Opinion Was Shifty our best ever 7? If not who was better??

[Vlasnik]

Polly was a talent

Polly was our toughest halfback for sure. Half the size of Napa and all heart!!!

 

[sifter6]

Since 1977:

1. Steve Mortimer
2. Terry Lamb (wore jersey '7' a few times - good enough to be the second best halfback since 1977)
3. Craig Polla-Mounter
4. Brent Sherwin

No-one else really.

McGrady, Kimmorley & Stuart were v-e-r-y short termers.

 

[shaun5150]

Shifty had 1 at best 2 good seasons in him. Inconsistent as f. Turvey was the man who got it done year in year out. The whole 80's was basically him and Baa

 

[Chris Harding]

Lets not forget Ewan McGrady's awesome one and done season.

Saw him play. He could be scintillating at times, and very ordinary at other times.

I remember an interview where one of our players was asked about McGrady's playing style; he said: "Ewen has the opposition guessing what his next move is, and he takes them by surprise. Problem is we don't know what he's going to do, either".

 

[Moedogg]

Sherwin's kicking game at his peak was ridiculous . I didn't have the pleasure of watching Mortimer play but im fairly confident that Sherwin had the best ever kicking game..

 

[Chris Harding]

Best ever!? How old are you?

I'm old enough to remember seeing Ross Kidd take us to our first GF since 1942.

 

[Chris Harding]

Sherwin's kicking game at his peak was ridiculous . I didn't have the pleasure of watching Mortimer play but im fairly confident that Sherwin had the best ever kicking game..

Mortimer perfected the kick and chase, and he had Greg Brentnall for tactical kicking as a back up. The rules were different back then - any kick that found the line in the opposition's half gave the opposition the scrum feed.

 

[rissolerob]

Why has no one mentioned Flanno???????

 

[Baseball Furies]

Jake Averillo

Mbye - another AtHLeTE

 

[Powerslide]

Turvey obviously….

 

[gbrussell]

Turvey by a country mile. Daylight second.

 

[alchemist]

Once he got the 5(?) yr extension after 2004, he was never the same.player.

Different eras but Turvey by the length of the straight

from memory, Shifty signed his 5 year contract in 2003

 

[gbrussell]

I'm old enough to remember seeing Ross Kidd take us to our first GF since 1942.

So am I. Debatable if he was better than Dennis Ward or Terry Reynolds, the other Berries half backs of that era.

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Steve Mortimer.

But, I watched some old games earlier in the year, featuring Shifty. It's easy to forget how damn good he was. Watching again after all these years, I was struck at how awesome he was and how much he controlled a game. Probably underrated by many, and may never have got the full kudos he deserved at the time.

 

[alchemist]

Lets not forget Ewan McGrady's awesome one and done season.

it was more like 3 seasons and McGrady was a great footballer, a natural... so much so, he played plenty of fullback as well as halfback... and then he just left... what could have been

 

[Grunthos]

Polly was a talent

Polly had the nack of tackling out of marker, I can remember him making four tackles one after another against Canberra back at Belmore, they never got out of their ten-meter line and had to do the clearing kick from behind their try line.

 

[Moey]

Steve Mortimer. I was lucky enough to watch him at his best.. those chip n chases were brilliant to watch. No other halfback since comes close to him.

Sherwin is the next best I have seen at the dogs. Very under rated player.

After that its Kyle Flanagan... haha relax its a joke

 

[B-Train]

Some people clearly need a history lesson

 

[Ripley]

Woefully inconsistent, spectacularly over-rated.

Title of this thread is an insult to most before and since him.

 

[B-Train]

Was Braith Anasta our best 5/8th ever? If not, then who?