#5. Henry Tuilagi (Samoa)
Haskell said: “There’s no-one that’s ever scared me because, I think, then you wouldn’t play the game… but there was one player that I was super wary of and always wondered where he was. That was Henry Tuilagi.
“The problem with Henry is, for a start, he was about 135kgs. He used to stand in the back-field and people used to kick him the ball, and he would catch it and hold it in one hand. His hand was so big that it looked like a miniature rugby ball.
“And he would run… and just the f***ing hate in his face. He was just like whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, and he would run so f***ing hard.
“Obviously the first person would be like, ‘I’ll do it [tackle him]!’ and they’d just bounce off him… dust!
“Then I’d be like, ‘I love you mum!’, and dive into the spokes! It was horrific.”
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