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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Famous Simon Shaw run from the Lions Tour 2005

After posting the clip of Andries Bekker manhandling some of the smaller guys, there was a lot of talk about Bekker's height, and in particular, comparing him to big Simon Shaw.

That brought back memories of this great moment from the 2005 British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand.

In a midweek game against Manawatu in Palmeston North, the touring side ran riot, running in 17 tries on their way to a 109-6 victory against the smaller provincial side.

After a Shane Williams try that took the score over the half century mark, big England second-rower Simon Shaw took the ball beautifully from the restart, taking off for an inspirational 55m rampage that would see him tackled just short of the line. The ball was presented cleanly for always present teamate Neil Back, who was close at hand to finish off this classic try that was started by the skill and pace of the big man Shaw.

Labels: British and Irish Lions, Simon Shaw

The amount of times ive done that....
i play in the u/12's and im 6'1 tall

but i love seeing other big men take charge like that and not just doing all the rucks and muals

By Anonymous, at November 27, 2007 9:54 am
a brilliant player its a crime tht he hasn't played more games for england. Woodwards stupid theory was shaw was 2 similar 2 Johnno 2 play in tha same team!! if i had 2 johnno's in ma team i'd b over tha moon lol.

By Anonymous, at November 27, 2007 12:56 pm
Irc12 is right, having Johnson and Shaw in the same team would be domination city! Although I've never seen Johnson run like that (only to hit someone).
p.s the first comment? A 6ft 1 eleven year old??!?! Mutant!

By Anonymous, at November 27, 2007 1:01 pm
great try,
when you say you play in the under 12s, i assume you ARE under 12, 6'1!!!! man in about 6 yrs time you'll be HUGE.
I'm a 5ft9 19yr old!!!

By Anonymous, at November 27, 2007 1:31 pm
What a score...

By Rui Silva, at November 27, 2007 1:51 pm
parece o tolomu contra o cdup!!!

By Anonymous, at November 27, 2007 1:59 pm
LOL at the above comments, i've seen players who were big at school at made lots of runs become crap an snap like twigs in later years....to the first comment, all i can say is eat lots of food and try and build muscle, who knows maybe one day you'll be 6'6 and 17 stone like me :D

By Anonymous, at November 27, 2007 2:21 pm
Many of these tall guys have a very slow first step, but give them 5-10m to get up a head of steam, and you can really see their pace.

Notice that Shaw ran onto the ball first. Then his long stride really kicked in, making him difficult to catch.

Good on 'em.

By Anonymous, at November 27, 2007 5:06 pm
to rugbydump, how can you not include some of the great stuff from the recent wales south africa game?!

By Anonymous, at November 27, 2007 6:31 pm
That is great pace shown by a man who dwarfs Martin Johnson(4 inches taller), I wish he controlled his temper because sometimes he lets it get the better of him.
He'll BLOSSOM(lol) into a fantastic lock and all round player, hardworking at rucks, scrums and line-outs. We need him!!!

By Anonymous, at November 27, 2007 9:23 pm
damn i'm 14 and only 6ft(just) man that first guys beast wat country u from???

By Anonymous, at November 27, 2007 9:24 pm
simon shaw - v. talented 2nd row. While at it, i think he is the current only player playing in the premiership who has scored a drop goal in the premiership. see if that can be dug up.

By Anonymous, at November 27, 2007 11:07 pm
Great run from the big man!

anonymous said:
he is the current only player playing in the premiership who has scored a drop goal in the premiership

Er... Not really, no.

By Anonymous, at November 28, 2007 1:17 pm
the u12 6'1 fella is probably south african all they do is stand in horse shit and eat green beans to grow to freakish sizes

By Anonymous, at November 29, 2007 12:54 pm
James H said...

"Great run from the big man!

anonymous said:
he is the current only player playing in the premiership who has scored a drop goal in the premiership

Er... Not really, no."

He meant Shaw is the only lock in the Premiership to hit a drop goal, which is true I think.

By Anonymous, at November 29, 2007 2:25 pm
first comment - do not do as the "6'6, 17st" guy says. muscle building regimen at your age is not good. keep eatin though

By Anonymous, at November 29, 2007 8:50 pm
Im seven years old and 8 foot 2.

By Anonymous, at November 30, 2007 12:14 pm
lmao donkey ur a beast!!

By Anonymous, at November 30, 2007 1:23 pm
8 foot 2 eh.... sounds pretty useless.....

By Anonymous, at November 30, 2007 2:26 pm
No im not useless coz im 7 years old, 8 foot 2 and can run the hundred metres in 3.65 seconds. Some say that i am the greatest person in the world!

By Anonymous, at November 30, 2007 4:42 pm
This is pure rofl lads!

By Anonymous, at December 02, 2007 12:09 pm
Haha! that's hilarious and probably 300kg of pure muscle eh donkey??

By Anonymous, at December 07, 2007 2:00 am
not all tall guys are slow, have any of you ever seen andries bekker run? think he will out run some of the back, suppose with those long legs anything is possible, no video clips of him?

By Anonymous, at December 11, 2007 3:58 pm
yeah i suppose 6'1 at u/12's is quite big.

I played against a guy who was apparently 6'3 and i'm at u/13's.

By Anonymous, at February 15, 2008 2:32 pm
to te first guy that commented.you lucky bastard!!i play at the under 12s level and i'm 5'1.i aint even a feckin scrummie.please give me your diet plan.

a small migit fly-half from wales

By Anonymous, at April 22, 2008 5:17 pm
There was a guy on an Under-14 team in my school last who was 6'5/6'6.I might be partnering him in the second-row next year(u-15).I think we'd complimet each other well.I'm 6'2 and 100kg and he's between 6'5 and 6'6 and about 85kg

By Anonymous, at June 21, 2008 7:39 pm
you sound like a fat shit, weight means very little if it's just wobble and not beef

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I is the next chinese plyr to go to England to ply me is 7ft 1 inch tal and 130 kilo big, c u all engrish pussy nxt yeaar

By Anonymous, at August 30, 2008 10:39 am
when saying that tall people are slow, you are obviously forgetting that the fastest man in the world is something like 6 foot 7

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