Re: Toughest 3 players : Mon Dec 09, 2019 10:47 pm  

paul dixon

graham eccles

Re: Toughest 3 players : Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:38 am  

Rob Burrow, smallest player on the pitch, never backed away from anything, including Epalahame Lauaki.

Re: Toughest 3 players : Sat Dec 21, 2019 9:42 am  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

Rob Burrow, smallest player on the pitch, never backed away from anything, including Epalahame Lauaki.

Yeah, Rob Burrow definitely the toughest for me. Never backed down, got knocked out few times, always came back.
So sad

Re: Toughest 3 players : Tue Dec 24, 2019 2:48 pm  

I'm gonna be a killjoy on this one.

It's impossible to compare players from different eras as so much changes so quickly these days. People will rightly point out people like Artie and Mal R as tough players but you just don't know how they would have fared in the modern game where players are so much fitter and TV cameras etc.. are everywhere.

For me, anybody that gets on a rugby pitch and then comes back to do it all again the week after is pretty dang tough.

Re: Toughest 3 players : Sun Dec 29, 2019 10:43 am  

Kurt Sorensen, Tallis peacock if I could have four I'd put in senior.

Re: Toughest 3 players : Sun Dec 29, 2019 11:22 am  

Fallon wrote:

I'm gonna be a killjoy on this one.

It's impossible to compare players from different eras as so much changes so quickly these days. People will rightly point out people like Artie and Mal R as tough players but you just don't know how they would have fared in the modern game where players are so much fitter and TV cameras etc.. are everywhere.

Take your point and for that reason I wouldn't include the likes of Kelvin Skerrett or Les Boyd. Reilly was a different animal though. Could and would dish out the dark stuff when needed but when unprovoked just played the game with unremitting but fair physicality. Would have excelled both then and now. I'd rate Adrian Morley and Gaz Ellis too in terms of hardness.

Re: Toughest 3 players : Wed Jan 01, 2020 6:28 am  

Peacock! I'm still in awe of the man . Toughness,courage and of course ability. Our best signing of his era

Re: Toughest 3 players : Wed Jan 01, 2020 10:22 am  

Hmmm well I would say

Andy Gregory
Ellery Hanley
Brendon Tuuta

All performed in an era where you protected yourself and your other team mates without compromise!

I remember watching Brendon Tuuta at featherstone against Halifax and BT made a body check tackle as the ball arrived ie man and ball at same time. I cannot remember who he tackled but he went down like a sack of poo and was taken off pitch with tweety pie flying round his noddle, whilst the crowd chanted “You’ve been Tuuta’d” but off the pitch thoroughly nice guy

Re: Toughest 3 players : Thu Jan 02, 2020 4:46 pm  

Kevin Ward
Tommy Leuluai
Gaz Ellis

Re: Toughest 3 players : Thu Jan 02, 2020 11:28 pm  

allan rathbone anybody remember him.