|
|
Post by Linx on Dec 25, 2015 16:45:07 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by marcofstoke on Dec 25, 2015 17:15:14 GMT
Yes the number 1 is a strange choice and no Smithy but David Batty in there is just wrong!
|
|
|
|
Post by roylandstoke on Dec 25, 2015 18:07:53 GMT
Billy Bremner wasn't the hardest player in that Leeds side, never mind the hardest in football.
David Batty? Vinny Jones?
Kenny Burns was mental and rock hard as was his partner in crime Larry Lloyd.
Denis Smith and Alan Bloor shit all over Roy Keane.
|
|
|
|
Post by wrighter on Dec 25, 2015 18:35:27 GMT
Where is John McGrath[Southampton/Newcastle] ?
Hard as nails
|
|
|
|
Post by JoeinOz on Dec 25, 2015 21:52:48 GMT
Duncan Forbes, Graeme Souness, Smithy. Alan Hansen..... not an obvious pick but make no mistake Hansen was as hard as they come. Jimmy Case Alan Macdonald Mick Harford.
|
|
|
|
Post by lawrieleslie on Dec 25, 2015 21:58:32 GMT
Maurice Setters and Eddie Clamp but my old man reckoned Charlie Scrimshaw from the mid 1930s team was the hardest player he'd ever seen.
|
|
|
|
Post by wrighter on Dec 25, 2015 22:13:46 GMT
No mention of Mr.Huth !!!
|
|
|
|
Post by stockportstokie on Dec 25, 2015 22:20:12 GMT
There will be loads of names missing.
Honourable Stokie mentions. Sergie, Wilko, Fuller, Ade, Whelan etc.
Big Dunc would destroy Keane. No one mixes it with big Dunc.
|
|
|
|
Post by dwr17477 on Dec 25, 2015 22:27:25 GMT
Billy Whitehurst☺
|
|
|
|
Post by homer32 on Dec 25, 2015 22:35:57 GMT
Can't argue with that, Bremner together with Hunter and Giles were an evil bunch in that Leeds side. Just think they make our current 'hard man' Charlie Adam look like a right nancy boy.
|
|
|
|
Post by kustokie on Dec 26, 2015 0:27:31 GMT
Can't argue with that, Bremner together with Hunter and Giles were an evil bunch in that Leeds side. Just think they make our current 'hard man' Charlie Adam look like a right nancy boy. Yes they were. And don't forget Jackie Charlton and his infamous "black book". |
|
|
|
Post by kustokie on Dec 26, 2015 0:38:35 GMT
Most of those weren't so much hard as just flat out dirty, especially Bremner and Giles, nasty specimens. Typical dirty little mid-field players that couldn't tackle. Nobby Stiles was in the same class. After big Denis, the hardest players I ever saw in the 60s and 70s were Tommy Smith, Norman Hunter and Chopper Harris. I lived in Bristol for a while and watched Bristol City for while...Norman Hunter ended his career there and i learned a greater appreciation of how good a player he was.
|
|
|
|
Post by WoodbineWright2@ on Dec 26, 2015 0:38:35 GMT
I played against Kenny Burns in a Sunday league football match in the mid-nineties and it was a scary prospect. He still had that fear factor about him and it was a daunting task. He was a right unit !!
|
|
|
|
Post by JoeinOz on Dec 26, 2015 1:39:20 GMT
Neil Aspin was quietly hard when he played for Vale. In a good way too. Decent player.
|
|
|
|
Post by darksideofthemoon on Dec 26, 2015 1:42:09 GMT
Maurice Setters and Eddie Clamp but my old man reckoned Charlie Scrimshaw from the mid 1930s team was the hardest player he'd ever seen. I remember Chopper Clamp from back in the day.....I thought he was pretty 'ard !!  |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2015 3:30:28 GMT
Roy Keane is a joke.
I remember a few years ago watching Leeds Rhinos v Bradford Bulls on TV, in the crowd was Roy Keane, the commentator said " There are a few players on the pitch today who wouldn't fancy playing against him"...Yeah right...they'd destroy him, mind you, even the team mascot would...
|
|
|
|
Post by Dallas Cowboy on Dec 26, 2015 3:58:06 GMT
Following the logic of those photographs, Dave MacKay should be the hardest man. The No 1 "hard man", Billy Bremner, is visibly shitting himself as MacKay grabs him. As others have said, a distinction must be made between hard and nasty. The nasty men tend to choose soft targets. I recall Souness going in over the top in a tackle with Paul Richardson in a Boxing Day game against Liverpool. Souness kept well clear of Denis Smith during that game. My hero Calvin Palmer decked Tommy Smith at Anfield, so where does that place Palmer? And let's not forget Eddie Clamp. He was both hard and nasty.  And also George Kinnell -- hard as nails but without the malice of lesser "hard" men. |
|
|
|
Post by JoeinOz on Dec 26, 2015 6:26:02 GMT
Oxford had Micky Lewis for yonks
He was a aard.
|
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2015 8:57:10 GMT
Dave " Machette " Kitson.
There is a player you simply do not get mixed up with...
Oh and Jim Gannon.
|
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2015 9:05:35 GMT
Dave " Machette " Kitson.
There is a player you simply do not get mixed up with...
Oh and Jim Gannon.
|
|
|
|
Post by tijuanabrass on Dec 26, 2015 9:38:29 GMT
Their justification for David Batty being a hard man was that Graham bloody-Le Saux twatted him!
That's all you need to know. And Roy Keane ? It's click bait.
|
|
|
|
Post by RAF on Dec 26, 2015 10:04:17 GMT
I'm surprised Mark Dennis isn't on the list. He makes Batty look like Julian Clarey!
H
|
|
|
|
Post by bathstoke on Dec 26, 2015 10:08:58 GMT
Billy Bremner wasn't the hardest player in that Leeds side, never mind the hardest in football. Brilliant, "Is Ringo the greatest drummer in the world?" Lennon, "He's not even the greatest drummer in the Beatles" |
|
|
|
Post by ohbottom on Dec 26, 2015 10:13:34 GMT
I'm surprised Mark Dennis isn't on the list. He makes Batty look like Julian Clarey! H Was just about to say the same. He was a proper psycho. |
|
|
|
Post by ohbottom on Dec 26, 2015 10:14:06 GMT
I'm amazed no-one on here has suggested famous hard-man Jim Gannon...
|
|
|
|
Post by swampySCFC on Dec 26, 2015 10:52:38 GMT
No mention of Graham Roberts or Mick Kennedy
|
|
|
|
Post by bathstoke on Dec 26, 2015 11:29:28 GMT
Looking at that list, you have to conclude theres something pathological about the Jockanese
|
|
And also George Kinnell -- hard as nails but without the malice of lesser "hard" men.
