He’s an All-Australian, a premiership player, and one of the best defenders in the competition.
But if I threw the name Brayden Maynard at you, I doubt any of those accolades would be the first thing that springs to mind.
In an increasingly sanitised game, Maynard has become one of its most polarising figures – always first into the fray, a constant niggling presence for opposition forwards, and forever linked to the collision that effectively ended Angus Brayshaw’s career.
Fair? Unfair? Somewhere in between?
Let’s take a closer look at one of the modern game’s most compelling hard men
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