Sooks Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 2 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said: Your second point is correct but the guy could barely make a challenge without being crocked, he ended his career a bad challenge against Dunfermline irc? Maybe just our definitions differ. I went to both his testimonials and was gutted when he went to Leicester. The wasting of millions of our money and the turgid football that ended in our demotion changed my opinion. But we are allowed to disagree, you will clapping him next Saturday and I will be booing him 😜. No this is all fair . Fair enough mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabbosfan Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 Big Chuck Roddy McDonald Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo-Jambo Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 10 hours ago, periodictabledancer said: MacLaren was not a beast , he wasn't a thug, he wasn't a dirty player. I saw him up close & personal in the Bayern game at Tynecastle : he was class and he didn't give a **** about their stars. IIRC he was 18. He never got the interntational recognition he deserved either IMO. You thinking of Alan. Stewart was never with us an eighteen year old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo-Jambo Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 Ryan Stevenson. Certainly looked hard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Camazzola Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 Claire Cowan deserves a mention for slapping a few Hibees about at the end of last season. 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batistuta87 Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 (edited) Unreal that anyone would have a hardest 11 and not have Bruno in it haha. He was one of the most feared footballers ever, never mind Hearts players! Ally Mauchlen was mental as well. And not that he's hard, maybe just brave or mad, but the 5 and a half foot tall Cammy Devlin wil always have my respect for squaring up to 6ft5 Ryan Edwards v Dundee Utd 🤣 Edited November 15 by Batistuta87 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R9. Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 3 pages in and no mention of Elvis the man was solid! a leader a LION I would follow him into Battle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooks Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 I always thought Ian Baird would be a handy bloke in a scrap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooks Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 5 minutes ago, R9. said: 3 pages in and no mention of Elvis the man was solid! a leader a LION I would follow him into Battle. But how would you feel a few years later when you looked out across the battlefield and saw him kneeling under the enemys flag ? ( only part serious ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirwalter Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 2 hours ago, Sleepy head said: Surprised nobody has mentioned Jimmy Bone. Or Dave Bowman? ...and his dad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the posh bit Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 6 minutes ago, R9. said: 3 pages in and no mention of Elvis the man was solid! a leader a LION I would follow him into Battle. Elvis was a snidey, backstabbing rat. No use whatsoever in the trenches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iantjambo Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 13 minutes ago, Samuel Camazzola said: Claire Cowan deserves a mention for slapping a few Hibees about at the end of last season. 😉 **** aye, she was ready for a square go with anything in green 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R9. Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 JP in the shop thinks of himself as a bit of a hard nut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckies1874 Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 (edited) 4 hours ago, Craig_ said: Miko? Surely not... Yep, Miko is another with 4 red cards. 1. Zaliukas 7 2. McKay 6 3. Robertson 6 4. Levein 6 5. Kidd 5 6. Hartley 5 7. Stewart 5 8. Maybury 4 9. Cochrane 4 10. Mikoliunas 4 11. 12. Edited November 15 by Luckies1874 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyNic Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 Adao. He was easy money for a booking every single game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazo Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 apologies if mention but not one of the more popular ones but Hugh(Shuggy) Burns also came across as hard as ****. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carter Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 13 hours ago, RS86 said: Neil Berry strolls into this. Without a shadow of a doubt. Never shat out of anything. Wholly committed and a tremendous servant in his time at the club. Not many players with more Hearts appearances than Chuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carter Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 41 minutes ago, the posh bit said: Elvis was a snidey, backstabbing rat. No use whatsoever in the trenches. FFS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusk_Till_Dawn Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 Elvis gets into this no problem, snake or no snake. Stevo was a niggly little ****er too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john thomas Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 12 hours ago, Pasquale for King said: Levein? Punching a teammate? A hard man has to be able to kick players, without being forced off with an injury. Hugh Burns was mental. Rousset was tough for a GK, wasn’t scared of a physical challenge. Stephane Mahe. Mike Galloway. Ian Black. Ryan Stevenson. Salvatori. Kyle, Busby and Bruno my favourites. He had a fight with a teammate, hardly unusual. Not everyone would have taken on Hogg and come out on top . Despite being out for 2-3(?) years played about 400 games . Hardly a shrinking violet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovecraft Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 JC needs to be on it. Hard as nails. Kicked up and down the place every week and just got on with. Sign of a proper hard man, not one of these guys that hides behind refs pretending to be a hard guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RENE Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 I know a lot of you youngster think your picks were hard but first and second on anyone's list must be John Cumming and David Mackay. Drew Busby would probably be third. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Thomson Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 (edited) Players that I actually saw playing. That were hard but could play. GK Cruickshank Walter kidd Neil pointon Bruno Levein Busby Fulton Colqhoun Robbo W. Johnston Clarke Subs McLaren Kyle McPherson Townsend Winchester R Stevenson I Black Edited November 15 by Graham Thomson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig_ Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 Big Janny surely deserves a mention, if only for showing Scott Brown up for the wee scrote that he was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john thomas Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 2 minutes ago, Craig_ said: Big Janny surely deserves a mention, if only for showing Scott Brown up for the wee scrote that he was. And getting sent off in the process Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boag1874 Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 7 hours ago, Hansel said: No Jamie Hamill? One of the stupidest things I've ever seen a player do live, he missed the derby cause of that! Also probably simultaneously the funniest though mad ******* that he was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N Lincs Jambo Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 11 minutes ago, Craig_ said: Big Janny surely deserves a mention, if only for showing Scott Brown up for the wee scrote that he was. Agreed. Also if that’s a criterion then Naismith also gets in. Studs right into Broonaldo’s hee-haws (wish I had the pic)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john thomas Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 2 minutes ago, N Lincs Jambo said: Agreed. Also if that’s a criterion then Naismith also gets in. Studs right into Broonaldo’s hee-haws (wish I had the pic)! And got away with it . Think we should have a Sneaky X1 thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckies1874 Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 2 hours ago, Carter said: Without a shadow of a doubt. Never shat out of anything. Wholly committed and a tremendous servant in his time at the club. Not many players with more Hearts appearances than Chuck. 