Re: Chilly to Huddersfield CONFIRMED/sita released : Sat Sep 11, 2021 5:57 am  

ratticusfinch wrote:

IMO our best ever prop of the super league era. Im sure we have a replacement lined up and we must give Powell and the club the benefit of the doubt. Whoever comes in to replace him has huge boots to fill.

Akauola or Hill?

Re: Chilly to Huddersfield CONFIRMED/sita released : Sat Sep 11, 2021 5:57 am  

Big Ask wrote:

Have we ever had a better than the foursome of

Hill Morley Carvell Wood

And the 2 hookers in that pack were monaghan and Higham! To this day I'm still trying to work out how we didn't win it!!

Re: Chilly to Huddersfield CONFIRMED/sita released : Sat Sep 11, 2021 8:37 am  

Moe syslak wrote:

To this day I'm still trying to work out how we didn't win it!!

I think we are all in that boat Moe. I know we are biased but that team deserved a GF win if only for the style of rugby that was a delight to watch. Not forgetting that season when we scored over a 1000 points ......

Re: Chilly to Huddersfield CONFIRMED/sita released : Sat Sep 11, 2021 8:53 am  

Chris Hill has been a very good player for us for 10 years and considering the number of NRL based forwards in the England team over the last 10 years suggests that he was the standout English forward in SL in that period.
He was an ankle tap on Kallum Watkins away from being a world cup winner.
I can't remember Mamo mentioning Hill in his famous interview but maybe he was part of the positive reinforcement crew along with Mamo and Lineham that have been sent on their way.
There are not many players left that were senior players at the end of the Tony Smith era. Just Cooper and Ratchford left really.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Chilly to Huddersfield CONFIRMED/sita released : Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:34 am  

Big Ask wrote:

Have we ever had a better than the foursome of

Hill Morley Carvell Wood

With Ben harrison and Cooper as well

Re: Chilly to Huddersfield CONFIRMED/sita released : Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:01 am  

And Westwood who was equivalent of a prop playing in the second row.

Re: Chilly to Huddersfield CONFIRMED/sita released : Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:07 am  

And Waterhouse, who is bigger than most props.

Re: Chilly to Huddersfield CONFIRMED/sita released : Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:28 am  

All in all, not a bad pack.

Re: Chilly to Huddersfield CONFIRMED/sita released : Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:42 am  

There were a lot of other good packs about then as well though. Leeds had a great pack and Wigan, Huddersfield were handy with big eorl.

Re: Chilly to Huddersfield CONFIRMED/sita released : Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:44 am  

CW8 wrote:

, Huddersfield were handy with big eorl.

Unless he was playing against Morley