Whilst I'm not saying people are wrong or right with these teams, I can't imagine anyone displacing Steve Menzies from a slot in the greatest Bradford 17.

1 Mumby

2 TV

3 D Peacock

4 Shonny

5 Les

6 Henry

7 Robbie

8 Big Joe

9 Nobby (c)

10 Stu Fielden

11 J Peacock

12 Koncrete

13 Hanley



Subs:

Jimmy

Skerret

Baloo

Menzies

It also surprises me when some people seem to be relegating Robbie to a bench role.



Since I began my RL following - a Robbie Paul in his prime was one of the Worlds best players!

Had to be done mate! A proper grafter. How we could do with him now!

Mumby

Ford

Hanley

Newlove

Vainikolo

H,Paul

R,Paul

Skerrett

Lowes

Fielden

Peacock

Fairbank

Menzies



Gartner

Vagana

Grayshon

Hape

Nice. though I might have to get Jimmy Thompson in there somewhere.

Im just going to put more than 1 because their is so many.



Withers/Spruce



TV

Naylor

Hape

Les



Henry Paul

Paul Deacon



Vagana

Lowes

Baloo

Gartner

Fairbank

McKay/Forshaw



Robbie Paul

Menzies

Dwyer

Fielden (in his prime)

there are 3 players not mentioned the best scrum half both Bradford +Gt Britain Tommy Smales, best winger Jack McLean, and one of the great all time players who seemed to be frozen out by some of his teammates Shaun Edwards.

my selection would be

1- Keith Mumby

2- Jack McLean

3- Paul Newlove

4- Shontayne Hape

5- Les Vainikolo

6- Henry Paul

7- Tommy Smales

8- Kelvin Skerrett

9- Jimmy Lowes

10- Brendan Hill

11- Daniel Gartner

12- Karl Fairbank

13- Ellery Hanley

subs

14- Shaun Edwards

15- Keith Fielden

16- Brad McKay

17- Steve Menzies

Unfortunatly most people never saw Tommy Smales but he controlled almost every game he played with his ball skills,football brain and ability to make a break, down the years we've had some good scrum halves but I would'nt include deacs and seaborne amongst them, I did like Dean Carrol, Ken Kelly,Paul Harkin,Alan R?(brother David both GB ) the lad from hull(via Tunisia great ball player) and of course Robbie Paul.

Withers

Vaikona

Naylor

Hape

Vainikolo

Henry

Robbie

Vagana

Lowes

Fielden

Peacock

Gartner

Bradley



Anderson

McD

Burgess

Forshaw

What are peoples thought process here. Individual talent or how they think they'll play as a team? Surprised by the Naylor shouts. Good player and don't have anything against him but I think he looked better than he was playing in a fantastic team. If Paul Sykes played centre in that team I think he would have been a big success. Naylor never really did anything with his other teams which might be more of an indication. Naylor better than Newlove or Danny peacock? Just confused, that's all.

IMO For us Naylor was outstanding, better than Newlove was for us and probably gave us better service than Peacock although not as talented as either.

Fair enough. If that's your thought process why isn't Radford in the side? Did a fantastic job for us and helped us win loads of trophies. Did a far better job for us than Bradley did. Bradley mainly played centre and stand off for us. Didn't do a fantastic job at loose forward.



I was just thinking ability.