Name your best ever Widnes 13 ,subs and coach !!!!!!!!!

[rs]

I thought Eric Hughes at 6 was better than Carter and you could probably throw in Davies.

[Peter]

I thought Eric Hughes at 6 was better than Carter and you could probably throw in Davies.

I thought so, too.  I also saw Tommy Shannon play and would have preferred him to Carter.

[mick george]

I would struggle to select a team but my only certainties would be Tony Myler ans Martin Offiah, then i would have to think very hard and would only pick players that i have actually seen in my lifetime.

As i have just obtainined dvd's of all the Widnes Challenge Cup Finals from and including 1964 to watch in the off season, maybe after watching them and jogging my memory then i may select a team

[A. N. Other]

No disresepct to the skills of Tony Myler but he had one or two pretty impressive players playing around him. Dennis was doing it basically on his lonesome (no disrespet to Jimmy Boylan intended). Also whilst Steve Carter had his qualities if I was rating him at standoff for Widnes he would be behind (in no particular order) Dennis O'Neil, Kenny Gill and Tony Myler.

O'Neill, Gill and T. Myler were all world class but each with a totally different style of play.  If I had to choose one, I'd go for Myler but my favourite Widnes memories are of Dennis O'Neill's individual brilliance in a poor Widnes team (he was good enough to be picked for Great Britain out of that team), then of the 1978 championship winning side with Kenny Gill making it happen, especially on that Easter Monday against Saints.

[prehensile]

O'Neill, Gill and T. Myler were all world class but each with a totally different style of play.  If I had to choose one, I'd go for Myler but my favourite Widnes memories are of Dennis O'Neill's individual brilliance in a poor Widnes team (he was good enough to be picked for Great Britain out of that team), then of the 1978 championship winning side with Kenny Gill making it happen, especially on that Easter Monday against Saints.

I have often wished that we could have signed Ken Gill 5 or more years earlier - many was the time he ripped us apart in a Salford shirt.

That 1978 Easter Monday game is definitely one of my all-time most memorable games - we absolutely slaughtered a Saints side who were at the time our closest rivals for the Championship.  I seem to recall Mick Adams played a blinder that day as well.

[toz]

1 MICK BURKE                                                                                                                                                                                             2 STUART WRIGHT                                                                                                                                                                                     3 FRANK MYLER                                                                                                                                                                                          4 JOE LYDON                                                                                                                                                                                             5 MARTIN OFFIAH                                                                                                                                                                                       6 TONY MYLER                                                                                                                                                                                           7 ANDY GREGORY                                                                                                                                                                                       8 JIM MILLS                                                                                                                                                                                                9 STEVE McKENZIE                                                                                                                                                                                      10 KURT SORENSON                                                                                                                                                                                    11 EMOSI  KOLOTO                                                                                                                                                                                   12 MICK   ADAMS                                                                                                                                                                                       13 VINTY KARALIUS                                                                                                                                                                                   SUBS    DAVID HULME                LES GORLEY          JONATHON DAVIES         ANDY CURRIER                                                                  COACH      DOUG LAUGHTON                                                           

[Peter]

From toz ---  not a bad team, especially the three quarter line.

[rs]

Great team - with the modern way of having a hooker on the bench I would be tempted to have David Hulme or Reggie as a sub to add the shear will to win that can get teams over the line at times.

[rs]

As a post 1960 side its excellent - George Nicholls must have been in with a shout.

[rs]

That back line one through seven would give most Aussie test line ups a very good run for their money as would the back three forwards.

[Peter]

Great team - with the modern way of having a hooker on the bench I would be tempted to have David Hulme or Reggie as a sub to add the shear will to win that can get teams over the line at times.

With Vinty there the will to win was always present. We could do with a bit of that nowadays.

[Rafe Wrench]

But here's a different angle - how would all these superstars have played together in the same team? Some great half backs have had great packs; some great wingers had journeymen centres? Could les Gorley play a full 80 today??

[StuckinNewport]

If he abided by today's fitness and training regimes, then why not?

[Peter]

If he abided by today's fitness and training regimes, then why not?

I agree. Nowadays forwards are given spells on the bench to rest. What used to happen is that a prop or second row would stand wide out for five minutes to avoid work, and with the hooker not being used as dummy half too often like nowadays, he would get his turn as well. All I know is that I did!