Immortals

[tiger4ever]

Theres always great players from every club that miss out…. Happy to see meninga named but i do think what provan had done is far greater then anyone else.

 

[Masterton]

There shoud be a minimum number of years after retirement before someone can be named, in order to give some perspective. Provan, Keith Barnes, Holman, Noel Kelly, Ken Irvine, Messenger should all be considered before Langer, Johns or Lockyer. Meninga I could live with.

On a slightly different subject, how does Noel Kelly make the Team of the Century, in one of the games most important positions, but hasn't been named in the hall of fame? Fair go for the tough old magpie.

 

[Marshall_magic]

Immortals are exclusively post war players. Messenger is inelligible, but is in the ARL Hall of Fame. As for Kelly, not many post war players have been inducted into the hall of fame yet, it's only been around for 5-10 years, and they only do 2 post war players every year. It's not like they're inducting chumps over him either, it is a fairly exclusive club.

 

[happy_tiger]

Don't think Tests count should mean a great deal as We play far more Tests now than we did then due to transportation etc

 

[Masterton]

Immortals are exclusively post war players.

Thanks for clearing that up. I didn't realise.

 

[innsaneink]

I didnt realise but the naming of immortals is down to rugby league week.

Would be good to do a revamp and get the independent commission to name some more players when the commission becomes official.

Just wondering who you guys would pick.

Lockyer and Johns are often discussed in the media. Supposedly Meninga is next up.

But there are alot of names that could fit in too. Lewis, Fittler, Langer, Sterling.

Lots there. But who would/should make it from the past Tigers/Wests players.

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Keith "Yappy" Holman
Did everything in the game
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Most games ever for the Magpies (203)
NSW and Kangaroo rep
Top level ref, controlling 71 GF & test matches
New South Wales Player of the Year three times – 1951, 1956 and 1958
Coached magpies first grade in 77 to Amco cup victory
ARL hall of fame
MBE
Made list of 100 greatest players all time
Even had a Wests junior club named in his honour and awarded me the only trophy I ever got.
Only thing he didnt do was play in a winning premiership team, even though his team won the comp while he was touring with the Roos in 52

What an awesome RL CV…and probably the Magpies greatest ever.

Oh no, that'd never do Ink, you can't upset the balance of the Gen Y universe. It has to be someone who's appeared on the Footy Show or at least played State of Origin. He also needs to have battled and beaten personal demons and then been interviewed by Phil Gould

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: LOL…yeh thats about it eh?