The finest Manly-Warringah players who never played agent football
As with past articles in this arrangement, I will endeavor to put together a quality group for each NRL club made up exclusively of players since 1980 who never went past club level.
The criteria for choice is:
– No speaking to at senior level:
internationals, State of Beginning, Prime Priests XIII, City vs. Nation or All Stars.
– Current players are prohibited.
– Players are only eligible for the club they played the foremost to begin with review recreations for.
– For players who straddle the 1970s and 1980s, 30 recreations after since 1980 is by and large the cut-off to qualify.
Usually a strong side but possibly missing a few standouts and a few profundity, due to Masculine frequently stocking up on rep players.
Note:
This group incorporates the ill-fated Northern Falcons.
Fullback
Brendon Reeves (99 matches) – 1999-2003. 43 wins 54 misfortunes. 37 tries 19 objectives.
Brendon Reeves played three strong seasons with the Illawarra Steelers some time recently joining Masculine in 1999. He remained on for the Northern Hawks time, where he got to be the franchise’s beat attempt scorer, some time recently having a last season for Masculine in 2003.
In retirement Reeves has coached in nation football as well as NSW Colleges. He has moreover had a instructing career and it shows up that a few venturesome understudies may have been at his Wikipedia page “He has moreover gotten to be a instructor at Camden Tall School, where he is known for his immaculate badminton abilities and dazzling hair style. Brendon Reeves is commonly alluded to as a “sick lad” by his CHS admirers”.
Wings
Tom Mooney (163) – 1975-1981. 98 wins 58 misfortunes. 83 tries. 15 finals 7 wins.
Masculine extraordinary Tom Mooney is one of those players that was overwhelmingly from the 1970s, 44 recreations over 1980-1981 gets him in this side.
Mooney played on the wing for the Ocean Hawks from 1975 after coming into review with Souths in 1972. He scored 29 tries in three seasons at the Rabbitohs and played in their 1972 and 1974 finals appearances.
After joining the Ocean Hawks, Mooney appeared incredible strength, never playing less than 22 recreations in a season and as it were once scoring less than 9 tries for the year. He twice scored four tries in a coordinate, was the competition’s best attempt scorer in 1976 and 1979 and is as of now 6th on the club’s all-time attempt scoring list.
Mooney showed up in five finals arrangement for the club, counting their fantastic last triumphs in 1976 and 1978. Within the last mentioned year Mooney scored Manly’s as it were attempt as the diversion wrapped up at 11 each, some time recently they comfortably won the replay three days afterward.
Mooney’s final year was 1981 where, after a incline run amid the season, he scored seven tries within the final six matches as the club remained undefeated to move themselves into the finals, inevitably losing to Newtown.
In 1990 Mooney was named on the wing of the club’s most prominent ever group, in spite of the fact that by the 2006 form he and Les Hanigan had misplaced their spots to Beam Branighan (who pushed Michael O’Connor out onto the wing) and Insight Irvine.
In retirement Mooney built and ran a arrangement of bars in Byron Cove, a few of which he sold final year for a supposed cost of around $80 million.
Stuart Davis (97) – 1981-1989. 59 wins 34 misfortunes. 39 tries. 7 finals 3 wins.
Separated from a brief dalliance with the Chickens for one to begin with review diversion in 1983, Stuart “The Bug” Davis was a customary for Masculine all through the 1980s.
It may be a testament to his constancy that the little but tricky winger was the primary choice in Circular 1 for as it were 3 out of 8 seasons, however played in five finals series, counting the club’s 1987 amazing last triumph.
In a prequel to the days of Roy and HG, Rex Mossop called Davis “The 2 Press with Ears”.
In 2016 Davis won the silvertails.net footy tipping competition, so he must still take after a few football, from his domestic in Mudgee.
Centres
David Ronson (102) – 1985-1991. 68 wins 33 misfortunes. 34 tries 2 objectives. 7 finals 3 wins.
David Ronson was a winger who morphed into a centre afterward in his career and played on the flank within the Ocean Hawks 1987 terrific last triumph. Ronson played over 100 diversions for the club counting five finals arrangement. In 1987 He scored Manly’s as it were attempt in their 10-6 Major Semi last win over Easts.
After taking off the Ocean Falcons, Ronson played a season in Britain for Body FC, making the semi finals of the Challenge Glass. After a three year nonattendances Ronson popped up for Balmain in 1994 but only played a number of games before hanging up the boots.
Michael Blake (66) – 1979-1984. 44 wins 21 misfortunes. 24 tries. 4 finals 2 wins.
The more seasoned, less celebrated Blake, Michael played in successive terrific finals for Masculine in 1982 and 1983. After debuting in 1979, his best year was likely 1982 where he scored 11 tries including three copies, one of which was in the Major Preparatory Semi last win over North Sydney.
Blake cleared out Manly for Canberra in 1985 but fizzled to form an affect. He moved to Souths in 1987 and was a to begin with review standard as they made it through to the semi finals, in spite of scoring precisely zero tries in 19 matches for the season. It’s not frequently a middle must do the naked run, but there you go.
Blake too played for Masculine in 1983 as they beat a combined Brisbane side within the midweek thump out competition.
There were a few quality players around at the time. Masculine bragged Graham Eadie, Kerry Boustead, chris Near, John Ribot, Phil Blake, Phil Sigsworth and Alan Thompson in a stacked backline with Michael Blake the odd one out.
Their forwards included Beam and Dave Brown, Paul Vautin, Noel Cleal and Ian Schubert. The compensation cap was not truly a thing in those days!
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