Re: Yorkshire Evening Post Rhinos unsung heroes : Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:33 pm  

As others have said Kirke was a decent, at times very good, sub prop.

Ablett absolutely an unsung hero, same goes Delaney for me. Neither quite got the praise they deserved in my opinion. They were a massive part of the treble win, held the middle of the field with massive work rates of good quality defence.

Also some who isn’t really an unsung hero because he rightly got plenty of praise but I still don’t think we fully appreciated at the time just how good Brent Webb was. Watching some of these games back and his movement both on and off the ball was superb and his passing put us in for some great tries as did his support play.

Re: Yorkshire Evening Post Rhinos unsung heroes : Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:16 am  

Brent Webb Unsung Hero? Work that out.

Re: Yorkshire Evening Post Rhinos unsung heroes : Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:19 am  

Brent Webb the most over rated imo. Great attack but defence was woefull (mostly)

Re: Yorkshire Evening Post Rhinos unsung heroes : Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:44 am  

forgotten how good mathers was. would have been interesting to see how he would have gone on had he stayed

Re: Yorkshire Evening Post Rhinos unsung heroes : Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:54 am  

Ablett was quality at Centre or BR much more skillful than he got credit for imo.
Injuries finally caught up with him unfortunately.
Kirke was ok for about 3 years but thats it.

Re: Yorkshire Evening Post Rhinos unsung heroes : Fri Jun 05, 2020 8:16 am  

Kirke was very poor in final 2-3 seasons.
Agree on Ablett and Delaney.
Scott Donald and Joel Moon were underrated for me.

Re: Yorkshire Evening Post Rhinos unsung heroes : Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:50 am  

Lee Smith
In his prime would have been a certain starter for most other SL clubs either at FB, wing or centre. Would have done a decent job in the halves & hooker. Stepped up big in grand finals for Leeds. One of the most talented juniors to emerge from our Academy in the past 20 years.

Re: Yorkshire Evening Post Rhinos unsung heroes : Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:53 am  

LeedsLurch wrote:

Carl Gibson was rocks and diamonds. one minute tracking back to stop Offiah scoring a certain try and the next trying to make an impossible pass in his own goal area. For the most part more diamond than rock but not so sure about unsung!

You could guarantee he would run10 yards along the line then step to try and get through.Though he did score 2 good in YC final,1988?

Re: Yorkshire Evening Post Rhinos unsung heroes : Fri Jun 05, 2020 1:14 pm  

LeedsLurch wrote:

Brent Webb the most over rated imo. Great attack but defence was woefull (mostly)

Must have missed that all the years i watched him

Re: Yorkshire Evening Post Rhinos unsung heroes : Fri Jun 05, 2020 1:16 pm  

tad rhino wrote:

forgotten how good mathers was. would have been interesting to see how he would have gone on had he stayed

Injury meant he was never the same again