Graeme Langlands FINALLY Reveals 6 Of His Toughest Opponents

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You probably think you know who the toughest players in rugby league history were. But what if the greatest fullback ever actually had a completely different list? Graeme Langlands, an absolute legend who played two hundred and twenty-seven games for St George and forty-five Tests for Australia, recently revealed something shocking. The six players he found most difficult to face were not always who you'd expect. Some were even his own teammates. This is the list that proves what real toughness actually means in rugby league.

The game Langlands played in was completely different from today. The 1960s and 1970s were brutal times in rugby league. The fields were mud. The ball was heavier. The rules allowed unlimited violence. In that era, toughness did not just mean being strong. It meant playing through broken bones. It meant getting strapped up with injuries and still performing at the highest level. One of the greatest South Sydney legends, John Sattler, played seventy minutes of the nineteen seventy Grand Final with a jaw broken in three places. He said Langlands and Billy Smith were the toughest because they could play with injury and still perform at an elite level. When Langlands talks about his toughest opponents, he is listing men with pain tolerance and psychological steel. Players who refused to quit and pushed him harder than anyone else.