Bad Boys XV

1 K.Yates
2 K.Mealamu
3 D.Attoub
4 B.Botha
5 J.Cudmore
6 S.Burger
7 N.Best
8 M.Cécillon
9 J.Dupey
10 Q.Cooper
11 R.Caucaunibuca
12 G.Henson
13 T.Umaga
14 W.Sailor
15 D.Armitage

1 M.Stevens
2 O. Azam
3 Johan le Roux
4 J.Harrision
5 K.Wiese
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7
8 C.Hala'ufia
9 M.Phillips
10 C.Gower
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12 D.Cipriani
13 Rougerie
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15

You'd have to say Attoub. Found guilty on several occasions for multiple eye gouges and received a record one and a half years ban from rugby as result.

As much as he is a Bath legend Danny Grewcock would be at home in this team.

Neil Best at 7. Burger at 6.

Julian White on the bench, he was a full time rugby player part time boxer and tap dancer (on the shins and backs of others). A real bruiser though he is nothing like the eye gouging Attoub.

Where's Jamie Cudmore? Mr Suspended really should be captain of that list.

Yea actually get rid of Grewcock and put in Cudmore.

Scott Gibbs in over Henson

What has Umaga ever done???

Spear tackle

Hensons a muppet...not a bad boy...get him out of that team!

stick hartley instead of mealamu, gouge is worse than a clear out gone wrong in my books

Mealamu speartackle on BOD was far worse.

Henson has to be there surely?

What about Kobus Wiese?

I'd have Rougerie in at 13 for gouging. Parisse get's a nomination at 8 for gouging, but Cecillon's got that spot sewn up.

Johan "ear-biter" le Roux is a candidate at prop, as is Richard Low (gouging Greg Cooper, smashing Carozza's nose).

And Robin Brooke would edge Botha - thug on and off-field.

Eliota fuimanoa sapolu - possibly as a no 12?

Also Olivier Azam as hooker?

Disappointed to see no Grewcock or Trevor Brennan in the starting line up....

Phil Greening for hooker

Hala'ufia has to be in there.

Is this bad as in nasty, or bad as in lying about being beaten up to pretend to not have injured oneself in an embarrassing incident?

I agree with Kiwi.

Have to have Rougerie in there.

ll depends if this is on or off the pitch or a mix of the two. Grewcock was a real thug and a liability on the pitch, but everyone will parrot the old line about him being a gent off.

Justin " Plank" Harrison was a goon on and off. A racist bully who got into a fight with a quins coach whilst on coke. Makes Delon Armitage look like a Bhudist monk.

I agree with Justin Harrison, a crime if he isn't included in this team.

Tindall has found himself at the end of a couple of unsavoury stories involving drink, cars and midgets.
Who was the Kiwi who walked naked into a bar on Fiji, I think, then proceeded to punch everyone around him? He deserves a mention, along with Norm 'slugger' Hewett and Matthieu 'I fell over' Bastaraud.

Henson? Hmmm, bad boy? Don't quite see it. Extra-cirricular activities yes - but bad boy either on or off the field?

whocares wrote:Phil Greening for hooker

Is that for the hand off on Rougerie?

I very much rate Rougerie as a player but he really dropped in my estimation after that law suit and it felt like a significant low point in professional rugby.

It's always tragic when a player gets injured, but I never understood how a player could be blamed for that sort of freakish accident and forced to pay out 40,000. Hand offs are perfectly legitimate and anyone who has played the game knows that when you're running at full pace, trying to fend of another player coming at full pace and at an angle or behind you isn't an exact task.

@Rolf, that All Black winger you speak of is Zac Guildford

Tuqiri? Speared McCaw, pushed a referee, got kicked off Aussie team for sleeping with a student against team rules

Martin Johnson was pretty nasty at times. Got suspended at least twice I'm sure.

Craig Gower is the king of the bad boys:


Gower has been involved in a number of alcohol-related off-field incidents.

In 1999, Gower exposed himself to a female Irish tourist in a Coogee bar, blaming his behaviour on alcohol intoxication. He was dumped from the Kangaroos squad and fined $A2,500 by the NRL and a further $A500 in court after pleading guilty to indecent exposure.

