Quote: LeedsLurch "Toughness was different in those days were a punch wouldn’t necessarily get you sent off and head high tackles were almost routine'"
Saw Roy Dickinson get in a fight and knock Les Gorley out at HQ during one particularly bad tempered game against Widnes (which is saying something). Gorley was stretchered off and I think Roy was given a stern talking to. I seem to remember the first thing Kevin Dick used to do when we played Widnes was punch Andy Gregory. Dick was not the most gifted half back but he could make anyone playing against him have a stinker - even did it to Peter Sterling when he was at Hull. Mostly by thumping them at every opportunity.
The introduction of the 10 minute sin bin hardly helped as nobody got sent off at all for fighting.