Eorl Crabtree

[iangidds]

Just like to say well done Eorl , anyone who plays prop at a professional level for so long deserves all our respect.

Enjoy retirement and a straight nose

[RidingPie]

Congratulations on your retirement Eorl! He's one heck of a big guy!

[Ant]

One of the most underrated players of the last decade, a high quality prop who carried the Giants at times, the player who people say should do more but then is very noticeable when he isn't playing just what he brings to a team

A legend to the Claret and Gold faithful for his entire career, I wish him all the best

[Wellsy4HullFC]

One of the characters of the game. Will enjoy his (I assume) career in the media and have a chance to straighten his nose out as well as his hair!

[JohnM]

Agree with all of that. Will miss him. I trust he'll continue as a pundit.

[Mr Frisky]

Yep - one of the good guys - all the best Eorl.

[longboard]

A good player and a good chap.

 

Time for Eorl to let his body recover. He struggled with injury last season.

 

I remember him as a young centre.

 

He's moving to role on the commercial and marketing side of the club.

 

http://www.giantsrl.com/news/article/5749/crabtree-calls-time-on-stellar

[Futtocks]

A very good player in his prime, and an engaging pundit too.

[GeordieSaint]

I had the pleasure of meeting Eorl at Andy Raleigh's stag do; great bloke and a great player for Huddersfield. I wish him all the best and congratulations on a great career. 

[MrPosh]

He's moving to role on the commercial and marketing side of the club.

 

http://www.giantsrl.com/news/article/5749/crabtree-calls-time-on-stellar

 

He thought playing prop was a challenge - wait until he realises the reality of trying to attract people to watch the Giants.

 

He'll soon be begging for his old job back.

[CiderWire]

A great servant to club and game and a darn fine commentator. Best of luck to him.

[Dave T]

Good luck to him, always been enjoyable to watch and he seemed a nice bloke.

[Chanter]

Came across as a nice bloke. A good player, had he had more agression, would have been a great player imo.

 

Happy retirement Eorl

[JohnM]

Would it be possible for League Express to print these posts in the next edition as a tribute to Eorl?

[chuffer]

All the best in your future endeavours big fella!

[Kris]

Very very nice guy, he was a good lad in his teens head screwed on and when he got older he was fiercely loyal to the Giants when he could have moved on for bigger bucks

 

Retirement comes for everyone, I would have liked to see him one last time in a winning Giants team

 

Thank you!

[Number 16]

Always one of my favourite players. Played hard but fair. Came across as an ordinary guy. 

[Gates1]

One club players are a rare beast these days, good on him.

429 appearences for his club

18 appearances for his country

79 tries and;

1 Linebreak.

[longboard]

He thought playing prop was a challenge - wait until he realises the reality of trying to attract people to watch the Giants.

 

He'll soon be begging for his old job back.

 

Hurray!

[Loiner]

One of the most underrated players of the last decade, a high quality prop who carried the Giants at times, the player who people say should do more but then is very noticeable when he isn't playing just what he brings to a team

A legend to the Claret and Gold faithful for his entire career, I wish him all the best

A legend in Huddersfield yes but one of the most underrated players, take your claret and gold glasses off mate you are making yourself sound silly. A plodder at best.

[Liverpool Rover]

A solid player who was a great servant to Huddersfield. Maybe his career didn't hit the heights that it could have done but not many players play for long as he did as a prop and deserves a good retirement.

[Ant]

A legend in Huddersfield yes but one of the most underrated players, take your claret and gold glasses off mate you are making yourself sound silly. A plodder at best.

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[Mr Frisky]

Think Johnoco's comment is correct - the Aussies never really handled him in the 3 or 4 games he played against them- he always seemed to attract about 4 of them to tackle him.

[RSN]

Aye Crabtree was always very good against the Aussies, they couldn't seem to handle his size. I recall Cameron Smith trying to tackle him 1 on 1 a few years back and ended up on his backside.

I think Crabtree was a very good prop. He was pretty unconventional compared to most prop forwards. Usually bigger forwards break more tackles but are dodgier in defence, drop the ball more often and aren't particularly quick but he had the size of big forward but had the qualities of a work horse forward ie Graham and Hill. I think because he was similar in size to forwards like George Burgess for example they were expecting similar amounts of tackle busts ect but that wasn't really his game.

[raceman]

A legend in Huddersfield yes but one of the most underrated players, take your claret and gold glasses off mate you are making yourself sound silly. A plodder at best.

 

I wouldn't expect anything else from you, only one person here sounding silly and you know who you are. There's always one has to spoil it isn't there.