Worst Thing You've Seen On a Sports Pitch
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What a bunch of pussies the players were. Should have given that spectator a good shoeing rather than leave it to the Ref.
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@mariner4life said in Worst Thing You've Seen On a Sports Pitch:
Who was the proper mental English lad who very deliberately bent that guys arm around a ruck?
Calum Clarke. Pure shithouse.
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@canefan said in Worst Thing You've Seen On a Sports Pitch:
Colin Meads was responsible for more than his fair share of thuggery
He was a hard man enforcer who played on the edge in an era where that was common, but I wouldn't call him a thug who went out to maim people any more than I would Martin Johnson or Willie John. He'd happily punch someone's light out in a confrontation but deliberately kicking a player or eye-gouging was def. not his style.
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@Nepia said in Worst Thing You've Seen On a Sports Pitch:
@Catogrande said in Worst Thing You've Seen On a Sports Pitch:
I don’t recall this incident and it doesn’t sound like Deano, but he was a hard bastard so it is possible.
It was on Frank Bunce and there was nothing hard bastard about it. The UK press didn't remark on it all but then had a collective meltdown when something similar happened to Phil DeGraville on a tour later the same year (by Jamie Joseph IIRC). They even brought in the Chariots of Fire writer to write an inflammatory article about it - yep, he's as shit at sports writing as he is at scripting.
Didn't mean to imply that stamping on someone's head is a hard bastard thing to do, just that Deano was a tough nut and I wouldn't necessarily rule much out.
I still don't recall the incident but have seen it referred to many times. A shithouse thing to do.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Worst Thing You've Seen On a Sports Pitch:
@canefan said in Worst Thing You've Seen On a Sports Pitch:
Colin Meads was responsible for more than his fair share of thuggery
He was a hard man enforcer who played on the edge in an era where that was common, but I wouldn't call him a thug who went out to maim people any more than I would Martin Johnson or Willie John. He'd happily punch someone's light out in a confrontation but deliberately kicking a player or eye-gouging was def. not his style.
I do like the story in at least one of his books about unloading his best punch on Keith Murdoch, who, completely un-phased, looks at him like "what was that?".
Meads, panicking, says "that was just a warning..."
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@booboo said in Worst Thing You've Seen On a Sports Pitch:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Worst Thing You've Seen On a Sports Pitch:
@canefan said in Worst Thing You've Seen On a Sports Pitch:
Colin Meads was responsible for more than his fair share of thuggery
He was a hard man enforcer who played on the edge in an era where that was common, but I wouldn't call him a thug who went out to maim people any more than I would Martin Johnson or Willie John. He'd happily punch someone's light out in a confrontation but deliberately kicking a player or eye-gouging was def. not his style.
I do like the story in at least one of his books about unloading his best punch on Keith Murdoch, who, completely un-phased, looks at him like "what was that?".
Meads, panicking, says "that was just a warning..."
Speaking of Meads, the Northern Transvaal bloke who kicked and broke Meads' arm in '70 and crowed about it was a serious grub.
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@booboo said in Worst Thing You've Seen On a Sports Pitch:
@canefan said in Worst Thing You've Seen On a Sports Pitch:
@canefan said in Worst Thing You've Seen On a Sports Pitch:
Richard Loe was a grub.
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Trying to scratch out Greg Cooper's eyes in a NPC game
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Breaking Paul Carozza's nose in a Bled test
Snap
Err ... you realise that was it your own post you were quoting?
Someone posted about Loe two or three posts earlier
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Brial v Bunce. Shocking in that not one of about a dozen punches landed.
No mention of ear eating yet?
Quite funny to hear the commentators making light of it and even the ref looking like he doesn’t give a shit. These days we would have had endless TMO.
