Hardest and wimpiest Town players?

Enjoying this thread.....it’s brought back some great memories!!
As to the hardest player I’ve seen the I’d have to agree that Graham Rathbone has to be right up there. Mike Hickman I don’t think would be classed as “hard” but I would certainly class him as one of the “bravest” I can remember. BUT...there’s no doubt that Bobby Cummings has to be unquestionably my absolute favourite...and he obviously is for many others judging from this thread.
As to the wimpiest, well Gary Child’s I remember once actually screaming BEFORE getting hit but without a shadow of a doubt the biggest coward I ever saw was a winger called Frank Sharp back in the seventies. The only player I can recall that never got his shorts muddy.
It has to be taken into account also that in the era before substitutes  then playing on while injured, often seriously, was common so players had to be ‘hard’ I guess.
Cheers and stay well everyone

Quoted from mariners1

Enjoying this thread.....it’s brought back some great memories!!
As to the hardest player I’ve seen the I’d have to agree that Graham Rathbone has to be right up there. Mike Hickman I don’t think would be classed as “hard” but I would certainly class him as one of the “bravest” I can remember. BUT...there’s no doubt that Bobby Cummings has to be unquestionably my absolute favourite...and he obviously is for many others judging from this thread.
As to the wimpiest, well Gary Child’s I remember once actually screaming BEFORE getting hit but without a shadow of a doubt the biggest coward I ever saw was a winger called Frank Sharp back in the seventies. The only player I can recall that never got his shorts muddy.
It has to be taken into account also that in the era before substitutes  then playing on while injured, often seriously, was common so players had to be ‘hard’ I guess.
Cheers and stay well everyone

I remember Frank Sharp and seem to think he had a bad injury earlier in his career, maybe a broken leg. Anyway Ron Ashman signed him and he was no fool as a manager but Frank was never going to risk another bad injury,

Going back further still, how about an unusual one? Clarrie Williams seemed to be in both the brave and the wimp camps depending on who saw him and when. He was certainly a good goalkeeper and I think he still holds the record for Town in consecutive clean sheets. He played over 150 games for Town. But by the time I first saw him at the end of the 50s the old blokes were saying he was scared to come and battle the big forwards for the ball. Again, I think he may have been injured before that and it may have affected him. He was transferred to Barnsley but he finished relatively soon for a goalie, only 29 or 30 years old.

For me one of the hardest Town players I ever saw
never once wore the black and white stripes.

George Tweedy was six foot tall, all bone and muscle
and as hard as nails.

Whenever a high ball came into our area you had to feel
sorry for any opposing forward who thought he had a chance
of getting his head onto the ball.

George's motto was simple. Right fist at the ball, left fist on
someone's chin and right knee......OUCH. !

In the mayhem that followed George would just stand there
in his red roll neck jumper cooly straightening his cloth flat
cap ( Ollie would have loved that ) whilst the away team's
trainer came rushing on with the sponge and cold water.

Hardest - Bobby Cummings
wimpiest - Bobby Mitchell - good player but couldn’t tackle

And here they both are in 1980 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nv6niicrtC8

Quoted from Jackie Lewis

Hardest - Bobby Cummings
wimpiest - Bobby Mitchell - good player but couldn’t tackle

And here they both are in 1980 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nv6niicrtC8

Brilliant. That brought back great memories, the team, the crowd , the atmosphere.  Thanks for posting.

Just thought of a real hard case.....

Remember Geoff  Barker.....nicknamed Blockhead!

Think he came from Reading.....Local from Hull

Quoted from Jackie Lewis

Hardest - Bobby Cummings
wimpiest - Bobby Mitchell - good player but couldn’t tackle

And here they both are in 1980 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nv6niicrtC8

Great memories!

Anyone else notice the sliding tackle from "wimp" Mike Brolley?