Radlinski was inspired in that game, god knows what drugs they pumped him full of.
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They were released. Only takes top speed at one particular moment though so as you can see by this list it’s a little irrelevant. If you raced those 10 players over 10 different distances you’d get 10 completely different sets of results.
1. Matty Ashton
2. Ash Handley
3. Louis Senior
4. Jake Bibby!!!
5. Josh Charnley
6. REGAN GRACE
7. Niall Evalds
8. Joe Burgess
9. Jake Wardle
10. Bevan French
Going on the point about Albert he may not have been lightning off the mark but when he got up to top speed he absolutely flew. The amount of times you’d see the opposition break the line looking nailed on to score and Albert would just come flying across out of nowhere. It’s such a shame we only got one season of Albert and Lyon together.
Yes the readings can be misleading and I agree with the 10 different scenarios. I think Daryl Clark won it a few years back topping out on a cover tackle. Matty Ashton and Louis Senior once up to speed would be difficult to reel in with their long strides as per Senior`s try when Grace did not make an impression on him.
Very surprised Warrington have not made a big deal having two in the top ten, last time when the above mentioned Clark had the highest of the season Ade Gardner was comparing him to Premiere footballers who were all slower on their stats, PR machine is slacking in Wire.:D
I’d back Grace to be about fastest over 40/50m but probably not in the top 5 over 100m. The thing that is arguably more important is the ability to change direction or step whilst maintaining top speed and that’s something Grace has improving on massively over the past 18 months or so.
Most people talk about Radlinskis tackle on Albert in the 2002 final at Murrayfield but I think the one he made at Cardiff in 2004 was actually better as he caught Albert. I remember David Grindley the England 400 metre runner saying that Rads could easily have made a top class athlete. I think they both shared the same sprint coach.
Was that the youth athletics coach? God he was fast was Rads and his wife was fast with a hoover in Whelan's empire before he dropped you.
Has you know I am still in contact with Ian, you call him a bully he knows your a "lets do a Countdown _er_ert ! You are a bully, you have just obviously been a bit soft all your life so the keyboard has been a saviour a bit like trump a media bully. Ian is in your face, love him or loathe him, at least he is a proper man.
Good stuff Dave. A very gregarious lad Basil, could be the best company in the world then switch on a sixpence. Fantastic St Helens and Leigh coach. Perhaps the best thing that ever happened to Eamon and Saints we pretended to sack him. Whelan and Lindsay fell under the spell of Basil, he took a hell of a wedge from them and made Wigan morally a far better club. Their sins found them out, on the gates of ORAL.
You tend to find more with modern players that their pace is measured over shorter distances. Put a lot of modern wingers into a gap in their own half of the field and they will often get caught. It was a huge problem Saints had in the early Langtree Park era that we'd have players who could make breaks and motor for a while, but then they'd run out of puff and somebody previously ambling in their path would catch them up.
Contrast this to wingers of the past such as Alan Hunte, Darren Albert and Anthony Sullivan, who would start slower and accelerate to breakneck speed. Hunte and Sullivan would often be running that fast eighty metres later that I often feared they might not be able to stop before the concrete wall. :)
Mata’utia on his way now, bringing the whole family over at once it looks like. Don’t know whether he’ll have to isolate on arrival or whether a negative Covid test will suffice but be good to have him here and settling in.
Paasi doesn't look as fit as the others at the moment, seems to be puffing + blowing a bit, probably needs the warm sun on their backs for our new imports.
Good news from Mark Percival now training hard and determined to get back to his best.