Personally I would have liked to see just either Billy Boston or Clive Sullivan. Clive Sullivan was the 1st black captain of GB/England in any major sport and by putting either him or Boston up there would show how forward thinking and diverse RL is.

I think that colour should not be a factor in deciding. It is meant to be a celebration of RL not of racial breakthroughs.

Whilst it is great that RL has been so forward thinking in such subjects, the statue is to celebrate the importance of RL at Wembley, not the significance of RL in racial equality for sport.

Who created the shortlist in the first place?

Why do people keep saying Billy Boston should have been on it? He's on it!

Great choice, Yorkshire's contribution to RL's history is comparable to that of London and there's no point just picking a Yorkshire player in the name of 'equality and diversity'.

Maurice Lindsay, George Formby, Uncle Joe and Andy Farrell.

Joke of a shortlist, joke of a final decision.

I was hoping that this statue would be something for the RL community to be proud of, a fantastic opportunity to lay a permanent reminder of the great sport of RL.

Instead we have a group of our souls.

Indeed, everything would have been so much better if the George Hotel was somewhere in Lancashire.

Saw the Super League show with Ray French putting the case forward for the group statue and totally agreed with it. A good decision.

Complaining about an anti-Yorkshire bias is laughable really.

I am surprised that they chose to not honour anyone from Wigan as well as Yorkshire.

1 cockney, a couple from Wales and 2 from St Helens seems like a good representation to me.

If the statue had comprised of only Yorkshire based players, would that still be your opinion?

Some true greats of the game to be honoured, oh & Offiah

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No Yorkshire team has won at Wembley since 1999. Long may the streak continue!

Pah. Paltry effort.


I'm sure you know which Fox brother I'm referring to, and it's not the one you brought up, nor is it Peter.

I'm pretty happy with a group statue providing it's done right. It will eithe rlook spectacular, or a mess with too much going on. No complaints about the 5, there were always going to be argumnets. I would have liked to have see Robbie Paul there, 1st hat trick at Wembly

Yorkshire folk really will moan about anything.

Without the forename and coming after mention to Neil, you asked for it. Fair effort to cover yourself though.

Makes me think though, there's room for both of the Lance Todd winning brothers.

Can't believe Neil Fox hasn't been picked RL and wembley legend, record points scorer. Devalues the statue for me Martin Offiah couldn't lace Neils boots.

Think the problem is that the great legend Neil Fox is always Wembley associated with missing the kick in front of the post. Where Offiah is seen as probably scoring the best solo try ever seen at Wembley.

And it wasn't even Neil who did that!

Maybe, Don has diluted his greatness.

So Neil wasn't picked because his brother (a great player by the way) missed a kick at wembley

Agree and feel the same applies to Leroy Rivett. Just think how many tries he would have scored in that great Wigan side.

Offiah should be no where near the list, he could run fast in a dominant team of the time, there's nothing THAT special about it. Put any speedster in that team and they would have done the same.
If it was to be one man only I would have been okay with Boston, however I don't even think we need a real life figure/s to represent our sport in statue form.
It would have been far less contentious to ahve two players say in a one on one tackle maybe grasping desperately around the waist of the other in full flight would have represented the sport more than adequately. I think having a plaque not just mentioning the history of the game re Wembley but also the names of all the Lance Todd winners with space for more would have set it off nicely.

Still can't see why Hanley wasn't included.

Beat me to it, best and most feared player I've ever seen. He was a far more influential player of that era (if eras are how we're judging this, by the RFL's press statement). Plus he'd make a few folk happy when one considers where he hails from.

Offiah is from east of the Pennines, relatively speaking.