PICS: Rugby lock attempts to play on despite gruesome finger injury

Horwill's humour has remained undimmed in light of the nasty blow.

Harlequins lock James Horwill should face a short stint on the sidelines owing to the gruesome compound fracture of his finger suffered in Sunday's 25-6 defeat at Leicester.

Former Australia captain Horwill asked physios to tape up his nasty finger injury so he could keep playing, immediately inking his name into rugby's hard-man annals. Stills of the horrific injury were quickly tweeted and duly went viral.