Re: Toughest 3 players : Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:12 pm  

DHM wrote:

That he was. Shame because he could have been a great player had he just played rugby. Fast, great ball skills and a destructive wide running second row.

Boyd was a prop mainly, he was a disgrace and a thug, but was very tough as well, and was a great player but should gave been an sllrine great.

Re: Toughest 3 players : Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:34 pm  

rollin thunder wrote:

Boyd was a prop mainly, he was a disgrace and a thug, but was very tough as well, and was a great player but should gave been an sllrine great.

Was originally a pacy back row forward. Was selected as a back row for the '82 Kangaroo tour.

Re: Toughest 3 players : Wed Dec 04, 2019 6:32 pm  

DHM wrote:

Was originally a pacy back row forward. Was selected as a back row for the '82 Kangaroo tour.

All th 82 kangaroos looked paced compaied to over here at the time Craig young etc another prop looked faster than most our backs.

Re: Toughest 3 players : Thu Dec 05, 2019 11:26 am  

Toughness was different in those days were a punch wouldn’t necessarily get you sent off and head high tackles were almost routine

Re: Toughest 3 players : Fri Dec 06, 2019 11:17 am  

LeedsLurch wrote:

Toughness was different in those days were a punch wouldn’t necessarily get you sent off and head high tackles were almost routine

Saw Roy Dickinson get in a fight and knock Les Gorley out at HQ during one particularly bad tempered game against Widnes (which is saying something). Gorley was stretchered off and I think Roy was given a stern talking to. I seem to remember the first thing Kevin Dick used to do when we played Widnes was punch Andy Gregory. Dick was not the most gifted half back but he could make anyone playing against him have a stinker - even did it to Peter Sterling when he was at Hull. Mostly by thumping them at every opportunity.

The introduction of the 10 minute sin bin hardly helped as nobody got sent off at all for fighting.

Re: Toughest 3 players : Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:32 pm  

Brian McTigue, nobody messed with him. I was on a supporters tour to Aus with Alex Murphy and he said McTigue was the toughest he had ever played with or against.

Tommy Leuluai must be a good shout from the modern era.

Re: Toughest 3 players : Fri Dec 06, 2019 1:11 pm  

I was at the Widnes game dhm remembers. Gorley and Prescott spent the whole game high tackling our playmakers until Roy ended it. The only other punch I saw Roy throw broke John Dalgrern's jaw vs Fulham.

Incidentally the Widnes game was Roy Powell's debut.

Re: Toughest 3 players : Fri Dec 06, 2019 1:19 pm  

Many years ago I saw a video of Jim Mills playing for GB v Aus, I think 1978. Jim was bitten in the tackle by Rod Reddy; Jim nutted the Rocket & snotted him on the way down. No other Aussie intervened. Penalty to GB.

Re: Toughest 3 players : Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:01 pm  

tigertot wrote:

Many years ago I saw a video of Jim Mills playing for GB v Aus, I think 1978. Jim was bitten in the tackle by Rod Reddy; Jim nutted the Rocket & snotted him on the way down. No other Aussie intervened. Penalty to GB.

Best performance I ever saw by Mills. I only caught the last few years of his career by which time he was a bit panto but he was fearsome in that odsal test.

Re: Toughest 3 players : Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:44 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Brian McTigue, nobody messed with him. I was on a supporters tour to Aus with Alex Murphy and he said McTigue was the toughest he had ever played with or against.

Tommy Leuluai must be a good shout from the modern era.

McTigue also very skillful intelligent player too