Watching the biff on the telly last week at Headingley had me remembering some of tougher types we used to have in our pack in days gone by. What's the nastiest pack of forwards you can name who turned out for Bradford? You can pick players from any era.



Here's my choices:



Bradford



8. Kelvin Skerrett

9. Tony Fisher

10. Brian McDermott

11. Alan Rathbone

12. Karl Fairbank

13. Len Casey

You'd have to include Frank Foster somewhere, probably in place of Rathbone. Foster didnt have the same hothead reputation but former players have told me that opposing forwards were genuinely frightened of him. www.eraofthebiff.com/p-118.html

You'd have to include Frank Foster somewhere, probably in place of Rathbone. Foster didnt have the same hothead reputation but former players have told me that opposing forwards were genuinely frightened of him. www.eraofthebiff.com/p-118.html

I don't imagine we'd finish any game with all these blokes on the field!



I remember in 88/89 with Skerrett, Fairbank, Hill and Hobbs in the team we dispatched one to the sin bin in nearly every game!

Jimmy Thompson? May not have dished it out quite so much as some others, but definitely one of the toughest.

Anyone seen a pic of Burgess going off last night? That was about as gruesome as it gets from what I could see.

MAte, you're drunk. Jimmy was a true gentleman. Hard as nails, and he would be in my "hard man" pack. But "nasty"? Never in a million.

Anybody hear some Hull fans chanting 'cheat' as he went off?

I laughed, pretty good for the codheads that one

But it's true, he had a blood demijohn hidden in his cheek

Erm . . . . . who's drunk mi old flower????

I know someone who played against Jimmy a few times - played fair he says but like tackling a rock - he hurt you when he tackled you, but it also hurt when you tackled him...

Hey - if you don't like the nomination of Jimmy, lay off Bullpower & take it up with me.



However, I don't disagree with you. I was aligning myself with Bullseye's heading ("toughest"icon_wink.gif rather than the "nastiest" category that he mentioned in the text. Thompson didn't play nasty by default (though he was able to, if pushed), but he played tougher than just about anyone I've seen in the 40 or so years I've been watching. And, as BazzaBull suggests, if you wanted a team that would be intimidating to the opposition, you'd be far better off with Thompson's hard-but-fair tackling than some random biff-merchant.



To take another aspect of "tough" - have we had a forward more impervious to pain than Morrison?