Frank foster - artie beetson - 2 name but 2

Probably the hardest I ever saw play.

Psycho Fletcher.

Frank Foster.

i thought gordon tallis until i saw terry o'conner make a mess of him got to be paul fletcher for me

this guy for me x boxer so him chin a aussie at craven park it was great

Not necessarily a hard man but I loved it when Roy Holdstock laid out Andy Gregory

Are we talking about cheap shot bullies or hard men? Because watching Roger play with assassanation squads after him and never hiding , is probably the true definition of a hard man.

Rob Wilson was pretty hard. Can't remember many games going by without him having some sort of dust up.

a great point up until about the millenium when it was the norm to take out your opponents playmaker with late headshots the smaller guy,s showed tremendous courage,david topliss was the victim of many a brutal assault but always came back for more

Talking of the little guys, does Burrow's swing at Lauaki last year count as brave or stupid?

Lauaki's bemused non-violent reaction was admirable.

Of modern players - Lee Mossop seems hard in an understated way. Once got knocked out cold. After treatment, got up to make a marker tackle on the next play. Set up a cup winning try after coming back on having dislocated his shoulder. Forward pass, like, but still.

I remember David Plange involved in a good few scuffles for us, seen him fly in off from the wing to get involved in brawls in the middle of the park. Not saying he was the toughest but not many wingers like the amount of biff that Plange seemed to.

Frank Foster, without a shadow of doubt.

Dessie Drummond, Les Boyd

Mark Broadhurst, he was known in Aussie as one punch Broady, apparently thats all it took and if you saw the size of his fists (like shovels) you could see why, a real gent of the pitch though.

Neither,just bloody amusing.

Sorensen = great player. Never in a million years the hardest though. Watching classic wire/widnes games in the 80s sorensen always looked for an easy target and steered well clear of Sir Les Boyd. Anytime he was foolish enough to mix it with boyd he ended up second best.

David Luckwell and Dale Holdstock from more recent years. Always remember Luckwell getting set on by two Swinton players, flooring one then destroying another, picking up a red card for his troubles.

Karl Pryce

paul woods was certainly , well competitive

No one mentioned "Len" yet???

That's what I was just thinking,
Len "Cast Iron" Casey for mine,
Before my era,but my Dad would of said Frank Foster/Artie Beetson.

I always admired David Bishop for your mob. Loved watching Stevo eat his words in a Wales game (IIRC) when he got dislocated fingers, got em popped back in and carried on. Stevo had been slating him upto that point then just started liking him

Now that is funny.

But just like cast iron, one good knock and it falls to pieces

Bishop was a no talent, all bark and no bite.