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 Post subject: Re: Jamie Peacock - the greatest Leeds player ever
PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 5:27 am 
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I'm sure him and Sinfield will pick something up at the awards thing anyway.

Maybe Sinfield will win 'Best Referee 1997-2015' :D

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One of my all time favourite players of all time mate. But not up there with Richie Spedding as Leeds greatest.






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If you're measuring players on the basis of who has made the most out of their natural ability, then Peacock would be right up there with one of the best to ever play the game IMO.

Unlike a lot of players he wasn't blessed with a host of natural physical gifts, everything he has made himself into as a player has come about through hard work and sheer bloody-mindedness. If you were holding up a current player as an example to kids starting out on a professional career I'm struggling to think of many better examples.

Best player ever to play for Leeds (in the 40 years I've been watching anyway)? No. Hanley and Holmes would share that accolade.

Most influential in terms of helping to transform the culture of the club? Definitely.






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I agree Andy. Hanley and Holmes.
I'd add Sinfield to that making the most of category and would be above Peacock in the "most influential" group.

I think I'd throw Arthur Clues and Lewis Jones in there too.
And in the chasing pack I'd have Hall and Lauitiiti from the modern game






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Andy Gilder wrote:If you're measuring players on the basis of who has made the most out of their natural ability, then Peacock would be right up there with one of the best to ever play the game IMO.

Unlike a lot of players he wasn't blessed with a host of natural physical gifts, everything he has made himself into as a player has come about through hard work and sheer bloody-mindedness. If you were holding up a current player as an example to kids starting out on a professional career I'm struggling to think of many better examples.


You say that, but he's 6'5, and 17st plus. Also, in his Bradford days he was a very mobile back rower with a superb right foot step.
Sure, hard work and dedication is what has made him into the player he is, but the raw materials were always there.






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Sinfield, Lewis Jones, Peacock, and John Holmes are probably the most influential players Leeds have had. Sure, there's been some more "naturally gifted" players, but the success the teams these players played in wouldn't have happened without the ability, and leadership.






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Charlie Sheen wrote:Sinfield, Lewis Jones, Peacock, and John Holmes are probably the most influential players Leeds have had. Sure, there's been some more "naturally gifted" players, but the success the teams these players played in wouldn't have happened without the ability, and leadership.


Agree with all those names. imo you have to throw Schofield's name in there too. Gave us his best years during which time he won the Golden Boot.Would have won a few trophies too were it not for the awesome Wigan team of the time who were on an other level.






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Charlie Sheen wrote:You say that, but he's 6'5, and 17st plus. Also, in his Bradford days he was a very mobile back rower with a superb right foot step.
Sure, hard work and dedication is what has made him into the player he is, but the raw materials were always there.


Maybe so, but if you run into him off the field he's not the sort of behemoth that you would expect a rugby league front rower to be. He can carry that sort of weight because of his height, without looking like he spends two or three hours every day in the gym. It's his mental strength and appetite for the game that keeps him throwing himself into collisions as many times as he has over his career, where many with similar physical gifts would have already packed up.






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Iestyn Harris has to be up there: not only for being the supremely skilful main man in a Leeds side that re-established themselves as contenders after 20 fallow years, but also for his role in setting in motion the events that allowed Bradford to lose Jamie Peacock to us...

Peacock and Sinfield are the two most important Leeds players of my 35 years watching the game. Hanley was a better player and the best all-round RL player I've ever seen but in terms of service and importance to the club Sinfield and Peacock are well ahead of him.

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