Ten of rugby league’s best ever nicknames

[Captain Apollo]

Wally Lewis - The King.

Allan Langer - Deborah Kerr (in case you don't get the reference, HG and Roy coined it as she starred in a movie with Yul Brynner called The King and I).

Also Trevor Gilmeister was the second axe. The original and best, who taught Gilly how to tackle so effectively, was Bunny "The Axe" Reilly.

 

[Fat Tony Kandos]

Mr. Kevin James RYAN, LL.B. (1934 - ) - Kandos - because he was as tough as Kandos cement.

So tough, in fact, that the Coffs Harbour Incident team wooed him away from those great St. George teams by offering him the captaincy.

Luckily for him, and the state of New South Wales, in retirement he distanced himself from the Coffs Harbour Incident team by becoming a Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly between 1976-1984 and the Member for Hurstville between 1976-1984.

 

[Bronco18]

One of FoxSports’ more creative offseason articles.

 

[Phil McGrawhan]

Martin Lang..The Grateful Head

 

[Willie Ray]

More from Roy and H.G....
Ronnie Palmer...Ted Mulry
Joey Johns...The Unmade Bed
The Walters Brothers...Quince,Cumquat and Prune
and not forgetting 'Totally' Ian Roberts.

 

[JamesRustle]

Ian "chook" Herron
Mark "Piggy" Riddell

 

[JamesRustle]

Tonie "Tunza" Carroll
Mark "Sparkles" McGaw

Was Cronulla's Michael Porter known as Mango?

 

[JamesRustle]

Spud Carroll and Chief Harragon

 

[ASH76]

Been reading the forum for a long time and joined because of this thread.

Another Roy & HG Classic

John "Stink Fist" Hopoate

Gets me laughing everytime

 

[horrie hastings]

Bunny as a nickname wasn't enough?

Yes I thought about the irony of that when I posted it.

 

[horrie hastings]

Barry Panda Andrews

 

[Willie Ray]

Tonie "Tunza" Carroll
Mark "Sparkles" McGaw

Was Cronulla's Michael Porter known as Mango?

I think Michael Porter was known as Weaponhead.

 

[axl rose]

Tonie "Tunza" Carroll
Mark "Sparkles" McGaw

How could they name him Hammer and not Sparkles on Australian Gladiator.

 

[carcharias]

Pretty sure Noel Cleals nickname was blossom

 

[THE CHAMP]

The myth?
Bluddy accurate

 

[Captain Apollo]

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[Captain Apollo]

Some more from HG and Roy -

Jamie Ainscough - Cough Drop
Braith Anasta - The Black Hole/The Car Horn
David Barnhill - Mockers
Mat Cooper - The Brown Polish
Andrew Ettingshausen - The Nudist
Bryan Fletcher - Old Man River (this was due to his age)
Willie Mason - The Brains Trust
Paul Sirronen - The Buttocks
Shaun Timmins - Tea Bag
Mark Coyne - The Two Dollar Coit
Trevor Gillmesiter - Chock-a-Block full of angry pills
Paul Hauff - The Clip Clop Club
Julian O'Neill - The Poo in the Shoe
Dale Shearer - The 180B Man
Shane Webcke - BigPond
Dane Stains - The underpants.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Been reading the forum for a long time and joined because of this thread.

Another Roy & HG Classic

John "Stink Fist" Hopoate

Gets me laughing everytime

Didn’t Hoppa actually take that as his boxing nickname? Gotta give him some credit, he can laugh at himself.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Russell “Fudge” Packer

 

[horrie hastings]

Russell Fairfax was called Fairy back in the day.
Ian Schubert was Schuey or the Shoe.

I remember when Easts beat Parra at the Sports Ground in 1978 Schubert lost one of his boot but scored a run away 60 metre try with only one boot on and the papers the next day said One Shoe Schubert socks it to them.