NZ league loses another tough customer  Doug Gailey, both famed
and feared as one of the hardest forwards to play the game, has
died suddenly in Auckland. He was found dead in his home on
Sunday morning.  As a marauding prop in the late 1960s and
throughout the '70s, Gailey never shied away from work or
confrontation in an era when rugby league was always bruising
and regularly brutal. His reputation as a hard man matched that
of the legendary Maunga Emery; some say he was even tougher than
Emery.  Originally with the powerful Ellerslie club in Auckland,
Gailey, hardened up by his trade as a blocklayer, made his test
debut against Australia in 1969 and was near ever-present for
the Kiwis until his final series against Great Britain in 1974.
His greatest moments came when he was an integral part of one of
New Zealand's most outstanding - but vastly underrated -
sporting achievements.  That was the Kiwis' historic test series
victory against Great Britain in 1971, New Zealand's first
success against the Lions