Shane Tronc is the best prop I've seen wear the Trinity shirt although it was too short as from my memory I read that there were issues about false promises made by the club to him and his wife was homesick.... news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 624755.stm Think Tronc must have started playing again in 2014 after retiring in 2011 aged 29 ...as he's mentioned in the article below and is still only 34..... www.totalrl.com/my-time-down-under/

Shane Tronc is the best prop I've seen wear the Trinity shirt although it was too short as from my memory I read that there were issues about false promises made by the club to him and his wife was homesick.... news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 624755.stm Think Tronc must have started playing again in 2014 after retiring in 2011 aged 29 ...as he's mentioned in the article below and is still only 34..... www.totalrl.com/my-time-down-under/

I was told some time after the event that the club made promises to him that weren't delivered - and that the homesick wife was a story they agreed in return for releasing him to go home.

I seem to recall that it ended badly for him - didn't he break his neck back in Aus and end up embroiled in a drug scandal?

I would go so far as to say that he was the best prop I've seen at BV; he topped the table for metres made for some time after he stopped playing for us - he was a class laiker.

Edit - fair comment Vasty - I didn't read your original post properly.

I forgot about him, possibly the closest we've come but gain the one year only bit spoils it - though playing an off season in the UK was a common thing then.

Another great player - built like a stork but hard as nails.

Liked a drink on Westgate..........so I heard

Clinton o brien only played one origin series and it was 5 or 6 years prior to him coming over

I think he had serious back problems from memory. He player well in the handful of games he did play for us before he went back to aus

agree with everyone re James Stosic. Was a real shame he could get a work permit to continue playing for us

Yes, I agree on Tronc, he was good for us, and it was a shame he didnt play for us for long.

Another one I liked, though a bit more recent was Poore. It was a shame we had to sell him on, and then he suffered his horrendous injury playing for Hull KR.

He always ran the ball in hard, leaving a trail of devastation in his wake.

2 things I always remember was him flattening Ryan Bailey, and then trampling all over Lincoln Withers

I remember him for that single punch that flattened Farrel

Poore's run over Withers was devastating prop forward play ironically Hull KR then signed him at the end of the season...

I'm glad someone else remembers cheap shot cunninghams cowardly punch