Players you wanted to see go further....

Ben Black - could've been anything but failed to kick on… Laloa Milford (great rats tail)
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@Flippedy said:
Jarrod McCracken was another one. He was a really fine player and I remember being so excited when WT bought him to captain our inaugural side. Then, in just a little over half a season…that tackle...and it was career over.

Interestingly, McCracken was just the beginning of a growing list of promising players whose careers have died or were prematurely ended through injury in WT colours - O'Hara, Graham, Lolesi, Tuiaki, Cayless, Dwyer, Lui, and most probably Tuqiri.
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Graham's and Cayless's careers had already died before they put on a WT jumper but we still signed them!
 
Simon Dwyer , TNT and Tyran Smith Smith played his best footy for the Tigers in my opinion

From the Wests side of the amalgamation

Rod Pethybridge ,Brandon Pearson and Russell Wyer come to mind
 
Dean Collis as he had Matt Gidley like skills and had the potential to be a very slick centre, Michael Crockett as he had speed to burn but lacked the intensity and desperation that Koroibete shows, Simon Dwyer as he had NSW backrow written all over him, Taniela Tuiaki for the fact he was the most damaging winger in the game when he broke his ankle and Dean Halatau who showed glimpses of how damaging he could be around the ruck, but again, consistency let him down.

Another player that comes to mind is Willie Manu who I really rated.
 
Balmain players from the 70's in Geoff Starling & Dennis Bendall, Starling's career suffered from a mystery illness that wasn't diagnosed until well after his premature retirement & Bendall, broke his neck in a swimming accident just when his career was really about to take off, imagine if they had been the centre pairing with both fit and well.
 
Matthew Reick, **Daniel Fitzhenry**, Shane Elford

yes thats right Fitzy.

Johnny " Cronk" Morriss

these ones are from years gone by:
John "Dallas " Donnelly ( RIP),
Phil Blake.
Stephen Knight.
Russell Mullins
Jim Leis
Buddy Cain ( RIP)
 
Tuiaki (not sure on the spelling) imagine if he & Koro were our wingers now & Dwyer as well. The players deserve every $ they can get, when any injury can cut their career short.
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@GoldXR50Leroy said:
From memory Meads just didn't have the size to kick on, a good work horse like Fulton but no gamebreaker.
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Yeh Meads lacked the size to make it but gee he could play. Id say if a guy can basically tear a team apart on his own in a jersey flegg game he's nore than just a.workhorse He had very good skill and great footwork.
 
@Cultured Bogan said:
Just in reference to the OP, I wouldn't say Karmichael Hunt could have really gone any "further." By age 20 he was already an Australian rep, won an origin series with Queensland & premiership winner. He was a good fullback who could quite ably play on the wing, centre or five-eighth and scored 53 tries in six seasons.

Obviously we've got our own opinions, but that's not a bad effort by my reckoning.
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Would rather see him go further in this game than Japanese rugby though.
Was such an entertainer.
 
Collis could of been very good, also was avery good goal kicker but i think injuries killed him. Dwyer could of been anything big strong & plenty of speed, by the way hope your getting better Simon all the best. One other player Kevin McGuinness could of been a top player as well but the move to Manly buggered him.
 
@weststigers4life said:
Tuiaki (not sure on the spelling) imagine if he & Koro were our wingers now & Dwyer as well. The players deserve every $ they can get, when any injury can cut their career short.
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gee how could i miss tuiaki
 
Matt Head has been neglected.

When he was signed to the Tigers I almost blew a load. I thought he had a phenomenal kicking game, he'd compliment Benji and Farah nicely and it'd fill the hole left by Prince.

Never eventuated, he had one good half for us against the Raiders, that was that. Sad.
 
Daine Laurie. All he needed to do was knuckle down and stop acting like a kid and he would have been a lifelong first grader. Has all the tools on the field to be one of the most damaging forwards in the game. Would be up there for quickest front rower of all time in my humble opinion.
 
@MacDougall said:
Daine Laurie. All he needed to do was knuckle down and stop acting like a kid and he would have been a lifelong first grader. Has all the tools on the field to be one of the most damaging forwards in the game. Would be up there for quickest front rower of all time in my humble opinion.
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He's done.
You won't see him in the NRL ever again, currently playing for Maquarie Scorps and isn't looking like an athlete at all.
 
2 more centres from way back with Balmain ….... Wayne Wigham (tall, strong, fast) and Graham Roberts (who was looking 'representative material' all over until a horrible broken leg and subsequent staph infection ended his career).
Both were looking great prospects. Wigham just lacked the required dedication I think, and as i said, Roberts was going to be an absolute beauty!
 
Jason Webber played centre for Balmain in the late 90's. Au one stage was being talked about as a Queensland state of origin prospect. Can't remember what happened to him.
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Craig Innes. A centre for Manly who was probably the best centre in the game when he left for rugby union after 1997\. Wasted his talent there.
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