It is a noise that cannot be described, the crowd is impressed, whilst also feeling the pain, wincing, gasping, applauding, going 'oooh' and then the silence while you see what state the poor bloke who feels like a trucks hit him is in.

Mark Broadhurst on Shane Bernadin, HKR v Queensland, 1983. It might have been illegal though

1994. It's on ewetube, Cassidy gets up as if nothing has happened. One tough bugger.

Kelvin Skerrett on McCracken at Knowsley road, either 92 or 93. Straight red if I remember correctly.

Barrie McDermott vs Paul Sironen when the Pies played the Aussies at Central Park in 1994! Mind you, it was an accident as he only has one eye.....

That video is also on some sort of website too!

Isn't that the one where the dirty one eyed f*cker smashed Sironen with his elbow?

And Sironen still got up.

Bailey on Mary.

It totally knocked Mary out and cause James Graham to act like a girl on the pitch

He didnt get up from the second one though did he, not without falling back down anyway

Yes that's the one.

And I think you'll find Sironen went down like a sack of spuds, ate grass for a bit, took a very very very very very very long time getting up - with assistance - and then veeeeerrryy slowly left the pitch, arm over physio's shoulder, looking 10 years older.

If that's what you term 'Sironen still getting up', your ocker hard men mustn't be up to much.



Search for "Barrie McDermott v Paul Sironen" on YouTube if you dispute any of the above.

Hardly surprising when a fat one eyed pom runs into him elbow first.

Still guess thats the only way the Poms can do it.

Perhaps Jamie Peacock would have more success if he tried it once in a while

Burgess has come up with some belters.

There should be an official website with these on.
youtube only has a couple of them

I really don't know why anyone is praising the McDermott elbow on Sironen. It was disgusting, just about as bad as Clint Newton on Ashton Sims, and should have seen him banned for a very long time.

I don't see anyone praising it - it was indeed a disgraceful hit. Remember though, such things weren't that uncommon back in the day, though Barrie always managed to raise the bar a little.

Still, it was pretty dramatic and knocked seven bells out of Sironen and the little devil on my shoulder always smiles when an Aussie gets flattened in test matches, whatever the circumstances.

Nice one nick,the McCracken hit on Bell was a belter and the Vinnie Anderson hit on Danny Tickle when Saints played Wigan in 2006(i think) is also one of the best esp when Vinnie stood over him ridiculing the poor lad.

It's been nominated in a thread entitled 'Greatest hit ever'.



That's your choice. I always think it's a little bit sad when supposed hard men have to put in cheap shots on defenceless opponents to show how hard they are. No matter who they're playing for. Sironen comes out of that 'exchange' a lot better than McDermott and laughing at Sironen for not getting up straight away (not that you did, as such, but others have) is stupid. He's lucky to have been able to walk at all after that.

Chris Sandow on Luke Patten (enjoy the dig after!)

Speaking of naughty hits, Steve Matai on Billy Slater in the Anzac Test (or whatever it's called this year) is a beauty. (search for 'NRL Big Hit 2010 - Steve Matai Vs Billy Slater').

Very naughty, but again my little devil can only chuckle at a lovely and humble chap like Slater briefly visiting his ancestors.

Just watched that one myself, nice to see him get shortened up.

Type in 'big hit' on the popular video clips website and look for Hull KR v Queensland 1983 if you really want to see a big tough aussie hit the deck.

Whammo!!!!

Thats the only way to stop Billy Slater.

The bloke is a legend

Oh I don't doubt that for one second, I think he's one of the greatest full backs ever.

Bit smug though.

I'm not so sure he is 'smug' really?

I know that one, and what makes it better is that Hull KR won the game! From what I hear Q'land had been dirty barstewards all game until Broadhurst flipped - but it raised KR's game and they went on to win.

Looks almost like a comedy punch but he was ko'd big style.

yep that'd be mine.

Don't dis the Haka Willie!