Who really is the biggest coward in RL?

Tbh, I think last weekends events shows that anybody at any level who is willing to go out there and face the dangers associated with playing is pretty brave really!

Eddie Hemmings.

He's not a coward he's a clown!!

Very True

Subjective.

Leon Pryce or Lee Briers

Gary Hetherington

There aren't any.

Anyone who is prepared to get their boots on and play RL has my respect.

That includes Leon Pryce no matter what he does off the field.

I don't know, he married Kath. I'd have legged it, myself.

Stuart Cummins and the RFL disciplinary.

It's still Terry Newton. He is the only player I've seen that actually tried to kill someone, not once but several times in the same game. Almost every time he does something naughty, the player he does it to has a St Helens shirt on his back, yet the RFL don't see the link.

Terry Newton is far from being a coward.

Anyone prepared to pull on a pair of boots and face up to guys like Fozzard, Peacock etc running at them full tilt cannot possibly be called a coward.

He may have taken some cheap shots at people in the past, and he might do so again. That doesn't make him a coward.

Quite right, end of thread really.

And that applies right down to grassroots rugby.

What about a player 'choosing' their targets and the manner in which it is done?

Could a cheap shot be defined as an act of cowardice.

Ryan Bailey

Yes it could. Sonny Nickle, Vila Matautia, Chris Arkwright and Leon Pryce have all dabbled with the virtual lost art form but none were/are cowards generally.

Only if you believe that there are enough hiding places on a rugby field to be able to sneak in, throw a punch and then disappear for the rest of the match, and repeat for the rest of the season.

Thats not the case.

Ask a professional who the "cheap shot merchants" are and they might name a few names but they'd never call them cowards because they all know how easy it is to target those players.

You never stop do you???

Racist

There are no cowards in RL. There is people we dont like but I thinks very unfair to call them cowards. They may be dirty / cocky / arrogant / ugly but they go out everyweek and put their bodies on the line. Even if they are involved in off field "events" I think when they walk out onto any RL pitch it shows they are no cowards. Ar$£holes maybe but certainly not cowards.

Arkwroght fell into the lunacy catagory. He did not pick opponents. Paul Forber on the other hand did - usually wingers like Tex Evans who he did a particularly nasty number on.

That Saints pack was a real buch of ruffians:

Evans,
Round,
Forber,
Haggerty,
Arkwright

Paul Davidson managed it pretty easily at Headingly IIRC

Morley dropped him for the dig on the back of the head!!
Matautia (sp) got away with smashing mckay's nose as did nickle with mears!!

The sixth member of that pack had already been sent off.



John Holmes being his opposite number and Leeds' key man made him the obvious target but I can't really recall Arkwright going after any other Leeds players.

That was a one sided feud as John was a gentleman who knew how to ride the challenge and drew many a penalty for his efforts.