HARD - Rugby League In The 70s

The decade of the 70s in rugby league is today acknowledged as one of the toughest eras of the game. Tough, hardened men played a game that never let up for eighty solid minutes. Most who played rugby league in first grade within the NSWRL competition worked five days a week and did their best to get to training on time three times a week, a scenario now long lost in the game. But that’s how it was. The time spent playing the game was hard, to say the least. At its worst, it was brutal beyond…