All-time Championship Legends Team
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Topic: All-time Championship Legends Team
Posted By: gerg_861
Subject: All-time Championship Legends Team
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2025 at 15:00
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The Championship Clubs Podcast produced a brilliant episode this weekend, choosing the All-Time Championship Legends Team to celebrate the end of the Championship in its current form, before it becomes The Champ. 1. Robin Hislop 2. Alun Walker 3. Colin Quigley 4. Matt Challinor 5. Barney Maddison 6. Paul Tupai 7. Carl Kirwan 8. Mark Bright 9. Craig Hampson 10. Jake Sharp 11. Dean Adamson 12. JP Socino 13 Michael Le Bourgeois 14. David Williams 15. Rich Lane Definitely worth a listen. |
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Posted By: FinnBlue
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2025 at 15:40
| It was a good listen. Unless I missed it I'm surprised James Pritchard wasn't discussed for Full Back, long championship career across a few different clubs and must be up there as one of the top points scorers. |
Posted By: Mark W-J
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2025 at 17:00
| I haven't listened yet, but Pritchard and Dave Jackson of Nottingham were two full-backs who I really enjoyed watching |
Posted By: Mark W-J
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2025 at 19:56
| Just finished listening. Pritchard got quite a good write-up at full-back but was dismissed as a lot of his career was pre-Championship. Jackson was mentioned as a winger. About half a dozen names who were shortlisted actually played in Regional One South Central last season, mainly for Jersey but also Tommy Bell (LW) and David McIlwaine (Brighton Blues) |
Posted By: Bluesman11
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2025 at 19:57
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I think there was a bit of recency bias with a lot of the selections influenced by who Charlie Beckett played with/against. It was just for players who played after the Championship rebrand so doesn’t include their time when it was called Nat 1, but I’m pretty sure Pritchard is still the Championship’s leading all time points scorer so I’d still have him over Lane. Rob Cook of Pirates didn’t even get a mention and he’d be the main rival for the 15 shirt for me. ------------- Championship Prediction League Winner 11/12 |
Posted By: Mickyboy
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2025 at 20:24
| If you are looking for a points scorer you go for Pritchard but anything else Lane is your choice. The one pick that suprised me was Jake Sharp at FH think there have a few better than him. But overall some great players mentioned who were outside the 23 |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2025 at 23:06
I chuckled when I saw Sharp's name. TBH, I don't think there's been a better outhalf in the Championship than Pellegrini. ------------- Our Club |
Mickyboy wrote:Posted By: Bluesman11
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2025 at 23:59
I don’t disagree that Pellegrini has probably been the most talented fly half to play in this league. However, he did only play for a couple of seasons so I’m not sure that’s long enough to warrant a place in the all time XV for a league that’s been going 16 years. My vote for the 10 would’ve gone to Jonny Bentley. Another player that wasn’t mentioned on the podcast was Tim Streather at 13. He played the first 4 seasons of the league so maybe has been forgotten but he was a class player. I may as well have a pop at my team now: 15. James Pritchard 14. David Williams 13. Tim Streather 12. JP Socino 11. Dean Adamson 10. Craig Willis 9. Gavin Cattle 8. Mark Bright 7. Ryan Burrows 6. Paul Tupai 5. Ben Gulliver 4. Matt Challinor 3. Colin Quigley 2. Alun Walker 1. Alan Paver I’ve cheated a bit putting Burrows at 7 but I couldn’t really think of a quality championship 7 who played more than a couple of seasons and feels harsh leaving Burrows out! Edit: I didn’t realise Jonny Bentley missed the best part of 2 seasons with injury during his time with pirates. I also didn’t realise how long Craig Willis had been at Ealing. I’ve changed my pick to him.
------------- Championship Prediction League Winner 11/12 |
Posted By: cheshire exile
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2025 at 08:42
| Biased obviously but this recent selection with 4 Pirates included seems a rather better balance than the original selection with none! |