Commentators were emphasizing that Hardaker was last year's Man of Steel and that he comes from Featherstone in Yorkshire.

One thing that struck me was that Hardaker had more body tattoos than any other player, especially on his legs. His pale complexion made them even more noticeable.

Thought he was from pontefract ?

The Australian commentators, one of whom was a former London Broncos player named Joel Caine, insisted that Zachary Hardaker was from Featherstone.



Featherstone Lions was Hardaker's junior club. His first senior club was Featherstone Rovers. That is probably the reason why Joel Caine was mistaken. But afficionados of rugby league in the UK know that Hardaker was indeed born in Pontefract.

To be fair he went looking for work and got stuck in defensively. Although they lost Penrith have a very impressive young side

New depths of tedium have just been achieved.

They all lived happily ever after......

I suspect they meant he started his career at Fev.

I wouldn't say that. I thought that Zachary Hardaker was quite animated, he injected himself into the game in both attack and defence, and was close to a good try but muffed it (and as another wise poster noted, he should have passed the ball to his unmarked winger who would have scored). Far from being tedious I thought that Zachary was lively in patches.

Featherstone , pontefract , castleford its all the same there just part of Wakefield aren't they