Sorry Sal, just read your post properly and saw you've mentioned Sam already, Kudos to you

Monty Beetham and Nat Wood

I don't suppose it makes him tough but I remember when i was a small lad and my grandad took me to watch widnes...... paul hulme, for reasons only know to himself, ran straight into a post. The klang noise echoed all the way round naughton park.... Hulme just stood there... shook his head and carried on like nothing had happened.

"Grandad that player just banged his head against the post"

"Dont worry lad.... where there's no sense there's no feeling"

Also another vote here for sam tomkins.... remember a few years ago when mitchell sargeant put the shoulder into his face nice and late... almost knocked him clean out.. after a few mins treatment tomkins got up off the floor and proceeded to put castleford to the sword with a brilliant hat-trick... we found out that day that you cant smash him up and put him off his game. if anything it seems to make him play better.

dean busby anyone remember the cc semi final against bradford at huddersfield , i think it was 3 times busby had to leave the field for head wounds to be stitched up and just kept coming back for more against what was then the most feared pack in superleague

Andy Farrel and his taped up face!

i think this could be an endless list.

The Nat Wood shout is good, played with a broken neck IIRC?

Even Chris Riley, a small guy really, got KO'd twice the other year in one game but stayed on.

Barry Mac was a tough one for me growing up watching RL too

louis anderson and lee radford

I think you can place most fullbacks in this category. Returning the ball with a large defensive line looming down on you, with the inevitability of getting dusted.

Roy Haggerty and Jarrod McCracken,tough buggers the pair of them.

For Wire Cullen was a hard bugger and a dirty one as well.

Mike Monas in the game in Barcelona springs to mind. He was knocked flat out by Elima (twice).
After the first whack TS brought him off and he sat on the sideline looking gastly. 15 minutes later he was back on only for the same thing to happen again shortly afterwards. The better player you are the tougher you have to be.

rob burrow..he gets flung about.hull away in cup last year when he squared up with some pig of a forward..funny

whilst i totally agree with this(and support culls use of the term extremists to describe current league players) can i submit, one Mark Carroll of the london broncos as evidence for the prosecution.

Mike Nicholas and Jim Mills. Knocked seven bells out of each other on the pitch, best of mates off it.

Totally agree with that. This is probably the reason many players who, despite having the skill, don't make it. They don't have that extra somthing, toughness.

Danny Nuttley and Don (Mad dog) Duffy..

Always thought that Mad dog was just that, crackers. Nutley was a fine player as well as being as tough as old boots, despite his lack of size.

It was Luaki IIRC