Hardest Villa Player You Have Seen.

[pooligan]

Which is the hardest Villa player you have seen? I can think of a few who were as hard as nails, players such as Vic Crowe,Dick Edwards,Dave Simmons,Sammy Morgan,Leighton Phillips and Andy Lochhead but the one who stands out  for me above them all is George Curtis. I never saw anyone pick on this guy when he played for us.Not sure if it is true,but a Coventry fan once told me he played on with a broken leg once not knowing how serious the injury was.If true,would not surprise me.

[villasjf]

I remember when he signed for us at Christmas, a huge bloke who went in hard defending and also for our corners, they called him the pig because he grunted so much. A lovely bloke off the pitch too.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Stuart Downing, the way he flew into tackles was terrifying. A real hardnut and Villa will be a softer touch without his steel down the left this season.

[Holte L2]

Shun Teale is the first name that springs to mind.

[pedro25]

Macca for me, maybe it was his aura, he had a presence that bigger guys didn't necessarily have.  You'd never see Vinnie Jones, Julian Dicks etc square up to God.  He was a hard man, but gentle, fair and unaggressive, would not have meant he couldn't have handled himself if he needed to.

[Deano's Mullet]

Shaun Teale Man of Steel

[garyshawsknee]

Lord McGrath and Teale were a tough pair to face. I always remember Garry Thompson was pretty hard as well.

[Concrete John]

It's a sad state of affairs when the last name we can come up with stopped playing for us in 1996.

[pedro25]

Bouma and Olof were tough cookies to I reckon, maybe Carew also.

[Lobsterboy]

It's a sad state of affairs when the last name we can come up with stopped playing for us in 1996.

Sad but true; we haven't really had a real hard man playing for us for some time

[Mister E]

Trevor Hockey and George Curtis.
Psycho Evans was also a beast.
Within the framework of the modern game, I guess Mellberg was hard, as was Boateng.

[Holtenderinthesky]

It's a sad state of affairs when the last name we can come up with stopped playing for us in 1996.

Sad but true; we haven't really had a real hard man playing for us for some time

Bouma?  McCann?  Olly?

[Yamielo75]

Andy Townsend?

[Tom_Mc9?]

McCann wasn't hard! He looked like a bloody badger!

[supertom]

Bouma probably had the hardest head in football. Granite ffs!

I wouldn't say hard because he seems too nice, but Laursen had balls. He gave everything and literally would never pull away from a challenge or blocking a ball. He'd have blocked an express train to stop it getting in the net.

Teale, God, Dublin, Mellberg.