Over the next few weeks we will be compiling a fan voted Ultimate Team of Warriors stars since the professional era of the club began in 1996.
Supporters can vote on Twitter with four players to chose from in each position. Today’s position is hooker and you can vote on our twitter page.
Ultimate team so far:
15 | Chris Pennell – 52% of 559 votes
14 | Bryce Heem – 70% of 552 votes
13 | Sam Tuitupou – 52% of 510 votes
12 | Dale Rasmussen – 46% of 510 votes
11 | Josh Adams – 62% of 687 votes
10 | Duncan Weir – 58% of 1365 votes
9 | Francois Hougaard – 67% of 907 votes
1 | Ryan Bower – 44% of 1558 votes
Chris Fortey
Chris Fortey joined Warriors in 2005 having already made 134 appearances for Gloucester, the club he joined from Gordon League, in a nine-year career.
His identical twin, Lee – a prop – was already at Warriors and the brothers made history in April 2006 when they became the first twins to play together in a Premiership match.
Fortey toured North America with England A in 2001 and started for Gloucester in their Powergen Cup-winning side of 2003. In November 2009 he became only the fifth player to make 200 Premiership appearances.
Fortey made 155 appearances for Warriors before moving into a coaching role with Stourbridge towards the end of his Sixways career then joining Hartpury as a player/coach in 2012.
Aleki Lutui
Aleki Lutui joined Warriors in 2006 having enjoyed a successful career in New Zealand where he played Super Rugby for the Chiefs and for Bay of Plenty at provincial level.
He was also a proven international having made his debut for Tonga against Georgia in 1999. He won 37 more Tonga caps and seven for the Pacific Islanders.
Lutui, a powerful ball carrier and ferocious tackler, was a crowd favourite during his seven years with Warriors and made 181 appearances – 109 of them in the Premiership – during his time at Sixways.
He joined Edinburgh in 2013, returned to the Premiership for a one season stint with Gloucester in 2014 and has since helped Ampthill win National One and become a Championship club.
Niall Annett
Niall Annett will always be remembered by Warriors supporters for the last minute try he scored against Bristol in the first leg of the 2014/15 Championship play-off, a score which proved significant when Warriors secured a return to the Premiership by winning 59-58 on aggregate.
Annett joined Warriors from Ulster in 2014 from Ulster where he represented Ireland Under-20s, captaining them at the 2011 Junior World Championship.
Annett cemented himself as first-choice hooker in Warriors’ first season back in the Premiership, playing 21 of the 22 games.
Injuries have subsequently disrupted Annett’s career – he missed the whole of the 2017/18 season – but his courageous effort in the 2019 Premiership Rugby Cup semi-final against Saracens when still suffering from a shoulder injury said everything about his commitment.
Mobile, combative and an accurate lineout thrower, Annett has made 85 appearances for Warriors and scored five tries.
Agustin Creevy
Agustin Creevy made 29 appearances for Warriors in a two-year period and was regarded as one of the world’s leading hookers at the time.
He began his career as a flanker with San Luis in his native Argentina but within a year of converting to hooker he had made the first of 89 appearances for Argentina.
He played in three World Cups, with his last appearance coming in Japan last October, and played for Biarritz, Clermont – as a medical joker – and Montpellier before joining Warriors in 2013.
Creevy’s excellence could not prevent Warriors being relegated but he played a major part in securing an immediate return to the Premiership. He left Sixways in 2015 to join the Jaguares, the new Argentina Super Rugby franchise.