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To be fair. I've never heard anyone describe rugby as soft.

MASSIVE respect for the attacker in the clip at about 7 mins... He saw the guy he knocked down was fucked and put him into the recovery position. Thats a big man physically and mentally.

6:38 Mad props to the other teams player helping him out by rolling him into the recovery position, very cool!

Whammo and boomfa are really fun words

0:36 That hit by Koroibete to stop a player who must be at least 150% of his bodyweight is outrageous!

Who said rugby was soft? I played rugby for years and I've literally never heard anyone say rugby was soft.

Great video, I've seen tons of rugby vids on YT and still there were many new clips for me on this one. On a sidenote, it's incredible to see how not so long ago tackles (inluding shoulder charges) that ended up in concussion were celebrated and glorified. All this talk about the game going soft is ridiculous to me, you can see many huge tackles being made today while being mindful of avoiding the head at all costs. I've been playing rugby for many years and for me it actually takes much more technique and skill to make a big hit while staying well within the rules - knowing where to place tour feet, bend your knees, place the shoulder and the head correctly, hitting, wrapping up, driving with your legs and bringing the other player safely to the ground is much harder than just smashing into him/her without any considerations. I for one am glad that authorities are taking this stuff seriously now, specially now that we have so much info on the horrible long term effects of repeated blows to the head.

Keep up the great work💪🏼 Really enjoying the Videos👌🏽

Anyone who says the sport has gone soft should be legally mandated to spend 15 minutes on the pitch in any pro match

I an still feel my teeth rattling from some of those hits. Superb selection. Thanks for sharing 🏉🌹

Hard hits: Yes Legal plays by current rules: very few Number of cards missed in this montage: too many

Thumbs up if you want see Ma'a Nonu Destroying Opponents

Great content with some unseen footages..💥

Frans Steyn came through with that yum yum! Edit: seeing JdV and Fourie getting stoked was like seeing Ali fawn over Tyson (or visa versa)

Wow, you've done it again! This video was absolutely epic! I can't wait for the next one. You're the rugby king! 🏉👑

That yellow player at 6.38, top man right there. Excellent vid man

6:37, respect. Despite rolling him he goes back to put him in the recovery position and check on him

One thing I wasnt prepared for when I was lucky enough to go see a super 12 match in Hamilton NZ ('99), was the actual sound of the tackles from the stands - man, you can hear the bones crunching and the gasps of crushed air, even from that distance!..jeez its brutal and Tana Umaga had a great game! luckily there was no dumbass 5 second loop of shit music drowning out the sound, but hey...

Boys being practicing that Farrel tackle!!!

I often wonder now, at the age of 66, why my body hurts so much at times? Then I remember, oh yes! I played rugby union from the age of 8 for 15 years 😁 Still would never have changed it for anything!

Oh loads of dangerous tackles !

Great video!

Can't stop watching this

well done GG MONTAGES!!

I once got concussed by a fijian No.8 about 30 minutes in, I was fullback. When I came to it was half time 🤦🏾‍♂️🤣 "Soft" is not found in Rugby vocabulary bro

Ya love to see it 💯

when has anyone ever called rugby soft

Geez the bench looks wonderful.

6:38 sportsmanship.

1:25 on dmac was definitely a red card 😂

I have about 3 things to say. 5:12 Hit on Joe was one of the nastiest tackles ever seen. Then how many times will Gio Aplon been knocked senseless on a rugby field? Lastly, now I know when the New Zealand players practice their shoulder tackles and who inspires Owen Farrell to shoulder charge

Just think it's like American football but without the roids, padding or timeouts. Rugby is a man's sport

Bismarck's hit on DC! 🔥

Some of these hits had some good techniques on them 😮

I think coz of movies and stuff like that u don’t realise just how big these hits are until you’ve experienced something like it

Super Rugby from 2011 - 2014 was honestly my fav years. I wonder what happened to some of the stars from back then.

0:09 😂😂

That hit on Roco was phenomenal

Man I love rugby

The hit of the century

Love u broo🤝🍷

Should do the same video but only with the clean tackle. Many fouls in this video

how many of these tackles struck directly the head of the opponent, left him concussed, or raised them above the horizontal line? it's not about rugby being soft, it's about not hurting to death those who play it

Such ashame Benson Stanley had such a short career due to head injuries 🤕. The man was a beast and could tackle like a demon !!

Quite a fewnof these tackles would be carded nowadays. Quite a few shoulder charges and contact to the head.

