They are the names you see on the honour rolls and photos that adorn  the Goulburn Rugby Clubhouse.

Some have trophies and hills and fields named after them. And others may be barely known, their efforts, commitment and service less noticed or lost to the pages of history.

But they are some of the greats of the club. Choose your preferred cliche… they dug the well, they laid the foundations… they built this city on rock and roll.

Rugby League has its Immortals. Cricket has the 1948 Invincibles and basketball has its Dream Team. The greats. But not the undisputed greats. Even some of those lists are often debated and argued. So this is not in

Imagine trying to come up with the Mount Rushmore of Dirty Reds… the best four on-field contributors, and another list of the best four off-field. It would be a bloody tough job… actually, it could be a bit of fun. 

But if you tried to create a definitive list of Reds Royalty, it would be impossible. So much has been done by so many over more than 150 years, and quite a bit of it may have gone unnoticed and unrecorded.

So this will not be a perfect list, but hopefully it will help current and future players and supporters know a bit more about the names they may have seen or heard of around the place, as well as a bit about some of the unsung heroes.

Some of the names on the Goulburn Rugby Union Hall of Fame will go back a way, and some will be much more recent. Some obvious, and some surprises. I’m keen to hear some suggestions. But it makes sense to start with the Alpha. Patient Zero. Any guesses?