Ten of rugby league’s best ever nicknames

[horrie hastings]

SKD - Skid, Skid Mark or Flipper Hands.

 

[gallagher]

Pretty sure Noel Cleals nickname was blossom

I thought he was labrador, always bludging on the blind.

 

[JamesRustle]

Ray "bolts" Hadley, although his mum calls him the "opinionated hypocritical merkin who gave me a coke head grandson"

 

[Life's Good]

One of the great Dragons, Steve Rogers, was known as Sludge. Anyone know how that came about?

 

[AJB1102]

One of the great Dragons, Steve Rogers

Save me a trip and break the knuckles of each thumb and/or finger you used to type that blasphemy.

 

[horrie hastings]

Pretty sure Noel Cleals nickname was blossom

Noel was Blossom and Les Cleal was Precious.

 

[Charlie124]

Sam Burgess - Ham Burgers
Ben Hunt - Dick Fingers / Edward Dildohands

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Shaun “Princess” Johnson

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Can’t remember if it was big league or rlw that gave Ben Pomeroy the name “special needs penguin” but it was gold

 

[firechild]

Brett Stewart - Snake, because he had shoulders like a snake.

 

[bad boy bubby]

One of the great Dragons, Steve Rogers, was known as Sludge. Anyone know how that came about?

You are a naughty, naughty person
But here ya go....

The nickname was bestowed by his Cronulla teammate Maurie Raper that year in the loungeroom of the captain, Tommy Bishop, when Rogers collapsed in a heap, drunk on beer for the first time in his life.

"Hey, fellas, Steve looks like a hunk of sludge," Raper said then.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.sm...oor-and-ended-at-the-top-20060104-gdmq4i.html

 

[Life's Good]

You are a naughty, naughty person
But here ya go....

The nickname was bestowed by his Cronulla teammate Maurie Raper that year in the loungeroom of the captain, Tommy Bishop, when Rogers collapsed in a heap, drunk on beer for the first time in his life.

"Hey, fellas, Steve looks like a hunk of sludge," Raper said then.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.sm...oor-and-ended-at-the-top-20060104-gdmq4i.html

I tried.

 

[Captain Apollo]

John "Lurch" O'Neill.

Brad Fittler - Captain in a cab (from HG and Roy after he fell asleep pissed in a taxi and wound up at Glebe Police Station).

Larry "The Black Flash" Corowa.

Tony "The Penalty Puller" Hearn (from HG and Roy).

 

[Canard]

Anyone posted "Smell My Finger" yet? Been around since 1980.

An oldie but a goodie, and the punchline to many a joke.

 

[Willie Ray]

Tough forward who played for the Wests Magpies and also a stint with the Roosters in the 70s...
name of Tom Arber...
Nickname 'Sydney'.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

Tonie "Tunza" Carroll

 

[nick87]

Tony "Tunza" Carrol

God, you just can't f**king help yourself but to post utter shit, can you?

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

God, you just can't f**king help yourself but to post utter shit, can you?

So I spelled his name wrong, dig harder for shit to whine about.

Here's one just for you, Anthony "Milf"ord

 

[nick87]

So I spelled his name wrong, dig harder for shit to whine about

Don't need to.
You're a typing punch line. Absolute joker.

 

[nick87]

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homophobic slurs.
Good stuff.