Thugs, Nutjobs and Hardmen XIII

[Hull Kingston Bronco]

Mark Broadhurst 

https://youtu.be/62XSX_w8aQk

[Smudger06]

9 hours ago, plug said:

Brendan tuta in his playing days his nick name was the baby assasin

The baby-faced Assasin! But yeah he should be in it.

[Bring back the Boyd]

My Wire team from the players I’ve watched

Lee Penny 

Des Drummond 

Paul Cullen 

Toa Kobe Love

Phil Ford

Nigel Vagana

Nat Wood

Les Boyd 

Carl Webb

Kevin Tamati 

Alan Rathbone

Brenda Tuuta

Ben Westwood 

 

Subs

Mike Nicholas

Adrian Morley

Gary Tees

Paul Bishop/ Andy Gregory

[bar red]

Ian Bell, a centre for Barrow but was from the Hull clan. Was seen in a nightclub eating a pint glass. Great player on the pitch.

[Lowdesert]

10 hours ago, silverback said:

Chico Jackson,would help out for 15 minutes if needed.

Nice lad, Chico.

[Hopping Mad]

No mention for Peter Stoddart (Cumbria, Whitehaven and Workington)?

[Allora]

Les “Bundy” Davidson

Peter Kelly

David “Cement” Gillespie

Trevor “The Axe” Gillmiester

Paul Gallen

 

 

[dkw]

Interesting to see Des Drummond get a few mentions. I never saw any fights with him in, but he used to crash tackle forwards with gusto, was hilarious seeing the look on the forwards face when they managed to get up. But I realised how tough he was when he played for town in an away match at Huddersfield. There was an all in scrap, fights breaking out everywhere. An Huddersfield prop ran at dessie who took a martial arts fighting stance, the prop stopped, shook his head, turned round and went looking for less scary prey 

[Harry Stottle]

13 hours ago, langpark said:

Good point, it's tough one, because not all of these players are 'all of the above'.  For example, Ryan Bailey, in my opinion, was a thug and a nutjob, but not a hardman.  While someone like, Shane Webcke was a hardman, but not a thug nutjob!

It was funny to see the way he backed down against Lee Radford.

[Hullfan]

Craig Greenhill from hull and cas he was a hard man

[Ullman]

4 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:

It was funny to see the way he backed down against Lee Radford.

Bailey's face was a picture. If ever a bloke realised he'd picked on the wrong man.

[Davo5]

13 hours ago, fatboystu said:

I'd only ever describe Ryan Bailey as a cheap shot, 3rd man, ****house.

Started plenty of fisticuffs which usually ended with him hiding behind Peacock.

[DavidM]

If you’re talking about hard , then instances like Alan Prescott playing with a broken arm and Big Sam with a smashed face deserve a mention and big respect 

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

To go back a bit, how about Warrington and Fulham hooker John Dalgreen, whose career ground to a halt after belting a referee (think it might have been Gerry Kershaw) during a game at HKR.

[Davo5]

Surprised Tommy Raudonikis hasn’t had a mention

[Harry Stottle]

10 minutes ago, DavidM said:

then instances like Alan Prescott playing with a broken arm

Probably the bravest thing ever witnessed on a RL field, he played for 76 minutes with that arm broken laying limp by his side, being Captain he refused to leave the field after teammate's had to with their injuries.

That action is the epitome of being hard.

[Old Frightful]

9 hours ago, bar red said:

Ian Bell, a centre for Barrow but was from the Hull clan. Was seen in a nightclub eating a pint glass. Great player on the pitch.

One of those "He could have been as good as he wants"  players. Only saw him play once for Hull's first team but he was fast and built like one of those proverbial sh*thouses.

Last I heard about him was only a few months ago...

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/police-hunt-wanted-hull-man-3174598

 

 

[Davo5]

23 minutes ago, DavidM said:

If you’re talking about hard , then instances like Alan Prescott playing with a broken arm and Big Sam with a smashed face deserve a mention and big respect 

John Sattler & Paul “one ball”Wood fall into that esteemed category 

[Jill Halfpenny fan]

17 hours ago, Ullman said:

First name on the team sheet:

Paul Woods: 'Hardest man in rugby league'

 

Played 5 a side football against Paul and had the misfortune of colliding with him.

It was like hitting a wall.

[Harry Stottle]

Another very hard man was the Leigh Fullback Mick Hogan not for punching anyone or getting into fights - but for his total disrespect for his own safety when defending, only being about 5'-10" and weighing never more than 11.5 stone he played for 12 years making 296 appearances, it didn't matter how big any attacker was he seldomly missed any one on one, such was his tackling technique he got concussed on quite a number of occasions and was stretchered from the field, later in life and he became quite ill for a number of years and sadly left us in his mid fifties, but for those who saw him, he leaves some wonderful memories.

[Derwent]

Steve Breheny, former Wigan prop, was an absolute lunatic.

[Ullman]

2 hours ago, Jill Halfpenny fan said:

Played 5 a side football against Paul and had the misfortune of colliding with him.

It was like hitting a wall.

I think that's what Phil Hogan felt like when he tried to stop Woodsy in full flight in the BBC2 Floodlit Final. Looked like he'd been hit by a bus when Rovers' physio Cliff Wallis eventually helped him off the field.

[Hullfan]

3 hours ago, Old Frightful said:

One of those "He could have been as good as he wants"  players. Only saw him play once for Hull's first team but he was fast and built like one of those proverbial sh*thouses.

Last I heard about him was only a few months ago...

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/police-hunt-wanted-hull-man-3174598

 

 

Hardly think that's fair advertising the blokes business on a forum. 

[Dunbar]

4 hours ago, Harry Stottle said:

It was funny to see the way he backed down against Lee Radford.

 

4 hours ago, Ullman said:

Bailey's face was a picture. If ever a bloke realised he'd picked on the wrong man.

Is this the incident when Radford was sent off?  I have never really understood the perception of that incident from fans.

Yes, Bailey threw a few elbows in the tackle and caught Radford but then Radford swung three punches at Bailey while he was on all fours and didn't see them coming. 

Radford may be a tough guy but I don't think that incident proved it... if that incident were reversed and it was Bailey throwing punches at a blindsided player on the ground he would have been called all the names under the sun.

[Hullfan]

18 minutes ago, Dunbar said:

 

Is this the incident when Radford was sent off?  I have never really understood the perception of that incident from fans.

Yes, Bailey threw a few elbows in the tackle and caught Radford but then Radford swung three punches at Bailey while he was on all fours and didn't see them coming. 

Radford may be a tough guy but I don't think that incident proved it... if that incident were reversed and it was Bailey throwing punches at a blindsided player on the ground he would have been called all the names under the sun.

10000% agree with you here. Cowardly by radford.