Toughest player in the AFL

[Hodgepodge]

Dear Hawthorn fans,

Please spare us your constant fawning of one Luke Hodge. He is moderately tough - certainly tougher than your average outside midfielder - but he is not the pinnacle in the AFL, like so many of you seem to believe.

From this poll, Kirk, Burns, and Brown are all tougher than Hodge.

Others as tough, or tougher than Luke Hodge:

Luke Ball
Joel Selwood
Lenny Hayes
Simon Black
Jimmy Bartel
Daniel Cross
Cameron Ling

haha @ joel selwood and jimmy bartel, certainly hard players but not in the elite of toughness like cameron ling is.

 

[whoknows]

Cameron Ling. He wanted to come back on.

And he got collected by Max Rooke a few weeks back, and is still alive.

 

[Claude Balls]

haha @ joel selwood and jimmy bartel, certainly hard players but not in the elite of toughness like cameron ling is.

Bartel and Selwood are both exceptionally tough. Bartel is perhaps moreso courageous than he is tough - perhaps that is why you are confused.

 

[Hodgepodge]

Bartel and Selwood are both exceptionally tough. Bartel is perhaps moreso courageous than he is tough - perhaps that is why you are confused.

Courage and toughness, all those players have it, but i wouldn't compare them to hodge, brown, kirk, burns or even ling.

 

[walkers a legend]

Kirk

 

[WN123]

Plenty of tough players going around but I would have voted for Campbell Brown

 

[AFLOnline]

I said Brown just because how intimidating he is. He also gave the Carr boys a shake up in that final

 

[Blueboy43]

He'll need to do it over a longer period of time, but yeah certainly tougher than Judd, but who isn't? Besides Bryce Gibbs i mean.

Can you ever be in a thread where you do not bag Carlton.

 

[Hodgepodge]

Can you ever be in a thread where you do not bag Carlton.

I like Carlton, they don't win games and they're not a threat, i really only bag teams who are above us.

 

[Blueboy43]

Courage and toughness, all those players have it, but i wouldn't compare them to hodge, brown, kirk, burns or even ling.

Bartel>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>hodge

 

[Blueboy43]

I like Carlton, they don't win games and they're not a threat, i really only bag teams who are above us.

This thread had nothing to do with Judd but yet you find a way to bag him for no reason

 

[Hodgepodge]

This thread had nothing to do with Judd but yet you find a way to bag him for no reason

nono . . . Kit146 or whatever his name is . . . his signature says Longeran-tougher than Judd . . . like that's saying something. So i commented on it.

 

[Hodgepodge]

Bartel>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>hodge

Maybe if you add a few more of those '>>>' . . . . it might come true.

 

[Blueboy43]

nono . . . Kit146 or whatever his name is . . . his signature says Longeran-tougher than Judd . . . like that's saying something. So i commented on it.

Fair enough mate, my apologies.

 

[Blueboy43]

Maybe if you add a few more of those '>>>' . . . . it might come true.

For what its worth, i thought Hodge's ability to get up and play well after that dog act by buchanan was exceptional.

 

[Claude Balls]

Courage and toughness, all those players have it, but i wouldn't compare them to hodge, brown, kirk, burns or even ling.

Why don't you start a poll to see who goes in harder out of:

Hodge
Selwood
Luke Ball
Bartel
Hayes
Black


...make it public, so we can filter out the biased supporters, and then see how the voting pans out.

I'd put money on it suggesting that Hodge is not in a league of his own, despite the fact that Hawks fans seem to think he's the toughest player ever to play the game.

 

[HawksForever]

Surely Campbell Brown deserves to be lumped in that category also.

 

[Hodgepodge]

yeah campbell brown too after his mark in the final quarter.

 

[Thaihawk]

Chapman, Firrito, Hayes.

Kennelly after the weekends efforts.

Not even the toughest at the Roos. Overall it's got to be Pratt, acting is one of the toughest businesses around. And it takes guts to stick your gloved hand in someones face when they are succk on the ground and can't defend themself.

 

[hellfire]

Can't believe Burns is so far behind in this poll.

It's Kirk or Burns for me.

 

[TBoyleSuperstar]

Interesting thread. Question though, what is tough???

Is it the guy that puts his body/head over the ball at ever oppurtunity regardless of what is coming??

Is it the guy that goes back into a pack with little regard for his own safety and his eyes never stray from the ball??

It is the ability to take a guy out with a hip and shoulder??

Is it the guy who isn't scared to whack someone??

Just curious

 

[McManus2Waterhouse]

pavlich or pratt

from that list kirk with brown just behind

daylight

then burns and hodge

 

[BlueDW]

This thread had nothing to do with Judd but yet you find a way to bag him for no reason

He dreams about Judd constantly. Luke Hodge is good, but he will never be as good as Judd! And PodgeyHodgey knows it!

 

[anti.]

what is 'tough' anyway?

anyways...i vote for fiora.

 

[Hodgepodge]

He dreams about Judd constantly. Luke Hodge is good, but he will never be as good as Judd! And PodgeyHodgey knows it!

I explained to your friend why i mentioned judd and he accepted it.