Hardest men in Rugby - past or present

[Packman]

Does being dirty make you hard?

Well, you can have hard villains. Colin Meads got hold of Ken Catchpole once and snapped bits off him.

Johnno broke Duncan McRea. Lions fans smiled and notched it up to karma.

P.S.

Totally agree with Canadian_Rugger for championing Jamie Cudmore. I love that guy. He's like Mickey Rourke's character Marv from Sin City, blatently born about 1000 years too late!

 

[Canadian_Rugger]

Well, you can have hard villains. Colin Meads got hold of Ken Catchpole once and snapped bits off him.

Johnno broke Duncan McRea. Lions fans smiled and notched it up to karma.

P.S.

Totally agree with Canadian_Rugger for championing Jamie Cudmore. I love that guy. He's like Mickey Rourke's character Marv from Sin City, blatently born about 1000 years too late!

The guy is a total animal! He is the last of an old breed of Canadian rugby player that we have moved away from which is unfortunate because we used to have a forward pack with players that didn't take one step back. Like I said before, he has done time in jail as well and in his younger days was considered one mean SOB.

 

[Big Ewis]

I object!

That dude never stopped *****ing and moaning to referees.

You're going to hate this, like, way past just an annoying joke, but here goes:
at least he's not actually cheating the entire 80minutes of every single one of his 120+ test matches on the field like a certain Richeat McCaw.... : rolleyes :

And, facts be given with no bias or complex....Rocky Elsom...rock hard.

 

[Jaguares]

Do you remember when Chabal hit Alli Williams?

Ali Williams breaks his jaw from Sebastien Chabal:



That's hard!!!

 

[Croket66]

Mamuka Gorgodze


And Henry Tuilagi

 

[Canadian_Rugger]

Mamuka Gorgodze


And Henry Tuilagi

Godzilla is a beast! Is it just me or does the Top 14 have some really mean dudes playing in every team?

 

[nickdnz]

You're going to hate this, like, way past just an annoying joke, but here goes:
at least he's not actually cheating the entire 80minutes of every single one of his 120+ test matches on the field like a certain Richeat McCaw.... : rolleyes :

And, facts be given with no bias or complex....Rocky Elsom...rock hard.

Meh, it's about as funny/annoying as everything else you say. Take that which way you like.

As for Elsom - he was stipped from being captain because of how he talked to referees, it was embarrassing. I don't think I've ever noticed him making any particularly big hits or play an enforcer role. He was reasonably ****ly at the breakdown, but I just don't see how he's amongst the hardest players...

 

[Big Ewis]

Meh, it's about as funny/annoying as everything else you say. Take that which way you like.

As for Elsom - he was stipped from being captain because of how he talked to referees, it was embarrassing. I don't think I've ever noticed him making any particularly big hits or play an enforcer role. He was reasonably ****ly at the breakdown, but I just don't see how he's amongst the hardest players...

theeeeeeere it is...thanks for reminding me why I haven't replied to you in some time !

 

[Canadian_Rugger]

theeeeeeere it is...thanks for reminding me why I haven't replied to you in some time !

Touché Salesman!

 

[nickdnz]

theeeeeeere it is...thanks for reminding me why I haven't replied to you in some time !

Please don't feel the need to break momentum and start up again.

 

[dasNdanger]

BEN SMITH!!!!




das

 

[iINDOMINUSxx]

sonny bill williams ?

 

[Big Ewis]

Please don't feel the need to break momentum and start up again.

Gratuitous meanness, uncalled for, 100% deliberate, and abundant. So, so unjustifiable !...God bless you man, you need it. I'm not saying I don't need it, I do very much. But you sure do too.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Willie John McBride, definitely Ireland's toughest.

 

[Jaguares]

sonny bill williams ?

Cian Healy sends many greetings for him:

 

[04perryo]

Surely Neil Best will have to be in this list somewhere

 

[Peat]

I thought I said /thread.

C'mon, Tiaan Strauss wrestled and put down grown Wildebeest in his spare time for practice. Top that.

Paddy Mayne took a break from international rugby to become one of the British Army's most decorated soldiers

I think that wins.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Paddy Jackson and Simon Zebo. From the ghetto.

 

[donmcdazzle]

You guys are kidding with some of these nominations. Modern players almost don't qualify purely due to the nature of the game these days, i.e. You can't do any of the brutal stuff that used to be pretty standard. Club rugby in NZ almost used to be a running battle in the 60s/70s/early 80s. Some names from NZ; Mark 'cowboy' Shaw, Gary 'axle' Knight, Frank 'filth Oliver. Some of the stories about these guys are legendary in the Manawatu rugby, e.g. Oliver knocked out a teammate for kicking an opposition player in the head.

Put a modern player in one of those old games and they'd be bigger and faster, but would get the **** beaten out of them the first time they were in a ruck. SBW would last about 4 minutes.

 

[LittleGuy]

What about the Namibian, Schalk Van De Merwe who wrestled a lion and has a crap load of wild stories about him....http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/2423473/Tarzan-is-alive-and-kicking-and-playing-for-Namibia.html

Loved Canadian Rugger's pick of Norm Hadley, guy was a monster, 6'8", 21 stone. Here's a great story of former England player Jason Leonard (a big enough man himself) punching him as hard as he could at a ruck, to which Norm replied..."is that all you got princess" LMFAO

http://www.rfu.com/twickenhamstadium/worldrugbymuseum/walloffame/jasonleonard.aspx