What would we consider a hard man? I think our hard man stocks are fine, so long as your definition doesn’t include the types who run around all puffed up and misconstrue cheap shots as hard.
Ballas and Walters are as hard as they come, except they around about 75kg dripping wet. Add Apeness to that forward line, and I reckon you’ll have a few defenders looking over their shoulders.
Spurr is brave, but he doesn’t go around whacking blokes. During our top 4 years we had possibly the most gentlemanly backline going around, and I don’t think it really hurt us.
As for the middle, you’ve got an Ent in the ruck, and two of the biggest midfielders in the league. Even our smaller blokes in Neale and Blakely are tough in an under. As shane points out, Fyfe probably considers himself above a lot of things these days, but on the field he isn’t above hitting blokes. We can always add Suban into the mix if we need more intensity.
I think our hard man stocks are fine.
