Midweek Madness - The Good old Drag tackle
Recently we saw Munster up against the USA in a pre-season friendly at Rentschler Field, Connecticut in the USA. Back in June 2005, it was Wales who met the Eagles at the same venue, a match which resulted in a crushing defeat for the hosts.
All 11 Welsh tries were converted by Ceri Sweeney, taking the final score to 77-3, as a solitary Mike Hercus penalty was all the hosts could manage against the powerful tourists.
We like a bit of variety here on Rugbydump, so this is a short, comical clip from the match that we thought we'd share as it's been lying around for some time now.
It shows Hercus, at 63-3 down, throw a bullet pass that certainly looks like it wasn't intended for lock Alec Parker. Parker somehow hangs onto it though, but as he does, the fired up Welsh wing Craig Morgan gets to grips with his jersey and drags him across the turf like a rag doll, perhaps epitomising the day for the home side.
All 11 Welsh tries were converted by Ceri Sweeney, taking the final score to 77-3, as a solitary Mike Hercus penalty was all the hosts could manage against the powerful tourists.
We like a bit of variety here on Rugbydump, so this is a short, comical clip from the match that we thought we'd share as it's been lying around for some time now.
It shows Hercus, at 63-3 down, throw a bullet pass that certainly looks like it wasn't intended for lock Alec Parker. Parker somehow hangs onto it though, but as he does, the fired up Welsh wing Craig Morgan gets to grips with his jersey and drags him across the turf like a rag doll, perhaps epitomising the day for the home side.
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20 Comments:
poor little lock..
By Anonymous, at September 24, 2008 10:42 am
Manhandled
By Anonymous, at September 24, 2008 12:29 pm
Is it legal?
By Anonymous, at September 24, 2008 1:16 pm
haha yea its legal. there goes his dignity...
By Anonymous, at September 24, 2008 1:18 pm
haha good yank commentary
By Anonymous, at September 24, 2008 3:51 pm
shit hurt my feelings just looking at it
By Anonymous, at September 24, 2008 4:50 pm
I was at the game, and I can vouch that that really took the piss out of the crowd...as much as you can take the piss out of a crowd seeing their home team getting beat like a red headed stepchild
By Anonymous, at September 24, 2008 5:06 pm
As and American I must say that US rugby commentators are TERRIBLE. however he had a good line in this one
By Anonymous, at September 24, 2008 7:23 pm
Good sportsman ship offering an arm up
By Anonymous, at September 24, 2008 7:46 pm
haha craig morgan ahhhhh thee best winger of the age *cough cough*
By Anonymous, at September 24, 2008 8:39 pm
Sort of what usually happens when boys play against men!
By Anonymous, at September 25, 2008 2:58 am
im glad he didn't freak out and start throwing punches, so yeah good on him for keeping his cool after such an embarrassing moment
By Flankaaa, at September 25, 2008 4:45 am
So sad
the wing should get a beatdown IMO tho.
Where I'm from, what he did is what we call "rubbishing your fellow man"
By Don, at September 25, 2008 8:36 am
I dunno, poor sportsmanship on the wingers part i reckon, it's just not done.
wouldnt he have been better to bridge over the ball and try and get a turnover?
By Anonymous, at September 25, 2008 10:05 am
bridging over what? that was his tackle
By Anonymous, at September 25, 2008 9:38 pm
gave him a hand up afterwards though. goodman
By Anonymous, at November 06, 2008 5:40 pm
i didn't think that would be legal, i'm going to try that over here
By Anonymous, at November 19, 2008 3:07 am
That does happen on the streets of Cardiff and sadly, nobody goes to jail. Get a fixed penalty notice, maybe...
By Anonymous, at January 10, 2009 7:32 am
ooo baby im trying that
By Anonymous, at November 17, 2009 2:10 am
I like the way that the American commentators still manage to make a conversation out of it, even though they probably don't know rugby as well as many other commentators :)
By Anonymous, at March 06, 2011 12:18 am
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