favourite non Dragons XVII (players that I've seen play):

1. T Brasher
2. B Mullins
3. M Meninga
4. S Renouf
5. M Vatuvei
6. D Lockyer
7. S Jones
8. S Webcke
9. B Elias
10. P Harragon
11. S Menzies
12. T Carroll
13. B Clyde

14. N Cayless
15. L Hohaia
16. H Okesene
17. M Graham

Favourite all time Saints team (Players I've seen play only)

1. M Potter
2. N Blacklock
3. M Coyne
4. M Cooper
5. R Walford
6. J Soward
7. N Goldthorpe
8. C Smith
9. N Brown
10. L Bailey
11. L Thompson
12. K Campion
13. B Mackay

14. J Smith
15. B Morris
16. J Nightingale
17. W Bartrim

 

[Bobby DIGital]

Notable players out of position XVII

1. Braith Anasta (Roosters, Freddies Reign)
2. Jack Wighton (a 5/8 debuting on the wing in first grade)
3. Alex Glenn (last years 4 nations)
4. Lewis Brown (last years 4 nations)
5. Steve Morris (went from halfback to wing permanently. Pretty unusual positional change)
6. Shaun Timmins (Origin 03-04)
7. Trent Barrett (Origin 01)
8. Paul Gallen (Origin 2011)
9. Andrew Johns (Origin and Aus in the 90s)
10. Bradley Clyde (played a lot of 98 at prop)
11. Jamal Idris (played here last year. Can't think of anyone better right now)
12. Mal Meninga (Aus, late 80s)
13. Laurie Daley (Semi vs Penrith 1990)

14. Darren Lockyer (came off the bench for test debut in 98)
15. Ken McGuinness (spent the whole 80 on the bench with Tommy, Origin 1 98)
16. Karmichael Hunt (fullback coming off the bench in Origin)
17. Billie Slater (fullback coming off the bench in Origin)

18. Matt Bowen (fullback coming off the bench in Origin)
19. Anthony Mundine (dickhead coming off the bench in Origin)

Notable mention to Tim Sheens leaving backs on the bench for 80min.

 

[jonno_knights]

Team of One Club Men Post 2000 (*One NRL Club)

1. Matt Bowen - 229 Games for the Cowboys
2. Hazen El Masri - 317 Games for the Bulldogs
3. Paul Bowman - 203 Games for the Cowboys
4. Matt Cooper - 222 Games for the Dragons
5. Luke Lewis - 199 Games for the Panthers
6. Darren Lockyer - 355 Games for the Broncos
7. Andrew Johns - 249 Games for the Knights
8. Paul Gallen - 204 Games for the Sharks
9. Cameron Smith - 217 Games for the Storm
10. Shane Webke - 254 Games for the Broncos
11. Nathan Hindmarsh - 310 Games for the Eels
12. Steve Menzies - 349 Games for the Eagles
13. Luke Ricketson - 301 Games for the Roosters

14. Stacey Jones - 261 Games for the Warriors
15. Nathan Cayless - 259 Games for the Eels
16. John Skandalis - 249 Games for the Magpies/Tigers
17. Alan Tongue - 220 Games for the Raiders

Tried to get a good representation across all the clubs. Souths and Titans were a bit difficult though.

 

[Didgi]

What about a team of red heads? I'll name a few feel free to finish it off

1.
2. B Dallas
3. J Reed
4.
5.
6.
7. P Wallace
8.
9.
10. K Galloway
11. L Thompson
12. P Vautin
13. A Tongue

14. B Meyers
15. S Southern
16.
17.

The World Champions say hi

 

[AlwaysGreen]

1 from each club.

1. Jarryd Hayne
2. Manu Vatuvai
3. Jack Reed
4. Michael Jennings
5. Akuila Uate
6. Benji Marshall
7. Jonathan Thurston
8. Sam Burgess
9. Cam Smith
10. Tom Lehroyd - Lars
11. Ben Creagh
12. Tony Williams
13. Paul Gallen

14. Greg Bird
15. Jared Waerea - Haegraves
16. Ben Barba
17. Shayne Hayne

 

[Disco]

My unlimited salary cap side for next year (excluding Mormon missions)

1.Stewart
2.Uate
3.Lyon
4.Matai
5.Hopoate
6.Foran
7.Cherry Evans
8.Burges
9.Ballin
10.Gallen
11.Watmough
12.Williams
13.G Stewart

14.Buhrer
15.King
16.Ellis
17.Sims

 

[TheDalek079]

All time
1 - Billy Slater
2 - Ken Irvine
3 - Dave Brown
4 - Mal Meninga
5 - Harold Horder
6 - Wally Lewis
7 - Duncan Thompson
8 - Arthur Beetson
9 - Ken Kearney
10 - Duncan Hall
11 - Paul Gallen
12 - Frank Burge
13 - John Raper

14 - Bob Fulton
15 - Graeme Langlands
16 - Darren Lockyer
17 - Andrew Johns

Off the top of my head

No Reg Gasnier? Brown was superb, Mal ok, but how can Reg be ignored?

