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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 143515"><p>The Boks do work together far better as a pack and as a team of fifteen but their wingers are at the end of the day people who's only job is to run fast and keep out of the clutches of the opposite defence. As we saw when Habana tried to tackle during one or two Samoan breaks, he tries to tackle, fails dismally and then ends up scrabbling like an old lady scratching at the poor Samoan's legs and arms with his hands as he desperately tries something, <em>anything</em> to keep ahold of his man. Lucky for him Samoa got pinged both times for going over the top.</p><p></p><p>And looking at <em>that</em> tackle...if you can even <em>call</em> it that, I'm even more horrified. That was reckless, stupid, idiotic and just plain wrong. I don't care if he didn't mean to do it or not, that tackle is <strong><u>un</u>-<u>ac</u>-<u>cept</u>-<u>a</u>-<u>ble</u></strong>, unacceptable! You simply should not do that in modern rugby (again, unless you're an All Black), end of story. </p><p></p><p>However, I do find it ironic that a referee who is usually so blatantly biased against England (Kaplan) actually gave England a wide berth. Sad because he missed out Vickery's moment of supreme stupidity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 143515"] The Boks do work together far better as a pack and as a team of fifteen but their wingers are at the end of the day people who's only job is to run fast and keep out of the clutches of the opposite defence. As we saw when Habana tried to tackle during one or two Samoan breaks, he tries to tackle, fails dismally and then ends up scrabbling like an old lady scratching at the poor Samoan's legs and arms with his hands as he desperately tries something, [i]anything[/i] to keep ahold of his man. Lucky for him Samoa got pinged both times for going over the top. And looking at [i]that[/i] tackle...if you can even [i]call[/i] it that, I'm even more horrified. That was reckless, stupid, idiotic and just plain wrong. I don't care if he didn't mean to do it or not, that tackle is [b][u]un[/u]-[u]ac[/u]-[u]cept[/u]-[u]a[/u]-[u]ble[/u][/b], unacceptable! You simply should not do that in modern rugby (again, unless you're an All Black), end of story. However, I do find it ironic that a referee who is usually so blatantly biased against England (Kaplan) actually gave England a wide berth. Sad because he missed out Vickery's moment of supreme stupidity. [/QUOTE]
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