1. Derek Finnigan
2. Des Drummond
3. Paul Cullen
4. Alan Bateman
5. Tawera Nikau (I know)
6. Bobby Fulton
7. Nat Wood
8. Les Boyd
9. Kevin Tamati
10.Joe Price
11.Mike Nicholas
12.Tony Humphries
13.Alan Rathbone

14.Steve Roach
15.Dave Chisnall
16.Brian Brady
17.Adrian Morley

Coach: Alex Murphy

Has to have Nat Wood at 7

1. Dereck Finnigan
2. Des Drummond
3. Paul Cullen
4. Allan Bateman
5.John Bevan
6. John Woods
7. Paul Bishop
8. Les Boyd
9. Kevin Ashurst
10. Dave Chisnall
11. Adrian Morley
12. Tommy Martyn
13. Paul Sculthorpe

14. Brian Brady
15. Brian Case
16.Kevin Tamati
17. Alan Rathbone
Coach Alex Murphy

Toa Kohe Love, Brendan Tuuta, Tawera Nikau, John Dalgreen, Joe Price. Got to be room somewhere for Super Ben

JOE PRICE

I suppose it depends on what you mean by tough.
Hitting hard legally, or being hit hard and just brushing it off is different to 'tough' as in nasty, dirty and would hold his ground in a fight.

I've read a number of articles about 'tough' players - and Allan Rathbone is there or thereabouts.
He was probably the toughest Wire player I've ever seen.

Cullen would always be in my team for all of the above defintions of tough. (I remember the Wigan match where Goodway was being sent off for flattening Cull and trod on Culls hand as he left the field. Cull lept up and flew at Goodway for all his worth. Can't remember if someone said there were screams heard from the tunnel. Those were the days......)

Alan Gwilliam was as tough a half back as it could possibly get. Really good player but didn't mind dishing out some punishment.

Les Davidson at second row who arrived with Roach was one tough bugger too.

John Parry Gordon. For more than 543 games in the P&B he took an awful lot of hits when the game was brutal, and always found the guts to get back on his feet to play rugby.

Joe Price is the only player that I have ever seen, where he was booed by his own fans for being too dirty.
I was at a Bradford away game, where there was a mass brawl on the pitch. Albert Fearnly the Bradford coach ran on to join the fracas and was flattened by Price.
Fearnly had to be stretchered off the pitch.

Joe Walsh was another character, who didn't play that often for the Wire, but was notably on the wing when we beat the Aussies at Wilderspool in the 70's.

I think a notable mention goes to Carl Webb. Interestingly we had this discussion in 2009. https://viewtopic.php ... 0&start=30

I think a notable mention goes to Carl Webb. Interestingly we had this discussion in 2009. https://viewtopic.php ... 0&start=30

as a Wigan fan ones who stand out for me

Drummond,Tamati as they were hard as nails, Boyd and Nikau, cos they were hard and dished it out

I really like Mike Gregory, Bob Jackson too as they could both handle themselves but also well respected by opposition.

i was interested to see Morley only make number 17 on one list

. You must have had some absolute animals play for you on that front then





as a general rule i respect any players who steps out onto the pitch irrelevant of colours as the game is physically brutal at times, and you cant be soft to play RL

Could you imagine a kick off with this team?

How hard was Joe Price? Having read a couple of comments on here, glad i never walked into him down the snooker hall stand on the way to the away end at Wilderspool







On a serious note though i used to play golf with a guy called Len McIntyre. He was an ex Wigan / Oldham and GB Hooker (to be honest he also played for Wire and Saints too but never mentioned that when we spoke about RL)

he always said Brian McTigue was the hardest player he ever played with, and regularly gave us examples from his past, and he didnt seem like a guy to mess with. Len when i knew him before he passed away was into his mid - late 60s, he was still in fantastic shape and had 2 hands the size of shovels, which he regularly threatened me with as a cheeky youngster



. He set off one day after a kid who had robbed something off the golf course, and he couldnt have shift too, so god knows how fast he was when he played RL

Richard Henare would have been up for a brawl.

Bateman was far too nice to get involved in any kind of fisticuffs. I'd stick Joe ropati there or even put Mark Roberts in the centres(he certainly had the pace for it!)