Paul Bevan has talent!

[Xie Shan]

....in the family.

Bevo's uncle in rugby league's greatest team

Of the 17 players named under legendary coach Jack Gibson, only winger Brian Bevan never represented Australia. He played most of his career in England, where he scored a world record 796 career tries in 688 games.

(and no, connolly hasn't been hacking into my account )

[Mike_B]

....in the family.

Bevo's uncle in rugby league's greatest team



(and no, connolly hasn't been hacking into my account )

This was mentioned incessantly when Bevan first made his debut....

[Xie Shan]

I know...I was just being a little mischievous in my choice of thread title when I posted the article...maybe it belongs in Sport...

[goswannie14]

It's a pity that the talent wasn't passed down to Paul Bevan then.

[bloodboy]

The heading reminds me of that show...Australia's got Talent...We discovered many things during that show but one of them defintely WAS NOT that Australia had talent. I am not saying Australia does not have talent, was just a misleading title for the show. Paul Bevan does not have talent.

[floppinab]

Paul Bevan does not have talent.

Paul Bevan does have talent, we saw plenty of it in his first season, remember, 3rd (might've been 4th, memory fades) in the Rising Star award that year. No doubt has struggled since then, in a similar way I reckon to McVeigh in that he needs the schackles taken off him to let us see what he can do.
Been allowed to do that a lot more this year and has looked a lot better for it.

[hammo]

No doubt has struggled since then, in a similar way I reckon to McVeigh in that he needs the schackles taken off him to let us see what he can do.

A recipe for disaster! Why would you allow a guy with no footy smarts or talent the freedom to do what he wants?

He's a tagger and nothing else. McVeigh is the opposite - a good attacking player stifled in recent seasons by Roos giving him nothing else but tagging assignments.

[Bear]

This was mentioned incessantly when Bevan first made his debut....

I don't recall Bevan's uncle making the RL TOC being mentioned when Bevan made his debut. In fact it could not have been given they only just selected it. That was the (valid) point of the thread.

[aaron_wharton]

bevo is a good player, if he could improve his diposal by foot and get abit more of the footy he could play in the middle

[satchmopugdog]

Even I have heard of some of those names ...so they must have been good.

[Chilcott]

bevo is a good player, if he could improve his diposal by foot and get abit more of the footy he could play in the middle

I am the same - if I could improve my disposal and get abit more of the footy I could also play in the middle

I don't think any improvement for Bevo would put him ahead of any of our current players in the midfield rotation.

[top40]

....in the family.

Bevo's uncle in rugby league's greatest team



(and no, connolly hasn't been hacking into my account )

Without sounding too technical, the Rugby League legend, (who hardly played the game at all in Australia), is actually Paul's grand-uncle, or his paternal grandfather's brother.

[bedford]

A recipe for disaster! Why would you allow a guy with no footy smarts or talent the freedom to do what he wants?

He's a tagger and nothing else. McVeigh is the opposite - a good attacking player stifled in recent seasons by Roos giving him nothing else but tagging assignments.

thats crap mcveigh has been pathetic,but is now playing good outside footy,thats all still carn't hold a tackle

[SCGonasunnyday]

Roos and co seem to have a knack of developing a player that all the fans write off (and can't understand why they are in the team ahead of so and so) but later come good.

LRT case in point. I remember what this board used to be like a couple of years ago, every other day there was a thread bagging him. Yet it is now obvious that he was given time to develop because we had a real lack of key defenders. Richards was then recruited and given time and now we yet again have a miserly, consistent defence, the best in the comp. This is no accident.

Whats the plan with bevan? I don't know. But I'm sure the coaching staff see the same errors and free kicks given away game after game. But there is a plan and for that reason he won't be dropped.

I'm not exactly a fan, but I do think he is really, really tough and whatever else you can criticise the guy for, you can't knock his toughness. Will he come good, I hope so.

[connolly]

....in the family.

Bevo's uncle in rugby league's greatest team



(and no, connolly hasn't been hacking into my account )

The Brian Bevan story is a great tale of achievement over disadvantage. Brian Bevan played a few games in Sydney for Easts, signed up for the war and served as a stoker on HMAS Australia. If anyone has ever read something about seafarers this was the hardest, toughest most soul destroying job on a vessel. He went to Leeds as an Aussie sailor and was rejected at 21 in the trials because he just looked pretty hopeless as a footballer. Hunslet wouldn't take him either. He snagged a try in a Warrington trial and they signed him. He went home to be demobolised and returned to Warrington to become the greatest winger in the history of the game playing in the then toughest football competition in the world. Bevo's great uncle apparently looked ordinary. Teeth out, bald and an unusual running style that had those who prefer style over substance writing him off. The eccentricity of his appearance continued into his running, which could be crab-wise, circular, smartly reversed, eerily swerving or just full ahead both. [/I]
The difference between Bevs try scoring record and the rest is comparable to Bradman's dominance in cricket. For those interested in reading a wonderful story of an Aussie battler who became a champion -
Rugby League History ? Brian Bevan
They built a statue to Bev which is outside the Warrington ground.
For those of us who think there is something about Bevo well maybe its in the genes. Brian Bevan is a largely unsung Australian sporting champion.
Congratulations to the Bevan family - they have plenty to be proud about with the great Brian (and Paul of course).