Quote ="Doseymarker"flippin eck theres some rose tinted spectacles.
Ward is the only name that would make our first 13.'"
Well you must be wearing tinted spectacles too if you think that Alan Hunte would not have made the right wing spot.
However, with regard to the others, you are probably right.
Tea Ropati was not a great centre. I'm not that sure he was a great stand off. He was great giving a roving commission but in his outstanding season of 1992-93, when he won the Player of the Year, he didn't contribute a bean after the Christmas period. In 1990-91 he was simply awful.
Les Quirk, by 1991, was almost a shadow of his former self. He was also clanger prone and would have been trampled underfoot by the big wingers of 2010.
The Paul Loughlin of 1990-91 wouldn't have got into any current Super League side because, by then his confidence was on it's way down and it was down for about five years. The Loughlin of two or three years earlier would hav been a different manner.
George Mann looked great on attack at times but his defence was nothing short of a joke. He wouldn't have lasted five minutes in today's game.
As has been said by others, Connolly as he was in 1990-91 wouldn't have made it. If it had been twelve months later, he would have walked it.
The only two shoo-ins therefore, in this current outfit out of what was a decidedly average 1990-91 season, would be Kevin Ward and Alan Hunte.
Cooper may have been nice as a playmaker, although his size wouldn't allow him to fit in, I feel and Dwyer would be a good squad player but, again, maybe he'd be too small to stack up in the forwards now.
