Rugby Top 50 of 2008

Rugby fights Knockout videos

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Rugby fights Knockout videos

Here’s my favourite videos of rugby knock outs, rugby injuries and rugby punch ups. If you have any you would like to share, just give me an email and i will add it to the rugby knock out collection.

Strong hard hit up is known as a lining the defence up and running it straight as hard as possible.

Here are some great examples of rugby players in action:

Joel Clinton Rugby League from Brisbane Broncos gets knockedout COLD by center Jerome Ropati from the Warriors.

Joel Clinton Panther panthers gets knocked out

France bad boy Sebastien Chabal gets put on his ass by the power of Argentina. Watch how high he flies its pretty cool, Air France should name a plane after him.

Sebastian Chabal rugby injury

Chris Masoe drunk playing for the All Blacks.

Chris Masoe gets a big rugby hit from Sebastian Chabal

Chabal breaks Ali Williams jaw with a powerful hit up. Ali Williams is known to be cocky, maybe things will change.

Watch Ali Williams hold his broken jaw.

State of Origin Fights

Michael Crocker throws the first punch, lands a few soft shots and cops one of the chin by Justin Poore.

Bad boy Michael Crocker dishes and takes a good hit

Fui Fui Moi Moi steam rolling down the park until he crashes into something English.

Fui Fui Moi Moi underestimates his opponent and embarasses himself

Wallabies James Horwell getting his eye busted up by the French.

James Horwell bleeding from the eye, is it just me or none of the Wallabie pack seem “tough”?

One of the most outright punches by touble maker on Ronan O’Gara.

Rated one of the dirtiest plays on a Rugby Field.

English bad boy Andrew Sheridan meets Julian White the OG.

Andrew Sheridan put in his place

Best Rugby SideStep

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Best Rugby sidestep

One of the most exciting facets of Rugby is the rugby step also know as the rugby sidestep. In full flight it is unstoppable for any defender. There’s no better feeling than standing your opponent up then burning him with a rugby step.

Rugby Step: Sidesteps Videos

Quade Cooper (AUS) Super 14: Queensland Reds

Rugby Sidestep

3 movement step that completely fools the opponent without a hand on him. I was struggling to watch it a few times to pick up his technique fakes a rugby step in mid air and fakes his upper body.

Shane Williams, Gerald Ieuan

Jinking

The Welsh call it Jinking. Shane Williams a very illusive player with his explosiverugby sidestep that allows him to transfer his weight explosively off balancing his opponent. He”s had quite a lot of moments embarrassing international players.

Shane Williams vs Fiji RWC 2007

Shane magic

The defense has him covered with only the full back to beat so what he does is fake a kick. Steps inside and kills the whole team. Jason Robinson likes to use this tactic on kick returns he sizes the opponent up, drifts on a angle & fakes to kick rugby sidestep. This allows enough space and indecisiveness opening up space for him to zoom through.

Jason Robinson (England)

Stephen Jones v England/Jason Robinson v Wales – RWC03

00:31 Shane Williams catches the ball in 22 Runs outside and rugby side steps inside Ben Kay. Gets on the outside of his next opponent to set his teammate into a gap.

2:14 Jason Robinson gets the ball runs diagonal pretends to pass to his team mate on outside. The defender is in 2 minds, he does his hop and theres a half gap Robinson just burns them.

Fiji Rugby

Great Fijian Tries

1st try great work by there forward he fakes stepping into the gap he wouldn”t have broken and draws in 6 players. The French defense line is broken and Caucau swerves past Rougerie showing why hes the fastest in Rugby.

3rd Try great strides by Delasau it looks so natural and fluid his opponent gave up.

Serevi “The Magician”

Reason he is a magician

This guy is unbelievable and so cocky i love it. This is against New Zealand the 2nd best side he shames them without trying. 2 cocky side steps and a explosive dummy pass step.

Just too easy

A explosive dummy pass step then a simple step inside just to break the tackle. Makes it look so easy.

Goose rugby step

Goose rugby Step by Serevi made famous by David Campese. The video features the importance of reading your opponent.

William Ryder

Half a second

Ryder side stepping around. Only takes half a second miss-read and he’s away.

Whole team

Through the whole team. Nice examples of a rugby swerve and his famous rugby skip step he loses no speed from.

Best sevens player

Shaun”s Steps at National”s ” 07

Personal videorugby side step

Nice work by these young touch players some of the moves are intense like combo-stepping and ball in hand tricks. Quite a few players have a background in playing touch.

