also got sent off at headingley 1982 for flattening max krilich the hooker

Tell that to Phil Hogan.

The first part of your post you are, of course, entitled to even though you are clearly incorrect but the "good riddance" bit, especially directed at someone who died of leukaemia at a relatively young age, is beyond belief.



My abiding memory of Woodsy was a game at Thrum Hall once. Halifax booted the ball downfield and Woods, as only he could do, returned it with considerable interest. He didn't look for a gap on the fringes or choose any of the backs to run at. Instead, he picked out their biggest prop and ran full pelt at him. The collision was astonishing, Woodsy slammed into the prop, knocking him back three or four yards but the impact took it's toll on him too. Both players needed attention over the next minute or so. He was certainly a player who had moments he would rightly be ashamed of but he had far more courage and heart than the vast majority of players I have ever seen.

Of the current squad I'd say that it's Radford, his reputation for being able to handle himself precedes him and you don't see too many people having a go.



Paul Woods is a bit before my time but this thread's making him sound like an absolute legend.

Quote Panda92="Panda92" Paul Woods is a bit before my time but this thread's making him sound like an absolute legend.'" Dave Hadfield did a good obit on him in the Independant. If Jim Mills is saying you're hard then you don't doubt it! www.independent.co.uk/news/obitu ... 65308.html

Quote Panda92="Panda92" Paul Woods is a bit before my time but this thread's making him sound like an absolute legend.'" Dave Hadfield did a good obit on him in the Independant. If Jim Mills is saying you're hard then you don't doubt it! www.independent.co.uk/news/obitu ... 65308.html

Quote knockersbumpMKII="knockersbumpMKII"Dave Hadfield did a good obit on him in the Independant. If Jim Mills is saying you're hard then you don't doubt it! www.independent.co.uk/news/obitu ... 65308.html'" It is, apart from getting this bit spectacularly wrong: "he became the first man to concede a potential "seven-point try" in the showpiece. Woods kicked the Hull Kingston Rovers winger, Steve Hubbard, after he scored, giving him an extra shot at goal from directly in front of the posts." It wasn't Woodsy who gave away the 7-pointer, it was winger Graham Bray

Quote knockersbumpMKII="knockersbumpMKII"Dave Hadfield did a good obit on him in the Independant. If Jim Mills is saying you're hard then you don't doubt it! www.independent.co.uk/news/obitu ... 65308.html'" It is, apart from getting this bit spectacularly wrong: "he became the first man to concede a potential "seven-point try" in the showpiece. Woods kicked the Hull Kingston Rovers winger, Steve Hubbard, after he scored, giving him an extra shot at goal from directly in front of the posts." It wasn't Woodsy who gave away the 7-pointer, it was winger Graham Bray

when i said good riddance about paul woods in an earlier post i wasnt refering to his early death as having cancer myself at 35 i wouldnt dream of saying anything like that i meant he was a thug not a hardman he was the king of the cheap shot

Correct and IIRC it Bray punched Hubbard around the chops as he dived in.

Absolutement.



It should never have been a 7-pointer anyway because Bray lamped him after the try was scored and not while Hubbard was "in the act of scoring a try"

Good old Fred

it doesnt matter really does it it means you would have lost 8-5 instead

At least he never went round lamping bus drivers or kicking drunks while they're on the floor.



Paul was an absolute competitor who hated to lose. I remember sitting in The Albion after Leigh had knocked us out of the Premiership and while all the rest of the players were getting tanked up, Woodsy was looking angry in the corner. I went over and asked him what was up, he just nodded at his teammates and said: "look at 'em, you'd think we'd bloody won the trophy. We fooking lost, that's why I'm in a bad mood"



FYI a "cheap shot merchant" doesn't stand and face his opponent (or in Woodsy's case, stand and face his opponent's chest), a "cheap shot merchant" hits from behind and then runs & hides. If you want to see a modern-day "cheap shot merchant", you could do worse than study Ryan Bailey