Liam Noble is one of the last players I would put in the "little rat" category. He was lightweight and wasn't capable of getting stuck in to a tackle. Most of his cards were for petulance rather than crunching tackles.
Agreed, apart from the odd worldy goal, he was useless. Massive sigh from me when we re-signed him. Ravenhill and Bishop? Were they our last effective, 'little rats'. ?