Quote: sally cinnamon " But RL fans shouldn't forget how good these players were, Fielden at his peak was not far off world's best prop.'"
Stu was an animal in his mid 20's and was IMO better than any British prop since.
He had it all with pace, aggression, excellent engine and was not afraid to mix it when it was on.
Every time he was tackled, he would get up and cock his fist
The thing is, even though it was possibly just him trying to gain a psychological advantage over the opposition, generally it worked (with two notable exceptions
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The beating he gave Jason Smith (who was no shrinking violet) was cruel and he got the better against Barrie Mac on a couple of occasions.
Half the reason that the Bulls v Leeds games were so good in the early to mid 2000's where because of these two nutters trying to kill each other.
There is also a picture knocking around somewhere of GB v Aus during a scrap (think it would have been around 2004) and the ockers are literally receiving blows across the whole pic from the like Fielden, Macdermot, Peacock, Morely etc.
Those where the days. Granted the still scored more points than them, but at least we would knock them around for 80 first