That's who I thought of too, but the 10 year rule stopped me saying it.

Kidwell

Or maybe Toa

Johns

Maybe Langer, its hard to call.

Johns or Langer.
A lot of people have chosen half-backs!

gary hulse



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Appo in his prime,his form in the season when he was a stand off was superb

Nathan Wood, a true legend from the days gone by... all four years ago of it.

Danny Lima

for me it has to be Nathan Wood

Why would people want below average scrum halves back?

Toa first time 'round would be amazing at right centre in our current side too.

Toa was good, in a time we had a true world class 7 and there was a bit more time out there in the centres, watching Langer Briers and toa combine was magic.
Obviously its not possible but if the two were put side by side at their peak I'd bet Gleeson would be the better centre.

It's simply got to be Langer (or Johns but the 3 games thing reverts me away from him) or Sculthorpe, he might just be out of ten years though (was it 97-99?).

Would have to be Johns ,if he hadn't retired he would have been in his final season with us and playing, he should have talked to FRANK !

Danny Farrar

Rob Smythe
Jermone Guissett
Dean Gaskell
Lee Penny

No?

true, I wonder how just many of his tries that year he was top scorer in the league were laid on by Scott Wilson

briers its such a shame he didnt have a really decent coach when he was younger,hes good now but would have been awesome if he had tony smith behind him earlier!
but you cant fault what he has done for this club on the pitch!

It's one player back, we have him now, no need to bring him back...

Thanks SC, saved me the effort of going to see who it was who was in the halves that year, I certainly knew it was no legend.

brent grose

Sid Domic, outside of the obvious candidates.

i'd want to go further back so that Gregory could play again, no way did he deserve to be a losing finalist.

personally though with a 10 year limit i'd have Henry Fa'afili
who needs a neck when he bags a load of tries ?

00/01 were the teams best seasons of that time even though we arguably underachieved. Might not have been Kohe-loves personal best but outside of Langer Briers had his best two try scoring seasons, think he hit 17 one of the years and Kohe Love and Smyth was it? hit over 40 between them both seasons IIRC.
We certainly scored some points but we also shipped them. Kohe Love arrived in 96/97 didnt he and those two seasons plus 98, we were a joke of a side..I cant really remember 99, tbh i'd forgot that London actually finished second.

London didn't finish second in the league in 99, Saints did. London were runners up in the Challenge Cup (to Leeds), that might be what you're thinking of.

We finished 7th in 1999 and 2001, and 6th in 2000, but I would have said overall 1999 was a better season for us. We went into the year with low expectations, had been near the bottom throughout 98, and we played some good rugby and scored a lot of tries with Kohe-Love having the season he finally came of age after all the early expectation, and Hunte who was a new signing. It was also the year we had Simon Gillies as captain. We were fighting for the playoffs (top five in those days) most of the year then at the end when we missed the playoffs we lost a run of games at the end of the season which meant Gateshead finished above us.

2000 was the opposite, we went in with massive expectation after signing Langer, Gee and Nikau, most of the year we were struggling down the table and well short of the playoffs. We reached a low point with that Hudds game where Smyth made his debut and scored 4 tries, we were well up at half time and Hudds who hadn't won a game in months put on a comeback to beat us and there was that major sit in in the Railway end. At the end of the year, with the playoffs gone, we managed to start winning games which meant we climbed up to 6th - all that did for us was give us the harder fixtures for 2001 when they started splitting it so the top teams one year played each other for the "extra" fixtures at the end of the next!

Toa's career for Wire was basically 96 - looked promising, 97/98 injured a lot, 99 top scorer in the league, 00 off the boil at first, came back strong at the end, 01 matured into a top centre and signed for Hull.....05 not quite the player he was, 06 made a few contributions and tried hard