Reading's Hard Men

[Barry the bird boggler]

Robin Friday had a pretty hard side to him I believe and couldn't Kevin Dillon look after himself

[_royal]

Bikey and Sonko have to be some of the scariest players we've had

[higher]

1.Billy"fruitcake" Whitehurst
2.Terry"brick shithouse" Hurlock
3.Phil"you in"Parkinson
4.Robin"divine entity"Friday
5.Andre"lost plot" Bikey

[Fluff]

Bob Hazell deserves a shout.

[Diddyroyal]

Andy bernal

[Loyal royal 247]

.super sonko

[super darren caskey]

Andy bernal

He was a diffrent kind of hard

The in a bush spying on a woman kind of hard

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Agree with Hurlock, Tait and Whitehurst - shame none of them were with us that long

[howser]

A guy some on here will remember from the sixties is John Chapman a player not to be messed with, remember a game at elm park against Oldham he had a scrap on the half way line near the players tunnel, him and the Oldham guy knocked 60 colours out of each other. He was one not to be messed with !

[AthleticoSpizz]

In addition to all of the usual suspects, AJD's aforementioned Percy Freeman, John Mackie and Stewart Henderson could make a block or two

[Barry the bird boggler]

Agree with Hurlock, Tait and Whitehurst - shame none of them were with us that long

Thought Tait was with us for about 3 years

[Reading4eva]

Bikey was a bloody lunatic but I bloody miss him! Take him back tomorrow I would just for the lols

[Millsy]

Ginger ninja, if no one has mentioned him.

Nicky Hammond wins though.

[Man Friday]

RF, 'natch.

[paultheroyal]

Jim Leighton

[Kev in Bracknell]

I always remember a game v Millwall at the Mad where Steve Sidwell & Dennis Wise were making eye-watering tackles on each other, but they didn't seem too bothered about getting injured.

[Uke]

Tait was at the club for three years (87-90)

He'd definitely have been in the same team as Whitehurst

Can't remember if he was ever in a team with "Terry's gonna get you" Hurlock though

Happy days!

[Platypuss]

Tait was at the club for three years (87-90)

He'd definitely have been in the same team as Whitehurst

Can't remember if he was ever in a team with "Terry's gonna get you" Hurlock though

Happy days!

Don't think so - Hurlock left before Billy joined. Linden Jones would have been in that side though!

[Uke]

Tait was at the club for three years (87-90)

He'd definitely have been in the same team as Whitehurst

Can't remember if he was ever in a team with "Terry's gonna get you" Hurlock though

Happy days!

Don't think so - Hurlock left before Billy joined. Linden Jones would have been in that side though!

Was thinking of whether I'd seen a game with Tait and Hurlock at the same time

[Big Foot]

Wasn't Trevor Morley always rumoured to be hard?