The greatest Cougar team. : Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:31 pm  

I can only go back to the Cougars mania days.

So i will start the ball rolling.

1) Andre Stoop.

Re: The greatest Cougar team. : Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:37 pm  

guess who wrote:

I can only go back to the Cougars mania days.

So i will start the ball rolling.

1) Andre Stoop.

Bollox....

Yeah Stoopy was amazing ...BUT sorry can't go past the master himself...my childhood hero n the most under-rated player never to wear a GB shirt ..
Mr BRIAN JEFFERSON

I rest my case ...


And actually thinking about it .... there is no way that anyone could vote subjectivly for a greatest ever Cougar /Keighley RL team ,so why are you trying ?


Jeffo, Ian Gatley ,Sam illingworth, ,Calvin Wilkes ,Graham Beale ,Trevor Skerrett, Joe Grima ,Rammy , Stevo and other significant others would be in my team because they are players I've been privaliged to watch on the Lawkholme Lane turf , but how can we compare those players to those that stand on legend alone ...


Hal Jones,Ted Spillane ,Norman Foster ,Geoff Crewdson, Harry Myers ,Terry Hollindrake ,et al, I have never seen those guys throw a rugby ball around , tackle a man , or take someone on on a one on one breakaway,...BUT

I fully recognise and respect their impact and major place in the Keighley RLFC history,and can understand how they possibly could or should find themselves as part of an all time `Keighley Xlll '

BUT I cannot ever make a comment on their rugby ability ,and would imagine no one else on here is old enough to either...so its actually a pointless thread really (unless you know the Bracken Bank version of Marty Mc Fly !)

Comments invited.....

Re: The greatest Cougar team. : Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:44 am  

I can only vouch from 1991 onwards but it does say greatest COUGAR team.

1) Andre Stoop
2) Andy Eyers
3) Nick Pinkney
4) Simon Irving
5) Jason Critchley
6) Darrel Powell
7) Chris Robinson
8. Steve Hall
9) Jason Ramshaw
10) Joe Grima
11) Ian Gately
12) Grant Doorey
13) Martin Wood
14) Jonny Presley
15) Brendan Hill, for when Joe Grima inevitably got himself sent off.
16) Darren Fleary
17) Phil Cantillon

I don't expect anyone will agree, but it's the subjectiveness of the thread that makes it worthy of a good debate.

Re: The greatest Cougar team. : Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:26 am  

Two scoops!!!

Re: The greatest Cougar team. : Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:43 am  

Rach wrote:

Bollox....

Yeah Stoopy was amazing ...BUT sorry can't go past the master himself...my childhood hero n the most under-rated player never to wear a GB shirt ..
Mr BRIAN JEFFERSON

I rest my case ...


And actually thinking about it .... there is no way that anyone could vote subjectivly for a greatest ever Cougar /Keighley RL team ,so why are you trying ?


Jeffo, Ian Gatley ,Sam illingworth, ,Calvin Wilkes ,Graham Beale ,Trevor Skerrett, Joe Grima ,Rammy , Stevo and other significant others would be in my team because they are players I've been privaliged to watch on the Lawkholme Lane turf , but how can we compare those players to those that stand on legend alone ...


Hal Jones,Ted Spillane ,Norman Foster ,Geoff Crewdson, Harry Myers ,Terry Hollindrake ,et al, I have never seen those guys throw a rugby ball around , tackle a man , or take someone on on a one on one breakaway,...BUT

I fully recognise and respect their impact and major place in the Keighley RLFC history,and can understand how they possibly could or should find themselves as part of an all time `Keighley Xlll '

BUT I cannot ever make a comment on their rugby ability ,and would imagine no one else on here is old enough to either...so its actually a pointless thread really (unless you know the Bracken Bank version of Marty Mc Fly !)

Comments invited.....

Its only a pointless thread if think it is.

Like i said i stand by my point, Stoopy was the best fullback i have seen play for Keighley.

Re: The greatest Cougar team. : Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:52 am  

Stealth Comic wrote:

I can only vouch from 1991 onwards but it does say greatest COUGAR team.

1) Andre Stoop
2) Andy Eyers
3) Nick Pinkney
4) Simon Irving
5) Jason Critchley
6) Darrel Powell
7) Chris Robinson
8. Steve Hall
9) Jason Ramshaw
10) Joe Grima
11) Ian Gately
12) Grant Doorey
13) Martin Wood
14) Jonny Presley
15) Brendan Hill, for when Joe Grima inevitably got himself sent off.
16) Darren Fleary
17) Phil Cantillon

I don't expect anyone will agree, but it's the subjectiveness of the thread that makes it worthy of a good debate.

Replace number 4, with Andrew King and you are just about bang on.

Re: The greatest Cougar team. : Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:25 am  

Your right about Brian Jefferson Rach,he was awesome.

As for cougarmania etc cannot comment,wasnt there.

Did we have a player named Burke in the 70/80.Vaigly remember my dad telling me he was a nutter

Re: The greatest Cougar team. : Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:42 am  

John Burke, prop forward.

Puddled.

Great to watch!!

Re: The greatest Cougar team. : Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:49 am  

guess who wrote:

Replace number 4, with Andrew King and you are just about bang on.

He was only left out because the side needed a quality goalkicker and so it was either King or Irving, or replace Andy Eyres with John (voluntary tackle machine) Wassilew.

Re: The greatest Cougar team. : Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:01 am  

Always difficult to judge and very subjective.

I started watching in the early 90's so can only realistically comment from that point on. Some of the names mentioned already are certainly up there but what about Nathan Antonik and (for a short time)Dean Hanger?

What about Darren Appleby? Had a string of really bad luck with injuries but that arcing run that cut Huddersfield wide open in the Div two final at Old Trafford was just sublime.

Ahhh memories..... now where is that video