30th on the all time list with 316 appearances. When you watch back some of the great matches, that sadly too often ended unluckily for us, in the mid to late 80’s, against very good Celtic sides, he was always a big figure for us in the middle of the park. Had way less talent than the likes of McStay and McLair but they always knew they’d been in a hell of a game! When you watch the ‘efforts’ against the Old Firm these days it shows you how far attitude, desire, passion and hunger can get you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taffin Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 I reckon Klimek was absolute nails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carter Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 6 minutes ago, Luckies1874 said: 30th on the all time list with 316 appearances. When you watch back some of the great matches, that sadly too often ended unluckily for us, in the mid to late 80’s, against very good Celtic sides, he was always a big figure for us in the middle of the park. Had way less talent than the likes of McStay and McLair but they always knew they’d been in a hell of a game! When you watch the ‘efforts’ against the Old Firm these days it shows you how far attitude, desire, passion and hunger can get you. Frequently deployed to do a man to man job on McStay. Often resulting in McStay being completely nullified. The challenge on Paul Wright was something else! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooks Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 We will never know if Dawid Kucharski really did slaughter thousands in a windswept wasteland because someone shot his cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonraker Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 15 hours ago, norrie1952 said: As an old guy, I'll put big Arthur Thomson in there Cut my hair a few times at Poulsons in Porty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooks Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 7 minutes ago, moonraker said: Cut my hair a few times at Poulsons in Porty His name was Robert Paulson ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris5115 Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 14 hours ago, martoon said: John Millar: A tough tackling midfielder 30 years back who had skill and goals in him to back it up. Walter Kidd: Hard as nails and, as the story goes, left Hugh Burns in no doubt as to what he could do with his Rangers brand of "values". Completely agree about John Colquhoun: He was feckin unbreakable. Once read a article from JC and he said Zico was like a guardian angel to him. Anyone who put him up in the air then got it 10 times harder in return from Zico. Well documented back in the day he had that bigot Shuggie Burns pinned up against the dressing room wall. Walter defo in the hard man category for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabbosfan Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 3 hours ago, Dazo said: apologies if mention but not one of the more popular ones but Hugh(Shuggy) Burns also came across as hard as ****. Liked Shuggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgierools Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 The tube of a landlord in the tynie arms always fancied himself as a bit of a hard man. Hobo I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john thomas Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 29 minutes ago, moonraker said: Cut my hair a few times at Poulsons in Porty Arthur Thomson a hairdresser! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carter Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 I was led to believe we had to take Burns as a condition of getting McPherson from Rangers. Only made 24 appearances for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonraker Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 (edited) 2 minutes ago, john thomas said: Arthur Thomson a hairdresser! Hard to believe but aye...he would probably have preferred the term barber though Edited November 15 by moonraker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deevers Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 2 minutes ago, john thomas said: Arthur Thomson a hairdresser! Big Arthur joined the police after his football career finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgierools Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 1 minute ago, john thomas said: Arthur Thomson a hairdresser! Dave Mackay sold ties. Real hard men know when to turn it of. I've worked with several SF guys in the forces. Proper gents out of the office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithian Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 Page three and I see no mention of former Hearts CAPTAIN Perry Kitchen? A man hailed by Zlatan for his ability to get stuck in? A hard man who would be on a path to club legend status if not for Cathro not understand his brilliance for passing backwards and tackling? The only man who ever made me consider purchasing a kit? Disgrace! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radio Ga Ga Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 Many moons ago, I was chatting to Paul Heggarty (Ex Dundee United) who told me the hardest player he ever played against was Sandy Clark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john thomas Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 27 minutes ago, Deevers said: Big Arthur joined the police after his football career finish. Correct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martoon Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 51 minutes ago, Boris5115 said: Once read a article from JC and he said Zico was like a guardian angel to him. Anyone who put him up in the air then got it 10 times harder in return from Zico. Well documented back in the day he had that bigot Shuggie Burns pinned up against the dressing room wall. Walter defo in the hard man category for me. Iirc, JC missed just one Hearts game in his first spell between 1985-91. Astonishing when you consider the punishment he took. I loved Walter. Speaks volumes that he was the last man standing from the grim days of the late 70's/early 80's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris5115 Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 4 minutes ago, martoon said: Iirc, JC missed just one Hearts game in his first spell between 1985-91. Astonishing when you consider the punishment he took. I loved Walter. Speaks volumes that he was the last man standing from the grim days of the late 70's/early 80's. Two of my idols to be honest. As you say the stick JC took was incredible as the football was very raw back then. Walter was a good honest reliable pro and testimony to that was Alex McDonald making him club captain and then taking him to Airdrie in the same capacity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanHearts Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 Cruikshank Zico Bruno A. Anderson K. Black I. Black Buzzbomb Brellier S. Clark K.Kyle W. Johnston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R9. Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 4 hours ago, Dusk_Till_Dawn said: Elvis gets into this no problem, snake or no snake. Stevo was a niggly little ****er too THANK YOU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R9. Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 1 hour ago, Gorgierools said: The tube of a landlord in the tynie arms always fancied himself as a bit of a hard man. Hobo I believe. 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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