: Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:58 pm  

I'll tell you what to do.

Compare the points scoring records of Scully and Faz, and then come back and tell me that Scully was better..

As I've tried to explain so many times, every coach has picked Farrell ahead even your own.

Faz retires, BBC news, Scully retires St. Helens Repoter oh and St. Helens Star.

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:00 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Farrell Youngest forward ever to be selected for Great Britain RL. Youngest forward ever to captain Great Britain RL. Winner of the Golden Boot. Scully Great face for the radio. ermmmm

if i didnt know better i'd say bitten, hooked and landed

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:02 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I'll tell you what to do.

Compare the points scoring records of Scully and Faz, and then come back and tell me that Scully was better..

As I've tried to explain so many times, every coach has picked Farrell ahead even your own.

Faz retires, BBC news, Scully retires St. Helens Repoter oh and St. Helens Star.

As I have just said, which you quite noticeably dodged. Faz Moved to Rugby union in a quite high profile move, we all know Union has the more high profile coverage, it was on text about Lewsey retiring for god's sake!
As for your point about the Golden Boot, James Graham has just been named the World's best prop, therefore I suppose you are in agreement with this too?

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:05 pm  

JLM23 wrote:

As I have just said, which you quite noticeably dodged. Faz Moved to Rugby union in a quite high profile move, we all know Union has the more high profile coverage, it was on text about Lewsey retiring for god's sake!
As for your point about the Golden Boot, James Graham has just been named the World's best prop, therefore I suppose you are in agreement with this too?

Have you found the scoring records yet?

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:09 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Have you found the scoring records yet?

I think you'll find I haven't given a view on who I believe who is the better player. I'm waiting for you to try and answer my questions instead of ducking them.

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:11 pm  

JLM23 wrote:

I think you'll find I haven't given a view on who I believe who is the better player. I'm waiting for you to try and answer my questions instead of ducking them.

AJ will put you right on Thursday.

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:16 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

AJ will put you right on Thursday.

Put me right, how can he put me right, when you dont even know what I think. For what its worth I would go against most Saints Fans and say that I believe Faz was the better player, however I would also say your reasons of he won the Golden Boot, or he had more media coverage dont really carry much weight to your argument.

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:54 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

He was, as a loose forward, thoroughly in Scully's shadow,

Quite possibly one of the most ridiculous comments I've seen on rlfans - and there are some pretty ridiculous ones !!!!

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:59 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I'll tell you what to do. Compare the points scoring records of Scully and Faz, and then come back and tell me that Scully was better.. As I've tried to explain so many times, every coach has picked Farrell ahead even your own. Faz retires, BBC news, Scully retires St. Helens Repoter oh and St. Helens Star.

its like saying that paul anderson is the greatest ever goal kicker in rugby history in either code as he never missed a goal! Points scored esp. when scully wasnt our goal kicker is of little consequence. Scully usually scored more tries in a season and farrell more meters, in my veiw farrell was a prop, scully a more creative loose, hence scully averaging 4x as many kicks in general play, but farrell more offloads. Your argument over points scored is daft, using that logic danny tickle is currently the best forward in superleague

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:54 pm  

farrell would take scully to the cleaners! the only department id have scully over faz is his ability to playmake- faz was more of the nitty gritty player who britain, wigan, and rugby league have missed since the day he left for union. Faz was also a much better leader than sculthorpe!

Not having a dig at sculthorpe, he was an absolutely amazing player but i do not think he was in the same league as farrell.

And yes, In my opinion faz deserves to be up there with hanley and murphy- on the mere fact that he carried wigan rl for 15 years! and also his honours prove that he deserves to be up there with this standard of players.

Id say scully was a notch down from the likes of faz, hanley and murphy

All in all it was a pleasure to watch these two in action against each other and when playing each other! I will always remember that fight at knowsley road between faz and scully!

pity the rest of the gb team could not live up to the levels set by andy farrell and paul sculthorpe