RLW - The Ultimate 'Animal' Team

[HoldenV8]

RLW this morning announced a team of players with animal nicknames....though some they are stretching a bit.

5 of the 17 are Manly players.

http://rugbyleagueweek.com.au/the-ultimate-animal-17/

FB - Graham "Wombat" Eadie
WG - Mat "Rat" Rogers
CE - Jamie Lyon
CE - Graham "The Penguin" Bradley
WG - Adam "Mad Dog" MacDougall
FE - Brett Finch
HB - Andrew "Joey" Johns
PR - Steve Roach
HK - Mark "Piggy" Riddell
PR - Rex "Moose" Mossop
SR - Steve "Beaver" Menzies
SR - Gordon "Raging Bull" Tallis
LK - Johnny "Chook" Raper

Res - Bob "The Bear" O'Reilly, Michael "Horse" Weyman, Barry "Bunny" Reilly, David "Mule" Hosking

Missing the cut were the likes of Michael "The Crow" Cronin, Mal "Chicken George" Meninga, Wally "Gator" Lewis and Brett "Snake" Stewart. How Killer, Finch and Blocker Roach made the cut with their nicknames I'll never know.

 

[HappilyManly]

RLW this morning announced a team of players with animal nicknames....though some they are stretching a bit.

5 of the 17 are Manly players.

http://rugbyleagueweek.com.au/the-ultimate-animal-17/

FB - Graham "Wombat" Eadie
WG - Mat "Rat" Rogers
CE - Jamie Lyon
CE - Graham "The Penguin" Bradley
WG - Adam "Mad Dog" MacDougall
FE - Brett Finch
HB - Andrew "Joey" Johns
PR - Steve Roach
HK - Mark "Piggy" Riddell
PR - Rex "Moose" Mossop
SR - Steve "Beaver" Menzies
SR - Gordon "Raging Bull" Tallis
LK - Johnny "Chook" Raper

Res - Bob "The Bear" O'Reilly, Michael "Horse" Weyman, Barry "Bunny" Reilly, David "Mule" Hosking

Missing the cut were the likes of Michael "The Crow" Cronin, Mal "Chicken George" Meninga, Wally "Gator" Lewis and Brett "Snake" Stewart. How Killer, Finch and Blocker Roach made the cut with their nicknames I'll never know.

Killer -> lion


Not animals but still fauna -
Finch is a bird
Roach is a cockroach

 

[HoldenV8]

I still think the staff at RLW have been smoking a bit of the green stuff lately.

Finch in front of Lewis?
Bradley in front of Cronin or Meninga?

They are going by nicknames. Steve Roach's nickname is Blocker. It shouldn't matter that he played for the Tigers, Kangaroos or Cockroaches.

I see and accept your point on Killer though.

My team would have been:

Eadie, Rogers, Lyon, Cronin, Stewart, Lewis, Johns, O'Reilly, Riddell, Mossop, Menzies, Tallis, Raper. Res - Meninga, Weyman, Reilly, Hosking.

Artistic license there. MacDougall can pi$$ off and Snake can play on the wing.

 

[Brookie4eva]

Animal ...

 

[mosto]

Would have thought Cameron "The Grub" Smith would have got a start.

 

[Captain Moondog]

What about Sam "The Squirrel" Burgess?

 

[Loobs]

Didn't they call Glenn Stewart wombat at one point?

 

[tookey]

Billy the cat Slater

 

[HoldenV8]

Billy the cat Slater

Wombat or Snake any day.

Though I know what you meant 😉

 

[Chip and Chase]

Ian "Chook" Heron and our very own Roy Bull.

Wasn't Alf an extra terrestrial animal ? as was ET.

 

[Deleted member 24974]

Great to see Graham Eadie making a team. Fantastic goal kicker, the safest under a bomb I ever saw and on of the hardest running and toughest fullback I ever saw.
Easily the best fullback of all time.

 

[Shoe1]

That so called animal team is hopeless

 

[HoldenV8]

That so called animal team is hopeless

With the exception of Wombat, Killer, Moose, Beaver and Mule 😉

 

[Stevo]

They forgot the Spider and the Ox

 

[bones]

Wasn't Alf an extra terrestrial animal ? as was ET.

No ... ET was a Cheetah.

 

[cherry_poppins]

Didn't they call Glenn Stewart wombat at one point?

You're thinking of Cuthbo

 

[Shoe1]

With the exception of Wombat, Killer, Moose, Beaver and Mule 😉

Yep, but I meant as an exercise. There is a whole team of real animals out there. I can even do a full team of birds.

 

[niccipops]

Killer -> lion


Not animals but still fauna -
Finch is a bird
Roach is a cockroach

Actually all part of the Animal Kingdom, so yep the bored journos are correct.

Supernatural animals should have been included though. Miss you Wolfie.

 

[Shoe1]

Rlw has no imagination and little humour.

Why not include Aaron Moule
(mussel), Shane Muspratt (the muskrat) or Gene Ngamu (gnu) for instance.

 

[HoldenV8]

Rlw has no imagination and little humour.

Why not include Aaron Moule
(mussel), Shane Muspratt (the muskrat) or Gene Ngamu (gnu) for instance.

With some of the things RLW has come out with this year I am starting to think that their staff writers are out smoking some green stuff when on their breaks......