Re: Ryan Hall : Tue Sep 03, 2019 7:32 pm  

It was just marvellous. After years of teams like Northern, Widnes and Warrington coming and bullying our feeble packs, we suddenly hard some proper hard nuts.

Re: Ryan Hall : Tue Sep 03, 2019 11:52 pm  

gulfcoast_highwayman wrote:

It was just marvellous. After years of teams like Northern, Widnes and Warrington coming and bullying our feeble packs, we suddenly hard some proper hard nuts.

Oh and how they all squealed when we started dishing it back with interest.

Re: Ryan Hall : Wed Sep 04, 2019 5:28 am  

The only side to get a written team warning from the RFL?

Re: Ryan Hall : Wed Sep 04, 2019 6:06 am  

Clearwing wrote:

The only side to get a written team warning from the RFL?

One of my proudest moments as a Leeds Fan.

"Dear Rhinos,

Please stop knocking the crap out of opposition players.

Yours Sincerely
The RFL"

Re: Ryan Hall : Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:34 am  

The Biffs Back wrote:

Andy Hay is one of the biggest "Shirt Pullers " that I have ever seen on a Rugby League field as he was a complete turnstile in defence'

It's a good job that whilst he was at Leeds that he had these guys to do the tough stuff and also his tackling too
McDermott, Newton, Fleary, Morley, Farrell & Glanville

Yes, that was his problem. He tried to act like those but looked like a hairdresser.

Re: Ryan Hall : Wed Sep 04, 2019 10:22 am  

FGB wrote:

Simon Haughton could have gone down as GOAT if he'd had the right mindset. What ever happened to him?

He finished up as a "glass technician" in Australia, runs his own business I believe. Radlinski said that Haughton didn't really love or enjoy the game, it was just a job to him.

Re: Ryan Hall : Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:19 pm  

Haughton was in the Guiness Book of Records for scoring 130 tries in a season as an amateur. I think it all came too easy for him at a young age.

Re: Ryan Hall : Wed Sep 04, 2019 6:50 pm  

HucknallLoiner wrote:

Matt Adamson in CC semi final. Played the final against Bradford a couple of weeks after and if I remember correctly went off injured after possibly being targeted.

Sneeky shot from Paul Sculthorpe after he hit the deck as I recall.

Re: Ryan Hall : Wed Sep 04, 2019 9:22 pm  

Holmes wrote:

Sneeky shot from Paul Sculthorpe after he hit the deck as I recall.

If by sneaky, you mean totally brazen, then yes. It'd be a 6 game ban now.

Re: Ryan Hall : Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:00 am  

Let's not re-write history - admittedly Hay was dire just before he left but he also gave us some good service.

IIRC Andy Hay was decent in the Murray-era side as an impact try-scoring super-sub, and he managed to win some international call-ups (3 caps for England in 2000). It was only after the departure of Murray that his form began to dip and he started playing like a trimmed-down Jamie Mathiou/Chris Feather. He was famously axed while under contract along with Ryan Sheridan and Karl Pratt under coach Daryl Powell in 2002.