Hesketh, who captained Salford and GB in the 1970s, labels certain aspects of the modern game as "quite dire."
His comments are made in his new book written with Graham Morris, entitled "Captain Courageous."
Hesketh said: "I've watched Super League for a few years now and to be honest I do find some of it is quite dire.
"I know it's a different game but Les Bettinson (ex-Salford coach) would always say you ran round a man not at him.
"All right, if you are driving the ball away from your posts that's a different thing but one of my pet hates is the Australian terminology we seem to use now such as arm wrestle, muscling up, hit-outs, the paddock, field goals and so on. I just wish people would start talking proper English, this is our game.
"I'm still a Salford supporter now. When I moved to Salford, Wigan my former club were like Manchester United as far as rugby league was concerned, and it probably looked like I'd stepped down at the time.
"But in actual fact the next 10 or 12 years were marvellous. It turned round and Salford was the new Manchester United.
"Salford has never been what you would call a wealthy city but I always found the people were just wonderful. I really mean that."
Captain Courageous is published on October 7 by Vertical Editions, priced é10.99 in paperback and available from most bookshops and Internet retailers. Tweet
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Well said Chris Hesketh regarding how Australianese has overshadowed British teminology in modern day Rugby League jargon. Everything he has said on this subject is absolutely spot-on. It really gets my back up to hear TV coverage rambling on about "off loads" and "field goals" etc instead of passes and drop goals.
Come back Eddie Waring... all is forgiven.
well done chris on your book
and comments on super league
Nice to read what you said Chris, I often wonder what happened to players such as yourself. I played against you twice which for me was something special as you were one of my favourite players.I played at Oldham for a short while, wasn't much of a player and only got in the fist team when enough lads were injured. So you can emagine playing against you, Coulman Dixon Watkins and the like was something special. I played in a floodlite game and remember rushing up and almost taking your head off,you ducked and sent your winger Maurice Richards over. I was a fullback who liked to play like a prop.Martin Murphy was the Oldham Fullback who was injured at the time, and sadly never got the recognition he deserved, he was the best defensive fullback in the comp, bar none.
All the best, Joe now in Newcastle Australia.