With a rugby league playing father,there was perhaps an expectation that Aidan Roach would make it as a sportsman – just not as a water polo player in HungaryThere were few sights that better personified Australian rugby league – and, sometimes, or even culture – in the 1980s than that of legendary prop Steve “Blocker” Roach in full flight.
Never one to shy away from the physical side of the game,the Balmain front rower could turn human wrecking ball on the footy field. Blocker’s eagerness to dish out colossal tackles and hit-ups, along with the odd niggley punch, and gained him a cult following,as well as 186 games for his club, and multiple appearances for fresh South Wales and Australia.
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Source: theguardian.com