Phil Bennett

All side ways

Classic days of Rugby his side step is ALL side ways.

Greatest try ever featuring Rugby site step sensation Gareth Edwards

Best try? Amazing lateral rugby side step

Rated as best try of all time started and ended by Gareth Edwards. His first one is amazing while off balance, the explosiveness allows him to beat his 3 opponents without getting touched. If only theres was a player of that caliber playing today.

Bryan Habana awesome try vs England

More then just speed

The English player was out of the defensive line he dummies. Habana steps out, then in, then out while ducking. Bit lazy defense but still great work.

Takudzwa Ngwenya SMOKES Bryan Habana Side Step

Infamous burning of Habana Side step

Everyones talking about this try. Ngwenya he steps in and out to slow down Habana but the important movement that stands out is his Rugby step is erratic that Habana couldn”t read it. By the time Habana is facing him he”s already on the outside. Habana would of caught him if the field was longer he was gaining but he was already over.

David Campese (Wallabies Legend) Side Step / Swerve

All instincts Side Step Master does it so casually

Change of pace burns his opponent, dummy pass and outside inside on amazing. The way he does it is like he”s reading the situation & understands what will happen. He was always a instinctive player and one of my favourite all time wingers.

Fooling his opponent

Campese one of the smartest players to play the game. Inside and outside his opponent has no clue.

France Classic French Flair Side Step

1991 France vs England

00:27 the guy looks like hes going slow motion doing a side step in mid air, amazing!!

Christian Cullen All Blacks site step (Rated as best full back by some)

1 man army Rugby side step through whole team

This video highlights the skill of running the right angles, you don”t have to have all the flashy movements. A nice dummy for one of most embarrassing moments for the NSW Waratahs history.

Cullen side step magic

1:28 awsome all sideways steps. His technique is amazing like the Welsh greats.

2:24 Nothing too flashy just good angles on the inside off footing his opponent.

Tommy Leuluai powerful side step

Powerful rugby hop step

Does a hop step, another variation with more power but lesser clean break.

Magic Moments:

Rokocoko side stepping in rugby world cup 2003 doing a spin offload with his opponent right in front of him. One of the best moves i”ve seen too bad theres no video of it.

Lote Tiquiri staying low on the ground for a kick return in the rugby world cup and dumping the kick chaser. All instinct, intelligence and class.

Fastest Rugby Players

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Fastest Rugby Player

One of the questions everyone wonder who is the fastest in the world of rugby? From legends like Lomu to todays Habana.

Who is the worlds the fastest,listed is each players time and there source. Lets get to the bottom of this popular question!

Note: Most of the times are not recorded recently which makes who is the fastest a large speculation game. There is more to rugby then just speed like acceleration, balance, vision, anticipation, instincts, endurance, psychology and many other elements.

#1 Fastest Rugby Player Toderai Chavanga

10.27 seconds 100m

400m Zimbabwe previous record holder.

Team: Springboks, South Africa

During the Super 14 last year i remember him out-pacing Rococoko and in the video Sivavatu gives up! Hope to see more of this guy, he still has along way to go to prove himself but holds great promise.

Videos:

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonderai_Chavanga

#2nd Fastest Rupeni Caucau (2nd Best Wing) FIJI

100m Unknown

Time is unknown but he is the fastest person my eyes have seen on the rugby field. Speed wasn’t his only attribute he showed up world class player and running through whole team like no one else. I rate Caucau the best winger better then Lomu its too bad we never saw his full potential.

My opinion definately the best player to grace the field better then Lomu.

Video:

#3 Brian Habana Springboks (Best winger currently)

10.4 seconds 100m

Source: Telegraph UK

“Habana weighs 14 stone and is 5ft 11in but can bench-press 25 stone.” The best wing in the game at the moment.

Source: Times Online UK

Videos:

#4 Takudzwa Ngwenya U.S Eagles

10.5 seconds 100m

Source: USA Rugby

“Running the 100m dash in 10.5 seconds and setting a high school record.”

Famous for burning Habana in the world cup it was amazing, he’s got a unique stepping style.

Video:

Burning Habana i bet he regret showing him the sideline

#5 Joe Rokocoko NZ All Blacks

10.66 100m

“he can run 40m in just 4.66 seconds! He’s even faster than his fellow team-mate and winger Doug Howlett, and he can run the 100m in 10.66!”

