Predicated upon a resolute defensive performance for the ages, Wales blew open the Six Nations Championship race with a 23-16 win over tournament favourites Ireland.

Miraculously, the Welsh rearguard managed to repel Ireland for thirty two phases, a sequence that showed the defensive commitment of the entire Welsh team.

Wales’ performance was personified by lock Luke Charteris who made 31 tackles during a gripping Six Nations encounter.

Youtube Credit: RBS Six Nations

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All round, it was a pretty bad day for The Blues’ back row Luke Braid.

Not only did John Kirwan’s Blues fall to defeat against the Hurricanes, their fifth consecutive reversal of the season, but back row Luke Braid took a knee straight to the face for his troubles.

Braid can perhaps take solace in the fact that it could hardly go worse for him on the pitch.

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We’re sure his international team-mates haven’t let him forget, but, just in case, we’ll remind Sebastien Tillous-Borde of the moment when he bought a young French underage players dummy, hook, line and sinker.

In a three on two drill in a training session that encompassed underage players, Tillous-Borde was fixated with his club mate, Basteraud, and bought the youngsters dummy, much to the delight of the gargantuan centre, Basteraud.

On a serious note, it’s great to see the French Rugby Union organizing training sessions that allow youngsters to train with their hero Rugby players.

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Now, this is New Zealand conference Super Rugby at it’s very finest.

With the sound of the half time hooter reverberating in their ears, both teams- Hurricanes and Blues- set upon producing a three minutes sequence of Rugby, heavy with offloads and incisive running lines, that wouldn’t look out of place in a Barbarians game.

Eventually, in a lightning counter attack Hurricanes winger Matt Proctor scored a 43rd minute try capping a sequence of Rugby that deserves to be immortalized in a museum.

Clip Credit: Loyaldogs-Daily Motion

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South Africans are well known for their love of a physically attritional brand of Rugby, and we can see a shining of example of that in the above clip from an amateur game.

The tackler, known as Big Andy, despite being slightly late with his hit absolutely smashes the opposition player just after he offloads the ball.

Youtube Credit: Johan Wandrag

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To take down Jonah Lomu during his pomp, a special tackle was required; and, in the 1995 World Cup final, Joost van der Westhuizen duly obliged.

Joel Stransky received the lions share of the credit for match and World Cup winning drop goal, but, psychologically, van der Westhuizen’s tackle on the hitherto unstoppable Lomu provided a significant boost for the Bokke and stopped a certain try.

And, to think, you thought scrum-half’s couldn’t tackle.

Youtube Credit: World Rugby

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Sean Maloney, of Rugby HQ fame, brings us the latest Fox Sports ‘The Shortball’ round up.

Here, we can see the highlights of another typically entertaining Super Rugby round of fixtures.

Youtube Credit: Fox Sports Australia

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After fifteen years of sterling service, both as a player and a coach, it has been announced that Connacht Assistant Coach Dan McFarland will leave the club at the end of the season to pursue further coaching opportunities abroad.

McFarland- who also played with Richmond and Stade Francais as a prop- was the second Connacht player to reach a century of appearances for Ireland’s Western Province during his stint in Galway between 2000 and 2006.

McFarland was named Connacht’s Forward’s Coach upon his retirement in 2006 and soon joined fellow Connacht stalwart Eric Elwood’s coaching ticket during the Irish U20’s Grand Slam winning campaign of 2007.

Eventually, after four years of impressive coaching of Connacht’s forwards, McFarland ascended to the role of Connacht Assistant Coach and his departure will be a significant loss to Pat Lam’s team.

Commenting on his departure, McFarland professed his thanks to everyone associated with Connacht Rugby:

 “This has been a very difficult decision for me. Connacht Rugby has been such a large part of my life for a long time, but I feel the time has come to explore new avenues and different challenges.

“I am extremely grateful to so many people for the opportunities I have been given here – it has been an honour to work with so many committed and talented players. My family and I have had a wonderful 15 years in Connacht. It is our home and we will greatly miss the place and the people.

“I wish Willie, Pat (Lam), Tim (Allnutt) and the whole organisation the very best and I have no doubt that the excellent infrastructure that has been put in place will provide continued success going forward.”

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Throughout the Rugby community, Clermont are known as proponents of an entertaining brand of Rugby and the Yellow and Blues rose to their exulted billing with a brilliantly fashioned 100M team try versus Bayonne last weekend.

With Bayonne laying siege to the 2014 Top 14 Champions line, a quick turnover facilitated a high octane, offload soaked, counter attack of epic proportions.

Eventually, after moving the ball 100 metres thanks to some incisive angles of running and audacious offloads, number eight Peceli Yato touched to cap one of the best tries you’re likely to see this season.

Youtube Credit: gorpitsen junior

Tags:  Bayonne, Clermont, top 14, try, Yato

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