never say die...

[Ken Gargett]

it might be women’s rugby and it might be seven’s, so not really sport at all, but you have to applaud this effort.

https://youtu.be/9MS97LJWzZo

[soutso]

She's got form:

[Ken Gargett]

doesn't she ever. what a good tackle.

[Fuzz AI]

That's what you call getting freight trained.

[Hunter1974]

Get off the track here comes the train!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUI5NdGVVlw Check this out fellas LOL

[ayepatz]

Jeezus. Your Aussie women could teach our Scottish men a thing or two.

[Ken Gargett]

Jeezus. Your Aussie women could teach our Scottish men a thing or two.

and in return, your scottish men can teach our aussie women how to wear dresses.

[ayepatz]

and in return, your scottish men can teach our aussie women how to wear dresses.

Et tu, Brute?

http://youtu.be/UCVCXiVecl4

O'Driscoll v Roussouw. Never get bored of this one.

[ayepatz]

And my namesake, depriving the vile English. Lol

[Ken Gargett]

Et tu, Brute?

i do have endless scots in the family tree so i figure i am allowed to shake it occasionally.

[Ken Gargett]

Et tu, Brute?

http://youtu.be/UCVCXiVecl4

O'Driscoll v Roussouw. Never get bored of this one.

two points on this.

1. if we are on big hits, leaving aside state of origin which is a different category altogether, this is my fave. and in the pro bowl of all places.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-videos/0ap2000000308486/Sean-Taylor-hits-Brian-Moorman

2. was that brian driscoll with an illegal tackle? oh dear. the bloke (and i did like him as a player but...) never stopped bitching about any tackle on him he didn't like. so we have double standards? i gather he still doesn't speak to tana umaga for the tackle on him.

[Ken Gargett]

and i appear to have hijacked my own thread.

[ayepatz]

And Glenn Metcalfe against Fiji in 2003. Skirt and all.

This should be a thread. Is there a better try saving tackle than Nicole Beck's?

[ayepatz]

two points on this.

1. if we are on big hits, leaving aside state of origin which is a different category altogether, this is my fave. and in the pro bowl of all places.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-videos/0ap2000000308486/Sean-Taylor-hits-Brian-Moorman

2. was that brian driscoll with an illegal tackle? oh dear. the bloke (and i did like him as a player but...) never stopped bitching about any tackle on him he didn't like. so we have double standards? i gather he still doesn't speak to tana umaga for the tackle on him.

1. I had to sit through an advert for that. Totally worth it. Amazing.

2. Yes, it was. But it's South Africa, so who cares?

[Ken Gargett]

hard to go past george gregan on jeff wilson.

what was so important about this was that it was in the dying moments and if wilson scores, nz win and we lose.

[ayepatz]

Ok, Ken, I admit Gregan's is good. Bloody good. But this takes the biscuit.

[Ken Gargett]

i can't find it on youtube but the other contender is topo rodriguez in an 1986 bledisloe. on hika reid from memory. massive. like a brick wall on the line. always gets a mention in any discussion of greatest ever tackles. helped win us the game.

not rugby but some great stuff here. love the greg inglis one around 2 minutes.

[ayepatz]

Nice Ken! That Cooper hold-up is astonishing!

[Ken Gargett]

Ok, Ken, I admit Gregan's is good. Bloody good. But this takes the biscuit.

i've seen that before and concede it good (not close to the inglis one - he stopped the bloke and stole the ball solo) but up against a tackle in the last moments of a game that wins a bledisloe cup battle? i'll stick with gregan (matt burke was later heard to say, according to some mates, that george made his entire career on one tackle - bit harsh).

[ayepatz]

Another moment of Scottish joy. Not.

[ayepatz]

(matt burke was later heard to say, according to some mates, that george made his entire career on one tackle - bit harsh).

That is harsh. He built it on "Four more years", didn't he? Lol

[Ken Gargett]

That is harsh. He built it on "Four more years", didn't he? Lol

i'll take either.

[Ken Gargett]

Another moment of Scottish joy. Not.

i'm enjoying that one (well, you were up against the mighty japanese - not as though the scots would be favoured to win???). great tackle.

gorumaru - the bloke who made the tackle -plays his first game for the qld reds tomorrow evening. poor bastard has no idea what kind of septic swamp he has landed himself in.

[ayepatz]

As Ewan MacGregor says in Trainspotting, Ken, "It's shite being Scottish." Try explaining to anybody that David Sole wasn't Hutch.

[JohnS]

I've really enjoyed this thread, brings back memories! Wasn't that Gregan try-saving tackle in one of his first games for the Wallabies? And on All Black great Jeff Wilson, which helped the Wallabies win the Bledisloe Cup? Around 2000...or am I misremembering? I remember watching the game though as it was close!

One of the best try-saving tackles I've seen was during the 2003 NRL Grand Final. Scott Sattler pulled off a miraculous in-touch dive to prevent a sure try from a break in play. Penrith beat the Sydney Roosters 18-6 in an upset.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CMfVP8s3rA

Growing up in this Rugby League mad town (of Sydney) I always valued Steve Mortimer's cover defence. I remember this effort on Eric Grothe for Parramatta preventing a sure try. The Bulldogs won this 1984 semi-final 16-8, and the Grand Final against the same opposition two weeks later 6-4.