Souths v Parramatta 1986 brawl

Souths and Parramatta players having a minor disagreement. This match was from 1986 at Parramatta Stadium.

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• sydney
• parramatta
• eels
• nrl
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• brawl
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[timfurner1]

great to see two big men in lebeatter and davidson goin at it.also tugger coleman giving a couple of uppercuts to sterlo.all good knowone was hurt!

[mrwolf001]

Couldn't agree more with you Tim! I'm almost certain that there wasn't a single player from this game even cited for foul play...however, Craig Coleman actually did get sent off late in this match for verbally abusing the referee.

[kevin18802000]

go sterlo !!!!

[TheParratwoblues]

they were pretty tough in the 80s....none of the gel haired poofs that are in the NRL today would have lasted 5 minutes against the likes of Dallas Donnelly, Craig Young or Les Davidson

[docgonzales]

@z0mgrugbyreturns. Todays players have interchange. It's pretty easy to take a heavy knock and get subbed and come back on later. 1986,with only 2 fresh off the bench, you had tot ough it out. Ps, Leadbetter was 110kg, Bundy 105kg, Eric Grothe snr would rip nrl 2011 to shreds.

[peksful]

@z0mgrugbyreturns difference between players now and then...ticker! players back then had ticker! these days got no heart!

[guodade]

Parramatta 12 (Steve Ella, Paul Taylor tries; Mick Cronin, Ella goals) drew with South Sydney 12 (Michael Pobjie try; Neil Baker 4 goals).

If Sterling got ten in the sin bin, why then did Price and Terry Leabeater, who started it, not get sent off?

[z0mgrugbyreturns]

@TheParratwoblues None of the punches in the Manly brawl even connected, so how can you say that?

And bullshit to you. Most League players today are trained in MMA fighting and all sorts. They'd fucking savage the little unfit midgets of old. Get real old man.

A fucking cat like Jamal Idris would have beat up Tommy if he was around back then.

[TheParratwoblues]

@z0mgrugbyreturns You are fucken kidding. Although the current NRL blokes are bigger and more athletic than the older generation, half of them couldn't knock the skin of a rice custard. They would have done more damage hitting each other with their handbags in that stink at Brookvale between Manly & Storm. Lunatics like Les Davidson, Craig Young or even Tom Raudonikis would have punched, kicked and gouged six kinds of shit out of all of them. They had way more pump in the 80s.

[caarankin69]

i wish rugby league was like this again now its so soft now if you slap a player in the head in a tackle its a high tackle back in the 80's we see blokes throwing fist at heads

[z0mgrugbyreturns]

@TheParratwoblues The most common hairstyle in the NRL is the short back and sides. Probably the most "macho" haircut in the world if there is such a thing(there isn't).

People in the 80's used to rock mullets and didn't know what a clipper was!

I swear some of you blokes are insane with the crap you come out with.

[z0mgrugbyreturns]

@aussielad83 Mate, are you daft? There's less steroids in professional sport than there's ever been! That stuff was rife up to the 90's, there wasn't enough technology and scientific understanding to catch people out.

Just because players today are professionals with the time to train in the gym doesn't mean they're on steroids. Use a bit of common sense. If you loved the game you wouldn't try to shame it with bullshit accusations of steroid abuse.

[z0mgrugbyreturns]

@aussielad83 Ultimately these guys are no tougher than anyone playing today. They played by the rules and accepted interpretations of the time. If reffing was as lax today as it was in the 80's you'd see 5 people being stretchered off a game, such is the physical superiority of todays guys.

Smaller guys are faster, but half these supposed fast blokes wouldn't be fast by todays standards. They'd all be George Rose slow, without the size and ability to intimidate.

Get over yourself, old man.