My Dad and Granddad saw them
play and
talked about them as being real tough bastards
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Kelvin's Ferrett, Surrey
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St Helens
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12/12/2004
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I'm too young to remember the players I nominated,
but their legend still lives on.
My Dad and Granddad saw them
play and
talked about them as being real tough bastards, genuine hard
men, at a
time when dirty play was far more common due in part to the
lack of
blanket recording games we get today.
My Granddad insisted
that "Big Jim"
Mills should have got a sine die ban for what he did to John
Greengrass.
Personally the most vicious thing I have ever seen was Anthony
Swann's
(Auckland Warriors) multiple attack on the head of St Helens
centre
Andy Haigh in June 97.
Unbelievabley it escaped unpunished
under the weak
judicial system in place for the World Club Championship,
despite Haigh
being sent to hospital with a fractured cheekbone.
Of course
there was
nothing hard about what Swann did, I doubt he would have lasted
2
minutes if he tried that with a monster like "Big Jim".
Appears in the following pages ....P60_Jim MILLS
Date of posting ... 12-Dec-2004
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