Beau Scott played through the pain of a busted shoulder.

Already regarded as one of the hardest men in rugby league, Scott somehow played on with a busted right shoulder and left hip that would have won him over plenty of the Parramatta faithful.

Maybe even some of the Canterbury diehards.

Scott was crunched in a tackle in the first half and got up clutching his right shoulder.

He didn’t make a big scene and just got on with the game.

But just after halftime, Scott landed on his left hip after he had stripped the ball from Canterbury prop Aiden Tolman.

This time Scott was hurt.

A Parramatta trainer rushed to Scott’s side, but he quickly shooed him away. The same trainer returned several times, only to turn around and run back to the sideline as Scott refused to budge.

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Beau Scott tackles Canterbury’s David Klemmer.Source:AAP

Scott said afterwards he didn’t want to force Eels’ coach Brad Arthur into making an early interchange.

“I got jammed and hurt my AC a little bit in the first half and managed that one, but then there was the hip issue,’’ Scott told The Saturday Telegraph afterwards.

“When you pick up an injury, you try to work in with the interchange and what the plan is there, and that’s what we did. I tried to stay out there as long as I could.

“It’s what you do. You just get on with the job.’’

For about five painful minutes, Scott continued to chase hard after the ball, smashed winger Curtis Rona, and even threw himself at Moses Mbye as he tried to hurry a kick away.

He was hobbling. He really grimaced in pain when he bent down to try and grab one of David Klemmer’s legs in a tackle.

Beau Scott takes on the Bulldogs defence.Source:Getty Images

When the Eels slotted a penalty goal just after the 50th minute to make it 8-0, Scott finally departed and raced straight up the tunnel to receive medical attention.

Scott’s toughness was the main reason Arthur paid good money to lure Scott west.

It’s the reason he’s always one of the first players picked for NSW.

Arthur loves good old-fashioned backrowers with a bit of mongrel. That’s why he also recruited tough-as-nails Anthony Watmough a year earlier. Just when Watmough returns from a knee injury _ if in fact he does at all _ remains to be seen.

As for Scott, he had to shake hands with his left hand, but remained hopeful of lining up against the Wests Tigers in ten days. Tigers halfback Luke Brooks will be hoping he doesn’t.

Canterbury directed plenty of their early traffic down the Eels’ right edge. They didn’t want a bar of big Semi Radradra on the left, and figured centre Brad Takairangi and winger Clint Gutherson were the safe option.

But they first had to get outside Scott. Geez Scott’s tough.