An example of a massive legal rugby tackle

The player tackled thankfully was ok.

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[comiskey]

“Oh ho ho ho ho!” The announcer goes wild as the guy lays there semi-conscious.

[jacobwinn]

This is why I stopped playing rugby at 15... I was criminally underweight against the Maori and Islander boys I was playing with - they were like adults (we played age, not weight grade)! And when they saw the skinny pakeha kid running I saw them grin and line me up. They enjoyed it alright. Heard a few of my bones break that way, so yeah, this tackle brought me right back to school. If we'd been playing weight grade, I might've enjoyed the game more!

[TH-dgmm]

This is why I stopped playing hockey and rugby in high school.
Saw a rugby teammate have his face + jaw broken, needed multiple operations and he was never the same dude. Life changed at 14 because of a 'legal tackle.'
Saw a Hockey teammate get trucked-through by a 200 lb animal and it fractured his spine, he was left in a wheelchair. Life changed at 15 because of a 'legal check.'
I LOVED sports, but from age 14-17ish, these sports stopped feeling like sports and started feeling like deathmatches with mentally unbalanced teens trying to injure each other.

[JohnSmith-lsum]

I played American football for years and my coaches would always say “Head on a swivel.” Then I played rugby. Head on a swivel—times three.

[ivermektin]

Clear example of why nations that don't implement weight grading perform drastically worse thant the ones that do.

[xhappybunnyx]

no matter how you look at it, that is a lot of physical toll to take for the result of one posession in one game.

[mikel]

During practice at college the coach had us do a tackling drill where I unfortunately paired up against a guy built like Mt. Rushmore. I was on defense and hit him just like this video; the difference being that he was unfazed and I felt every joint in my body crack. I did bring him down and was glad to return to the back of the line, only to hear the coach yell my name and hold up 2 fingers; meaning that I had to tackle him twice.

Why I chose to tackle him high twice in a row still haunts me. That was the last day I played rugby; no joke.

On this topic, the president of my former rugby club was left a quadriplegic from a broken neck during a match.

[avechristus]

This is from my club! Joondalup Brothers RUFC in Western Aus. I recognise the wall in background lol.

[thejomviking]

you can't hear it but it's there - the sound of air rushing out of his lungs

[thomo]

Did anyone get the number plate of that truck?
Hope he’s okay !

[expat]

Back in my day our coach would run on with the magic water. Heals everything

[GuRuGeorge]

this happened to me once when we played a friendly tournament in france. i was unconscious and when i woke up a few seconds later i first thought I am dead and then a few seconds later i felt pain everywhere and a few more seconds later i passed out again from the pain. Then i woke up again on the sidelines and was dreamy af. I still played rugby after that, but it taught me a valuable lesson to never underestimate an opponent. The guy who "trucked" me, was the same height and just a few kg heavier.

[damienhughes]

This had to be from NZ. I'm from the UK but lived in Auckland for a few years and used to go watch my cousin play at High School level, and the size and mobility of these guys at age 13, 14, 15 is insane. I remember being in the gym on a Friday night and a bunch of these teenagers were in there casually pressing 40kg dumbells.

[BrwnCh]

The tackler was winded also 😂 tried his best to hide it.

[arwl]

I love the way you chuckle as he lies there not moving.

[AK-qpkb]

Society really has lost it when half the comments are finding reasons to be upset at the tackler for shutting down a set piece move with a good, legal, and very hard tackle. No head involved, makes an attempt to wrap, and doesn’t lead with the shoulder.

Also, it’s not his job to render medical aid. I believe that role is filled by the medics, not the players. For everyone condemning the tackler and those who shared the video, go watch soccer and keep it moving! ✌🏾

[butterflysigh]

as an ex rugby player of 54 years old who practically lived for games at has a intention behind a tackle like this was to seriously hurt the ball could have killed was on the receiving end of illegal violence on a rugby being charged at & kneed in the one did anything about also broke someone elses leg completely unintentionally in a was in the seventies at school Russell actually had to limp off by himself to go get some medical help cousin also tried to get me back for this no longer follow the sport but actually that's more to do with the comraderie or team mate aspect of the one i have ever known & practically died for on a rugby pitch has stayed in touch as a what was the point in any of it especially in the modern era when players go & play for any it's about being strong & fit there are plenty of other then i also now think there are other violent sports out there that should not happen like cage fighting & stuff like also reminds me of the incident recently of the ice skater that did kill another player by leaping at his throat skates think a tackle like this should at least be called a FOUL because of the clear intention to hurt harm or cause injury to another

[v.]

You might say legal and it may well be but the tackler certainly intended to do harm

[dariankrieger]

Looking at this in slow motion I can see that he decided take contact to draw in the defender to create more attacking space.Brave but that is the risk you take when you do that you might get folded like a camp chair

[bubbacalling]

Commentator wouldn't be that happy/excited if it was his son who had been tackled.