'He'll give a couple penalties away each game for whacking someone high. He risks suspension and gets away with it.' 9WWOS
Now that the game has put in stern measures to avoid players throwing down "you see wingers coming in and pushing front-rowers which is a little bit different than years ago."
"It was a big part of personalities in the game, a big part of what you had to endure, what you had to do to survive," Gould said. "The player who has the best intimidation factor in the game at the moment is Jared Waerea-Hargreaves – purely because of how aggressive he does play the game and how he just flies so close to the edge every single game," Gallen said."He'll give a couple penalties away each game for whacking someone high. He risks suspension and gets away with it. It's not always in a dirty way he's just a big strong tough man that's hard to handle.
Gallen added that Jason Taumalolo was another player who intimidated the defensive line, while also pointing to smaller players who were difficult to tackle despite a lack of size.
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