C Steve Anderson
1 Steve Diamond
2 Kevin Crouthers
3 Vince fawcett
4 Dale Cardoza
5 Richie Barnett jr
6 Scott Wilson
7 Matt Rodwell
8 Adam Foggerty
9
10 dale Lawton
11 Matt Sturm
12
13
sub Hussain McBarki
sub
sub
sub

For Barbedwire

I try not to think about it for the sake of my psychiatry bills, but you could probably pick any starting 13 from the Anderson era. I still think his period in charge was an elaborate April fool concocted by Wigan & Saints.

However, I've seen players who were abysmal, clueless, incompetent and a danger to society but the one that springs to mind as the ambassador of awful, the duke of dire was Mr Don "Mad Dog" Duffy. He was like an Australian, heavily bandaged Frank Spencer minus the endearing qualities.

Honourary mention to Mark Jones as well. Built like George Foreman, he had the threat of George Formby. He'd have gone down a bomb in the current Huddersfield pack.

C Steve Anderson
1 Steve Diamond
2 Kevin Crouthers
3 Vince Fawcett
4 Dale Cardoza
5 Richie Barnett jr
6 Scott Wilson
7 Matt Rodwell
8 Adam Foggerty
9
10 Dale Lawton
11 Matt Sturm
12 Don'mad dog'Duffy
13
sub Hussain McBarki
sub
sub
sub

Neil parsley, dean busby got to be in there

Neil Parsley scored in his only Wire appearance.

C Steve Anderson
1 David 'Doc' Murray
2 Kevin Crouthers
3 Dale Cardoza
4 Anthony Swann
5 Manoa Thompson
6 Steve Blakeley
7 Matt Rodwell
8 Adam Fogerty
9 Michael Sullivan
10 Dale Laughton
11 Paul Marquet
12 Matt Sturm
13 Chris Morley
sub Martin Masella
sub John Hill
sub Dave Whittle
sub David King

This sort of topic opens us up - I am surprised no wag has come on here and said the 13 that played last Saturday.

John Thursfield at 9!

you just did

You gotta have Moana Thompson in there surely

No space for Mike 'Kick it' Peters or Warren Stevens?

Can't believe someone had Steve Georgialis is there!

Mike Wainwright

I was waiting for someone to come up with wedge. Putting his loyalty to the cause aside, he was like Ellery Hanley compared to some of the dross we've seen mentioned on here, and he'd probably still get in any championship team.

Sorry, never a fan and never will be.

If Wainwright had this squad around him back then, he would have been playing for England not Scotland!

Great player, great vision.
People tore pieces out of him as people tore pieces out of John Fieldhouse before him.

Fieldhouse moved on to Saints and shut the knockers at Warrington up.
Playing for GB and knocking Wire out of the challenge cup with a peach of a pass!

Wainwright stayed at the club he loved and perhaps lost his chance to shut his knockers, moving too late and to too poor of a team.

Mikes mam and dad, huge wire fans, had to stop going the games.

they would stand with the fans and have to listen to abusive taunts aimed at there son.

Shame on them.

I agree, shame on them, still didn't rate him as a player.

Dave Alstead?

if you think he warrents a spot over who is in there now, then paste him in WFiii.

There's no right for wrong in this, more like, more wrong for wrong!!

Still, I think I could have been a bit harsh on Matt Rodwell, at least he didn't hide from his critics.

I feel he left his position not because the fans wanted out, but almost like he was offering his resignation because he cared??

Sounds strange but how it seems??

That would be Matt Rodwell the Dally M Rookie of the Year and player of the year at 2 of his NRL clubs. He was a victim of association with Anderson, being surrounded by a crap team and getting injured at the wrong time. I always feel like sending him when he gets put forward as an example of a crap player. Now Craig Tietzel, that's another story......

I wonder if Mick Monaghan and Matt King would have been in this list if Paul Cullen and Jimmy Lowes had hung around a bit longer. Maybe if the poor form of the team had continued and they had had a bit more stick then they might have headed home and we would be looking back on them in a different light.
I have mentioned this before but the abuse the players took in Perpignan airport after a hammering against catalan in 2008 was terrible (Mainly the 2 players mentioned above), Just over 12 months later they were tearing Wigan apart to get through to the first CC Final in nearly 20 years and being hailed as gods.


I am shocked nobody has named Craig Tietzel in the list because his name usually crops up in these things even though we nearly won the league with him at Prop.

Maybe they were tearing Wigan apart in the semi partly because of the stick they were given.

Craig Teitzel??....



I remember him turning up with all the usual Warrington Guardian fanfare, with promises of some Aussie hardman who would rip bits out of defences - What we got was an absolute fairy, who had the running speed of a sloth.

What's amazing is that a side containing him AND John Thursfield managed to finish third, level on points with Wigan and Bradford!!.... Probably ample proof of just how good Jonathan Davies was during that season?

Indeed. Tietzel came with a nickname of 'the butcher'. That sounded good until we realised it was because he'd worked at a butchers shop.