Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #271011 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 148 pages

Customer Reviews

Wasted opportunity
As someone who has followed Rugby League for 20+ years (not much compared to some, but we all have to start somewhere...) there are plenty of players who have made an impact on the sport, become household names, and then retired into obscurity. So finding out what has happened to them should be fascinating.
And in this book occasionally it is. But more usual is a sense of frustration that there seems no rhyme or reason as to who is included and who isn't. Some big names surprisingly get no mention, while you have to rack your memory to recall some who are. If there was any rationale behind who was included, then that would just come with the territory - you can't include every player there's ever been. But, for example, you'd expect to find most British internationals or most team captains.
This book could have been so much better and so much more useful.

Shallow and poorly thought-out
This book could have been great - the stage of Rugby League has been graced with a varied cast of actors from all sorts of backgrounds.
However it ambles aimlessly through a pretty ragged and obvious selection and struggles to tell us anything we didn't know already. eg guess where Stevo is these days ?
John Huxley had a great opportunity to write something worth reading but this whole book just reads like a cheaply-produced tabloid-style cash-in.
If done properly there could have been strict time parameters on it - eg stars of the 50's 60's, 70's, 80's etc and would have had a qualification on it eg every player who has played in a major final or for GB. Instead we get this effort which seems to have no thought or rationale behind the selections.
Save your money - this can be flicked through in ten minutes, which is about as long as it must have taken to write.

Fascinating but something missing
I found this fascinating as to where some of the players have currently ended up (especially the journeymen), but like the other review, each one left me with mixed emotions. From some you wanted to know more, some you couldn't care, some felt a bit unfair (but then we all have our own views of each player), but overall I felt that the guys were being recognised for their contribution to Leeds United long after they left. And that's the way it should be. The way is paved for Edition 2...