manly al
First Grader
That East's player or winger may have been Shane Whereat although i think that he also played with the Eels for a while . Stuey Davis and Dave Ronson , both local juniors and quite reasonable players [ and cost effective wingers ] complimenting that star studded Manly back line in 87 . Also i think that this situation suited Arko to a tee at that particular time .He had excellent timing, and would accelerate on to the ball. There are some skills like that which are different from pure speed. Blokes like oudenryn who were really fast but had no footy skills didn’t do as well.
There was an easts player who was reportedly the fastest in the game (forget his name now) who rarely knew how to put himself in the right position to score.
I think in that 87 premiership year that the bug was injured for a while and came back through reserve grade. In his return reserve grade game he scored about 3 tries and was a class above. He always seemed pretty fast to me live.