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cow yeds wrote:The biff has gone out of the game, it's a watered down version of the one that I first started watching.
No hard men now.

Wonder if you would argue that point with MM?

Whelley Warrior wrote:Terry Newton also give away a fair share of penalties

As a certain Sean Long will testify....!! :sly:

Mike wrote:

BTW - DaveO - I wouldn't put Newton in the Hock camp for brain explosions, because Terry was just a good aggressive player which inevitably leads to stepping over the line occasionally, but IMO Hock does crazy things at crazy times occasionally. (Not that i think Hock should have gone - just that you have to live with that side of his game to get the good side).

I felt the same way about both of them. Always thought opposition teams would try and wind Terry up looking for him to kick off and the same with Hock. I think it worked (occasionally) with both of them. Terry lost it big time in the play offs where he broke Long's jaw and copped his eight match ban. I think that was instrumental in putting an end to his Wigan career.

I'd say MM has always looked like he the potential to be a great hooker in the Newton mould, and I'd say he has gone a long way to becoming that player already. I'm not quite sure why some don't seem to like his play - IMO he'll be Wigan's hooker for best part of the next decade.

He's been a favourite player of mine for a long time but a bit like Hansen (another long time favourite of mine) he seems to have attracted strangely negative views from some Wigan fans throughout his career. When he got sent off last season his name was mud on rlfans.

Regarding the aggression in Micky's play I think he is just hard and that it doesn't result from him losing the plot in the same way Terry did with Long for example.