Richard Smith - quick with the ball and looked equally comfortable on the wing or at FB.

Byron Ford should have.
Bob Everitt maybe.

One player I always thought was a bit overrated was Chris Charles.

Robocop? He played Super League with Halifax iirc

Wildmoose wrote:Throughout the wilderness years in the National Leagues we had a lot of good players come & go. Stan, Wilkin & Raleigh got their chance in Super League, but what of the others? With full-time training, better coaching & better players around them could any of them have developed into SL players? Some suggestions…

Garry Brown -did he play top flight rugby? I did nt think so
Richard Oliver -thought he only played for us in lower league
Alasdair McClarron - never played in top flight
John Okul -did in Oz, after injury the rest is history
Whetu Taewa -made it
Paul Mannson -most of career in lower leagues
Gary Chatfield-yes played for us in top flight, not for long
Neil Wardrobe
Alex Thompson - crap
Jon Aston -top flight with hull, us in the lower leagues
Paul Fletcher -legend
Rob Wilson -most of career in lower league
Adrian Rainey -cant remember him
Andy Smith never played top flight.

Going from my hazy memory. Maybe the Oracle RBA can prove me wrong?!!

It depends what 'made it' means. Rovers had a lot of players play for us for a short period of time, and just because it was a handful of games in the top division I would not say that was 'making it'.

Oh yeah, sorry, forgot he was with Fax.

Remember him going 70-80 metres at Wakefield about '98, class try.

IIRC Rainey already had a fair amount of experience in the NRL with Western Suburbs before signing for you. He was banned for steroid abuse (I think) after winning their young player of the year award, and came to England to try and jump-start his career when the ban was up.

how about mike Fletcher great goal kicker would he had made it

rainey got off to a bad start in his first home game he turned up in just t-shirt shorts and flip flops no boots or kit and not long after that his gf or wife smashed up the car rovers had got him

Did alright in the Stones Bitter Championship

Very hard to say which part time players could have, given full time training, made it in Super League. Depends as much on dedication as anything.

Perfect example of a player exceeding his talent was Keith Tindall, good at schoolboy level, but outshone by others in a very good team, where the "stars" of that team chose women and ale over dedication whereas Keith stuck to training in gruelling winter conditions and eventually reaped the benefits.