Vastman as coach?

Round
Coetzer
Skene
Fox
Prinsloo
Poynton
Holiday
Wilkinson
Oakes
Sampson
Briggs
Vines
Turner

Firth
Rollin
chamberlain
Greenwood

Paul
Fletcher
K Smith
Ella
Juliff
Lewis
T Smith
Skerrett
Fuller
Shelford
Kelly (pre-HKR)
Ashurst
R Price

Wright
Solomona
Fritz
Burke

Not just a list of the best players but I've thought about combinations and functionality as a team.

17th man??? an afterthought then...

Based on who I've seen play and not reputation or longevity of stay

Leeds
Wilson
Domic
Mason
Ryder

Paul
Smith

Fritz
Fuller
Tronc
Whakarau
Solomona
R Price

Shelford
Lauititi
B Conway
Glancy

I'm honoured to make this team. The half time talk would be a right laugh.....we'd be late back on arguing about what we were going to do.
More of a hooker though....I'll swap shirts if you like Bren

I think I can say with confidence that your shirt would be several sizes too big for me - most are.

Based on what I've seen play for Wakey

Henry Paul
Andy Wilson
Sid Domic
Gareth Ellis
Semi Tadulala
Nigel Wright
Danny Brough
Darren Fritz
Paul Aiton
Adam Watene
David Solomona
Willie Poaching
Ray Price

I'm finding this hard as I've watched since mid 70s and there are a lot of players who deserve a place. The hard part is to pick good players while they were at Wakefield rather than players who were great before arriving and were getting old with us, like Steve Norton for instance. Great player in his day.

So I'm going for

1) Henry Paul
2) Andrew Fletcher
3) Keith Smith
4) Sid Domic
5) Jason Demetriou
6) Wally Lewis
7) Mike Lampkowski


Adrian Shelford
9) Alan McCurrie
10) Trevor Skerrett
11) David Solomona
12) Gareth Ellis
13) Ray Price

As Clan says, I have tried to build a team rather than just the best players but predominently that is the same.
I have however kept them to their correct positions. If I was able to build the team myself and bring them to modern day I would play Lampkowski at hooker and probably play Danny Brough at Scrum Half. I think Lampy would have been a world beater as a modern day hooker. His game was perfectly suited to that role.

That'll do me, i could show that Wally Lewis a thing or two!

Tried to select my team ,but find it impossible.
Stand off for example Poynton ,Lewis orTopliss.
Move Lewis to loose, but how can I leave out Turner, and so on.
Would have to think more deeply, and as people have said, select a team which would perform well together.

No ngb4c? Shame on you lol

Colin Greenwood.

Mascot

Probably with size 20 feet a bow tie and a big red nose

Obvously those who didnt see the team of the sixties have to be convinced at the quality it possessed.Yes the players are fit athletes full time training gives them that In thosedays the top sides were saints wigan and ourselves,but different to today it was thebig games we won.Im thinking of games like st helens away the first time we went to wembly in the sixties.The wembly final wins over huddersfield and wigan and the champioship final win over st helens. like jaques says over the years since then weve had some great players but il try and pick ateam of players that stuck in my mind and at the time i thought no one could touch them 1 gerry round 2 fred smith 3 alan skene 4 neil fox 5 gert coetzer 6 harold poynton/david topliss 7 keith holiday 8 jack wilkinson 9 joby shaw 10 trever skerrett 11david solomona 12 bill ashurst 13 derek turner I realize lads who didnt see the sixties side can only go on descriptions given by us olduns .I could have included the fastest wingman i saw that wa berwyn jones, centres like ian brooke and a host of forwards of the calibre of don vines, brian briggs and that great aussie ray price.In holliday and turner whoes aggression around the scums gave the opposing halfs nightmares and that included greats like alex murphy at st helens and dave bolton at wigan turner was not just an enforcer he had plenty of pace skilful with ball in hand and was a ferocious tackler.

Yeah and can also let you know who is replacing you the season after

Game over...

Paul

JD
Domic
Ella
Mason

Wright
Brough

Tronc
Bell
Fritz
Ellis
Solomona
R Price

Subs (from)
B Conway
Lauititi
Poaching
Glancy
Bagnall
Tim Smith
Wood
Amor
Brian Jackson
Michael Jackson

Been watching since the mid 80's and of all the wingers we have had i struggled for a class one. Had to move JD & Mason out there to a.) get them in and b.) as i would rate them both above Semi, Wilson, Ryder, Fox, Jones, Law etc

Mason on the wing is a good call.

Regular watcher since last 80's so only picked players from then. Harder than I thought!

1 Henry Paul
2 Andy Mason
3 Gareth Ellis
4 Sid Domic
5 Andy Wilson
6 Nigel Wright
7 Geoff Bagnall
8 Adam Watene
9 Billy Conway
10 Darren Fritz
11 Michael Jackson
12 David Solomona
13 Ray Price

14 Nigel Bell
15 Adrian Shelford
16 Willie Poching
17 Sonny Whakaru

Honourable mentions to Jason Demetriou, Johnny Thompson, Danny Brough, Garen Casey, Gary Price, James Leulieui, John Glancy and a good few others.

I can't believe I missed Nigel Bell out. I'm going to have to put him in as hooker.

Off the top of my head based only on players i saw play

Henry Paul
David Jones
Andy Mason
Sid Domic
Ryan Atkins
Nigel Wright
Geoff Bagnall
Jonny Thompson
Nigel Bell
Darren Fritz
David Solomona
Michael Jackson
Gareth Ellis

Willie Poching
Andy Kelly
Shane Tronc
Adrian Shelford

Special mentions for JD, Gary Price, Richard Slater, and all those i didnt see play.
Was tempted by Richard Goddard or Adam Hughes on the wing, but went for putting Ryan Atkins there as i reckon he would be a very good winger.

H Paul
S Tadulala
J Demetriou
S Domic
P Fox
T Smith
D Brough
M Korkidas
P Aiton
A Watene
D Solomona
G Ellis
M Betham

Of players that I have seen/can remember play -

1. Paul
2. Atkins
3. Domic
4. Ellis
5. Tadullala
6. Wright
7. Bagnal
8. Fritz
9. Aiton
10. Shelford
11. Poaching
12. Solomona
13. Demitriou

14. Bell
15. Andy Mason
16. Brough
17. Tronc

Absolutely spot on as a very young boy I was privileged to watch that team, there was some tough nuts in there as well. Got to know the coach ken trail really after he retired, have got lots of stories but as they say that is for another day. One of his main regrets was not signing Mick Shoebottom, the chairman at that time was not convinced. By the time he won him over it was too late and Leeds had signed him.