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Another position where we have failed to have any real stability in the super league era is scrum-half.
Can you name the [i11 players[/i who have had the #7 squad number? (no cheating

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As with fullback we seem to have had to experiment with another key position. Only 2 players have held the #7 shirt for 3 years in a row and none for more than that.

Very much off the top of my head, I can recall maybe 9

Lino
Smith
Brough
Finn
Davis
Stott
Godinet
Goulding
Pearson

Good start



of course these things always bring out all the players who played in that position, but I'm looking for the #7 squad numbers primarily
Stott was #2
Pearson was #6
Goulding was #25

I was having difficulty with the period when Brough left the first time - had to look up a match on youtube and check the numbers (cheat

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Rooney? For some reason I am thinking McNamara even though he was more than likely 13.

Brough
Jeffries
Finn
Godinet
Rooney
Wood
Smith
Obst

Glen Tomlinson, also maybe jeremy Smith and Dane Dorahy?

Shane Kenward

Rooney was #16 and #6
McNamara was #13

Jeffries and Obst had not been picked yet,

which Wood?

Glen Tomlinson was #7 for the first 2 years
Jeremy Smith was #16
Dane Dorahy was #26

Shane Kenward was #6 to Glen Tomlinson's #7 in 1999

9/11 already confirmed, maybe 10 depending on first names....

Nathan Wood

Kyle Wood 7 in 2012

What year are we missing Coco?

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Willzay and Khlav got the last 2 on the list - the Wood 'twins'


Did Khlav win this week?

I'll post the list later when I'm on the laptop.

Seasons @7
1 Glen Tomlinson 2 1999 & 2000
2 Brad Davies 2 2001 & 2003
3 Nathan Wood 1 2002
4 Ben Jeffries 3 2004 & 2005 & 2007
5 Sam Obst 2 2006 & 2011
6 Danny Brough 5 2008 to 2010 & 2019 & 2020
7 Kyle Wood 1 2012
8 Tim Smith 2 2013 & 2015
9 Pita Godinet 1 2014
10 Liam Finn  3 2016 to 2018
11 Mason Lino 1 2021

We've only finished in the top 8 eight times in SL from 22 attempts. 5 of those were when we had a 'stable' No. 7.

*all data subject to verification by experts

I’ll be honest I don’t remember Wood ever playing at 7, might have Isaac John and Tim Smith that year.

Ditto Obst almost exclusively a hooker for us.

Jeremy Smith was 2011.

Of course a lot of this depend on whether you see 6 & 7 as different positions or both as interchangeable HB positions. It’s the latter imho.

So Rooney counts imho

That is right in terms of what position they played but Smith didn't play in 7 in his first year. Wood had the 7 shirt and Smith played in shirt 20

He may have had the 7 shirt but he didn't play at 7 and oddly I don't think was ever intended that he would, he played mainly from the bench. The HB partnership that year was definitely Smith and Johns. It was Smith second season that saw him take off with the addition of Paul Sykes.

Woody had a lot of competition that year in Aiton and Ellis.

SL 16 2011
1 Matt Blaymire
2 Kevin Penny
3 Aaron Murphy
4 Daryl Millard
5 Luke George
6 Ben Jeffries
7 Sam Obst
8 Michael Korkidas
9 Julien Rinaldi
10 Paul King
11 Kevin Henderson
12 Dale Ferguson
13 Glenn Morrison
14 Tommy Lee
15 Motu Tony
16 Jeremy Smith
17 Paul Johnson
18 Chris Dean
19 Dale Morton
20 Ben Gledhill
21 Frankie Mariano
22 Stuart Howarth
23 Josh Veivers
24 James Davey
25 Liam Higgins
26 Matthew Wildie
27 Kieran Hyde
28 Russ Spiers
29 Greg Johnson
30 Josh Griffin
31 Kyle Amor
32
33 Tyrone McCarthy
34 Chris Annakin
35 Gareth Moore
36 Jarrad Hickey
37 Semi Tadulala
38 Sammy Maselot
39 Ryan Tongia