 

[LeagueNut]

1. ME SO HORNBY!

2. Covellius Maximus

3. Mal Meninga

4. Cooper-Man

5. Manu Vatuvei

6. lockyno1

7. Rovelli

8. FUIFUI_MOIMOI

9. ~bedsy~

10. Masoe_eats_babies

11. hineyrulz

12. Scott Gourley's Lovechild

13. Beavers Headgear

14. Marshall magic

15. Creagh4pm

16. Miller was a legend

17. Bring back John Fifita

18. The 18th Man

 

[eozsmiles]

What about a team of red heads? I'll name a few feel free to finish it off

1.
2. B Dallas
3. J Reed
4.
5.
6.
7. P Wallace
8.
9.
10. K Galloway
11. L Thompson
12. P Vautin
13. A Tongue

14. B Meyers
15. S Southern
16.
17.

James Graham and Anthony Watts could fill out the front row.

 

[eozsmiles]

"Shouldn't have left" team - they all made a name then left where they ended up at crap teams, lost form, got hurt, missed a premiership, sent fans mental, ended up on the other side of the world, or just had a sad end to their career. In some cases it started a downward spiral that became unstoppable. Not sensitive to positions but pretty close. some old, Some current.


K Hunt
T Tahu
Josh Morris
J Lyon
I Folau

K Wally
C Field

A Harrison
W Mason
$ BW
M O'Meley
D Buderus
L Davico

John Morris
M Johns
P Vautin
Garrick Morgan - WTF was he thinking?

 

[Disco]

Yeah Lyon is devastated he left the Eels to captain a premiership winning team

 

[MSIH]

My unlimited salary cap side for next year (excluding Mormon missions)

1.Stewart
2.Uate
3.Lyon
4.Matai
5.Hopoate
6.ForanI
7.Cherry Evans
8.Burges
9.Ballin
10.Gallen
11.Watmough
12.Williams
13.G Stewart

14.Buhrer
15.King
16.Ellis
17.Sims

A bit of Matt Scott for King and that side would give the comp a shake. I like it.

 

[eozsmiles]

Yeah Lyon is devastated he left the Eels to captain a premiership winning team

Of course Lyon would be happy. Sure p!ssed off a few people though. Probably a couple of Eels fans saying he shouldn't have left, both then and now. Didn't they call him a judas? But there'd be Parra fans that wished Brian Smith hadn't left either. They've got kearney and Willie Tonga now so their probably over it.

 

[rabbitohs95]

Souths 07-12 XVII:

1. David Peachey
2. Nathan Merritt
3. Nigel Vagana
4. Greg Inglis
5. Chris McQueen
6. Craig Wing
7. Chris Sandow
8. Luke Stuart
9. Issac Luke
10. Roy Asotasi
11. Sam Burgess
12. David Fa'alogo
13. Michael Crocker

14. Peter Cusack
15. John Sutton
16. Dave Taylor
17. Scott Geddes

Just basically my favourite Souths players from the period where i started to support them hardcore, hope you like it bunnies supporters

 

[wibble]

All teams of players from when I started watching league.

Best defensive team:

1. Slater
2. Ettingshausen
3. Carroll
4. Cooper
5. Sing
6. Fittler
7. Johns
8. Webcke
9. Swain
10. Gillespie
11. Gillmeister
12. J. Smith
13. Clyde

14. Harragan
15. Hindmarsh
16. Campion
17. D. Smith

Most powerful:

1. Inglis
2. Sailor
3. Meninga
4. Hodges
5. Tuquiri
6. Fittler
7. Johns
8. Webcke
9. Crocker
10. Civoniceva
11. Tallis
12. Thorn
13. Gallen

14. Pritchard
15. Mason
16. Morley
17. Scott


Most skillful:

1. Lockyer
2. Cronk
3. Daley
4. Fittler
5. Rogers
6. W. Lewis
7. Johns
8. Pay
9. C. Smith
10. Pay
11. Bird
12. G. Stewart
13. Miller

14. Fletcher
15. Dymock
16. Meteo
17. Hayne


Sleekest:

1. Peachey
2. Mullins
3. Renouf
4. Ettingshausen
5. Carne
6. Blake
7. Cronk
8. Vella
9. Wing
10. Tamou
11. L. Lewis
12. Menzies
13. Bird

14. Uate
15. Campbell
16. McKenna
17. S. Price