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Wow, Fifita better than Sludge? Snowman would not have seen Sludge play so I'm not sure how he can judge that.

I have though and while peak Fifita was an absolute beast, Sludge was not only tough, fast and could kick goals, he was a real leader.

Hard to judge a forward compared to a back, but I would go with Sludge too.
 

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Wow, Fifita better than Sludge? Snowman would not have seen Sludge play so I'm not sure how he can judge that.

I have though and while peak Fifita was an absolute beast, Sludge was not only tough, fast and could kick goals, he was a real leader.

Hard to judge a forward compared to a back, but I would go with Sludge too.
I'm not necessarily saying Sludge was better, but to say Sludge isn't even close to Fifita is idiotic, even by Snowman's standards.
 

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peak fifita is the best individual player we have ever had and its not close
How long did we have a peak Fifita for? Would you say 2014 - 2017ish? Trying to remember how good we had it.
 

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Such different positions that it's very hard to compare.

If I had first selection out of a team of Sharks greats, from the player's I've witnessed, it would be Steve Rogers 1st by a country mile, Gavin Miller 2nd.

I'd pick Fifita first at prop without a doubt.
 
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Such different positions that it's very hard to compare.

If I had first selection out of a team of Sharks greats, from the player's I've witnessed, it would be Steve Rogers 1st by a country mile, Gavin Miller 2nd.
Fun fact, Aaron Woods won Dally M Prop of the Year twice during that time span
 

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I'm not necessarily saying Sludge was better, but to say Sludge isn't even close to Fifita is idiotic, even by Snowman's standards.
On his day Fifita was awesome & could turn a game but unfortunately there were many days when he was very average . Agree Sludge is up there but there have also been a couple of others I would rate ahead of Fifita overall , like Gavin Miller , ET & another fella by the name of Gallen .
 

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On his day Fifita was awesome & could turn a game but unfortunately there were many days when he was very average . Agree Sludge is up there but there have also been a couple of others I would rate ahead of Fifita overall , like Gavin Miller , ET & another fella by the name of Gallen .

Even when Fifita didn’t do anything spectacular he usually had good workload stats, doing the regular front rower stuff
 
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