Re: players who flattered to deceive? : Tue Nov 13, 2018 1:08 pm  

David Solomona. Not helped by shoulder injuries. Always seemed to play better against us.
Craig Richards, brother of Basil. One great game against Wigan, but never really seemed to reach his full potential.

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Re: players who flattered to deceive? : Tue Nov 13, 2018 2:14 pm  

sirkeith wrote:

David Solomona. Not helped by shoulder injuries. Always seemed to play better against us.
Craig Richards, brother of Basil. One great game against Wigan, but never really seemed to reach his full potential.

Craig Richards is a good shout. He looked devastating in the early part of the 90/91 season and made a few appearances that year but never really kicked on and he was gone a couple of years later. Wonder what happened there. He was massive unit and really quick.

Solomona I thought was good for us in 2007 but deteriorated like the rest of the team under McNamara as budgets were cut and we replaced quality players with poor ones. I also did wonder whether he always gave 100%. Frank Endacott was scathing about him in his biography and said he always took short cuts in training. He could certainly turn it on when he wanted to.

Re: players who flattered to deceive? : Tue Nov 13, 2018 4:03 pm  

Craig Richards was similar to Garry Van Bellen,both really looked the part but didn't realise their true potential.I remember Craig scoring a superb try away at Oldham if my memory is correct,sidestepping the full back to go under the sticks.

Re: players who flattered to deceive? : Tue Nov 13, 2018 4:52 pm  

Micky Higham and Greg Bird for me. For some reason they never reached their potential at the Bulls......

Re: players who flattered to deceive? : Tue Nov 13, 2018 6:26 pm  

Ewwenorfolk wrote:

Micky Higham and Greg Bird for me. For some reason they never reached their potential at the Bulls......

Add Ryan Hudson to that list.

Karl Pryce was a toothless lion during his first stint at the club. He had all the attributes but no heart, massive waste of talent. Glenn Hall was another one who never really got going but he had some awful stuff going on off the field during his stint at Odsal which obviously impacted on his game.

Re: players who flattered to deceive? : Tue Nov 13, 2018 6:50 pm  

Michael Platt? A few other SL clubs wanted him at the time we signed him. Started like a house on fire for us, was top try scorer for a lot of that season. Thought we'd got a good young player. But then the calamities started. Never forget that time he just watched the ball in the in-goal, with virtually everyone in the stadium screaming at him it wasn't going out...

2007-2010 seemed to be the years where average players had one good game, or played well against us we'd sign them. Paul Sykes, Rikki Sheriffe, Chris Nero.

Re: players who flattered to deceive? : Tue Nov 13, 2018 6:54 pm  

Omari Caro, Oscar Thomas ?

Re: players who flattered to deceive? : Tue Nov 13, 2018 7:18 pm  

[quote="Ewwenorfolk"]Micky Higham and Greg Bird for me. For some reason they never reached their potential at the Bulls......[/quote]


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Re: players who flattered to deceive? : Tue Nov 13, 2018 7:29 pm  

Marvin Goolash wrote:

Omari Caro, Oscar Thomas ?

I thought Caro really looked the part especially after that try he scored against Leigh. All seemed to go down hill after he got injured.

Re: players who flattered to deceive? : Tue Nov 13, 2018 9:06 pm  

In recent times you would have to say Luarki who never looked fit and seemed to get a great thrill passing the ball to no one and then giving needless penalties away.
For the older folk on here David Smith who we signed from Leeds for £18000(a lot of money at the time) in the early 80s and who had scored a mountain of tries with Wakefield and Leeds turned up and played like he was scared to death .I'm still struggling to forgive him for not scoring under the posts at Headingley in the Chall Cup Semi Final against Fev after Hanleys wonder try(it was harder not to score than score) the try would have taken us to Wembley