Regarding the above point of how the tackle is ridden, do you really think Clerc chose to flip upside down and land on his head/back (depending on if you are AA)? How the tackle is made defines how or if it can be ridden safely.
Ever played the game? Ever taught how to take a hit?
It also helps that Radike is much bigger and heavier, how the tackle is made is not the only thing that defines the outcomes. (in these cases, obviously high tackles cannot be ridden)
Eye gouging has as much place in rugby as dropping your knee on to someone’s head, or leading in to a tackle with your fist. This sort of thing should be cited and looked in to properly…..
But unless he has his hands on the World Cup now, he shouldn’t be on the list either according to doof_doof, and anyway it’s just a readers’ choice and as we can see here people will vote with their hearts and not with their heads and spout the usual rubbish.
err…I didn’t say that. I was implying that if Wales did indeed have 7 of the best players in the tournament then they should/would have done better than 4th place.
A brilliant player is not defined by holding the RWC, nice leap you’ve made there. But a team with 7(!) of the 15 best players at the RWC would not have lost 3 times and failed to make the final, and they lost to a team who have no players in that list, and another who have only one.
After the Rougerie on McCaw eye-gouge, the All Blacks shook no French hands and wouldn’t swap shirts after the match.
New Zealand and French players didn’t embrace at the end of the game, and why there was little or no mention about the French team in the speeches after the final From
Even a slight improvement in kicking – just one extra kick, which is not an outrageous expectation – would have seen us in the final. So I think the 7 best players idea can’t be discounted on the basis of final position.
I think the 7 best players idea can be discounted on the basis of
the fact one is Toby Faletau who clearly wasnt the best 8, another is Geroge North who wasnt as good as a number of others and finally one is Warburton who got red carded in the biggest game of his life.
Zokes are you this obsessed with everything in life, you came on this thread to start with seemingly spoiling for a fight and you are still banging the same drum, do you need a hug?
After the McCaw on Parra punch and knee drop, the French shook no New Zealand hands and wouldn’t swap shirts after the match.
Don’t know why. McCaw did them a favour as Lievremont was forced to take him off shortly afterwards and bring on the scrum half who has created more for them every time he has come off the bench.
OK, Trinh Duc’s kicking is pish, but there are alternatives for that, but not the instinct that he has ball in hand.
As the French say “Il pue le rugby” (he stinks of rugby).
Quite. It’s a confrontational war dance. It seems a bit silly to be getting upset about someone confronting it!
Agreed. IMO, the opposition should be able to do whatever they want during the various hakas/dances before games. Saunter off and warm up in their own 22, perhaps. Stride up face to face with the opposition. Whatever.
Who could ever forget Norm Hewitt and Richard Cockerill and their Haka shenanigans. Resulted in the vile Leicester coach being knocked out out side a night club 😆
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