1. Ryan McGolderick ( goes to him hands down)
2.Ben Cockayne
3.Keith Senior
4.Paul Sykes ( really niggly and sly player )
5.Lee Smith
6. Danny McGuire
7. Lee Briers
8. Ryan Bailey
9.Mickey McIlorum
10. David Ferriol
11.Gaz Hock
12.Oliver Elima
13.Ben Westwood

thats in my opinion.

Ryan McGoldrick
Lee Smith
Joel Tomkins
Brett Delaney
Ben Cockyan
Sam Tomkins
Danny McGuire
Ryan Bailey
Wayne Godwin
Jeff Lima
Gareth Hock
Hep Cahill
Sean O'Loughlin

1. Webb - Calmed down recently, but was had a fondness for the high shot in the past

3. Bridge - Should get a job with Avon when he retires as is experienced in handing out a facial or two.

4. Senior - RFL golden boy who is partial to clobbering people from behind whilst they are busy "dealing" with someone else


6. McGoldrick - Say no more. Cant believe he has lasted so long without some one giving him a real pummeling.

8. Graham - loves a cheap shot and will literary run in the other direction if any heat comes his way.

But lets be honest EVERY player who plays the game as had a sly dig at the opposition one time or an other. Its part of the job description. Some are just more blatent than the get caught more often.

That's the difference, all players have had a sly dig from time to time, but it's the real cheap shot merchants that we need to look at.

Yup, can't really see why the likes of Cunningham, McGuire and Sykes have been mentioned so far.

Don't recall Sykes doing anything offensive, apart from maybe his poor defense and handling when picked for England/GB. Michael Platt would have been a better call from Bradford.

If McGuire really was a nasty piece of work I'm sure he'd receive a lot more 'attention' from opposing players. While we're on Leeds, Webb I understand. Even Burrow has been involved in more fights than McGuire. Ablett has a bit of a nasty streak as well. Bailey is a given but it is all calculated wind-up to win penalties. Peacock has his moments too - but he's no Barrie Mac. The recent Leeds pack has nothing on the days when Murray was in charge and the team received a warning letter from the RFL about its tackling technique. Halcyon days.

Leon Pryce deserves a mention - remember the cowardly smash on Sinfield when he was at Bradford, the 'ball handling' incident on Burgess? Seems to have cleaned up his act more recently though.

He does have a tendancy to "run away" from the big boys after he's started a fight... usually when Leeds are losing. He's always putting in punches / dropping elbows in tackles, much like Chris Joynt used to do. There's no doubt about it, his game has gone WAY downhill since he was challenging Vainikolo for top try scorer, back then I thought he was a quality player. Now he's just a crap thug.



Ablett I don't think is a particularly dirty player. The things he's been pulled up for such as the high hit on Tomkins last year are probably just bad technique or "a moment of madness". I certainly don't find myself watching him play and thinking "He's at it again" like I do with McGuire, Wilkin, Bailey, and did with Cunningham.



I do indeed. I uploaded a (very poor quality) video of that hit on a popular video site. Given some of his antics over the years, I'm surprised he's still allowed to play the sport. However, let's recognise his achievements... after his horror tackle on Brian Carney in the 2003 Grand Final, the "Grapple Tackle" was outlawed, and he was voted Super League's dirtiest player in 2007.

Maybe it's just because he's missed so much of this year, he's not had chance to re-assert his position as SL's all-time filthiest plonker.

There is no way that McGuire is dirtier than Pryce, who must be up there with Hock and Bailey.

There is also the cowardly forearm smash to Jamie Lyon at Odsal when Saints were giving Bradford a kicking one time, that saw him sent off.

But we're only talking this year, aren't we?

Actually, looking back, no we aren't. Never mind, Pryce used to play Centre/Full Back, didn't he? Room for both.

Team starting to take shape

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i wonder who this team would be coached by?

Only one choice. Ian Millward.

Famously claimed that players "assaulted" on the field should face criminal charges... just as Leon Pryce came along.