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By lex, on August 13th, 2011

Good training for subduing rioters, as it turns out.

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August 13th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Politics and Culture

35 comments to Rugby

  • Edward
    August 13, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    Very good!

    Now the sheep are also getting angry…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=T4jfPYaWl0c

  • virgil xenophon
    August 13, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    LOL, Lex’s clip reminds me of watching a pro football game years ago ( can’t even remember the teams involved) where some drunk came running out on the field just as they were lining up and a middle line-backer just decked the guy with a full body crunch..lol.

  • Stephen
    August 13, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    Rugby of course is the only true sport. Many moons ago while digging for the ball in a maul, A UCLA lock of Samoan descent hit me just like that. When I resumed consciousness, I was a little more wary of reckless forays into his territory. Hopefully the looter in the vid learned the same lesson.

    • Daryle LaMonica
      August 13, 2011 at 6:15 pm

      I’ve only recently seen rugby. That was last year’s NCAA Rugby 7′s championship series on TV. It was frigging incredible. I loved every minute of it. Damn my childhood growing up in a land without rugby even on TV. The loss, the sorrow I feel to learn what I’ve missed!

      • Stephen
        August 13, 2011 at 6:35 pm

        7 a side is a faster, less brutish version that forces the odd prima dona back to actually embrace hand to hand combat. I enjoyed it immensely. Granted, it isn’t 15 a side union play, but, still, there is the hitting. :-)

  • Wstr
    August 13, 2011 at 2:05 pm

    Roman officer Horatius may have felt that these six coppers were grossly overmanned and lament the lack of a water obstacle, but it’s an impressive stand none the less.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024759/LONDON-RIOTS-2011-How-SIX-police-officers-fended-gang-50-hooded-youths.html

    • Jeff Gauch
      August 13, 2011 at 3:48 pm

      Yes, but the coppers are less likely to see their Stars of Bronze downgraded to Papyrus Scrolls.

  • Liz
    August 13, 2011 at 2:47 pm

    Watching that was gratifying. The parents will probably sue though (they would here, at any rate).

  • Blackeagle603
    August 13, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    Nice form! Strong final drive from the hips finishing through the tackle. Did his coach proud.

  • Zane
    August 13, 2011 at 3:05 pm

    That, to be honest, is a lousy rugby tackle. He hit him way too high, never wrapped his arms around his thighs to tie him up, and failed to ride him to the ground. I do think he stopped him, though.

    Now, for Aussie rules, that’s a fair hit away from the ball.

    • Quartermaster
      August 13, 2011 at 4:39 pm

      That Rugby stuff is for Pansies. Aussie Rulez is for real Men.

    • Stephen
      August 13, 2011 at 6:43 pm

      Zane, you are right. In a sport with no first downs, and NO pads, the tackles are definitely more judoesque. However, peeling dudes off the edges of rucks and mauls is where the big hits go down. Been there, felt that. And, :-) , administered a coupla licks myself.

      • Zane
        August 14, 2011 at 3:35 am

        I coach ten year olds, so I get obsessed with good form. Once my son figured out the ruck (and ten year olds just don’t get it), he became an absolute terror, knocking kids off the ruck, tackling the passer and then getting up and tackling the receiver as well.

        Anyone want to see big hits, look up Jonah Lomu on youtube.

  • Joe in N Calif
    August 13, 2011 at 6:46 pm

    “Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentleman’s game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts.” – Henry Blaha

    “Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.” – Oscar Wilde

    • virgil xenophon
      August 13, 2011 at 7:28 pm

      Heh, I had always known the first, but not the author. And until today hadn’t heard/read Wildes’ at all–thanks for the quote–Wilde always did have a way with words and a ready quip, didn’t he? :)

    • Casey
      August 13, 2011 at 8:11 pm

      “Rugby players eat their dead.” – old bumper sticker.

  • alfred_the_great
    August 14, 2011 at 2:03 am

    Now this is a tackle…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3cnss1UMO8

    Agree, the tackle on the rioter is a bit weak, all style, no substance: didn’t wrap around, no driving lift from the hips, didn’t get back up on his feet to rip the ball. Thinking about it, he’d be perfect for Rugby League!

  • Snake Eater
    August 14, 2011 at 7:52 am

    Sweet Jesus Lex…you sure flushed the over the hill Q-Tip (read white/grey haired), Walter Mitty types out on this one…ICSFTH…Best

    PS, Speaking of Rugby…loved the pre game “Haka” as portrayed in the final scenes of the movie Invictus…for me, a not very knowledgable fan, the follow on match itself was a bit confusing/stilted but still inspiring…and the best thing that liberal Boston weenie Matt Damon has done to date.

  • Curtis
    August 14, 2011 at 11:05 am

    You know you see that sort of thing all the time. A take down and yet what I see happening just about every week is the San Diego police department or county police ganging up in their dozens and then shooting a suicidal man a couple of hundred times just to keep it safe. You would think that perhaps they should play rugby too.

    Guy armed with a stick. “SHOOT HIM”
    Guy armed with a gardening trowel. “SHOOT HIM”
    Guy not armed at all. “SHOOT HIM”

    I will admit that the guy they shot who stole the tank and got shot to death probably had it coming. I mean, a tank!

  • kiwidave
    August 15, 2011 at 3:26 pm

    Rugby – something called the “World Cup” is due to take place in New Zealand in approx 30 days ;-) .

    Even the good old USA has a team entered in – and they are due to play Russia as well.

    TRI-NATIONS (Rugby Tournament) on at the moment — South Africa, Australia & New Zealand “go to war: — though it’s a tad abbreviated this year due to fore said World Cup.

    For the ‘Rugby League’ version of “war” – one can’t go pass the “State of Origin’ Series in Australia — Queensland vs New South Wales.
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