How odd. I thought it must have been an elbow into the face or something, the way people were talking.

I don't see why you'd want to do that, in a non-romantic context. He certainly is a charmless individual.

Big men I said not big softies

Either I`m missing the point or you are.
I`m referring to you saying we have grubs like Bailey, Ablett and Ferres and have come back with the grubs in my opinion you have/had playing for you.
I`m not for one minute suggesting your players would run away and hide far from it.
In the case of Bailey and Ablett they are nothing but wind up merchants.
No doubt you will think your players are all pretty innocent whilst I disagree each to their own opinion.

Do you do it in a Romantic Context -- interesting

You are yes.

Nothing to do with being grubs (when did that Aussie phrase make its way over here) or wind up merchants, the original comment was that MM only picks on the small players which could not be further from the truth nor does he go missing when it kicks off.

Only with Richie Myler obviously!

8 game ban for Joel Tomkins.

Is he retiring? How ignominious.

Only on his birthday

You of course are totally correct .

What also is correct is M.M is a Thug of the highest order

so was Peacock but you guys loved him....

seen some barmy things on here but that takes the biscuit

See, point proven

But God love him for milking that penalty in the GF by throwing the ball into a prone Watkins and them taking the 2. We were dead on our feet and struggling to get back to defend that play. Cheers Michael!

I'm as Wigan as they come but this is complete rubbish. Peacock is a legend of the game.

Didn’t Tomkins crap himself when Solomona grabbed him by the shirt?

???

We run that penalty and we win the game IMO. We had lost a few tight games by not taking the two in that period (Saints away which cost us the dinner plate thing about 3 weeks previous being the big one) so we were taking the 2 at every opportunity. Our game management at that time was appalling.

I would have agreed with you once upon a time

Is that after some comments after they beat us in the final? I heard about them but don't know what was actually said to be honest. He's the most decorated player in SL history, showed up well against the aussies, played a key role in beating them on more than one occasion. I can't dismiss him as just a thug.

Yep. He said that we as a club had no class when we won (the irony of him making those comments totally lost on him) our players were this that and the other and basically went to town on us. I think it all stemmed from the McGuire incident in 2010.

Interestingly, I haven't heard him say too many nice things about us during his punditry either and when we did the shirts for Rob Burrow pretty much every former Leeds player commented on it and shared the auctions except for Mr Peacock who instead seemed more focused on his Nandos.

In terms of him as a player though, he was superb and I think every club would have wanted him in their side

can you not be a thug and legend?

Depends what you mean by thug I suppose. I've just looked it up and apparently it means 'a violent person, especially a criminal'. Obviously he's violent as are many forwards but I tend to think of a thug as underhand in some way.