On the back of the thread about Tony Cottrell. What's the toughest Leigh XIII in your lifetime?
A lot of gaps to be filled for me but for a kick off......
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8. Tony Cottrell
9. Mick Dean
10. Tim Street
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adam and ricky bibey , rob roberts , richard moore............them guys were the fruit cakes in 04 i think it was

I would have to have Joe Walsh , Jeff Clarke , Tony Cooke and Dessie in that team

Fruitcakes maybe, but not really hard men who would put in the big hits and stand toe to toe!!

Peter Smethurst

alan rathbone

dave chissnall

paul grimes

What happened to Adam Bibey?

at full back Mick Hogan ..solid would tackle owt
dessie ont wing.... never backed down just ask Mal Meninga
at scrum half Ken Green... little bloke stood toe to toe with some big blokes and had a go
Adrian Earner ....would start a fight with himself and probably lose
Tony Cottrell .... hard as nails on the pitch true gent off it
Tim Street .. daft as a brush legend nuff said

toughest player for leigh in my opinion was dennis boyd.

Not the first to ask that question





I was speaking to him last year and told me he had his own window cleaning business

Dessie's got to be on the wing

Problem i've got is i'm not old enough to remember some of these players. About 1989 onwards I can remember.

It was 06 not 04

Was speaking to Adam yesterday, he's not playing Rugby anymore.

1. Hogan
2. Dessie
3. Dorrington
4. Boyd (I know he wasnt a centre but would you have liked to run at him???)
5. Walsh
6. Woods
7 Green
8. Stan Owen
9 Ashcroft
10 Robinson
11. Clarkson
12 Grimes
13 Smethurst

04 was the year we was promoted then?? i aint old enough to remember past players either , only started watching from roughly 2000

John Kerr, Carl Webb, John Westhead,TC, Theres been loads don't but the Bibeys in with these big fish tho eh.

I agree with that, even Ricky would get eaten by Timmy Street.

young whipersnapper



your right 04 was our promotion winning year.

simon brockwell never took a backward step

1 Mick Hogan
2 Dessie
3 Gordon Lewis
4 Mick Collins
5 Joe Walsh
6 Tony Barrow
7 Brian Brookes
8 Tony Cottrell
9 Kevin Ashcroft
10 Stan Owen
11 Charlie Pawsey
12 Paul Grimes
13 Tommy Martyn snr

Fight Anyone ?

Ian Mort

1.joe/fred hewitt


2 des drummond
3 trevor allen
4 gordon lewis
5 joe walsh
6 alex murphy(OBE)
7 brian brookes
8 ted brophy
9 geoff clark
10 stan owen
11 alan rathbone
12 charlie pausey
13 derek hurt

thought i would throw my twopence worth in full back think he used either name

I`m glad some of our older posters put Charlie Pawsey in there. I`m too young to have seen him play but his son also called Charlie works at our place. He brought in his dads scrap books with press cuttings from all over the world. It made for very good reading and one thing I did note , the Aussies were frightened to death of him. He was a bruiser for sure.

A neighbour of mine regularly playes bowls (well he did some 18 mths ago) with Charlie, he says there is not a nicer man walking but he refuses to talk about his rugby days.

Saw Adam a couple of weeks ago and you could be forgiven for thinking that hes actually eaten Ricky!! If hes got a window cleanin round he must specialise in bungalows!!