Who is the scariest player you've ever seen play RL?

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Seen as its Halloween, who is the scariest player you've ever seen play our game?? 

[FearTheVee]

Francis Meli in an important game.

[Tim Streets tache]

Shaun Briscoe

[sam4731]

Ben Flower if you ask Lance Hohaia.

Too soon?

[Rioman]

Eddie Syzmala from Barrow.  Decent player and as tough as they come.

[Hopping Mad]

12 minutes ago, Rioman said:

Eddie Syzmala from Barrow.  Decent player and as tough as they come.

First name that popped into my head.

I did hear, as a coach, ex-Barrow player Frank Foster scared the Whitehaven players ****less. Don't they say the Barrow board twice wanted to sack Foster, during his 10 years coaching at Craven Park, but no director dared tell him?! Mick Stephenson reckons Foster was the hardest opponent he ever encountered.

Edited October 31, 2023 by Hopping Mad

[Gomersall]

Paul Woods. That’s all.

[ELBOWSEYE]

Les Boyd.

[Bamboozle]

Vila Matautia.

[Lowdesert]

20 minutes ago, Gomersall said:

Paul Woods. That’s all.

I would say that was a good call, especially if he was coming in at speed.  He would also come under the ‘biggest nutcase’ category.

[Ullman]

45 minutes ago, Gomersall said:

Paul Woods. That’s all.

Lock it mods.

No further discussion required.

[Derwent]

59 minutes ago, Lowdesert said:

I would say that was a good call, especially if he was coming in at on speed.  He would also come under the ‘biggest nutcase’ category.

Fixed that for you.

[Spotty Herbert]

The Sorensens at Widnes in the 80s.

Tom Briscoe when having to deal with the ball in the air.

[BadlyOverdrawnBoy]

Stan Owen

[koli]

Jonty Pilkington…he’s playing career was over before I was born but meeting him in  street in the 60s was a scary experience!

[DavidM]

Scary , nah . I’m not afraid of any player , I’ll shout at all of them from the back of the stand 

[bobbruce]

Kelvin Skerret I reckon all players who played against him had an eye out for where he was. I’d also add Morley but I don’t think he was as dirty as Skerret but he played close to the line so often got it wrong. 
 

Edited to add I remember seeing an interview with Gordon Tallis were he was asked if there was any player he looked out for in the NRL. Firstly he said no then he corrected himself and said Moz adding you should always know were Morley is. 

Edited October 31, 2023 by bobbruce

[bobbruce]

27 minutes ago, DavidM said:

Scary , nah . I’m not afraid of any player , I’ll shout at all of them from the back of the stand 

I remember going watching Saints at Bradford and Jeff Grayshon (I’m 90% sure it was him) being sent off. At the time the players walked up the stands to get off the pitch a few Saints fans calling him a dirty bar steward as he came off. The next thing he was plowing into them I suppose you could call it doing a Cantona but 10 or so years before him. 

[Moe syszlak]

20 minutes ago, bobbruce said:

Kelvin Skerret I reckon all players who played against him had an eye out for where he was. I’d also add Morley but I don’t think he was as dirty as Skerret but he played close to the line so often got it wrong. 
 

Edited to add I remember seeing an interview with Gordon Tallis were he was asked if there was any player he looked out for in the NRL. Firstly he said no then he corrected himself and said Moz adding you should always know were Morley is. 

Only ever saw skerret back away from a fight once. It was at wilderspool(obviously!)and dessie squared up to him whilst he was playing for Bradford. 

[Damien]

13 minutes ago, bobbruce said:

Kelvin Skerret I reckon all players who played against him had an eye out for where he was. I’d also add Morley but I don’t think he was as dirty as Skerret but he played close to the line so often got it wrong. 
 

Edited to add I remember seeing an interview with Gordon Tallis were he was asked if there was any player he looked out for in the NRL. Firstly he said no then he corrected himself and said Moz adding you should always know were Morley is. 

Yeah I think Morley would be scary in a different way to players like Skerret and far more intimidating. There are probably a fair few players of that era like Skerret who were just pure dirty, all teams had them. However I think a player like Morley could do all the dirty stuff but would also have striked fear into anyone running at them or trying to tackle them.

[David Shepherd]

Brendan Tuuta

[bobbruce]

1 minute ago, Damien said:

Yeah I think Morley would be scary in a different way to players like Skerret and far more intimidating. There are probably a fair few players of that era like Skerret who were just pure dirty, all teams had them. However I think a player like Morley could do all the dirty stuff but would also have striked fear into anyone running at them or trying to tackle them.

I think the thing with Skerret is there were times when he completely lost his head. At that point you just knew someone was going to take an elbow in a tackle or knees on the floor. 

[Damien]

Just now, bobbruce said:

I think the thing with Skerret is there were times when he completely lost his head. At that point you just knew someone was going to take an elbow in a tackle or knees on the floor. 

Yeah, there was always fireworks for sure!

[DI Keith Fowler]

Maybe not quite what was being asked, but the player who scared me the most was Ryan MacDonald with the way he ran the ball in, I don't know whether he was more likely to hurt the opponent or himself. 

[sheddingswasus]

Brian Hogan