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England - 1967-1968, POSITION - Prop
BORN - Saturday, 6th May 1944. Stafford, England
INTERNATIONAL DEBUT - Saturday, 7th January 1967 v Australia (Twickenham) lost 23-11 (Aged: 22)
FINAL APPEARANCE - 16/3/1968 v Scotland (Murrayfield) won 8-6 (FN)
TOTAL CAPS: - 9

I wish to nominate MIKE COULMAN as a serious hard man of Rugby League.

An ex-policenman, COULMAN was signed form Moseley RU by Chairman Brian Snape for Salford RLFC.

Mike went on to win two championship medals with The Red Devils and played for Great Britain.

His most memorable moment was when he tamed the Great Arthur Beetson in a Test match in Aus.

Not many people have done that to "Artie".

Step forward MIKE COULMAN.

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Quigs, a million thanks for including Mike Coulman in the "Hard Men" list. I have been trying to find a photo of him to send to you and also a bit more info on him.

Another story about Mike is when he was playing for England RL v Wales RL he had a set-to with Colin Dixon. "Dicko" was not far behind Coulman in the way of toughness.

The pair of them went at it like Ali and Frazier. Both were sent off. Strange thing is, both were prop forwards for Salford!! They were back in the team together the next weekend.

Cheers mate. Great site. Roy

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Regarding Mike Coulman, i remember many a set two between Mike and the great welsh hard man Jim Mills (dirty Ba*****), one of which was at gods ground the Willows during a England vs Wales game.

Played in awful weather i dont think any one fancied the night out, within ten mins of the start they both kicked off.

After a sever telling off by mr F Lindop, the game resumed however the very next scrum it went off again with these two players. Resulting in both of them being sent from the field, as both left the field Coulman winked at Mills and both left with a great big smile on their faces.

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Colin Dixon of Salford was without doubt one off the games truley hard men.

Playing against St Helens the scrum went down near the saints line, whether or not some thing racially abusive was said to colin only them people will know, but what we the crowd know is that the scrum went up and fists were flying.

Dixon took the whole of the saints front row on, on his own it got that bad that even Mike Coulman could not pull him off one of the Chisnall brothers.

It took at least five minuets for them to calm him down, before he was sent from the field of play.

U dont think he was a hard man ask any Leeds fans.

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Mike Coulman, just wanted to let ya know he is alive and well living down south currently, but his permanent home is in Rochdale, and i am trying to convince him to come back to Salford for one of the Legends welcome at half time!

would love to see my uncle at the willows as i never seen him play

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SIMON WILLIAMS, salford when SALFORD PLAYED THE AUSSIES IN THE SEVENTIES ,THE GAME WAS CALLED THE FOURTH TEST ,COULMAN AND DIXON GAVE THE AUSSIE STICK THROUGH OUT THE MATCH , FIELDING DIVING FOR THE TRY LINE ONLY TO BE HELD UP ,SALFORD LOST A CLOSELY FOUGHT GAME , BUT THIS MATCH WILL LIVE IN MY MEMORY FOREVER

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Michael coulman was fast ,strong ,hard  and a devasting tackler ,he ran onto the ball at speed and had jaw breaking hand off.

This man demolished front rows with relative ease . 

I have NEVER seen a prop as tough ,to many fans micks nickname was the BEAR, enough said

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