In a squad player role, Baldwinson could have coped. He wouldn't be asked to play excessive game time or an excessive number of games.

Mac went with Mullally and we got exactly what expected. Not much. Pointless waste of time.

Other than Julian O'Neill at Widnes did anyone ever see Bsiley win a fight??? He was biggest wind up merchant going tho.

Quote: BrisbaneRhino "The Radford clip shows Radford swinging at (and mostly missing) a prone player who is in no position to defend himself. Radford may be 'hard' but as a puncher he's shocking and if you used that clip alone as evidence, a coward to boot.'" Bailey suffered nothing more than a very heavy cold due to the fresh air shots that Radford threw Proper hard men don't miss connecting with the first 4 punches that they throw in a dust up! It is funny though how so many fans memories get clouded over the years about what actually happened and this incident regularly get brought up and also get's exaggerated. So to refresh everyone memories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ6Thyg2rFM Judge for yourselves

Quote: BrisbaneRhino "The Radford clip shows Radford swinging at (and mostly missing) a prone player who is in no position to defend himself. Radford may be 'hard' but as a puncher he's shocking and if you used that clip alone as evidence, a coward to boot.'" Bailey suffered nothing more than a very heavy cold due to the fresh air shots that Radford threw Proper hard men don't miss connecting with the first 4 punches that they throw in a dust up! It is funny though how so many fans memories get clouded over the years about what actually happened and this incident regularly get brought up and also get's exaggerated. So to refresh everyone memories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ6Thyg2rFM Judge for yourselves

Bedsy just escorts a clearly frustrated Radford out of the way. Nothing to see here, not a dust up if only one side is throwing air shots...

I just watched the 1973 Australia Grand Final between Cronulla and Manly. There was more "biff" in the first 5 minutes of that match than the entire 20 odd years of Super League. I have no idea what skulls were made of back in the 70's but it definitely was not what they are made from now. Mal Reilly didn't last long (he was hit off the ball and retired with a hip injury after about 20 minutes) but whoever he "tackled" stayed tackled for some considerable time. They don't make players like Cliff Watson anymore. Took the ball up relentlessly no matter how many times he got punched in the face, stamped on or gouged.
Graham Eadie and Bobby Fulton were awesome players though.

One thing you notice, the hooker was there to hook the ball. He didn't play dummy half. There was no fixed dummy half (and I've found a few old NRL games now).