Source: BBC Sport

Rokocoko is featured in alot of videos on youtube.

Video:

#6 Doug Howlett NZ All Blacks

10.68 100m

“Was New Zealand schoolboy champion over 100m and the 100m hurdles, and in 1997 was national under-20 champion over 100m with a fastest time of 10.68sec.” Rugby top try scorer.

Source: ABC Austalia

Video:

Doug Howlett Scores Against Fiji

William Ryder

Fastest player in Rugby Sevens for Fiji. He could be faster then Toderai Chavanga. Theres plenty more of him on youtube.

Videos:

Jason Robinson, England

I’ve added a dedicated area for Jason Robinson he might not be the fastest over 100m. He’s definitely one of the most dangerous players in 40m and fastest over 10m allowing him to always beat his man.

Video:

Other deserved mentions:

Paul Sackey England

10.7 100m

Source: Daily Telegraph

Jonah Lomu NZ All Blacks (Best Wing of all time)

10.8 100m

100m 10.8 The Rugby great Jonah Lomu weighing in a big 120 KG on the wing. A devastating runner with his agility, speed and power. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/low/rugby_union/4601037.stm

Stapleton(Force Super 14) 10.27, Soseni Anesi 4.53 40m (Chiefs), Varndell 100m 10.8(England)

Agility & Fastest short distance 0-40m unorderd:

WORLD RECORD sprinter Ben Johnson’s 40 meter split of 4.38 seconds though if Johnson was running a 40meter sprint it would be lower.

FASTEST Recorded 40m: Soseni Anesi 4.53 40m (Chiefs)

source (broken now): http://www.chiefs.co.nz/index.php?pid=2&newsid=105

Fastest: William Ryder (my opinion)

Jason Robinson, England

Shane Williams, Wales

Toderai, South Africa

Habana, South Africa

Caucau, Fiji

Rugby top 50

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1 Richie McCaw

Age: 28
Position: Flanker
Franchise: Crusaders
Country: New Zealand
Not for the first time since 1987 the Kiwis’ leader left a World Cup dogged by questions about his captaincy: did Mr McCaw, by common consent the finest No.7 since Michael Jones and Josh Kronfeld hung up their size thirteens, go missing in last autumn’s quarter-final calamity against the French? Well, unlike other, injured stars at least he was there at the bloody end. And consider those captains with whom he keeps such gloomy company: Gary Whetton, Sean Fitzpatrick, Taine Randell, Reuben Thorne. Not bad. McCaw is far, far, far from any kind of bad; indeed, he’s the modern openside in the mould of the aforementioned Mr Jones, big enough to take the boshes and the bashes around the breakdown, lithe and quick and skilful enough, of course, to link with any of the thousand sets of breathtaking backs the men in black might care to put out. Good enough, even, to dismiss the growing platoon of bleaters who suggest he bends the rules to snapping point at the ruck. If McCaw cheated half as much as his critics claimed, he’d have a rain forest’s worth of splinters in his backside from time in the sin bin. Any summary of the Crusader’s talents is, really, as facile as it is futile – he’s just effin’ good. So good that he rode the wave of All Black heartache and came back just as good if not better. The world’s best? We reckon so.

2 Juan Martin Hernandez

Age: 26
Position: Fly-half
Club: Stade Francais
Country: Argentina
Word has it Tigers fans can still be found sobbing into their pint-pots about the one that got away. Juan Martin Hernandez was a work permit away from signing on the dotted line at Welford Road in 2003, but Leicester thought it better to bring him over for a trial on a tourist visa. The authorities smelled a rat and 19-yearold Hernandez got the order of the boot. His cannon-like left foot – and, for that matter, his right when the situation demands it – have been doing much the same to opposition ever since. But his length-of-thefield kicking ability is but a fraction of his vast reserves of outrageous talent. He can sling field-wide passes to within centimetres of their target, break the line like a raging bull and he defends his channel monstrously. Hernandez dazzled at last year’s World Cup and his talents seem so suited to the garish environs of Stade Francais, the club whose overwhelming gain is the Tigers’ cavernous loss. Yet they persist in playing the wondrously talented Puma at fly-half when virtually everyone else believes he should be at fullback. Imagine what he might achieve if he wasn’t played out of position.

