Piri Weepu tap tackle

I can't believe nobody has talked about this and just stuck to slating the ref,
I love the massive bone crunching tackles and i love the heavy handed nature in the ruck but Weepu's tap tackle today was in it's own right just as good as any massive hit,
because it made a statement.
He stopped a clear run in,it was timed to perfection and just said "not today lad,not today,this cup is mine"

Well done to NewZealand a nation who lives and plays real rugby the rightful world champions.

And France im so glad that they didn't lift the webb ellis what a bunch of unsportsmanlike Pre-Madonna's

It was a outstanding tap tackle and stopped a great try. Weepu may look like an incestuous inbred but he's been good at filling in Dan Carters hole and the gap left by his injury.

Pity for him he kicked like Hook today ....

I have always had concerns about how tap tackles fit within the laws of the game.

I am unable to find a defintition of what is a tackle under the current laws, but they always stated that you had to be making an attempt to hold the man. Tap tackles are effectively a slap often with a stiff arm, and often just as dangerous as a trip.


However yes, of it's kind, this was a good one.

Ankle taps arent illegal but they bleedin hurt when you are at full flight and you fall after one. I would prefer a crunching tackle because you at least see them coming and can prepare domewhat. Taps you dont see coming and you always seem to fall awkwardly.

It was a great tap from hime and really stopped what could have been a try.

viewtothegym wrote:And France im so glad that they didn't lift the webb ellis what a bunch of unsportsmanlike Pre-Madonna's

What is a Pre Madonna?

Gatts wrote:

viewtothegym wrote:And France im so glad that they didn't lift the webb ellis what a bunch of unsportsmanlike Pre-Madonna's

What is a Pre Madonna?

I am trying to think of an annoying female singer pre-madonna.......

eirebilly wrote:Ankle taps arent illegal but they bleedin hurt when you are at full flight and you fall after one. I would prefer a crunching tackle because you at least see them coming and can prepare domewhat. Taps you dont see coming and you always seem to fall awkwardly.

It was a great tap from hime and really stopped what could have been a try.

Great, there'll be red cards for tap tackles next, but a fist and knee to the head is fine.

slartibartfast wrote:

eirebilly wrote:Ankle taps arent illegal but they bleedin hurt when you are at full flight and you fall after one. I would prefer a crunching tackle because you at least see them coming and can prepare domewhat. Taps you dont see coming and you always seem to fall awkwardly.

It was a great tap from hime and really stopped what could have been a try.

Great, there'll be red cards for tap tackles next, but a fist and knee to the head is fine.

Huh, where did i say that they should be red cards and where did i say that fists and knees to the heads are fine?

There were actually three other defenders in front of Trinh-Duc when weepu tap tackled him, not sure he would have evaded their tackles on his way to a "clear run in"

viewtothegym wrote:And France im so glad that they didn't lift the webb ellis what a bunch of unsportsmanlike Pre-Madonna's

Leaving aside the 'Pre-Madonna' bit, which is actually quite funny, it shows wilful myopia to deny that France were excellent yesterday, a credit to their country and to northern hemisphere rugby.

luckless_pedestrian wrote: it shows wilful myopia to deny that France were excellent yesterday, a credit to their country and to northern hemisphere rugby.

Well said.

England rugby fan wrote:There were actually three other defenders in front of Trinh-Duc when weepu tap tackled him, not sure he would have evaded their tackles on his way to a "clear run in"

To be honest, i only saw 2 although they were closing in on Trinh-Duc. If the Ankle tap wasnt made Trinh-Duc had enough time to asses his options and France also had two attackers following up. It may or may not have been a certain try but it was a very dangerous situation for the AB's and Weepu's ankle tap diffused it very well.

I hate tap tackles, there is nothing worse when in full flight.

It was a great tap tackle. I know getting tap tackled unexpectedly can hurt, but I played in a game when the tap tackler himself almost died. He was our wing who got accidentally hit hard in the throat by the flying heel of the tackled player's boot. Fortunately a doctor on the touchline got him breathing normally.

I remember Halfpenny about to race down the line for a sure try against France in the last six nations but was stopped by a tap tackle,

INFURIATING

Surprised he made the tackle to be fair. Someone must have put a cream cake at the corner flag, and Trinh-Duc just got in the way....

luckless_pedestrian wrote:

viewtothegym wrote:And France im so glad that they didn't lift the webb ellis what a bunch of unsportsmanlike Pre-Madonna's

Leaving aside the 'Pre-Madonna' bit, which is actually quite funny, it shows wilful myopia to deny that France were excellent yesterday, a credit to their country and to northern hemisphere rugby.

Wilfull Myopia...was that Pre Madonna's first album?

luckless_pedestrian wrote:

viewtothegym wrote:And France im so glad that they didn't lift the webb ellis what a bunch of unsportsmanlike Pre-Madonna's

Leaving aside the 'Pre-Madonna' bit, which is actually quite funny, it shows wilful myopia to deny that France were excellent yesterday, a credit to their country and to northern hemisphere rugby.

moi aussi

Isn't it 'pre-Maradona'?

Pre Madonna's.....

Although it could mean the era in the early 80's that was void of American girly pop music. Like a virgin?

prima lads prima not pre.

viewtothegym wrote:prima lads prima not pre.

I think not view, it has been quoted Pre Madonna, a syntactical master strike if you ask me, and so it should remain...there is BC and AD and now there is PM and PM, Pre Madonna and Post Maradona.

Superbe!!

viewtothegym wrote:prima lads prima not pre.

So it's prima-Madonna's ?

Prima Donna - a leading lady in Italian opera. A diva, drama queen, spoilt brat. Literally, first lady.

Madonna - another name for the virgin Mary, meaning my Lady. Adopted by la Ciccione as spiky ironic dig at Catholicism in America. She's nothing like a virgin, geddit?

eirebilly wrote:

slartibartfast wrote:

eirebilly wrote:Ankle taps arent illegal but they bleedin hurt when you are at full flight and you fall after one. I would prefer a crunching tackle because you at least see them coming and can prepare domewhat. Taps you dont see coming and you always seem to fall awkwardly.

It was a great tap from hime and really stopped what could have been a try.

9;
Great, there'll be red cards for tap tackles next, but a fist and knee to the head is fine.

Huh, where did i say that they should be red cards and where did i say that fists and knees to the heads are fine?

Sorry didn't mean to quote just you... iphones,fat fingers and posting while on the toilet not good

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