following on from some comments on the brough cooke thred i was thinking about players i really dont want to ever see playing in red, white and blue, and almost came up with a team of them, as follows;

1 Mathers
2
3 M Gleeson
4 King
5
6 Cooke
7 Briers
8 Bailey
9 Riddell
10 Sculthorpe
11
12
13 Sinfield

All based on personal preference, dislike or petty hatred ill admit, but it does sort of prove I either dont watch wingers and second rowers, or generally dont dislike them, any thoughts on who i have missed or fill the gaps?

1 would take sinfield, king, and at a push briers. Nothing wrong with these three under the right coaching staff

I'd stick Kevin Penney on one wing and I'm afraid I prefer both your centres to Keef Senior for whom I have held an irrational hatred for many a year. As with the other thread I would never want to see Hock, not because of the drugs but the leading elbow at BV in the cup last year.

With the exception of Sculthorpe I have to say I could live with the rest.

King i put in because its not the direction i think we should be going in and hes not proved himself worthy of the cash hes getting, gleeson these days likewise.

but you could live with richie mathers in a trin shirt???????????????????????

Calderwood could fill the other wing berth. He has always irritated me.

Penny was shocking at the HJ Stadium last season, probably one of the worst performances i have seen from anyone ever.

I wouldn't like us to sign Stuart Reardon, Leon Pryce or even his brother Karl.

Others of note; Platt, Thorman, Long, Raynor, Cockayne

Brent Todd ...oh god he did
Ben Jeffries...oh god he signed for three years
A.N.Other remember them in the 80's

That Penny performance is still, I am sure, the stuff of nightmares for him and his family. The main reason for my dislike of Penny was his major lack of class in his previous 'explosion' season. I recall him being put away for a try and having a long run in (probably wearing some ridiculous dayglo boots). Here was a lad who had scored a few tries and had a bit said about him and he was strutting like a world beater. Far too cocky and disrespectful of fellow pros.

Boy did it make me laugh when he played sooooooooo badly against us last year!

O'Loughlin must surely get a place in that team too!

Do you know.....after years of agreeing about Brent Todd, I think in my old age I'm thinking he was badly used, not a bad player.
He had some good games against a strong Aussie side when playing for New Zealand. The Kiwis always spoke highly of him (though his rep has gone a little bit with his "business activities")

I think he was just bigged up too much and then told to be a ball handling forward like Mark Graham when really he was a hard working hard yards guy, and that's all.
Under JK I think he'd be accepted by the fans just like Stosic or McGilivray were. They weren't flash but technically excellent in what they did.

Saying all that, and assuming there will be some disagreement, from the original thread point of view, would pay a lot of money for Sinfield, I'd be ok with King and Briers too.............not Mathers, not Long now, not the Pryce bros, Thorman is not even worthy of the question,

One of the few teams he deserves a place in.