Morley was definitely one of the last of the old brigade. We was popular in Australia because he was in the mold of Harragon, Carrol, Davidson, Roach - we couldn't complain because we were dishing it out just as much as Morley was every week. No one should complain about the shoulder charges. They were a thoroughly legitimate part of the game at the time.
@@robokeefe3850you wouldn’t love it if you were on the receiving end of one his cheap shots. Swinging arms, shoulder charges to head and head butting players on the ground. The guy could play, but he was also a cheap shotting thug.
He was tough as nails when he played in the NRL, but his big hits often went bad, and earned him a reputation as a thug. Cannot question his toughness, just his technique. Too many coat hangers for my liking.
British ref sees Morley throw a high tackle in the first tackle of the game. Ref gives him the deserved red, commentator also said it's a red. But when Willie Mason deserved a red for the punch on Stuart Fielden the Oz ref gave him a pathetic talking to and the Oz commentator said Fielden got the smack he deserved because he squared up to Mason after Mason had given him a couple of cheap digs. Morley's peak moment was when the RFL signed the Think Don't Drink and Drive deal with the government. Part of the deal was if any player was busted drink driving they'd be dropped from the squad. Adrian Morley gets caught drunk driving and the coach picks him anyway.
The Kearns incident is a moment of rugby league folklore. I can remember home being sent off for Leeds in a game against Saints after about two minutes once as well.
Carl Kelly when you are playing a team like australia if you don’t put some dirty shots in and stand up for yourself and other team mates you will be walked all over, what a player he was!
Do you two even watch League ? Shoulders charges / swinging arm were legal up until 2013. Morley is the best prop England has produced and he earned the respect of Aussies. Most polls have in the top 3 English imports to play in the NRL.
Mr Frisky would have loved to have seen Peacock and Fielden in the NRL. 2003-2006 Fielden was immense for the Bulls, unfortunately he was one of those mercurial players where he was almost too good for his body to handle, he was on his way down when signed with Wigan even though he was still relatively young. Same with George Burgess, 2013-2015 he was being touted as the NRL's first million dollar prop, but again his body couldn't hold up...funny how he's now at Wigan too lol What Moz , Peacock and Gaz Ellis did for as long as they did deserves mad respect.
@@benbishop7512 Yep totally agree - Peacock was the best prop in the world when he was over 30. Fielder peaked before he went to Wigan and for about 2 or 3 years he was unstoppable- I remember the World Club Challenge for Bradford, when he basically beat the NRL champions by himself- was on his way down by the time Mason knocked him down in 2006 (Then Peacock flattened Mason) so was never the same player after that.
There's nothing hard about swinging forearms and shoulder charges. If Morley was tackling head on, picking up, dumping etc and putting his body on the line, yeah that's hard but this is soft af stuff.
Every bloke Morley put a shot on he ran the ball straight back at them to allow them a chance to square up. You wont find a single pro say a bad word about him in fact most hail him as Englands greatest prop on top 3 Englishmen to play in NRL. I guess weak cunts slating him on social media know best though eh ?
No probs with Adrian Morley ...............good hard league player............was close to the line a few times and sometimes crossed it, but that is the nature of the beast !!!!!!!!!!! Rugby, whether it's league or union, isn't the fucking Bolshoi ballet !!!!!!!! Shame players like him are being hunted out of the game !!!!!!!!
The shame is a thug like him was ever tolerated. Nothing wrong with good hard fair tackling. Deliberately swinging an arm at the head/neck or shoulder to the head is not tackling. It is assault. The fact that it happens on a rugby field is no excuse.
@@WillCamx There has to be some form of intent though !!!!!!! If he's doing a Hopoate "Shotgun" and ironing someone out, yeah sure, but if it's trying to effect a legal tackle and it's a case of body angle and/or head position, it's very hard to adjudicate !!!!!!! We start to get into the situation Union is in now, where a decent hard hit is a penalty because the player lead with his shoulder but still effected the hit with hands !!!!!!!! League and Union will end up like AFL !!!!!!!! Might as well put the tutus on now then !!!!!!!!!!!
@@gregorykillen4564 You watched the video. These weren't borderline tackles where an arm rode up the body and hit the neck. They weren't mistimed tackles. They were deliberate swinging arms to the head/neck and standing up shoulders to the face. There is no way to excuse them.
@@WillCamx When your going in hard and your using a part of your body to stop another guys body, shit is going to happen !!!!!!! I'm not saying that all his tackles were borderline or all of them were legal in a league sense but overall, he was no more physical than any other imposing forward who tries to set the platform for their backline !!!!!!! The video we've just watched is a montage of hits that has been put together !!!!!!! Craig Smith, who played for St Goerge-Illawarra had the same sort of issue !!!!! Overall Adrian Morley was a hard physical player, who trapsed the fine line sometimes, but I didn't see him deliberately go out of his way to be a thug !!!!!! One man's thug is anothers man's enforcer and Rugby, whether it is union or league, is a physical game no matter, and with physical games, someone is going to get hurt, someone is going to dominate and someone is going to win the game !!!!!
@@gregorykillen4564 I played rugby union for many years through school and afterwards. Playing hard is ok. Being physical is ok. Roughing up an opponent is ok if you use fair hard tackling. Standing upright and slamming your shoulder into someone's head or neck is not a tackle. Swinging your arm at someone's head or neck is not a tackle. Its got nothing to do with body angle. The intent is obvious.
@@nomore5668 Swinging arm at ball receiver whose back is toward him (0:30); knee to the face of the man playing the ball (0:53); shoulder to the jaw of a ball player turning away (1:24). How would you describe him? I suppose all the refs who sent him off got their decision wrong? if he did it to you, would you still call him a 'great bloke'?
Not sure why you are in here then kid - if your a RU fan off you go to watch a video of a ball being kicked Into the stands for 80 mins and everyone clapping..🤣🤣
Union is a great game. There is a reason Union is far more popular than league. It requires many skills. Rucks, mauls, lineouts, scrums, passing, tackling, kicking and drop goals. It's a game of intellect. In league they just bash into each other. Theres no skill required in league.
@@andrewconvey164 Union= too many set pieces, eg scrums. How drawn out, clock ticking and boring affairs are they???? Lineouts? Dull as ditchwater. Rucking? Don't even worry about being on the wrong side....... At least League is action all the way. And I have played, and later in life, watched both codes for 45 years so don't even bother patronising me.
