Our 2005 Squad. : Sun Oct 04, 2015 8:55 pm  

Backs -

Graham Appo. Nathan Wood. Lee Briers
Chris Riley. Chris Bridge. Dean Gaskell
Brent Grose. Henry Fa'Afili. Martin Gleeson
Toa Kohe Love.

Forwards -

Paul Wood. Mike Wainwright. Andy Bracek
Steve Pickersgill. Paul Noone. Ben Westwood
Mark Hilton. Warren Stevens. Jon Clarke
Chris Leikvoll. Logan Swan. Danny Lima. Mark Gleeson


Question would be, would you have any of these players back in the squad now if they were the same age and in the same form of this time period? Just thought I'd pose a question.

Re: Our 2005 Squad. : Sun Oct 04, 2015 11:02 pm  

Gleeson, Briers, Bridge, Fa'afili, and maybe TKL.

Re: Our 2005 Squad. : Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:19 am  

Grose fafili gleeson briers swann n maybe appo

Re: Our 2005 Squad. : Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:36 pm  

Briers and Gleeson would have made a huge difference to the 2015 squad.

Shows how far we've come though

Re: Our 2005 Squad. : Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:57 pm  

1. Russell
2. Lineham
3. Gleeson
4. Ratchford
5. Penny
6. Briers
7. Sandow
8. Sims
9. Clark
10. Hill
11. Hughes
12. Westwood
13. Swann
14. Clarke
15. Dodds
16. P Wood
17. Currie

Re: Our 2005 Squad. : Mon Oct 05, 2015 6:58 pm  

I'd have Wedge back in the squad. I think his style would suit today's offload game.

Re: Our 2005 Squad. : Tue Oct 06, 2015 6:54 am  

None of those forwards would be anywhere near our squad now and rightly so.

The backs are a different matter though which sort of sums up our season.

Re: Our 2005 Squad. : Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:24 am  

I used to really rate Toa Kohe Love and Nathan Wood ... both were on fire at times ... so I'm surprised they've not got a mention.
Mind you Toa would have been banned very quickly (for his high tackles). bought by Salford and then moved on to Leigh.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Our 2005 Squad. : Tue Oct 06, 2015 10:52 am  

mark_m wrote:

None of those forwards would be anywhere near our squad now and rightly so.

The backs are a different matter though which sort of sums up our season.

ironically, during our patchy form over the years before that and slightly after, the call always was that the forwards were doing the work, and the backs weren't making the most of it.

Re: Our 2005 Squad. : Tue Oct 06, 2015 1:16 pm  

mark_m wrote:

None of those forwards would be anywhere near our squad now and rightly so.

The backs are a different matter though which sort of sums up our season.

Pretty sure we would have Woody back. Agree on the rest.