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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Big hits from the top two teams on the Top 14 table

Perpignan and Toulon are now both top of the French Top 14 table after good wins in their matches this afternoon. To go with that, we've got the big hits from their recent clash, the same match that was featured earlier in the week.

Toulon and Perpignan are now both on 80 points, but the Catalans are ahead due to a better points difference, with their 44-0 win over Albi contributing towards that. Toulon on the other hand had to fight for their nailbiting 26-23 win over Brive at the Stade Amedee-Domenech.

In the featured video here now though, we go back a week and bring you the best of the physicality from the two sides when they met in Marseille, and Toulon came out tops 33-23.

You can see monster Henry Tuilagi smash Toulon captain Joe Van Niekerk twice in this clip, with the one hit being absolutely huge at the back of the lineout. Centre Mafileo Kefu put a great textbook tackle in on Vincent Candelon, breaking his arm on impact, and by the look of things giving himself a bit of a sore shoulder too.

Sebastien Bruno had a huge handoff on Guilem Guirado, who later left the field, and in the same movement you can see Gavin Hume getting smashed around by both Sonny Bill Williams and Jocelino Suta.

He bounced back well though and we later see him time the chase of his own kick perfectly as he flew into Jonny Wilkinson, with one of the bigger hits of the season so far.

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Try say the title of this post three times fast, then let the big hitting begin.


Time: 03:39
Note: Thanks to 4Lc4TR4Z. You can also view the updated Table on his thread here


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32 Comments:

  • first. and epic hits

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 24, 2010 10:34 pm  

  • Unfortunately Candelon had his arm broken by Kefu's tackle (0'56)

    By Blogger Pitseleh, at April 24, 2010 11:01 pm  

  • I think Tuilagi has it in for Van Niekerk...I seem to remember another RD clip of him running into Big Joe at full tilt last year and flattening him.

    By Anonymous jpm, at April 24, 2010 11:41 pm  

  • Connacht are waiting!!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 24, 2010 11:55 pm  

  • I think that the Challenge Cup semi-finals may actually be more intense/interesting than the HC semi-finals...at least the Toulon-Connacht match should.

    By Anonymous Penelope Cruz vs Salma Hayek, at April 25, 2010 12:06 am  

  • I've a question for the rules' experts about the second Tuilagi's hit (at 1:42 in the vid). The french commentators say that as Van Niekerk is jumping (and have both feet off the ground), this tackle deserve a yellow card.
    In my opinion, as the ball cross the 15m line, it's no longer a touch, thus it's allowed to tackle him even if he is jumping (like for example, if a player jumps when catching a pass).
    I'm right ?

    By Anonymous Lucas, at April 25, 2010 12:19 am  

  • Tuilagi...what a bear. as for the match...looks like epic shit

    By Anonymous creggs08, at April 25, 2010 12:35 am  

  • No Lucas, even if it's in open play you can't tackle a player whose feet are off the ground. This is the law, "Tackling the jumper in the air. A player must not tackle nor tap, push or pull the foot or feet of an opponent jumping for the ball in a lineout or in open play."

    By Anonymous Kearney for tests, at April 25, 2010 3:29 am  

  • nasty he got his arm broken...

    i dont think tuilagi's tackle on the guy jumping was actually as hard as it looked....

    i mean it looked more like he was dragged out of the air, rather than hit by a flying train...

    if you get what i mean...

    By Anonymous Towel-e-ban (taliban), at April 25, 2010 3:45 am  

  • Epic match! Hume's tackle is awesome

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 25, 2010 10:20 am  

  • I think it will be difficult to prevent the USAP to win this championship ...

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 25, 2010 11:22 am  

  • always nice to see wilkinson get dicked on.

    By Anonymous owain, at April 25, 2010 11:54 am  

  • that first tuilagi tackle is awesome... i mean joe van niekerk is a big guy and still gets hammered. look at the impact... he is down in a split second... tuilagi is a monster. does anyone know if he is able to play 80mins?
    sometimes i think about how some union forwards would do in league. imagine henry tuilagi playing as a front rower in rugby league. that would be brutal collisions...

