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Quote ="red eyes"Since I first started watching the Reds in 1954, off all the players who have worn our shirt this is my best 17
Charlton
Fielding Watkins Hesketh Richards
Gill Brennan
Coulman Groves Ward
Dixon Kirkbride
Prescott
Burgess Ken Richards Kevin Ashcroft Morley
What is ">yours.'"
I could go with that team, apart from Kevin Ashcroft. But I could still find room for Glynn Moses, FB, Dia Moses, 2nd/ Prop,
Graham Rees, 2nd, Hugh Duffy, LF, Syd Lowdon, centre, Wally McArthur, fastest Winger I've ever seen
But hopefully this time next year, I hope to selecting quite a few players from our current team
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Quote ="red eyes"Since I first started watching the Reds in 1954, off all the players who have worn our shirt this is my best 17
Charlton
Fielding Watkins Hesketh Richards
Gill Brennan
Coulman Groves Ward
Dixon Kirkbride
Prescott
Burgess Ken Richards Kevin Ashcroft Morley
What is ">yours.'"
I could go with that team, apart from Kevin Ashcroft. But I could still find room for Glynn Moses, FB, Dia Moses, 2nd/ Prop,
Graham Rees, 2nd, Hugh Duffy, LF, Syd Lowdon, centre, Wally McArthur, fastest Winger I've ever seen
But hopefully this time next year, I hope to selecting quite a few players from our current team
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| Quote ="scoot"I could go with that team, apart from Kevin Ashcroft. But I could still find room for Glynn Moses, FB, Dia Moses, 2nd/ Prop,
Graham Rees, 2nd, Hugh Duffy, LF, Syd Lowdon, centre, Wally McArthur, fastest Winger I've ever seen
But hopefully this time next year, I hope to selecting quite a few players from our current team'"
Sorry but I've never heard of McArthur therefore, could you please advise what era he played in etc?
If he was faster than Fielding then he must have been a heck of a sprinter! I'm a Wigan fan and though Offiah was lightening fast Fielding for me just about edged him for sheer pace | | | |
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My Dads Era and good enough to feature prominently in our New Club Museum.
signed from Blackpool Borough late 50's
I believe was Salford's 1st indigenous player ,post war
from RL Writer Sean Fagan
Quote McArthur was born in 1933 in Borroloola, Northern Territory.
McArthur moved to Adelaide in the early 1950s and became a noted short-distance runner. McArthur was also interested in playing Australian Rules Football, but was denied this because of a "colour bar".
Journalist John Pilger have claimed that McArthur was not selected for the Australian track team at the 1952 Summer Olympics because of racial discrimination, but this has been disputed.
McArthur played in the South Australian Rugby League and Western Australia Rugby League before moving to England to play a total of 165 games with Rochdale, Blackpool Borough, Salford and Workington Town '"
a more complete biography here by the excellent Tony Collins
[url=https://tony-collins.squarespace.com/rugbyreloaded/2014/1/26/wally-mcarthur-a-tributeWally McArthur a Tribute[/url
Graham Morris -
Quote The rugby league historian and lifelong Salford fan Graham Morris remembers as a young boy the excitement that was created at the Willows by Wally s arrival:
Tall and slim, Wally had the look, grace and speed of an outstanding athlete (which he certainly was) which, combined with a classic side-step, made him a great crowd pleaser at the Willows. Although the Reds were a mid-table team during this period, McArthur still managed 29 tries in 46 matches, a feat aided by the fact that he played outside either John Cheshire or Bob Preece, both robust centres prepared to take punishment and protect the gifted flyer. Wally was undoubtedly, until the arrival of David Watkins in 1967, the most exciting player seen in a Salford jersey in the post-Second World War ">years.'"
According to Collins Salford sold him to Workington for £3,000 in 1958
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My Dads Era and good enough to feature prominently in our New Club Museum.
signed from Blackpool Borough late 50's
I believe was Salford's 1st indigenous player ,post war
from RL Writer Sean Fagan
Quote McArthur was born in 1933 in Borroloola, Northern Territory.
McArthur moved to Adelaide in the early 1950s and became a noted short-distance runner. McArthur was also interested in playing Australian Rules Football, but was denied this because of a "colour bar".
Journalist John Pilger have claimed that McArthur was not selected for the Australian track team at the 1952 Summer Olympics because of racial discrimination, but this has been disputed.
McArthur played in the South Australian Rugby League and Western Australia Rugby League before moving to England to play a total of 165 games with Rochdale, Blackpool Borough, Salford and Workington Town '"
a more complete biography here by the excellent Tony Collins
[url=https://tony-collins.squarespace.com/rugbyreloaded/2014/1/26/wally-mcarthur-a-tributeWally McArthur a Tribute[/url
Graham Morris -
Quote The rugby league historian and lifelong Salford fan Graham Morris remembers as a young boy the excitement that was created at the Willows by Wally s arrival:
Tall and slim, Wally had the look, grace and speed of an outstanding athlete (which he certainly was) which, combined with a classic side-step, made him a great crowd pleaser at the Willows. Although the Reds were a mid-table team during this period, McArthur still managed 29 tries in 46 matches, a feat aided by the fact that he played outside either John Cheshire or Bob Preece, both robust centres prepared to take punishment and protect the gifted flyer. Wally was undoubtedly, until the arrival of David Watkins in 1967, the most exciting player seen in a Salford jersey in the post-Second World War ">years.'"
According to Collins Salford sold him to Workington for £3,000 in 1958
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Unfortunately I missed out on the earlier days of the red devils.
I started to watch back end of the 80's so my team would be:
Gibbo
Fata sini
Scott Naylor
Stuart littler
Wilshire
Gregory
Dunemann
Coley (before the wigan debacle)
Alker
Paul Forber
Gareth Hock
Rutgerson
Chris charles
I think lol
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