A poor man's Dennis Moran?

Wouldn't even call it tailing off, Nikead. He was 3 in the 04 season (looked overweight), and the less said about 05 the better.
I remember being stood next a fella in the South Stand, in Appo's last season, and he said he's been a one season wonder wherever he'd been.

Appo...it was nice while it lasted, after that...humph

Cant believe we let him go to get some guy called Johns???

Appo = Good then Bad...Next!

Aaaaah, once described as a fat hamster by the Maths teacher

He's the only person I've seen ever properly replace Briers, only for 10 weeks or so like.

I think if I ever caught up with him, and given that the tax man can't I think the chances are slim, I would ask him :-

a. How he became superhuman overnight.
b. Why did it wear off just as quickly.
c. Was he taking any supplements.

ahhh, Haliborange is a wonderful thing

Scored 80 metre tries for fun and his goalkicking was Frano Boticaesque.

or Grant Apple as the Leigh ground commentator announced him

Give over! He wasn't THAT good. In fact, have I been hooked by some subtle trolling Mr Nikaed!?

I think the answer to C answers A and, on that basis, also answers B.

Allegedly.

quarter of a season

Third of a season.

Did you know Eddeh, Rugby League is a game of fractions

SEB is right, its amazing how nostalgia makes some players brief run of form seem better than it was. Richard Henare is another one.

Appo had a good half season similar to Kevin Penny in 2007. Appo was very good against low ranking teams (eg Halifax), and he got a lot of points because he kicked goals as well as scoring tries, but you never saw him take on a top team and make a difference. Brett Hodgson's first half season at Warrington was better than Appo in 2003 IMO.

2003 was a weird season - didn't we win every game against teams that finished below us in the league and lose every game against teams that finished above us? I think people get misty eyed about that season for 2 reasons; firstly, the dross that came before it and secondly, the fact it was our last season at Wilderspool. My most vivid memories are the season opener against Huddersfield (Silver kit), Wakefield at home (naturally) and the play off game at Wigan.

Appo shone brightly for a short period of time before his character caught up with him and he put loads of Terry on.

Also, pretty much all of his tries were full length, or from at least halfway. He rarely scored a walk in, that elevates him in your mind. Also he had a cool name that allowed Sean Mellor to just go on when he scored

"Graham Appoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

he never went under the sticks though

second time we played halifax down here, our mob went and stood near the portaloos in the corner of the railway end, and we spent most of the game as he broke through pointing towards the sticks.


appo V robert relf away at widnes.

Class end to a game that. I used to hate Jules O'Neill.

can someone confirm if Graham was included in the 2004 SL Dream team please- we have a difference of opinion here

2003 Phil.

Super League Dream Team: G Connolly (Leeds); L Vainikolo (Bradford), G Ellis (Wakefield), K Senior (Leeds), B Carney (Wigan); G Appo (Warrington), A Lam (Wigan); C Smith (Wigan), T Newton (Wigan), A Lynch (Castleford), J Peacock (Bradford), M Adamson (Leeds), A Farrell (Wigan

2004 graham appo was the year of



he was gash in 2004, and 05.

2003 was a happy season for us because it was a year where we didn't have big expectations at the start of the season but we did well. Cullen said the season was about "leaving Wilderspool with dignity" and I thought we did. The team seemed to have a good spirit and that was Cullen at his best as a coach. After that the expectation started to come in when we moved to the HJ and Simon Moran started putting significant money in so we were signing big name players, now looking back I wonder whether some of the players we signed privately didn't rate Cullen much and/or felt like they'd already achieved the success they would have in their careers and were winding their careers down with us, because despite the high profile additions the team never seemed to click like it did in 2003, for the rest of Cullen's time in charge, apart from a good run in mid season 2005.

I really enjoyed 2003. As well as Appo having his good run at the end of the season there were a few other good performers that year, Nat Wood started to really come into form with us, Brent Grose had a good year, as did Nick Fozzard, Paul Wood and Mike Wainwright.

That was also the only year we've had a major injury to Lee Briers. He's been more or less Senior-like in his durability, which doesn't often get mentioned.

lee briers, post hand injury, and post off season weight gain (pre removal of ty haircut)

My best memory of Appo was when he picked off Jules Oneill's kick at Widnes and went the length of the field. Robert Relf, with his DD's bouncing all over the show was being taunted by Appo as he made an honourable attempt to catch him.

Coincidently, Appo had a fair set of baps himself the following season.