Who is the worst Tigers player ever?

[magpiecol]

How about Dane Laurie? Boy what an overrated player. I would not be suprised if we never see him play again in the NRL.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

I'm sorry but Morris was, is not, and never will be a "great player".

Trying hard does not make you a great player. I would say Morris is a very good athlete, fit, reasonably good defensively for his size, but he simply does not have a single iota of a footballing brain and couldn't create his way out of a wet paper bag. Also he is poor at basic aspects of the game such as passing and kicking.

Always gave his all for us, but if that is the criteria for judging ability, then perhaps half this forum should be playing - I'm sure most fans if given a go on the field would always give 200% - doesn't make them good players.

 

[Yossarian]

pearson

I liked Corey Pearson. For a long time he was the last man sent off in an NRL game and I once won a trivia jackpot for knowing this! Besides he was a big bald enforcer with a good offload. He was a bit limited but hardly worst player ever and not in the "class" of some of the other names being mentioned here.

 

[alien]

Was Lincoln Withers the one that used to always do those grubber kicks but they always went dead. If he is the one I am thinking of then he was hopeless.

No your thinking of Craig Field or maybe Benji Marshall or Robbie Farah….

Lincoln Withers was a champ......man he could hit in D.....

Yeah it might have been Craig Field.

 

[Snake]

I wish we had Morris now ..coming off the bench plugging the holes and plays every game ..come back Johnny.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Murphy,Issaka,Lauder,NBQ and **O'Halloran** are my top 5.

How dare you! O'Halloran is a US international! :laughing:

 

[magpiecol]

I'm sorry but Morris was, is not, and never will be a "great player".

Trying hard does not make you a great player. I would say Morris is a very good athlete, fit, reasonably good defensively for his size, but he simply does not have a single iota of a footballing brain and couldn't create his way out of a wet paper bag. Also he is poor at basic aspects of the game such as passing and kicking.

Always gave his all for us, but if that is the criteria for judging ability, then perhaps half this forum should be playing - I'm sure most fans if given a go on the field would always give 200% - doesn't make them good players.

Wow!!! I had no idea that he was so bad. I wonder how he has played first grade football for 10 years without anyone else finding out what you know. What a mystery.

 

[Jazza]

pearson

I liked Corey Pearson. For a long time he was the last man sent off in an NRL game and I once won a trivia jackpot for knowing this! Besides he was a big bald enforcer with a good offload. He was a bit limited but hardly worst player ever and not in the "class" of some of the other names being mentioned here.

I agree I thought he was probably our best forward in that era.

I always wanted him to get the ball especially in a period where we hardly scored any points, his offloads were very handy offensively.

Actually we could do with a few of his offloads right now in games!

 

[supercoach]

Morris wasnt a great player but he would walk into the team we had present. Defensively he was pretty good and if allowed to play just a link role he would have been good for us with our injury problems. To actually name the no1 lame duck is a big ask, the club usually buys a few players a year that could get onto the honor roll. For me Royce's recommendation the not so brillant no7, Reynolds would be hard to beat

 

[innsaneink]

Hayes Lauder played a handful of games in 1999 for Balmain before playing 2 run on games and 8 replacement games for the joint venture side in 2000, Justin Doyle played 3 run on games and 5 replacements in 2000/01, Shayne Dunley only appeared once for the Wests Tigers but went on to a long career at Manly.
My 2 worst players for the Wests Tigers are <big>Alf Duncan</bigwho was a first grader at Manly and Brenton Pomery who was a first grader at Norths and neither player made an impression with us from the get go.

Who's this bloke?
Never had a run afaik

 

[hybrid_tiger]

I'm sorry but Morris was, is not, and never will be a "great player".

Trying hard does not make you a great player. I would say Morris is a very good athlete, fit, reasonably good defensively for his size, but he simply does not have a single iota of a footballing brain and couldn't create his way out of a wet paper bag. Also he is poor at basic aspects of the game such as passing and kicking.

Always gave his all for us, but if that is the criteria for judging ability, then perhaps half this forum should be playing - I'm sure most fans if given a go on the field would always give 200% - doesn't make them good players.

Wow!!! I had no idea that he was so bad. I wonder how he has played first grade football for 10 years without anyone else finding out what you know. What a mystery.

Fitzhenry has also played first grade football for 10 years, is he also a good player?

I maintain Morris is a good athlete, not a good footballer.

 

[gallagher]

I'm sorry but Morris was, is not, and never will be a "great player".

Trying hard does not make you a great player. I would say Morris is a very good athlete, fit, reasonably good defensively for his size, but he simply does not have a single iota of a footballing brain and couldn't create his way out of a wet paper bag. Also he is poor at basic aspects of the game such as passing and kicking.

