Re: Leeds RLFC "The Loiners" : Sun Nov 27, 2016 9:21 pm
William Eve wrote:
gulfcoast_highwayman wrote:
If you look up 'Leeds V Wigan JPS Trophy 1987 Garry Schofield Try' on youtube, there's about 9 minutes of the match. Watch at about 8.19 for Hanley giving Medley a right sly punch in the gob.
Medley should have stuck with his job on the counter at Nat West on Park Row.
Having said that, if his defence was anything to go by in RL, that bank would have been easy pickings
I've seen custard made of tougher stuff than Medley, and with less of a yellow streak....
the first 'athlete' I can remember who made it in the game despite being as soft as the brown stuff (and I've had harder ones of those too). To say he didn't like the rough stuff would be the understatement of the century. I seem to recall a game where he actually ran away from a brawl - though I was a kid at the time so that could be an exaggerated version of what actually happened.
In fairness to him though, he was before his time and would have probably been a superstar in today's sanitised nancy boy version of the game where you're unlikely to get belted. He was fast, explosive, strong and ran some great lines (unless there was someone hard within 20 meters).
But jeez he was a fanny!