Denny Solomona is on 28 tries with teams like wakefield and widnes still to play

They were talking on sky about whether he could beat Mcguires record of 38 tries in a SL season, imo he can't as Cas wont play in the semis

But do you think he will break or equal Vainikolo's record of 36 regular SL season tries? If he scores a hatrick against someone he might just

Would be a shame imo though, he isn't a patch on the player who tormented us so often and who I think most Leeds fns begrudgingly respect

Thought McGuire and Vainikolo shared the record? www.rugbyleagueproject.org/compe ... cords.html

Thought McGuire and Vainikolo shared the record? www.rugbyleagueproject.org/compe ... cords.html

Quote ="Bullseye"Thought McGuire and Vainikolo shared the record? www.rugbyleagueproject.org/compe ... cords.html'" I don't think so, the super league website has Mcguire as the sole leader on 38 I know at the end of the regular rounds it was Mcguire 35 and Vainikolo 36 but Mcguire scored 3 tries in the playoff games and iirc Vainikolo only score one Unless they named Mcguire as the leader for more assists or something, or perhaps doing it in less games?

Quote ="Bullseye"Thought McGuire and Vainikolo shared the record? www.rugbyleagueproject.org/compe ... cords.html'" I don't think so, the super league website has Mcguire as the sole leader on 38 I know at the end of the regular rounds it was Mcguire 35 and Vainikolo 36 but Mcguire scored 3 tries in the playoff games and iirc Vainikolo only score one Unless they named Mcguire as the leader for more assists or something, or perhaps doing it in less games?

Vainikolo scored in the qualifying semi final when Bulls beat Rhinos 26-12, and also scored in the final when Rhinos beat Bulls 16-8. That means he finished on 38.


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Oh well okay, they must have deemed McGuire the top due to assists or something

Anyway do you think his regular season record of 36 could be broken?

Or the RFL have got something wrong again?. I can't see Solomona getting 8 tries in 4 games to match 36 in 28.

Unlikely I think.

None of those players are near to the likes of Offiah or Hanley for try scoring prowess IMO.

And the likes of Boston and Bevan were even better.

Different game back then though, tbf. Wingers scoring 70 tries in a season wasn't unknown back in those days.

Well it was rarer than you think. Bevan topped 70 in a season just once when he got 72 in 52/53 season.

Nobody else had done that since Rosenfeld in 1913/14.

Nobody got over 50 after Boston retired until Ellery did it with us decades later. Only Offiah and Hanley have broken the 50 mark in the past 50 years.

I hope someone else comes along that good again, it was a privilege to see Offiah and Hanley at their best.

Lamb and Redfearn. Them were't days

Well, that's right enough, though I never suggested it was common, just that it was done. Different times and futile to make comparisons, imo. The SL figures are really are just as great in context, and I'd guess we play fewer games nowadays - though that is only a guess, before FA does a spreadsheet....

You can't have a try against your name if you've assisted someone else scoring, does that mean whoever scored it is not in the record books as scoring it but the man who gave the last pass is???

I think he's making that theory up from scratch Roger.

I think the thread was designed to be inflammatory!

Poor effort then!

Strangely enough.......going back to the early days - and I'm talking about before there was a rugby union, let alone rugby league - all tries were credited to the guy who kicked the goal. If he missed the conversion it was no points as the 'try' was just that - it meant you were allowed to[i try[/i to score a goal!

On balance, think I prefer the current method..

Plus 3 point tries

No I was basing it on the fact that in the premier league for example if 2 players are on the same number of goals then the winner between them 2 is separated by their number of assists.
Look Sky and the SL website credited it solely to McGuire but they may have just been wrong and the record probably is shared

If I wanted to be inflammatory, Im sure I could have cooked up something better than this



Just pointing out that Vainikolo's regular season record was in jeopardy, and if you look at my previous posts you will find that I don't want it broken

If we played by them rules today we would probably be in league one next year

You were saying.

Mind, although the rules were otherwise pretty similar, don't forget Vainikolo and McGuire had to avoid the corner post, not allowed to trample all over it!

Haha probably go and do it after I said that.

If Solomona achieves the record he has done it with a middling team not a stand out team Like Leeds and The Bulls were at the time.

Good luck to the lad. He's a great winger and always seems to play with a smile on his face. Is he any relation to the pie-loving forward formerly of this parish?

Remember Hanley getting 50 when Northern were crap