My mate at 17 leathered him when he was in the Widnes academy, Dave Whittle and Tony Coterill were/are harder

Everyone get beat at some time Pieman, i agree about Dave Whittle and Tony Cotterill being hard.

But he was 17 and Timmy was in his prime...to be fair he was nails

well it wasnt really a ruck.....there had been some previous from a game at central park .. koloto went late into the tackle on skerret, who wasnt very happy.... they squared up and Koloto just gave him a big swinging right hand and it was all over.

cassidy threw an elbow into Morleys head like a coward as he ran straight at him.

so absolutely nothing like the example whatsoever.

Also stemming from previous from when Morley had crocked McCormack illegally.

what's that got to do with kevin skerrett getting sparked out by Koloto?

for wigan.....Bill Ashurst, Faz, the yet unmentioned Danny Gardner, Cass.......................but the 2 hardest imo , are Mctigue and Denis Boyd.
if those 2 came to blows it would be a tough call with Boydys legendary head butt probably swinging it his way.

other teams....present player....dirty but hard....Keith Senior

I suspect he's responding to this
In that just as Koloto/Skerrett stemmed from previous, Cassidy's elbow also stemmed from previous from Morley, earlier in the same game in fact on Robbie McCormack. Wasn't too hard to figure out really, was it.

I think McTigue would have have got enough punches in before Boyd could have got near enough to use his head.

Good call with Danny Gardiner. Lovely man off the field but an absolute animal on it.

Not the greatest of players but fans from the 70's may remember Tommy Highton, a full back (unfortunately behind George Fairbairn) who if you faced him one on one would unleash one of his "specials", with the inevaitable result of someone (not Highton) reassembling himself several minutes later.

Was a great game with Queensland hurting rovers badly until up stepped Broadhurst and knocked out the hooker and after that Queensland played alot cleaner.
Rovers won and the all conquering Queensland team asked for a rematch,rovers refused after counting the cost of injuries from the match !
A true classic.

Len Casey and david Watkinson was handy also.

No-one said it was. If you can get your head round it, the whole conversation started because you said Skerrett was 'cleaned out'. Only later did you explain it was a punch. [size(BTW - does anyone else remember this incident?)[/size


Land a good first punch and you can clean anyone out.


You were actually the first to mention previous, between Koloto and Skerrett in the game at central park. Pieman simply replied that the Cassidy incident also came about as a result of previous.


Clearly harder for some than others.


I don't think anyone's said that either. But remember this: size does not equal mental or physical toughness. Morley has always had the advantage of being huge. Cassidy, with his rather more diminutive frame and weight, mixed it with the biggest and toughest in world RL for almost 20 years.

There are plenty of other names in this thread I think we can place ahead of Cassidy, Koloto and your hero Morley.

your possibly right....boydy had a jaw of iron , but mctigues boxing background may have swung it.

correct about danny gardiner....draftsman by day, doorman at paradise club in scholes at weekends.
a true story..........Ken halliwell (swinton prop), was in there housing the week before they played wigan.....i believe Halliwell had a cheap shot at DG, before being escorted out with Danny telling him he wouls see him on the rugby field.
Halliwell worked diging holes for the water board with my mate...and told him this tale....he spent all week cr@pping himself.
Day of game...a couple of minutes in...Danny ever so cooly walked up to Halliwell face to face and flattened him....with the ball nowhere near the pair..lol.
result?....halliwell stretchered off, Danny sent off.

bring back the biff