torryowl Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 10 hours ago, nzowl said: Ken Knighton - Hard as nails. I think he got fined for kicking the door off changing room door hinges at Orient after a loss he did mate ...he got sent off and went to the dressing room which was locked ,he promptly unlocked it with his boot . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 12 hours ago, Wolfmanjack said: Vic Mobley actually showed how tough he was, in the '66 semi at Villa Park, Gary Shelton showed it in the 70's at Craven Cottage, when he was obviously badly injured, but Tony Toms made him stay on the pitch, which he did, before succumbing to a (I' m positive) broken ankle which kept him out for twelve weeks. Toughest in my time though, have to be Gerry Young, closely followed by Don Megson mobley is a good call , i swear i once saw him chip a winger into the north stand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheriwozgod Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 (edited) Ken Knighton , just shades Mick Lyons and Lawrie Madden Edited November 24, 2016 by sheriwozgod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HirstWhoScoredIt Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 It depends how you class 'hardest'. coughlan and Danny Wilson were both hard in that they would never shirk a tackle and would carry on playing if their leg was hanging off. But for me, to be hardest, you also need the opposition to have dreaded playing against you because they knew they themselves were going to get hurt. Pearson was hard but he was never dirty. Lyons is definitely a contender. Hirst shouldn't be underestimated. Mersin said that he was the one player that Adams dreaded playing against because he could run him but would also have a fight. Chapman was also a tough nut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-Owl Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 (edited) Surely its between Waddle and Hutchinson? Those two celebrations showed how hard both of them were... Edited November 25, 2016 by TK-Owl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james o connor Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 On 11/23/2016 at 18:41, aeroswfc said: Paolo Di Canio. That would be accurate if it was a thread for the biggest flouncer. Certainly not hardest ! Didnt mean to Neg though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 Bob BOULDER - hard as a rock, or Roland NAILSson - tough as ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuncOwl Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 On 24/11/2016 at 07:39, HirstWhoScoredIt said: Chapman was also a tough nut. Lesley Ash probably thinks so!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAL Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 2 hours ago, james o connor said: That would be accurate if it was a thread for the biggest flouncer. Certainly not hardest ! Didnt mean to Neg though You can un neg now. Just press the plus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broncolives Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 my Family would say Norman Curtis but in my time I think Tony Kay was hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1Owl Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 Mick Pickering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradowl Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 On 11/23/2016 at 20:25, nzowl said: Ken Knighton - Hard as nails. I think he got fined for kicking the door off changing room door hinges at Orient after a loss Also smashed things in his own house, mates girlfriend use to baby sit for him and when he came home after a few beers was proper angry if we lost which was most weekends in them days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costello 77 Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 Not an individual. Wilkinson's teams took sh*t from nobody... wherever they played. About one player though, there was a lot of hard centre halfs about in the mid seventies to mid nineties; Lee Chapman wasn't cowed by an of them in my memory. Looked like a play boy but stood up to the lot of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarnOwl55 Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 Some good candidates on here but surely you have to go back to the times when you could be hard and not get penalised / booked / sent off. Were it not for this aspect of the game then Hutch would as hard as anyone I have seen in a Wednesday shirt. But because of that...........it has to be Gerry Young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whatahoot Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 After 50+ years of watching Wednesday 1) Don Megson and Tony Kay were both hard as nails and would tackle a brick wall ...both could take a tackle and just get on with it....both could dish it out in a full blooded game. 3) Mick Lyons 4) David Bronco Layne 5) Ken Knighton 6) Gerry Young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIPPS_S.W.F.C Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 22:10, salmonbones said: Hyde was an enigma. He was caught between (tiny) hardman and an energetic dynamo with a good long shot on him on occasion. He wasn't shy in the tackle though, i'll give you that. Danny Wilson taught him well, the man he was understudy to. It was a joke...!!@@!!.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costello 77 Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Lachman, from what I've seen. Mind you the camera can lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIPPS_S.W.F.C Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 PHIL KING.... didn't I hear he chased all the crazy gang into dressing room for taking out Graham Hyde, Vinnie Jones I think it was;and they wouldn't open the dressing room door..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meadowview owl Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Emerson thome without doubt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malek Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 David Hirst. Staying on the pitch and scoring with his shattered ankle. Can't get harder than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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