Stolen from the Cas board which was apparently stolen from the Widnes board.

Who have been the hardmen to play for Hull over the years? Only been following Hull for about 11 years so haven't seen the majority of the hard b@$T@rDs.

Who are they..?

Paul Woods!

An absolute nutcase but also a fantastic player. A shame he was only at Hull for a couple of seasons.

Without doubt it had to be Paul Woods

paul rose, fred akoi just for his boxing skill.

rob wilson, didnt like him as a player but remember him nearly breaking a widnes player in half, cant remember his name but went over to play in aus for a while.

Harvey Howard.

Craig greenhill ,remember his fight with Barry ward was a classic

thats him we also had a hardcase aussie i think he was called terry regan i might be wrong though,

Woodsy

brad hepi could look after himself,

we had a lad in the ateam that was there hardman a good ballhandling second rower never understand why he didnt get his chance think he was called nicky rushden weve had worse make the first team.

Lee Crooks agrees (I'm midway through his book).

Liked the story about the revenge attack on the Oldham player!

I think Woodsy was once sent off playing for Wales and got an 8 match ban.

Jim Macklin was one of the toughest blokes in hull if not the toughest in his prime.

Made me chuckle too. I didn't even know he was a Fullback/halfback. I assumed by the way in which people spoke of him that he was a prop!

Charlie Stone seems to get a few mentions as a tough player, never saw him myself.

my ole fella says jim drake

me,
Paul Woods,
Len Casey
Tim Street (got sent off for looking at a ref)
paul Rose
Terry Regan
Peter 'Donk' Spring

tim street forgot about him loved watching him play we didnt win many but fun to watch

Will sharpe knows how to through a punch

The Drake Twins (1950s)
Jim Neale (1960s)
Mick Harrison (1970s)
Trevor Skerrett and Paul Rose (1980s)
Tim Street (1990s)
No one in that league in the 2000s but overall it has to be Paul Woods.

Love the story that after a couple of ex Union forwards playing for Oldham roughed Knocker up in a cup match, Woodsy allegedly rang Knocker to offer to sort them out as Woodsy's team were playing Oldham the following week.

Over the years we've had plenty of good 'uns but Don Robson punched his weight from the second row

In my era, knuckles Greenhill and Kearney.

Paul Rose is up there but I always though Lee Crooks could always look after himself . And of course good old Timmy Street !

Radders is hard. Disposed of Vella and Cross easy enough in that pub fight.

A true hardman, I once saw him and Jim Leatham batter a 16/17 year old on marina for bumping into him.

Not to mention the other 'incident'.

Excellent selections there.
Mick Harrison was probably the hardest/toughest going from reputation alone that I heard from old uns who watched the game during the 40s/50s/60s & 70s ( I only started going in '78 as a 9 yr old so don't really remember too much from my first couple of seasons)
I wouldn't say Paul Woods was an out an out hardman, he was just a violent head case.
Rose always had that air of a man not to be messed with, Skerret was just tough but to me never was the type to dish it out I thought.
Crusher Cleal I would have put down just on the fact he looked intimidating