3 Dan Carter

Age: 26
Position: Fly-half
Club: Perpignan
Country: New Zealand
So Perpignan offered him a king’s ransom for six months’ work. Evidently, the All Black flyhalf’s business life isn’t just about modelling pants any more, and the fact that the NZRU are prepared to lease out, as it were, their prize asset for a jaunt in the Heineken Cup and Top 14 in order to have him back in the fold for 2011 says all you need to know about his value to the Crusaders, New Zealand and to the world. A talent so precocious is precious, if not priceless. Let’s keep him happy because as he proved in the autumn, the All Black fly-half has everything – recision, panache, pace and power. Is Carter happy with his current lot? The World Cup was a bit of a letdown, one senses, not just because of what happened – or what, for him, didn’t quite happen – against France but for what didn’t quite happen before. In a dead pool made deader by Scotland and Italy rolling over without a fight, Carter wasn’t even given a bushel behind which to hide his light. It was all just far too easy just as, one senses, the southern hemisphere circuit has become too familiar, too samey, too flat. Law changes haven’t changed that, so he has come north. We should, throwing aside partisan pain, remember what he did to the Lions in 2005, and welcome him

4 Victor Matfield

Age: 31
Position: Second Row
Franchise: Bulls
Country: South Africa
There is a theme developing on this page. Matfield and the chap above him are the world’s best players in their positions and they both have other halves that make red blooded males go weak at the knees. We hate them. Matfield steals lineout ball like his life depends on it and seems to cover more ground than a migrating wildebeest. He moves with such speed for a big man that former Australia coach Eddie Jones once suggested he try his hand at Olympic sprinting. His partnership with Bakkies Botha, with whom he has locked the Bok scrum 46 times was recently summed up thus by Botha . “Sometimes I feel we know each other better than we know our wives.” Spend more time at home, lads.

5 Sergio Parisse

Age: 25
Position: No.8
Club: Stade Français
Country: Italy
How good could Parisse be if he played at the back of a better pack than Italy’s? But there hardly are any better packs than Italy’s, and Italy’s pack is largely so good because it has Parisse at the back of it. So, what if he had sharper halfbacks and three-quarters to work with? A look at any Stade Français game provides an answer – living in Paris, dating a former Miss France and Miss Europe, he’s in the pink. In more ways than the one involving the worst kit in rugby, obviously. Big and strong, he’s also got hands to die for, a brain for the game and an absolute refusal to bend the knee. More and more, it is proving harder to make Italy do so, and Parisse’s power and panache is at the heart of it all. The best No.8 in the world by a distance.

6 Matt Giteau

Age: 25
Position: Fly-half
Franchise:Western Force
Country: Australia
Would it be churlish to say Matt Giteau is the player Danny Cipriani wishes he was? Well, we’ve said it. As the most expensive player in the world, this baby-faced, streaky-haired imp is under constant pressure to perform. He rarely fails to live up to the task. Giteau has the happy knack of consistently delivering world class
performances. His low-slung centre of gravity allows him to dart through gaps in drift defences at will, even when the opposition know damn fine well what he’s about to do and his kicking game has become accurate in front of the sticks and long from hand. Watch and learn, Danny Boy.

7 Shane Williams

Age: 31
Position: Wing
Region: Ospreys
Country: Wales
Officially, the best player on the planet according to the esteemed judging panel for the IRB, whose shortlist declined to recognise Richie McCaw at all – much to Graham Henry’s chagrin (who, incidentally, was the man to give Williams his first cap). Not that Williams didn’t deserve the acclaim. He scored 14 tries in 12 Tests in the 2007-8 season, two of them vintage efforts against Bryan Habana, and claimed the Welsh try-scoring record in the process. His shimmies and swerves lit up the 2008 Six Nations as Wales marched to the Grand Slam and at 31 he still has plenty left to give. Lions supporters will be hoping he is in the mood next June and July.

8 Bryan Habana

Age: 25
Position: Wing
Franchise: Bulls
Country: South Africa
So, he raced a cheetah and so, he was the IRB player of the year for 2007. This, we know. That the Springbok wing runs like ordure off a spade we – and many provincial and international coaches, to their considerable cost – also know. That he’s also an intelligent ball-player and a cautious but courteous diplomat in a difficult rugby culture is perhaps less widely accepted. Hell, he’s even something of a man of the people, threatening to strike unless his mate, Bakkies Botha, was allowed to go north to Toulon. Well, sort of. And he stands out in a provincial side, the Bulls, Blue or not, who spend most of their time in the forwards. Habana effectively won South Africa’s World Cup semi-final against Argentina on his own – at least, the Pumas couldn’t match his pace, if they could match the Boks’ bruisers’ up front. Then, in a tourniquet-tight final, he had less chance to shine, rather like his predecessor as a wing, hero and national role model, Chester Williams, in 1995. But his boys won and they did so, in the long (and very fast) run, largely thanks to him. 2008 has been less glittering for Bryan Gary Habana. Perhaps he’s lining up the Lions – cheetahs being passé, and all.