Whoever said rugby is soft has never watched a rugby game. No helmets, shoulder pads, shin pads. Just man on man, muscle on muscle collisions. Definitely not for the faint of heart.

This is a man's sport!!! Even Americans can't compete

0:56 look at the women in grey's faces 😂

Big hits

I watch a lot of NFL, but rugby is another level of brutal.

Surprisingly the Hurricanes featured a lot in this video. Other than Motu Matu'u’s monster hits, didn’t think we had many memorable ones to be honest…

Jesus that Highlanders hurricanes matchup

Where is the famous tackle of Schalk Burger (Stormers) on Fourie du Preez (Blue Bulls)

Tbh I often worry about the internal organ and brain damage done. We have already seen the dementia cases rising in ex professionals, and I worry about how long the current state of rugby can continue

Make a Part II please.

NFL players won't last 20 minutes in a rugby match! 😆

Often the big hits happen when someone is caught off foot, blind sided or in a worse off body position... or they just get smashed and physically dominated

In the top few toughest games in the world I would think, not sure what would really be tougher.

Toughest game on earth. Brutal.

I don’t see myself as a pushover by any means, but I’d have been turned to pink mist by some of these tackles.

I had a roommate in college who played rugby. He’d walk in and I’d be like, “Hey man. Wait. Is your ear sewed back on?” Him: “Oh yeah. I almost got my ear ripped off in a game.” He had perpetual brush burns on his temples from sticking his head between two other guys’ bums during play.

Dam rockafoko!

Richard Kahui! The mantis

My uncle played for the all blacks and no rugby can never be described by soft

All high impact sports have a cumulative physical affect on players, competitor's, AFL, League,Rugby,Boxing,K1 etc. We get our money's worth as viewer's they're there to test each other week in week out and entertain we're there to analyze the performance and create heroes favourites and support.

0:36 Holy Cow.... 13 st winger knocks over 20 st prop.... its all about technique folks!!

Need footage of Sam Tuitopou from Blues back in Super12 days .

The ones that say rugby has gone soft are the ones that haven't experienced a WWE close line taking your head off or getting dumped on your neck and you cant play again for months then we'll see what they say

Koroibete's hit on Laulala was insane. On another Islander could pull that off.

I would just love to see the types of Neymar, Mbappe and Ronaldo play this sport once.

Most of these tackles are surely completely illegal. No attempt to wrap arms, and the majority just under the neck.

So many reds there

No better rugby than seeing a big hit and then seeing that player abandon play to check on his opposition

Kahui was a silent killer 👍👍

Haskell in the background at 4:26?

Potgeiter: the heart and soul of the Waratahs Super Rugby title. Oh, and trust Nesbit to question a rock solid tackle on a Kiwi player by an Aussie as 'no arms'. Geez, he really does refuse to offer up anything positive for the opposition

thanks for showing legal ones. lots of these montages are just yellows and reds. Nice to see a montage that shows how realistically legally brutal it can be

I wanna see taniella Tupo to some back hits

Chabal watching the video:: "Hold my beer!"

This sport is where the phrase 'hospital pass' originates.

You never replay when a South African does an amazing tackle, but amazing video non the less

If any SA team tackle like that it's staight yellow but more red and some match bans. SA teams has to play touch rugby

Most of these tackles would be illegal these days

Was that Will Chambers playing for Reds?

I could have turned a lump of coal into a diamond watching this video.

How's that tackle on McKenzie not high?

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I don’t think anyone has ever called rugby soft. Ever

holy smokes! are these post mortums??

Who the hell says rugby is soft? If you wanna see soft, watch football!

1:10 if only Valetini kept all his hits that low he wouldn’t get red carded

0:02 He could probably feel ten whole years of his lifespan being sucked out of his body .

a lot of these are straight red now, & rightly so

No one sees it as soft, its just a different type of physicality. The hits are still hard and fast. Put these guys in pads and they take and give twice as hard, and will get crushed by actual football players who are used to cruise missle-ing into people for 120min... and vise versa, take the pads off American football players and they'll be injured way more as they tackle with shoulders and body weight into each other's legs and have very little form, do that against a rugby player and A you'll probably miss and B get knee in the unprotected head. Different games.

Pretty sure no one EVER has referred to Rugby as "soft."

At least half of those tackles are illegal now

Poor old McKenzie 😂

Anyone know the name of the player at 3:20? Found it, Fontunuupule Auelua