That was a good tackle in terms of it broke off a dangerous counter attack from the fullback and won a scrum in a good position, but I wouldn't say it was a big hit or anything, look how fast Hodgson gets up.
Hodgson's not a big guy and he used to take hard punishment all the time in the NRL but I remember whenever there were discussions about "toughest player in league" on Aussie forums, when people used to mention guys like Geoff Toovey, Glenn Lazarus and so on, Hodgson's name used to come up as toughest back, he was well known as being hard as nails.
I see him like Dessie in a less demonstrative way, he's only a small guy but pretty much indestructible. In fact it would have been interesting to see Dessie's reaction if Gordon Tallis had done that to him
Mind you if Tallis had done that to an ex union player who was just starting out in league, that clip would have become porn material to some of the users on here.