ok so i was thinking if we were in a grandfinal (yet again) which would be your greatest 17 players from the past 4/5 years that you would include

1) Full back - Scott Grix
2) Winger - Damien Blanch
3) Centre - Toe Kohe Love
4) Centre - Mick Nanyn
5) Winger - Sean Gleeson
6) Stand off - Dennis Moran
7) Scrum Half - James Webster


Prop - Adel Fellous
9) Hooker - Mark Smith
10) Prop - Oliver Wilkes
11) Second Row - Iain Morrisson
12) Second Row - Mick Cassidy
13) Loose Forward - Bob Beswick

14) Sub 1 - Gavin Dodd / Dean Gaskell
15) Sub 2 - Jordan James
16) Sub 3 - Terry O'Connor
17) Sub 4 - Anthony Thackeray

The 2007 team.

Oh go on then!

1 Grix
2 Blanch
3 TKL
4 Nanyn
5 Penny
6 Moran
7 Webster
8 Wilkes
9 Smith
10 Morrison
11 Noone
12 Cassidy
13 Beswick

14 Thackeray
15 Dodd
16 Gannon
17 Fellous - good call.

Think I would go with..

1 Peachey*
2 Blanch*
3 TKL
4 Nanyn
5 Penny
6 Moran*
7 Webster
8 O'Connor*
9 Smith
10 Wilkes
11 Morrison
12 Cassidy*
13 Noone*

14 Thakerey
15 Fellous
16 Gannon
17 McDermot*

*Thats if they were all playing at their prime and not to the standard they were at when playing for us. Tho some were and still are playing quite well.

Can't believe I forgot the Peach. What a player, even if he didn't fit in.

He thought he, along with Terry O'Connor and Barrie McDermott should not have been playing against smaller clubs and should have been saved for the big games only. He was supposed to have been injured, but two different specialists could find nothing wrong. Apart from paying that big outstanding tax bill thereby saving the club from going bust in 2006, the best thing Steven Vaughan did was get rid of Peachey, who was a drain on the finances of Widnes.
And when he went, no other club in the UK came in for him which says a lot. He was a big name, but on the field for Widnes he was no Sprogger.

1) Peachey
2) Blanch
3) Hall
4) Nanyn
5) Gaskell
6) Moran
7) Webster


Fellous
9) Smith
10) Wilkes
11) Fletcher
12) Morrison
13) Beswick

14) Penny
15) Thacks
16) Cassidy
17) Barry Mc

What a pack that would be

Interesting that most of you have picked Beswick when most of you said he was crap when Halifax signed him?

He was our MOM when we beat you one flooded Tuesday night in 2006

Its just like saying Moran wasnt as good on his last year as his previous year, but when he was good he was really good. When we signed Beswick he was one of our better players in the team and was loved by the fans. Thats why i chose him.

Or maybe just the fact that we've only really had 2 loose forwards since being in this division. For 3 seasons we had Beswick and then Paterson came to us last year. Noone had a couple of games at 13 I think and we've tried Fletch, Duffy, Doran and even Morrison in the odd game but at the end of the day its pretty much a straight chioce between Beswick and Paterson.

Beswick had a poor 2008 after 2 top quality years.

I'd be looking at the side that first got promoted.

Simon Knox was immense in your pack and I would have Barry Eaton over Webster simply because he was more consistant.

Phil Cantillon would be in at 9 and Smith at 13. For a hooker to score 40+ tries in a season was phenominal.

To put players in the just because their face fits after 15 games this season isn't right until they have shown their true colours in the black and white.

Penny is quick, but it would be an insult to the likes of Gaskell, Blanch and Weston IMHO! Defensively, he is poor and he isn't even a Widnes player!

The question is about the National Leagues, not the old NFP.

Knoxy, Cantillon, Agar, Demetriou would be shoe-ins for mine if we're talking pre-SL.

Its all the bloody same!!!!

Don't get the 7000 derby crowds now though, which proves how much damage SL had done to both out teams IMHO.

Hopefully (If we stay up), them figures could be rekindles with a very good Leigh side in 2010. For what I have heard, we will be very competative!


Long live NFP!!

Are you joking?

=redYou cannot be serious

=blueI hope the lol smilies are a hint of sarcasm!

Ask Viking man. Hes in the know!!



btw, thanks for the 6 points. We have been competative enough for you this year already!!











Good luck in the GF!

He just had to settle for an NRL contract instead!

He did, but as Vaughan said "He might be the best player in the league, but when he's sitting next to me in the stand - his isn't!"

As someone said on another messageboard: "I'll be able to tell the grandkids I was there on the day David Peachey ripped Batley apart!"

1. Dodd
2. Gaskell
3. TKL
4. Nanyn
5. Penny
6. Moran
7. Webster
8. O'Connor
9. Smith
10. Gannon
11. Wilkes
12. Morrison
13. Duffy
14. McDermott
15. Fletcher
16. Thackery
17. Cassidy

I've put Dodd at full back because he's done far more for the team than either Grix and Peachey and his all round game and composure has improved immensely this season. We'd be unstoppable with that team and the pack would cause plenty of damage.