NRL Hall of Fame 2024 Class

magpies forever said:
I loved the Magpies whole forward pack from that era. Opposite teams left the field knowing they had a contest albeit win / lose.
Click to expand...
I was playing U23's at the time and I hated most of those pricks. We didn't have too much to do with first grade but at club functions they were mostly arseholes. Boyd was a really quiet bloke off the field. Very shy and unassuming. Bob Cooper was the biggest man in the world and a renown fighter but not a bad bloke. He was bashing Greg Cooper in that brawl with Illawarra and Pomfret came in to break it up. He hit him so hard he broke his jaw and knocked all his upper teeth out. Dallas was a prick, Bruce Gibbs worse, Bruce Clark, John McLeod...you wouldn't invite them to your house.
 
tigerballs said:
I was playing U23's at the time and I hated most of those pricks. We didn't have too much to do with first grade but at club functions they were mostly arseholes. Boyd was a really quiet bloke off the field. Very shy and unassuming. Bob Cooper was the biggest man in the world and a renown fighter but not a bad bloke. He was bashing Greg Cooper in that brawl with Illawarra and Pomfret came in to break it up. He hit him so hard he broke his jaw and knocked all his upper teeth out. Dallas was a prick, Bruce Gibbs worse, Bruce Clark, John McLeod...you wouldn't invite them to your house.
Click to expand...
Some of the other forwards around that time- Mick Luibinskas, Geoff Foster & Graeme O'Grady always seemed to escape the attention but did their job too. Yeah, Ive heard Donnelly and Gibbs were difficult off field but man o man they were difficult on field too.
 
tigerballs said:
I was playing U23's at the time and I hated most of those pricks. We didn't have too much to do with first grade but at club functions they were mostly arseholes. Boyd was a really quiet bloke off the field. Very shy and unassuming. Bob Cooper was the biggest man in the world and a renown fighter but not a bad bloke. He was bashing Greg Cooper in that brawl with Illawarra and Pomfret came in to break it up. He hit him so hard he broke his jaw and knocked all his upper teeth out. Dallas was a prick, Bruce Gibbs worse, Bruce Clark, John McLeod...you wouldn't invite them to your house.
Click to expand...
I think Boyd was a decent bloke off the field. I stood next to him at the bar at Lidcombe Dancers Club one day after a game, waiting to be served, and he turned around and started chatting to me. Not a big head at all.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Staff online

Members online

Total: 629 (members: 40, guests: 589)
Back
Top