Hardest man to play AFL/VFL

[verypoorboy]

Easy....without a doubt its gotta be Shane Clayton

.....or Aaron Henneman

 

[BIGBEZ]

Definately without a doubt.. Matthew Lloyd.

I think thats due to his shorts being pulled up so high!
I think we are talking about a different hardness mate!

 

[Burzum]

Leigh Matthews.

 

[jerry springer]

Gavin Brown-most couragous

Hardest-Dermie -one of the few players who could give it and take it

 

[chaddles]

Byron Pickett for one of the hardest hitters...

 

[verypoorboy]

Gotta give a shout out to Gary Lyon as well, the hardest player on a stretcher

 

[claf-43]

Some others....

M and J Johnson
C and B Scott
Hardwick
Wanganeen backing to packs marking the ball....
Pickett
Kerr
Solomon

 

[Bollox]

Francis Bourke

the benchmark for hard, tough, courageous

fists dont mean jack

 

[JoondalupJ]

Leigh Mathews, another very frightening man also is a fella called Carl Deitrich
excuse the spelling.

 

[JoondalupJ]

Not sure you would say he took cheap shots besides the bruns incident...People always forget Matthews took a hell of alot of punishment for someone who while built like a tank was not a very big player and like all hard men never bitched and moaned like alot of players and people on here do....must admit though always hated him as a player because he was so hard and good lol
other hard men from that era were people like Balme, Bourke ,Brown, Big Carl Muir and later years dipper ,bretton, Hocking ,Abblet and lockett among many others
But id say the best and bravest of the lot was Bobby Skillton who was as fair as they come,braver than most,and a victim so many times because of iy and he just kept going attacking the ball without flinching and who Teddy Whitten fixed up many times on the field but they remained best friends of it which just shows how the men of those days played and lived

Do you mean Robbie Muir or Carl Deitrich?

 

[worthy]

I thought he got the nickname because he loved taking cheap shots in back play. He will always be a disgrace to the game.

I believe you're thinking of Neville Bruns, Leathal was just getting some payback.

 

[JoondalupJ]

Current day from Hawks: Campbell Brown, Luke Hodge and Sam Mitchell are a good trio

Leigh Matthews
Robert DiPierdomenico
Gary Ayres
John Platten
Andy Collins

Gary Ablett
Jack Dyer
Glen Archer
Tony Liberatore
Terry Daniher
Ron Barassi
Tony Shaw
Gavin Brown
Francis Bourke
Murray Weideman
John Nicholls
Laurie Fowler
John Worsfold
Mark Ricciuto
Michael Voss
Paul Kelly
Adrian Fletcher
Garry Hocking
Stephen Silvagni

John Worsfold was a real sniper in the true sense. If you were tough like Dermie, he,d ambush you, if you were an easy target like Winston Abraham
then he could pretend he was hard he new there'd be no come back.
No he is not a true hard man of the AFL.

 

[JoondalupJ]

WTF! Matthews courageous?????
Good thread, but you lost me there!

You must be blind or just lacking footy knowledge or your joking.

 

[Penski]

I think Jonathan Brown will be right up there with the best soon (if not already).

The way he throws himself into a pack is amazing, and he's tough as nails.

 

[JoondalupJ]

Carl was feared by all, even at the age of 20!

Try seventeen, he scared the crap out of grown men.

 

[BIGBEZ]

You must be blind or just lacking footy knowledge or your joking.

See post #12, and spot on about Big Carl!

 

[Fabulous]

1. Ted Whitten
2. Lethal
3. The rest

They were both hard and feared.

 

[OldStyle2007]

Buddha Hocking

 

[James_Best]

francis bourke

andrew kellaway

john worsfold

 

[wce4premiership]

Beau Waters

 

[Frank Drebin]

J.Brown and M.Voss hands down.

 

[Lazyboy]

Gavin Brown, Milane, Craig Kelly. Collingwood premiership players, they eat 1st round draft picks for breakfast, the breakfast of champions.

 

[chaddles]

Gavin Brown, Milane, Craig Kelly. Collingwood premiership players, they eat 1st round draft picks for breakfast, the breakfast of champions.

They eat first round draft picks because they weren't tough enough to face up against real men!!

 

[Runk]

They eat first round draft picks because they weren't tough enough to face up against real men!!

Cue Terry Daniher.

 

[Wojee]

Adrian Hickmott was crazily fearless.