Iro & Bell weren't bad either (Miles was brilliant but only for a very short time sadly)

But they were probably more "strike" centres.

Every winger outside Gleeson scored tries, he and Carmont were more "wingers" centres.

Forgot about Kevin (the beast) yep him anf Bell.
Picked Miles because of his 1 season and he made Offiah so many tries ,a true wingers centre.

Yeah fair point. And a dying art…

Gidley was the best wingers centre I’ve ever seen. Made a superstar of Ady Gardener!

Connolly and Inga for me

but...

when you delve into the possibilities

H. Paul - FB, Centre, Halves
Connolly - FB, Centre, Wing
Radlinski - FB, Centre, Wing
Robinson, FB, Wing, Halves
Inga, Centre, Wing
Edwards, FB, Halves
Botica, FB, Wing, Centre, Halves

All played in the same era, the team wasn't weakened if you moved them all around. Imagine having that option now. We grumble about 1 player moving position these days.All world class players.

You were also the only pro team so cherry picked all the great players!

You never saw Gene Myles then.

No before my time. Would love to have seen him…
What was he like to watch?

I was only young but old enough.

I’ve never seen a centre do what he could ball in hand.

His ability to take contact from 2 and 3 defenders, take them out if the game and still offload to his winger was ridiculous and something he did consistently not just every now and again.

Lyon was the next best that I have seen in the SL era but still a long way short of Miles.

really?

a great myth

have to disagree, great

Wasn’t a level playing field was it?

pretty level with the pro Leeds team

Semi pro

might wanna do your homework with that one

Semi pro budget in comparison at least…!

Weren't Leeds full time before us?

Didn't Leeds keep spending mega bucks on our star players so they could compete with us only for them to flop and we just went and made another star player?

Must have been disappointing for you to keep spending all that money to finish second to us in every competition. Alan (nobody beats me on my outside) Tate

If he never saw Miles play he isn’t old enough to know Leeds were the first full time club.

He will have years listening to the rest of the Leeds United ship jumpers tell him big bad Wigan were the first and only fully pro team in the league for 20 years.

Always makes me laugh when opposing fans say we was pro for when we only turned pro around a year before Superleague same time as Leeds,we was dominant for years before that.
Also next is you bought the best players,no we got some good ones (Hanley,offiah)some came home (Greg etc),some we took a punt on (Bell,West etc) some we made into good if not great players (Ged Byrne.Ian Potter)
and some home grown (Gildart,Edwards etc).What we did what gelled this fantastic era together was two of the best coaches (Lowe and John Monie) That was prob the best move.

I just got sick of watching Wigan win the CC every year in the 90’s in one sided finals, yet being so proud of it!

Fair enough mate,I would have aswell if I wasnt a Wigan fan,it started around 88.
Dont forget you had your Golden years aswell.

It isn't a level playing field now.

Why wouldn't we be proud of it? Were you lot not proud of Leeds dominating a while back?