Always gave his all for us, but if that is the criteria for judging ability, then perhaps half this forum should be playing - I'm sure most fans if given a go on the field would always give 200% - doesn't make them good players.

Wow!!! I had no idea that he was so bad. I wonder how he has played first grade football for 10 years without anyone else finding out what you know. What a mystery.

Fitzhenry has also played first grade football for 10 years, is he also a good player?

I maintain Morris is a good athlete, not a good footballer.

I'm surprised you have such a high opinion of Brian Smith seeing as he played Morris at 5/8 when at Parra.

 

[Leroy_The_Tigers_Fan]

Glen Air played just the one game for us as a stop gap so it's hard to judge for that one game, John Carlaw was great for usas a foundation player, he played in a Grand Final for the Warriors after being shown the door by us while I still remember one of Mark O'Halloran's early games for us when we were beaten 68-0 by Melbourne at the then new Docklands Stadium.
He got belted from pillar to post had blood pouring out from a badly broken nose but kept on giving it his all, unlike some players circa 2010 who appeared to turn it up, as far as Fitzy goes we should remember him as a match winner from the 2005 era rather than the mere shadow of himself in 2010, it's not his fault that Sheens has a fixation with him, remember that when Sheens was sacked by the Cowboys 'mental illness' was used as an alibi/excuse.

 

[magpie_mania]

glen air played just the one game for us as a stop gap so it's hard to judge for that one game, john carlaw was great for usas a foundation player, he played in a grand final for the warriors after being shown the door by us while i still remember one of mark o'halloran's early games for us when we were beaten 68-0 by melbourne at the then new docklands stadium.
He got belted from pillar to post had blood pouring out from a badly broken nose but kept on giving it his all, unlike some players circa 2010 who appeared to turn it up, as far as fitzy goes we should remember him as a match winner from the 2005 era rather than the mere shadow of himself in 2010, it's not his fault that sheens has a fixation with him, remember that when sheens was sacked by the cowboys 'mental illness' was used as an alibi/excuse.[/quot
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glen air actually played ok in that one game also.

 

[magpie_mania]

was lincoln withers the one that used to always do those grubber kicks but they always went dead. If he is the one i am thinking of then he was hopeless.

no different to our current kicks.lincoln withers could hit people twice his size and they wouldnt get up he was an awesome defender.

 

[alien]

was lincoln withers the one that used to always do those grubber kicks but they always went dead. If he is the one i am thinking of then he was hopeless.

no different to our current kicks.lincoln withers could hit people twice his size and they wouldnt get up he was an awesome defender.

Yeah but didn't he play halfback for us? I know he played dummy half later in his career. Morris was normally a good defender too. That doesn't mean he was a good in the halves though. I remember everytime we got near the try line I used to think "big deal, he will just grubber it dead again" and alot of times he did. He drove me nuts. It was either him or Craig Field.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

I'm surprised you have such a high opinion of Brian Smith seeing as he played Morris at 5/8 when at Parra.

Every coach is capable of some clangers - the much derided B.Smith cops it far too much. In any case playing Morris at five-eighth is better than playing him at halfback, but yes, he should be no-where near the halves in any NRL side.

If you listened to the media you'd think Smith is the worst coach the game has ever seen.

 

[Snide]

1.Hasan Saleh
2.Lipina Kaufusi
3.Lee Murphy
4.Justin Yeo
5.
6.Micheal Buettner
7.Glen Air
8.James Gannon
9.Daniel Fitzhenry
10.Chris Paterson
11.Nick Graham
12.Trent Runciman
13.Chris Heighington

Gannon left Balmain in mid-1999 to play for Halifax, going on to play 203 SL games (also w/ Huddersfield & Hull KR) and Yeo also only played for Balmain in 1999 (10 games).

And Doyle, Lauder + Clint Hill make Patto + Gannon look like Ian Roberts + Webcke!

Also Laloa MiIlford deserves a shot at the no. 5.

P.S. Good luck to Spud Elford as captaincy debutant this week from the wing.

 

[Snide]

I'm surprised you have such a high opinion of Brian Smith seeing as he played Morris at 5/8 when at Parra.

Every coach is capable of some clangers - the much derided B.Smith cops it far too much. In any case playing Morris at five-eighth is better than playing him at halfback, but yes, he should be no-where near the halves in any NRL side.

If you listened to the media you'd think Smith is the worst coach the game has ever seen.

Bollocks!

Gus - Rabs - Sterlo - Wok etc give him a more than a deserved wrap! Rothfield hates him - but he loves Ricky & hates our club! F–- him!

 

[Golden]

are we just talking wests tigers?? what about mngpies and Balmain? that olympics runner for Balmain cant think of his first name.. was it Darren Clark? had to be the worst ever