    By Blogger Unknown, at April 25, 2010 12:10 pm  

  • all good till wilkinson got owned

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 25, 2010 12:48 pm  

  • Henry Tuilagi is maturing into 1 helluva number 8 in his own right. I'd like to see him matching with the likes of Spies and Heaslip at Test level.

    By Blogger vinniechan, at April 25, 2010 12:59 pm  

  • This was a superb fight, but it also feels thats tackles are going a bit too far nowadays...

    By Blogger Yannoche, at April 25, 2010 1:00 pm  

  • There's everything you need in Top14: big games, big names, big hits, big and full stadiums, sunny weather...Best competition in the world

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 25, 2010 3:28 pm  

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    By Blogger Tom, at April 25, 2010 3:37 pm  

  • I dunno, I think that its part of the game as it develops. All those tackles were legitimate with the possible exception of the one at 1:40. As the players get bigger and stronger, the tackles are going to have be harder in order to take the down.

    Just wondering if someone could tell me what the top French league is called? Is it Top 14? As that is so confusing.

    By Blogger Tom, at April 25, 2010 3:38 pm  

  • "imagine henry tuilagi playing as a front rower in rugby league."

    He did play in League for a little while. Nothing came of it.

    Freddie Tuilagi, the oldest of the Tuilagis played with ST Helens for a season or two. He went good.

    Henry would go good in both League and Union. and I'd even go as far as saying he'd have been a monster in the NFL, given he was raised in America and played gridiron.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 25, 2010 4:58 pm  

  • Superb vid RD

    Brutal tackles, the intensity reminded me of the recent lions tour.. bodies on the line stuff

    By Anonymous M, at April 25, 2010 6:35 pm  

  • since when are you allowed to lead with an elbow, the forward bouncing player away in the middle?

    By Anonymous mat, at April 25, 2010 6:40 pm  

  • Tom, yes, it is called the Top 14. Don't get confused with Super 14 rugby, which is between SA, NZ, and Aus. That started as Super 10, and with growth became Super 14 eventually. Next year it will be the Super 15.. so I guess the confusion continues for some.

    By Anonymous Greiffel, at April 25, 2010 10:14 pm  

  • good hits,

    joe van niekerk really took that second hit for the team!

    good captain

    By Anonymous cheis, at April 25, 2010 10:51 pm  

  • I'm sorry but who the hell does that bloke think he is tackling Jonny like that. Bloody cheek.

    By Anonymous Andy, at April 26, 2010 1:37 am  

  • THe thouchfinder by Fernandez Lobbe is beautiful. So much skill for a forward...

    By Anonymous Coco, at April 26, 2010 10:19 am  

  • @Tom: Like Greiffel said this is Top 14, because there are 14 teams in the premiere league. Maybe if it grows it will be top 16!

    By Blogger Yannoche, at April 26, 2010 11:11 am  

  • French championship was "Top 16" at the beginning. Went to 14 teams only 3 years ago.

    By Anonymous 4LC4TR4Z, at April 26, 2010 2:33 pm  

  • Big, big hits! Hume's tackle was awesome except from one detail... Nobody can leave Wilko bruised and not feel guilty.

    By Anonymous Joost, at April 27, 2010 1:27 am  

  • Big, big hits! Hume's tackle was awesome except from one detail... Nobody can leave Wilko bruised and not feel guilty.

    By Anonymous Joost, at April 27, 2010 1:27 am  

  • Love it, great hits, good physical play.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 28, 2010 3:18 am  

  • Tackler at 1:40 is a mile offside anyway, he is not in the lineout, not the halfback, so should be 10m back until the ball crosses the 15m. Jumps the gun by a loooong way. Shit reffing.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at June 02, 2010 12:49 am  

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