: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:13 pm  

Ski wrote:

Paul Wellens, dickhead

: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:17 pm  

No Saint that I can think of dominated the player of the season award like Phil Veivers. I swear the guy could run out in cherry and white and still win the damn thing.

And then he took a pair of scissors to those flowing locks ...

: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:49 pm  

tm - tl wrote:

Very tough but wello takes it!

Can count on one hand how many high balls wello has dropped.

Plus Phil died on Billinge hill

RIP Phil

I concur!

: Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:46 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Steve Hampson, the best catcher of a high ball I have ever seen.

He was also one of the worst fullbacks for cleaning out a player just after he had released the ball. Add to that the SHAME of being sent off for head butting whilst wearing a GB shirt.

: Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:11 am  

Mugwump wrote:

He was also one of the worst fullbacks for cleaning out a player just after he had released the ball. Add to that the SHAME of being sent off for head butting whilst wearing a GB shirt.

Was that when Matthew Ridge pulled a tongue at him.

Lyon was the Saints full back when I started watching, so I've seen a few. I'd rate the best catcher of a bomb as Patch, he never dropped them and his extra size meant no one could compete in the air with him. Pity he wasn't that good at anything else.

: Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:30 am  

This is very tough, i've been considering it for a while and still can't decide. I'm just going to have to plump for Wello, saints lad done considerably better than good!
And i can't remember Veivers ever having a flag!

Re: Battle of the Leaping Salmon: Phil Veivers vs Paul Wellens : Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:32 am  

Mugwump wrote:

Faced with a high bomb of nuclear proportions - whose hands would you stake your life on?

I think this is pretty tough.

so do you want opinions on just catching a high "bomb"???

: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:24 am  

Wello wins this one for me. Vievers was indeed safer than Joan Collins as the Wembley banner said, but Wello has dropped about 5 balls in a gazillion years, plus wello has had to play his whole career with a huge schlong, which has held his speed and acceleration back.

: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:29 am  

IMO I'd say dave Lyon was better than both. He was just pure class.

: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:34 am  

St pete wrote:

IMO I'd say dave Lyon was better than both. He was just pure class.

And played about 3 games in 45 years. Dave Lyon was a sensational signing for us, couldnt believe when we signed him, again wire letting a quality act leave their club. But injuries crippled auld Dave and we never got to see his quality week in, year out.