1. Gary Kemble
2. Dane O’Hara
3. Jimmy Leuluai
4. Ritchie B*
5. Colin Best*
6. Greg Mackey
7. Peter Sterling
8. Greenhill*
9. Swain*
10. O’Meley*
11. Fitz*
12. Kearney*
13. Jason Smith*

14. Danny Divet
15. Crusher
16. Muggleton
17. Manu*

* All in the KC era

Heres a few more names to contend with.

Luke Felsh (prop)
Peter Fitzgerald (full back)
David Maiden (centre)
Jeff Doyle (second row/ stand off)
Jeff Gerrard (prop)
James Grant (centre)

I just don't get how Craig Greenhill gets into peoples teams. He was gash, an absolute plodder.

Greenhill was like McMenemy; you didn't realise what he did until he wasn't there. Contribution for every minute they were on the pitch was enormous.

Well here is another hooker to think on Ray Owen only here one season but as hard as nails.
When Bradford had a good pack with Ramshaw and Clawson in second row he terorised them after some one hit him in the scrum.

Greenhill was a solid prop and hard as nails! Cant remeber who he flattened once... Im sure it was a Saints player, and then another saints player broke their arm in a tackle against him.

Stephen Kearney had the biggest influence on the club I'm sure. Brought an unseen level of professionalism to our club in all aspects.

Barry Ward

Greenhill also saw to a local gangster

Greenhill retired both St Helens props that day one through 12 punches Greenhill one and good night, other tried to hit him high did his arm and hit heads both retired after that game.

Greenhill wasnt the best player but worked hard and other teams forwards were afraid of him. He was a right head the ball but did a very good job in a well assembled team.

One player who has been mentioned a few times and i fail to see why is Cleal. He was at the end of his career and very average 99% of the time but on occasion would go on a mad crazy run flattening people in his path. Reminds me of a current FC forward actually.

- and the other point about mentioning Greenhill is that this thread started as a theoretical team of overseas Hull players and prop is a position where we have probably recruited few such players - he's not got a lot of competition. I probably wouldn't rate many of them (except O'Meley) if they were competing with the likes of Mick Harrison, Karl Harrison, Lee Crooks and Trevor Skerrett (different eras I know but this is theoretical) or if they were competing with other teams' overseas props such as Mark Broadhurst.

Almost did the same to a local Fanzine editor.

1 Kemble
2 O'Hara
3 Leuluai
4 Barnett
5 Vaikona
6 Mackey
7 Sterling
8 Logan
9 Swain
10 O'Meley
11 Kearney
12 Fitzgibbon
13 Smith

Lee Radford ?

The best oversea,s signing has to be Peter Stiriling.

No one else comes even close .

Peter Sterling was the overseas best player
Jason Smith Fantastic

What about Maea David when he tackled Jason Robinson at the Boulevard. Ouch

Not as good as Jason Temu on Darren Rogers at Salford

I remember the night when Coleman and Pearce systematically dismantled the worlds best team at Central park during that season . Great night.

the words "BELL RINGER" OR "BONE RATTLER" spring to mind with that one....

Fantastic night of [ireal[/i mixed emotions. My mates father had past away and he'd been to his funeral during the day; very quiet on the way there, we couldn't shut him up on the way home.

If you look at the career and standing in the game it's sterling, but he didn't even play a full season with us.

Such was his standing in the game and the impact he had at Hull in a short space of time.

Back then I seem to remember most overseas players missing chunks of the season because the of the overlap between the English and Oz leagues. It would often be late September before a star signing turned up and in some cases they left before the seasons end! Didnt we fly Scott Gale back from his Oz club to play in our 88 cup semi final?

Tbf at that time Sterling was the best half back the worlds seen, so can appreciate the impact.

Did gale have two spells with us then?

Yes he signed for the 87/88 season but suffered with injuries (not just a modern day problem for Hull

) and returned around 1992 for a season.

Didn't realise, I got my first season pass in 92. How did his first spell go? Injuries excepted.

Didnt see much of him at all due to injury (think it was his shoulder that was the problem).

At the time I think it is fair to say we struggled with flair and pace out in the backs and Scott Gale was meant to bring just that. With the glory years behind us it wasnt the best of years on the pitch and the rugby was hardly entertaining.

It wasnt until Brian Smith got hold of us in 1988 that a decent side came together though we still had no real pace or flair in the backs but always a pretty tough pack and some decent half backs!