WE HAVE ALREADY brought you two big tackles from yesterday’s Champions Cup quarter-finals but there was a massive collision in a different rugby code too.
The Sydney Roosters took on the Cronulla Sharks this morning in the NRL and there was a nasty head clash between Michael Ennis and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.
If you are squeamish or have a history of fainting in butcher shops, this video probably isn’t for you.
There is a lot of contact that you can legislate against in rugby but incidents like that – and the ones that kept Johnny Sexton out of the game for three months – are very hard to get rid of because they are so random.
Even when on the bench he didn’t get game time. The coach doesn’t like or trust him. Saturday once again showed just how wrong O’connor has been all season
O’Connor is just all wrong for Leinster.
He has a very big chance next season with Leinster during the World Cup, midfield won’t be as competitive so he should get a good run of matches.
Mark if Darcy doesn’t make the World Cup squad, he’ll play 12 with t’eo at 13. Then Madigan and sexton will be back so the midfield won’t be as easy to get into as you may think
That pop pass from O’Brien
Battle between him and Madigan for the 12 jersey next season.
It’s always to easy to see who coaches ‘just like/don’t like’. When Gopperth played badly it was ignored whereas when Madigan played mediocre or even if Reid played well decisions went against them.
It creates such a poisonous culture as some players start to feel entitled to spots and others feel it doesn’t matter how well they play they won’t get picked. Cody and Fergusson were masters at disregarding players identities and judging on match performance alone. MOC is such a stink manager.