what's that got to do with kevin skerrett getting sparked out by Koloto?

for wigan.....Bill Ashurst, Faz, the yet unmentioned Danny Gardner, Cass.......................but the 2 hardest imo , are Mctigue and Denis Boyd.
if those 2 came to blows it would be a tough call with Boydys legendary head butt probably swinging it his way.

other teams....present player....dirty but hard....Keith Senior

I suspect he's responding to this:


In that just as Koloto/Skerrett stemmed from previous, Cassidy's elbow also stemmed from previous from Morley, earlier in the same game in fact on Robbie McCormack. Wasn't too hard to figure out really, was it.

I think McTigue would have have got enough punches in before Boyd could have got near enough to use his head.

Good call with Danny Gardiner. Lovely man off the field but an absolute animal on it.

Not the greatest of players but fans from the 70's may remember Tommy Highton, a full back (unfortunately behind George Fairbairn) who if you faced him one on one would unleash one of his "specials", with the inevaitable result of someone (not Highton) reassembling himself several minutes later.

so how is getting knocked clean out in a stand up fight the same as getting knocked out by a cheap elbow?

people are putting skerett up as the hardest of the hard... yet Koloto knocked him out fair and square... so he isnt is he?

previous has nothing to do with the discussion...

not that really hard to figure out when you consider the subject matter is it?

unless of course you are saying cassidy is a harder player than morley.

Was a great game with Queensland hurting rovers badly until up stepped Broadhurst and knocked out the hooker and after that Queensland played alot cleaner.
Rovers won and the all conquering Queensland team asked for a rematch,rovers refused after counting the cost of injuries from the match !
A true classic.

Len Casey and david Watkinson was handy also.

No-one said it was. If you can get your head round it, the whole conversation started because you said Skerrett was 'cleaned out'. Only later did you explain it was a punch. [size=85(BTW - does anyone else remember this incident?)[/size


Land a good first punch and you can clean anyone out.


You were actually the first to mention previous, between Koloto and Skerrett in the game at central park. Pieman simply replied that the Cassidy incident also came about as a result of previous.


Clearly harder for some than others.


I don't think anyone's said that either. But remember this: size does not equal mental or physical toughness. Morley has always had the advantage of being huge. Cassidy, with his rather more diminutive frame and weight, mixed it with the biggest and toughest in world RL for almost 20 years.

There are plenty of other names in this thread I think we can place ahead of Cassidy, Koloto and your hero Morley.

your possibly right....boydy had a jaw of iron , but mctigues boxing background may have swung it.

correct about danny gardiner....draftsman by day, doorman at paradise club in scholes at weekends.
a true story..........Ken halliwell (swinton prop), was in there housing the week before they played wigan.....i believe Halliwell had a cheap shot at DG, before being escorted out with Danny telling him he wouls see him on the rugby field.
Halliwell worked diging holes for the water board with my mate...and told him this tale....he spent all week cr@pping himself.
Day of game...a couple of minutes in...Danny ever so cooly walked up to Halliwell face to face and flattened him....with the ball nowhere near the pair..lol.
result?....halliwell stretchered off, Danny sent off.

bring back the biff

You sure he was talking about fighting??????

Webbke for me.
pound 4 pound always enjoyed watching Nat Wood go

Not my fault if you didn't go the match... infact i spoke to my brother about this the other day... due to his clean living, his memory is alot better than mine... he said Skerett threw the first punch and tried to headbutt koloto before he got sparked out... sorry to explain something else to you at a later date.


No you cant.. depends how weak chinned the person is receiving the punch.


ok.. so there was previous... it didn't lead to a cheap elbow to the head.. just a good old fashioned stand up fight...


at least we agree on something


well done to him


Les Boyd for one.

anyway... i was only commenting on something i saw between 2 teams i don't like.. so for me, its no longer important enough to argue the toss about.

well played to you for coming and and trying to rescue pieman though... im sure he appreciated it

I did but I didnt need rescuing I just ignored you like the bigger man I am

If we're talking 'orrible cheapshot merchants, there's your man.

He was 'orrible but he was hard too.

no denying that one

It's pretty obvious you've not seen much of sonny nickle. He was as hard as they come. Had no respect for so called hardmen reputation.

A coward! PMSL

He wasnt in the same league as Kevin Ward and co

This tackle typified Tallis. Hodgson is hardly the biggest bloke but to just drag him like that and fling his into touch is something I'll never forget. He really was hard as nails.

Kevin Ward had the Aussies respect for being able to look after himself and them for that matter but my all time hero is

Mal Reilly- not only a REAL hard man - a fabulous footballer as well-

And I believe, still is !!!

Even though I have gone for Brian McTigue, my Dad remembers another one from way back, who he reckons was one hard case who Wigan signed that came from Cumbria, his name was/is, Bill Hudson. There is a [i'caveat'[/i though, as my Dad reckons he was just plain mad ! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hudson_(rugby_league)

Even though I have gone for Brian McTigue, my Dad remembers another one from way back, who he reckons was one hard case who Wigan signed that came from Cumbria, his name was/is, Bill Hudson. There is a [i'caveat'[/i though, as my Dad reckons he was just plain mad ! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hudson_(rugby_league)

My mam says exactly the same thing about Hudson, but she still reckons Mac was "the man"