Rugby Hits.......

[R1Geezer]

These are 2 of the best can you find better?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iZPZLnA_HWc

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BDq2OPXtZso

[jno]

wouldn't get in the way of this guy...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5oEPXd27JnI&feat ure=related

I once saw him charge straight through a bunch of South Africans to score, dragging three of them with him. (He never actually scored a try against the Boks, though.) Big fellow.

[joggerjayne]

Lomu was just a freak.

These are all fab.

But still, nobody has found the best tackle of all ...

Mickey Skinner tackling Marc Cecillon in the World Cup quarter final in 1991 (not 1999, as I originally thought ... how time flies).

I want to see Mickey Skinner's big tackle !!!

[R1Geezer]

just found this one:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8ctts9LOk&NR=1

To all the soccer bods out there I should point out that all these tackles are in fact quite legal.

[R1Geezer]

Jayne, the skinner video was pulled from you tube for "Mis use". I remember the tackle though, let me know if you find it!

[joggerjayne]

I'm still trying.

In the course of my searching, I came across this website (in more ways than one!) ...

http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2007/02/try-save rs-and-rib-breakers.html

What's the appeal of big men being rough?

(I know the answer ... it's a hypothetical question)

[joggerjayne]

This is brilliant ...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f8-vJQSA3N8&feat ure=related

[jno]

I used to figure Jonah wasn't really a freak, just a big south sea island guy - the size of a forward but because he played as a back he concentrated on speed and legs rather than upper body strength. I've met him; he's tall but not a giant.

Then I found out he was actually suffering from a debilitating kidney ailment through most of his career, and started to think, Wow, what would he have been like if he'd been fit?? So he probably was a bit freakish after all.