No matter how much Gibbs plays up the rugged challenge and the steep odds he faces, he inwardly matches that with concretelike confidence.
And so it is, on that August night against the Houston Dash, that chants of "Shoot her like a horse" cascade down on rival players when they suffer a rugged challenge, followed by "We'll support the girls in red / Until we're fucking dead".
Emmanuel Mayuka, on an industrious full debut for Southampton, had his appeals for a penalty turned down soon after as referee Howard Webb ruled that Carlos Cueller's rugged challenge had taken the ball.
Next February, a bunch of yet-to-be-designed robots are going to take on a rugged challenge: a 1-day, 480-kilometer race through the desert, rolling (or treading) from Los Angeles to Las Vegas with no human direction.
SFS offered rigorous on-site research intertwined with rugged physical challenges.
A tenor saxophone-bass-drums trio in jazz means a rugged structural challenge, and possibly an exercise in nostalgia, as it was more or less trademarked and sewed up by Sonny Rollins 50 years ago.
But the rugged terrain, logistical challenges and the in-your-face violence of the insurgency may also present great challenges to the noncommissioned officers in charge of these small units, operating far beyond the more consistent senior supervision in past wars.
Most of the stunning courses of recent years were inspired more by the wild, treeless landscapes of the links courses of the British Isles and the rugged, sand-filled challenges of the ultraprivate Pine Valley in southern New Jersey than by the lush, green-carpeted country club look brought to its highest polish at Augusta National, where the Masters tournament is played.
Putting on such rugged mileage is challenging enough in itself, let alone doing so with no fuel in the tank.
A superb first half saw Ross stamp his authority on an experienced midfield, proving to be rugged in the challenge and confident in possession.
