There was absolutely no way anything other than Munster’s try against Toulouse on Sunday could have won the Heineken Champions Cup try of the round. Finished by Tadhg Beirne in the end, this was a team effort by Munster at the Stade Ernest Wallon, with some unreal skill from Gavin Coombes and Craig Casey in […]
David Flatman summed it up perfectly in commentary at the weekend when describing playing against Josua Tuisova. “You’d just have absolutely no interest in that, tackling him. Absolutely none. Go high get smacked, go low get smacked, go in the middle get smacked. I reckon, let him go past, grab his jersey and hit the […]
The topic of going high in tackles has received a lot of attention recently, but there are times when it is highly unadvisable. One of those situations is where Duane Vermeulen is running at you full pelt with a ten metre run-up. The 64-cap South Africa No8 has such brute upper body strength from a […]
There was a brief moment in Toulouse’s encounter with Munster on Sunday when the five time European champions entered god mode in rugby. It saw locks Richie Arnold and Emmanuel Meafou team up with flanker Anthony Jelonch to produce three brutal tackles in under 30 seconds. That is a combined weight of 377kg in just […]
