www.loverugbyleague.com/news_649 ... tatue.html Would be amusing to have one of Longy 3 times Lance Todd winner of course and all of them won in the full time professional era (not that part time nonsense) Ellery Hanley would be another fine choice for me.

www.loverugbyleague.com/news_649 ... tatue.html Would be amusing to have one of Longy 3 times Lance Todd winner of course and all of them won in the full time professional era (not that part time nonsense) Ellery Hanley would be another fine choice for me.

It won't be Long. None of his Lance Todd awards were at Wembley were they?

I just think it will be wrong if it is a player with a particular affilliation to a particular club. I wouldn't want to be represented by a Wigan player in a classic Wigan pose, like the Offiah or Hanley ones suggested on the VT and I'm sure they would feel the same about a Paul Sculthorpe or Sean Long statue being put up. Nor do I want it to be a Union player like Davies, Edwards or Farrell.

Eddie Waring or Ray French!



(That should avoid any tribalism)

Ellery Hanley for me

Just imagine the screaming from over the lump if it was though



I agree on avoiding players with a strong Union link.

Vince Karalius for me, epitome of a tough rugby player with an international pedigree.

Alex Murphy? Another League Great with an international pedigree

That's who I would go for.

Stevo

On that note I'd vote for Bill Ashurst, did what we all dream of doing.

As distasteful as it is to say - it would probably be Shaun Edwards.

Perhaps we should vote for Don Fox

I'd rather they put up a statue of Mussolini, Gaddafi, Hitler, Stalin, Che , Tony Blair, Will Carling, Rob Andrew or even John Inverdale than Shaun Edwards

He was a good player in a great team playing against amateurs/part timers.

Not my cup of tea at all.

A statue of Rogues would look splendid.

I would like to see a heritage panel appointed to put forward candidates from the games history at Wembley and have an input into the final decision.
I would have either Jim Sullivan, Hanley ,Vollenhoven, Neil Fox,Murphy , Eric Ashton ,or mayb Lance Todd

Just go for a statue of the first winning captain lifting the trophy at Wembley. I know it's a pie but it's less contentious than somebody more recent with ties to a particular club.



He's already got a statue on the side of the Notre Dame.

Edwards also played teams that contained superstars like Denis Ramsdale, Wayne Elvin, Colin Whitfield, Mick Nanyn, Brian Dunn, Mick Scott, John Pendlebury (you really love him at Saints

)etc
He's the most decorated man in RL.

Eleven Wembley appearances and nine winners medals.

Even the most biased Saints fan must concede that he is worth consideration.

Lance Todd

He's fairly decorated in RU now too. I can just see the paper headlines now- 'Statue of Rugby Union legend Edwards unveiled'.

I think we're overshadowed enough as it is without giving them an excuse.

Big Mal or Murphy, rugby didn't just exist in the mid 80's early 90's.

At the very least it has to be somebody who has won the Lance Todd trophy.

Alex Murphy

Won the CC with Saints
Won the CC with Leigh and won the LT as player/coach
Won the CC with Warrington as player/coach
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Played for a winning GB side

Unlike Edwards did it for 3 different clubs on a more level playing field with the added pressure in 2 clubs of coaching too.

Those teams also contained plenty part timers. Edwards was fortunate to be part of a top class professional team who spent the best part of decade smashing teams full of part timers hoovering up medals.

If we end up with a pie eater so be it but there are far better choices than Edwards

Jim Sullivan ....

Got to be Ellery Hanley for me.

Having read all the nominated candidates, my vote still goes with Rogues, charities could make a fortune by having a "Sponser a pigeon day"