No doubt that he is a nice, smart and wealthy guy. We will have to agree to differ on the rugby side of things.

What do you mean by both levels? If you mean amateur and pro, he did not at pro level. There was rumour of him being selected on the 84 pro GB tour to Australia. However, this never materialised. Apologies if you mean something else. You are definitely correct in saying that most fans will agree with you. However, myself and some of his former team mates and Miners supporters still disagree. As you said, it is just an opinion though and it makes this forum more interesting when people sometimes strongly disagree on something.

He played for Lancashire v Papua New Guinea,
A Leigh Great he made over 300apps and would fight anyone this Eedyat dunno what he's on about he would of been an International had he been playing now and lets not forget how old he was.
AND he was the first player Chaiman in RL iif not the only one.
6 Feet 2 Eyes of Blue Tony Cottrells after you.!! LEGEND!

Apologies, thought you meant GB.

If he had ever played for GB full squad I would be totally shocked

Of course you are entitled to your opinion, but I beg to differ that myself and some of TC's former teammates are idiots.

Tony Cottrell was a thug on the rugby field, end of. (and no I wouldn't tell him face to face!)

but can you beat his mullet circa 1985??

trained with tc in the 80's at the miners great guy but always late

He was hard but I wouldn't have called him a thug... can't remember him getting his marching orders on many occasions.

Harsh assessment that... his discipline can't have been any worse than some of the players we've got at the minute.

I remember Kelvin '3rd man in cheapshot' Skerrett soiling himself against TC at CP in a midweek game around 88-89. Think we lost 48-0 or something.