Who Do You Think Is The Hardest Player From The Northen Hemisphere Teams

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Has to be the ginger nutter Paul O'Connell just ask that french lad from Clermont for prove

Paul James is a tough nut, Danny Grewcock was a thug but pretty hard one.

Yeah I have heard that Paul James is a decent guy, but pretty handy when he wants to be

You can tell just by looking at him. Once decked a tough Peroignan prop for gouging him.

nottins_jones wrote:You can tell just by looking at him. Once decked a tough Peroignan prop for gouging him.

Hooker

Thanks Thunor.... Romanian or Georgian wasn't he?

Anyone else notice we're the only ones lacking tough 2nd rows? AWJ is the worst for this.

Tincu the Romanian. Interestingly in that case there was no evidence at all. James couldn't remember whether fingers had gloves and Ian Evans' testimony had to be removed because it clear wrong (made-up or mistaken). There was, however, definite damage to James' eye area.

Al Strokosch does a bit of cage fighting, pretty handy guy to have around.

I know who isn't - Ross 'Wimp' Ford !

Hairy-donkey must be up there, playing on with various body parts hanging off him?

BTW ROG owns Ford too after running through him at Murrayfield

Here is the all time welsh list from the fail:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/rugbynation/rugby-news/2010/11/14/welsh-rugby-s-50-hardest-men-91466-27633577/

Jamie Roberts, played with Fractured skull and set up a try - Mortlock was straight off after that head clash

Craig Hawkins. the smallest player in the known universe

Dougie in a H.Cup game for Munster chasing a ball back and clearly pulls his hamstring but kept going to prevent a try I think thats deserving a mention. But the amount of punishment BOD takes and just keeps going and the places he is willing to stick his head remember the knee POC gave him in the 6N

Leinster11 wrote:Dougie in a H.Cup game for Munster chasing a ball back and clearly pulls his hamstring but kept going to prevent a try I think thats deserving a mention. But the amount of punishment BOD takes and just keeps going and the places he is willing to stick his head remember the knee POC gave him in the 6N

While not doubting his talent and ability, do you not reckon BOD tries to play the sympathy card too often? How many times have we seen him after a passage of play, lying prone but, invariably, he gets back up to a round of applause. I am sorry - that looks a lot harsher in print than I meant it to sound but hopefully you get my drift.

Maybe he just needs to rest up for a minute or so until the pain subsides a bit. We all do that. I agree that for a guy his age he does take some punishment but continues on. Great player, one of the greatest.

In my eyes thats an easy answer the hardest player ON the rugby field in the northern hemisphere is johnny wilkinson, he puts the hardest tackles in out of anyone on the pitch, never takes a step back, the number of injuries he's had and come back from are amazing also alot of the rugby hardmen can just focus on being physical....johny gets up from being smashed or putting in a huge hit then slots 3 points or has to pull the strings of the whole team.....legend

Danny Grewcock, some may say he was a mindless thug. But he was a hard mindless thug.

Gavin Henson is the hardest.

I had a dream a few weeks ago about a fight between ROG and Ashton, all got a bit handbagsy and slappy until gabby logan gave both a clip round the ear! Actual dream though!!!

Mr Thunder wrote:Gavin Henson is the hardest.

He is actually a bit of a wimp actually. See link. Hilarous!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWCD7kUbOeM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

thebluesman

Bit of a waste having Gabby Logan in that kind of dream .

Hardest guy in rugby is actually a League player - Rob Burrows of Leeds, all 1.65m and 68kg of him. Doesn't shirk the tackling and is surpirsingly strong taking the ball into contact - plays half back or occasionally hooker, so is always in the middle of the action.

I'm going to get ripped apart for this but, Jonny Wikinson gets my vote every time.

Rob Burrows is extremely physical for his size,cracking player too.

Pity Burrows didn't switch codes 5 years ago - could have become a really good RU scrum half.

Wilkinson is certainly a tough player for a fly half - never seen him back out of a tackle on much bigger players. Takes a certain mentality to do this, especially when you missed 3 or 4 of your prime seasons because of injury.