Our best fullback imho.

big call Mick !

one of our clubs all time greats for sure

Our best fullback imho.

I think so too.
We've had some rippers.
SOS was obviously one and I don't mind he was FBoC ahead of Geoff.
Wes Lofts was wonderful in an era where you had to be hard to survive. Balme wouldn't have whacked him and walked off the ground. I can't remember further back than that.
Southby and Rantall were the pioneers of the current style of running full back. They backed themselves in while others were still staying at home in the ten yard square or chasing their FF on the lead. There was a rule back then. if the FB left the ten yard square, the BP had to occupy it. Vin Waite was one of our BP and as hard a man as Lofts.
I can still see Geoff Southby gliding to the end of the square with his easy stride and barreling a torp to the centre of PP.
Them were the days.

I wonder if we will be talking about Liam Jones or Weitering like this in twenty years... We can only hope.

I think so too.
We've had some rippers.
SOS was obviously one and I don't mind he was FBoC ahead of Geoff.
Wes Lofts was wonderful in an era where you had to be hard to survive. Balme wouldn't have whacked him and walked off the ground. I can't remember further back than that.
Southby and Rantall were the pioneers of the current style of running full back. They backed themselves in while others were still staying at home in the ten yard square or chasing their FF on the lead. There was a rule back then. if the FB left the ten yard square, the BP had to occupy it. Vin Waite was one of our BP and as hard a man as Lofts.
I can still see Geoff Southby gliding to the end of the square with his easy stride and barreling a torp to the centre of PP.
Them were the days.

I wonder if we will be talking about Liam Jones or Weitering like this in twenty years... We can only hope.

Great fullback. But SOS has to rate higher. The quality of opposition FF was extraordinary in SOS era, and he beat them all, most of the time. And he went forward to kick match winning bags of goals, when we needed it. I get a little annoyed when people say other fullbacks were better than SOS, eg, Scarlett, Rance etc

You're right.
Southby only had to contend with Peter Hudson, Peter McKenna, Doug Wade, Kelvin Templeton, Bernie Quinlan, Michael Roach, Simon Beasley, Malcolm Blight and that flower, Neal Balme. Not exactly your bunch of hacks. With the exception of Balme, all century goal kickers.
SOS may or may not have been better but don't undersell Southby's opposition. He was a gun and so were the above.