Summer is well and truly here in Okinawa, with the temperatures rising and the sun shining. Checked the weather report at 9am this morning and was told that it was 31°C but that it felt “like 36°C”. Thankfully the humidity was only 70% and a sea breeze coming through my apartment managed to keep me [...]
The 2010 Superleague season is now officially underway as the Leeds Rhinos ran out 34-6 winners against the Crusaders in a snowy Wrexham. Snowy rugby league in January – so tell me again about this summer rugby! Ah well, hopefully the grounds will harden up in a few months and we can start to see some skillful rugby this year. Have to say I was never hugely impressed by any of the rugby league I managed to see in the ’09 season. Sure, quite a few of the games were close matches which made them exciting, but I don’t think the skill levels were where they were 3 or 4 years ago. The most skillful rugby league performance in England I think I saw was by Manly in the World Club Challenge as they brushed aside the Superleague champions, Leeds Rhinos.
But anyway, onto business. Following up from the famous Radlinski try for Wigan against Bradford in 2000, I thought this video would be a nice one to show. They say defence wins matches and once of the best parts to watch when your team is defending is a huge tackle on an opposition player; one that shakes them and leaves them hurt (although not injured – never want to see that) and wondering what happened). Found this video showing some of the top tackles in recent years from the NRL (Australia’s top rugby league competition). If you like your sport physical then it doesn’t get much better than this. Enjoy.
Tags: big hits, big tackles, featured, nrl, rugby league, superleague
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February 7th, 2010 at 17:53
FYI–paul built a new sports bar pub (in addition to Rehab) called The Eager Beaver right next to the monorail stop at N end of kokusai. i think the ALT crowd was out last night watching some rugby there…