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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:26 pm 
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From the dizzy heights of the super league dream team 2007, and the sky commentators creaming his name every 10 seconds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_League_Dream_Team

To the dizzy lows of agreeing terms with Swinton Lions
http://www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... ml&BID=480

This got me thinking, who is the most high profile player (at the time of being high profile!!) to go to being a low grade, low paid player who people soon forget.
FWIW I always thought of Penny as a decent finisher, but that was it. Alround he wasnt as good as most made out.
From the dizzy heights of the super league dream team 2007, and the sky commentators creaming his name every 10 seconds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_League_Dream_Team

To the dizzy lows of agreeing terms with Swinton Lions
http://www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... ml&BID=480

This got me thinking, who is the most high profile player (at the time of being high profile!!) to go to being a low grade, low paid player who people soon forget.
FWIW I always thought of Penny as a decent finisher, but that was it. Alround he wasnt as good as most made out.





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 Post subject: Re: Kevin Penny-RL`s biggest flop?
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:30 pm 
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Mark Brooke -Cowden.All Blacks RU to Leeds RL to Keighley.
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Leroy Rivett?
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Chorlton RL wrote:Leroy Rivett?


This.

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Leroy Rivett

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Mark_W wrote:Leroy Rivett

Lance Todd winner
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Chorley
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with AMF Bowling squeezed in somewhere


Didn't he get an international cap as well?
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Penny is just the victim of poor coaching.
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If you pop onto that well known video networking site and search "Kevin Penny TRY and mistake" you will find a video that shows Penny's finest moment and high point of his career, followed by the act that destroyed it. And, both took place in the same match.
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Saddened! wrote:Penny is just the victim of poor coaching.


As well as not being able to catch or tackle.





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Yed wrote: "He's like a Kevin Penny on steroids except he's good too"
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Didnt a lad go from State of Origin to Celtic Crusaders when they were in the 2nd division of the northern ford or whatever it's called in a pretty short space of time? A Centre if memory serves...





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