Companion thread to the other one. It's probably not the greatest overall, but our 2013 one was pretty bloody good: 8. S Burgess 9. Luke 10. Asotasi 11. McQueen 12. Te'o 13. Lowe 14. Peats 15. Lima 16. G Burgess 17. Tyrell Premiership winning side had: 8. G Burgess 9. Luke 10. Tyrell 11. Sutton 12. Te'o 13. S Burgess 14. McQueen 15. T Burgess 16. Turner 17. Clark Couple more weak links there but the better players were really fucking good.
From other teams: The Dogs 04 pack stands out: Price, Perry, O'Meley, Mason, Ryan, Grimaldi with Hughes, SBW, Maitua and Asotasi on the bench. Not a great hooking combo but the prop/second row combos are crazy good. Broncos entire pack was generally great from about 97-06. Very hard to pick one that stands out from another. Storm had Lima, Cameron Smith, White, Jeremy Smith, Crocker, Johnson with Hoffman, Blair, Kaufusi and Manu off the bench for a while, though I think the system made a lot of those blokes look better than what they were (well that and it being millions of dollars over the cap)
Dogs 04 was great Broncos 06 was fantastic Webby Berrigan Civo Thaiday Thorn Tunza And Hanntan, Parker and Carlaw off the bench.
Raiders best is probably 94 Lomax (Osborne) Walters Pongia Croker Furner Clyde with Meninga and Wiki at center essentially acting as 2 more running forwards when required. In terms of individuals Brad Clyde is still probably the best I have ever seen. What he did for the first 5/6 years of his career was phenomenal. nrlstats redid all of the older finals and origins and Clyde in 89 is still arguably the greatest ever gf performance imo.
I can see the 2019 Broncos pack looking stupidly gun in hindsight one day, especially for such a shit team. No Gillett this year makes it less good on paper.
If we fucked Glenn off to the centres, and Lodge was fit Haas Turpin Lodge TPJ Fifita Carrigan Including Offa offa bench, it's a very solid platform for Boyd to ruin.
Hughes and Perry.. fuck me that's a throw back. A lot of my mates were doggies fans and I used to give them so much shit about that rotation. Their bench in hindsight is ridiculous.
By no means the best ever but Easts early 00's was very strong when Wing played hooker. J.Cayless, Morley, Wing, Fitzgibbon, Fletcher, Ricketson, Crocker, Flannery... Both packs in 95 for Manly and Canterbury were also hectic. Gillespie, Hasler, Carroll, Menzies, Roberts, Kosef, Gartner. And Britt, Hetherington, Pay, Price, Dymock, Smith.
Not the best and not even close to the best - but my early favourite team was Manly. I dug this forward pack in 1990 from a google search. Firm memories of Roberts beating up Gary Jack is something scarred on my mind. 8 Martin Bella 9 Matt Dunford 10 David Hosking 11 John Jones 12 Ian Roberts 13 Owen Cunningham
8. Clinton 9. Prddis 10. Lang 11. Galuvao 12. Puletua 13. Waterhouse Then Shane Rodney coming off the pine and tidying up around in d around the ruck and Ross nipping in to get his head punched in. Thanks for coming.
Eels best would probably be 2001 8. N Cayless 9. Drew 10 Vella 11. N Hindmarsh 12. I Hindmarsh 13. Wagon 14. PJ Marsh 15. A Ryan 16. D Solomona 17. J Cayless or 1999 8. Pay 9. Schifiliti 10. Vella 11. Hindmarsh 12. McCracken 13. J Smith 14. Moran 15. Tookey 16. Weston 17. Cayless The 80’s forward pack is probably better but I don’t know them.
