RFL - 5 Greatest Players of All Time??

[HoldenV8]

OK, I get this list is from the RFL so its going to be English centric. I get that. But the RFL in celebrating 125 years have put out this list of who they think are the greatest players of all time. Not just RFL players, but rugby league players all over the world.

I'm still shaking my head, I really am.....

Here is the list. And try to remember that this is actually 100% serious. Its not supposed to be the joke that it really is.

Ellery Hanley
Clive Sullivan
Brian Bevan
Wally Lewis

And can you believe ... Kevin Sinfield.

Yep, that's right. Kevin Sinfield made an RFL 125 year celebration list as one of the greatest rugby league players of all time.

For him to even be thought of to make this list, the RFL's 125 "Super Fans" who put forward their nominations (because it wasn't a panel of experts ... it was fans) must have included 124 Leeds supporters.

Seriously, whenever I saw Sinfield play for either Leeds, England or Great Britain, despite the likes of Eddie Hemmings and Mike Stephenson gushing over just about every little thing he did, I found myself thinking that if he was typical of the best they had to offer, is it any wonder the Poms haven't been able to beat Australia in a series or tournament since the 1972 World Cup?

History & Heritage

 

[Bring back the.... Biff?]

1. Brett Stewart
2. Glenn Stewart
3. Jamie Lyon
4. Steve Matai
5. Beaver

Mic drop

 

[globaleagle]

OK, I get this list is from the RFL so its going to be English centric. I get that. But the RFL in celebrating 125 years have put out this list of who they think are the greatest players of all time. Not just RFL players, but rugby league players all over the world.

I'm still shaking my head, I really am.....

Here is the list. And try to remember that this is actually 100% serious. Its not supposed to be the joke that it really is.

Ellery Hanley
Clive Sullivan
Brian Bevan
Wally Lewis

And can you believe ... Kevin Sinfield.

Yep, that's right. Kevin Sinfield made an RFL 125 year celebration list as one of the greatest rugby league players of all time.

For him to even be thought of to make this list, the RFL's 125 "Super Fans" who put forward their nominations (because it wasn't a panel of experts ... it was fans) must have included 124 Leeds supporters.

Seriously, whenever I saw Sinfield play for either Leeds, England or Great Britain, despite the likes of Eddie Hemmings and Mike Stephenson gushing over just about every little thing he did, I found myself thinking that if he was typical of the best they had to offer, is it any wonder the Poms haven't been able to beat Australia in a series or tournament since the 1972 World Cup?

History & Heritage

#undertheradar

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Bradman
VIv Richards
Lillee
Sobers
Warne

 

[Shoe1]

Mal Reilly was streets ahead of sinfield

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Sinfield was actually pretty good but Kramer usually stole the show.

 

[Shoe1]

Poms better than sinfield: Reilly, sam Burgess, the Canberra hooker, Phil Lowe, Adrian Morley ...

 

[TWO DOGS]

Bradman
VIv Richards
Lillee
Sobers
Warne

Sobers before Richards and that would be mine too.

 

[HoldenV8]

In all seriousness ... I wouldn't have any of those 5 as my top players ever.

But Sinfield being on that list is surely taking the piss.

Is it any wonder why most outside the Super League think that the RFL is a joke?

 

[sheridanstand78]

Sobers before Richards and that would be mine too.

My top 10

Bradman
Sobers
Richards
Lillee
Tenduklar
Warne
Smith
Kohli
Ambrose
Hadlee

 

[Harvies elbow]

Isn't Sinfield the bloke Willie mason sat on his a*se in a test match?

 

[MadMarcus]

Luke Dorn unlucky not to make that list

 

[brad]

My top 10

Bradman
Sobers
Richards
Lillee
Tenduklar
Warne
Smith
Kohli
Ambrose
Hadlee

Strange ,No Brian Lara ?

 

[cherry_poppins]

Strange ,No Brian Lara ?

No McGrath either

 

[manly al]

Sinfield was actually pretty good but Kramer usually stole the show.

Which Kramer ? Have to choose between Kramer versus Kramer before making that suggestion .

 

[manly al]

Isn't Sinfield the bloke Willie mason sat on his a*se in a test match?

Think that might have been that Pommie prop at the time Stewart Fielder

 

[DUFFMAN]

Any greatest list that doesn't include Anthony Mundine isn't worth the paper it written on.

 

[TWO DOGS]

My top 10

Bradman
Sobers
Richards
Lillee
Tenduklar
Warne
Smith
Kohli
Ambrose
Hadlee

Excellent list but as Brad said - Brian Lara could be in there. I prefer Lara to Tendulka.

 

[MadMarcus]

Any greatest list that doesn't include Anthony Mundine isn't worth the paper it written on.

He probably got left out because they’re racists

 

[Shoe1]

Think that might have been that Pommie prop at the time Stewart Fielder

The poms won that test.

it used to amuse me when the pommy commentators kept insisting that fielden was the best prop in the world, and senior was the best centre in the world.