king of the shed wrote: As for classing him along with Risman and Watkins Pfff c'mon Bobby he may have scored plenty of points, so much so he's currently our 3 top point scorer ever, but c'mon Risman is an Rugby League hall of famer who played 17 times for GB, captaining an ashes tour (touring 3 times) and 18 times for Wales, won 4 Championships, a Challenge Cup, 4 Lancashire Cups, 5 Lancashire League titles and appeared in countless other finals and Watkins (Or the King as he’s often referred) we I need add nothing.
Both surrounded by world class players of their time which allowed them to show their talents and reach the finals and achieve their personal goals, Blakeley unfortualty wasnt surrounded by the same class though his salford career so points unfortuatley didnt make big prizes in the end.
I take the point about being a bit "cant be arsed" sometimes but when he could be arsed he was in a different time zone to everyone else.