The worst haircuts in rugby league

[The Hallucinating Goose]

As a tribute to Brad Fash's catastrophe of a mullet I thought it would be fun for us to remember some of the worst hairdos ever to grace the rugby league pitches of the world.

So which do you remember particularly well? 

[daz39]

[RBKnight]

Should be able to select a pretty mean "Mullet XIII" from the '80s - Cas could provide half the team  Tawera Nikau and Dean Sampson (who gets an extra award for the bleached look)  for a start.

Or how about Mullets V Perms ?

[David Shepherd]

12 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

As a tribute to Brad Fash's catastrophe of a mullet I thought it would be fun for us to remember some of the worst hairdos ever to grace the rugby league pitches of the world.

So which do you remember particularly well? 

I'd love to know what Makahesi Makatoa was thinking.  Looked fairly normal when he left Fev, now he's a Paramatta he looks like a South Sea Island version of Boris Johnson.

[Mr Frisky]

Any Aussie NRL player would win - as people say on her - the NRL is in a league of its own....for bad haircuts.

 

[DavidM]

6 minutes ago, Mr Frisky said:

Any Aussie NRL player would win - as people say on her - the NRL is in a league of its own....for bad haircuts.

 

Plenty of council jobs and no mistake 

[RBKnight]

Honourable mention to Wigan's Cade Cust 

[Wollo Wollo Wayoo]

Corbin Sims.

[Hull Kingston Bronco]

Luke Gale’s wig 

[Derwent]

Tino Unpronounceable from Gold Coast Titans would be up there.

[Eddie]

Ryan Papenhuyzen would win any terrible barnet competition. 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

I never did think mullets would ever come back into fashion but it does seem to be the case. Seems to be quite a few players going for it as well as the average extraordinary man in the streets. Not just a traditional average length hair all over and longer at the back though but shaved to basically baldness at the sides and top and ridiculously long at the back. 

[Jughead]

 

 

[FearTheVee]

4 minutes ago, Jughead said:

 

 

46-6 loss with those barnets - eek.

[ivans82]

No contest....... Jackson Hastings when with Wigan .

[DavidM]

30 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I never did think mullets would ever come back into fashion but it does seem to be the case. Seems to be quite a few players going for it as well as the average extraordinary man in the streets. Not just a traditional average length hair all over and longer at the back though but shaved to basically baldness at the sides and top and ridiculously long at the back. 

Truly awful 

[DavidM]

Matt King doing wild and woolly and also channelling his inner Ginger Tompkins 

Edited July 15, 2022 by DavidM

[silverback]

i kinda like ash handleys crash helmet cut his mams does for him.

[RBKnight]

A big shout out for Eorl Crabtree, inspiration for one of the great Rugby League chants......"You're just a fat Robbie Savage" 

[doc]

Levi of Huddersfield, awful cut.

[Futtocks]

When the NRL returned after Lockdown, a lot of the players' terrible hairdos were blamed on the them not having the services of professional hairdressers.

It sounded like a perfectly reasonable argument at the time. But have things really improved since restrictions were lifted in Australia? Not much.

[bobbruce]

Ethan Ryan absolute shocker. 
 

 

[Wellsy4HullFC]

When I saw this thread title, I knew it would be about Brad Fash.

[Jughead]

Fonua and Timo from the Titans need to be in this conversation. 

[Dunbar]

18 hours ago, Futtocks said:

When the NRL returned after Lockdown, a lot of the players' terrible hairdos were blamed on the them not having the services of professional hairdressers.

It sounded like a perfectly reasonable argument at the time. But have things really improved since restrictions were lifted in Australia? Not much.

I think the problem with Australia is that they haven't had access to the 1990's yet.