West Tigers Team of 15 Years

[Big Pete]

Announced tonight at a special function

1. Brett Hodgson
2. Pat Richards
3. Paul Whatuira
4. Chris Lawrence
5. Taniela Tuiaki
6. Benji Marshall
7. Scott Prince
8. Aaron Woods
9. Robbie Farah
10. John Skandalis
11. Gareth Ellis
12. Mark O'Neil
13. Liam Fulton

14. Todd Payten
15. Ben Galea
16. Anthony Laffranchi
17. Chris Heighington

Thoughts?

 

[Broncoman]

I was going to message you about this Pete! (it was in Big League this week)

Pretty good side they put together but even though his finger brought terrible publicity to them Hopoate I feel should be there.

 

[Ari Gold]

Why? He was never any good in a tigers jersey.

 

[Big Pete]

Tough to disagree with that side.

Wests are such a young side that a lot of their quality name talent like Ben Te'o, Luke O'Donnell, Andrew Fifita etc. all left before their time so while they'd be their on name, it's hard to justify their inclusion. Even a guy like Simon Dwyer who was well on track had his career tragically cut short.

Still, I'd shift Halatau into the second row ahead of O'Neil since he was such an important member of their 2005 side and would place Galloway on the bench ahead of Payten, although I like that Todd received a mention.

Skando seems to agree with you Bman. Hard to find a spot for Hoppa given what he did and the fact he only spent a season there.