Gower was fired as Panthers captain in December 2005, after incidents at a charity golf event where he argued with several guests, groped the teenage daughter of former league player Wayne Pearce, chased Pearce's son with a bottle before vomiting on him, streaked nude around the resort, stole and crashed a golf cart, held a butter knife to the throat of a Sydney radio personality before throwing it at resort guests, and engaged in a brawl with resort security before being ejected from the official function and detained by police. Gower was handed a "final warning" by the National Rugby League and fined $A100,000, with $A90,000 to be paid to an NRL programme encouraging the responsible use of alcohol by league players and $A10,000 to replace the destroyed golf cart. Gower was "deeply unhappy" that the Penrith Panthers club did not defend his reputation, and at one stage threatened to "walk" from the club.

Allegedly inebriated with alcohol in a bar at Kings Cross on 11 February 2007, Gower allegedly tried to kiss one man before biting him on the neck and sparking a brawl, and is accused of assaulting another man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Gower#Controversy

Gower.powell and Guilford.
Golf carts,runing about in the nude and getting into a biff they must be related.

Surely with two convictions of murder, Cecillion is the ultimate bad boy!?!

Regarding a question posed about a particular player above, I won't use hs name in case someone is sued, but I work in a particular part of the UK close to Mr X's home. I manage people's estates, a small part of which is some common land. A collegue if mine was inspecting the stock on the common, when he chanced upon a group of young men wearing masks and paintball-gunning a lamb that was trying to escape them. My friend told the lads to stop shooting the lamb, and was given a barrage of verbals. A threat to call the RSPCA and police saw the lads slope off, but my mate hid and waited for them, and watched them return and carry on with the exercise!

Cue another, louder approach to the men, and this time, they genuinely mooches off, leaving a techni-colour sheep to find it's ma. All the lads bar one took their masks off as they left, and my friend followed them off. When said masked 'youth' took his face gear off, it was none other than one of the famous rugby-playing muppets mentioned above!

Sam Warburton, that spear tackle in the world cup was a disgrace.

Richard Lowe (New Zealand)
James Small (South Africa)
James Dalton (South Africa)
Olivier Merle (france)
Duncan McRae (Australia)

Justin " Plank" Harrison was a goon on and off. A racist bully who got into a fight with a quins coach whilst on coke

Wasn't that the night he was famously dropped by Will Skinner?

Who was it that 'deliberatly' kicked Doddie Weirs knee in off the ball to end his career during a lions tour?

Bakkies botha isn't actually a bad boy he's just a huge enforcer on the pitch who has picked up a rep because of being massive and hard !

"I was given a three-week suspension a few years ago for pushing [Australia flanker] Phil Waugh at a ruck," he explained.

"When it came to the disciplinary hearing, the judge asked me how many times I had been cited in my life. I told the truth - once. He did not believe me, asked me if I had personal problems, if I hit my kids...It was ridiculous.

"People are wrong about me. I do not eat children."


http://www.supersport.com/rugby/european-rugby/news/120106/I_am_not_a_thug_Botha

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14 John Hopoate - Rugby League winger who stuck his fingers up 3 players bum in a game and got banned.

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11 James Small - racist south african winger who hated Chester Williams.

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8 Al Charron - after scoring the winning try for Canada against Wales in 1993, he famously said "looks like inbreeding has come back to haunt the Welsh" during the post match interview.

7 Mickey Skinner - tricked the england squad into doing a bungee jump while he walked down the queue collecting their wallets, when the last man made the jump, he legged it with their cash, off on the mother of all benders!

6 Abdelatif Benazzi - Lasted 13 minutes on his debut before stadning on the head of an Australian player and getting sent off.

5 Olivier Merle - blind sided Ricky Evans with a head butt, which resulted in his breaking his leg and ending his playing career.

4 A N Other - space reserved for the French forward who ripped out Wayne shelfords testicle, and knocked out 4 of his teeth.

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2 Fredrico Mendez - was 18 when he knocked out England lock Paul Ackford, he was annoyed because Ackford was squeezing his testicles during the scrums.

1 Johan Le Roux - Did a Mike Tyson on Sean fitzpatricks ear.

Corne Krige could captain that lot.

Surely Trev "Psycho" Brennan has to be in there? How many players have gone into the stands for a punch up during a game?

Immanol Harinordique's old man could be Secretary to the Supporters Club:

Just you leave my little boy alone!