9 Schalk Burger

Age: 25
Position: Flanker
Franchise: Stormers
Country: South Africa
‘A threshing machine’ was how former Springbok coach Nick Mallett described Burger. He has been the most physical, intimidating flanker in the business for the last four years, since being named the 2004 IRB Player of the Year. What makes that statement even more remarkable is that he spent a good chunk of that period battling back from a career threatening neck injury. His physicality sometimes overshadows the deft skills that he possesses but Burger added another dimension to his game during the 2007 World Cup as a link man in attack, rather than a head down charge into the nearest defender. A study in perpetual motion, Burger is a destructive tackler and a genuine crowd pleaser.

10 Juan Smith

Age: 27
Position: Flanker
Franchise: Cheetahs
Country: South Africa
The former former Bloemfontein bouncer guards the fringes of rucks like he used to run his door – turning would be attackers away like underage kids with dodgy IDs. His performances against Wales and Scotland this autumn – before missing the slaughter of England with a concussion – earned him yet more rave reviews for his link play, pilfering and all-round brilliance. The unsung hero of the formidable Springbok back row, yet there is not a better blindside flanker in world rugby.

11 Jean de Villiers (SA)

Age:29

Position:Center

Franchise:Munster

Country:South Africa

He made his first senior-level appearance for the Springboks in November 2002 against France, but suffered a major knee injury five minutes into the game. After regaining fitness, he became an important player in the Boks' 2004 renaissance, which saw them earn an unexpected victory in the Tri Nations Series that year. Both he and his former Paarl teammate Joubert earned a share of the try-scoring lead in the 2004 Tri Nations, with three apiece.

12 Mike Blair (SCO)

Age:28

Position:Scrum-Half

Franchise: Edinburgh Gunners

Country: Scotland

A Scottish rugby union footballer. He plays professional rugby union as scrum-half for Edinburgh Rugby and represents Scotland. Blair has recently signed another two-year contract with the Edinburgh Gunners. He attended the Edinburgh Academy He has 3 brothers the oldest Peter does not play rugby (although he has also achieved international honours as a prize winning tax accountant) but his brother David plays at fly half also for Edinburgh Rugby and his youngest brother Alex plays for The Edinburgh Academicals and has now been put in the Scottish U18 Dream Team.

13 Ma’a Nonu (NZ)

Age: 26

Position: Centre

Franchise: Hurricanes

Country: New Zealand

He may tempt some opponents to crack jokes at his expense given that he has blond-streaked dreadlocks and a penchant for wearing eye-liner on the pitch, but few are laughing by the time New Zealand centre Ma'a Nonu has ripped through their defence, as England can testify this season. Nonu was left out of Graham Henry's 2007 World Cup squad and has played ever since as though deeply stung by the omission, re-establishing himself as the No.1 choice for the black No.13 shirt. The world's most improved player this year, the 26-year-old powerhouse has been in the form of his life, his strong running and love for the physical battles makes him a focal point of the All Black attack and a hard man to stop with first-up tackles

Rugby Top 50 of 2008

Rugby fights Knockout videos

Rugby fights Knockout videos

Best Rugby SideStep

Best Rugby sidestep

Rugby Step: Sidesteps Videos

Quade Cooper (AUS) Super 14: Queensland Reds

Shane Williams, Gerald Ieuan

Shane Williams vs Fiji RWC 2007

Jason Robinson (England)

Fiji Rugby

Serevi “The Magician”

William Ryder

Shaun”s Steps at National”s ” 07

Phil Bennett

Greatest try ever featuring Rugby site step sensation Gareth Edwards

Bryan Habana awesome try vs England

Takudzwa Ngwenya SMOKES Bryan Habana Side Step

David Campese (Wallabies Legend) Side Step / Swerve

France Classic French Flair Side Step

Christian Cullen All Blacks site step (Rated as best full back by some)

Tommy Leuluai powerful side step

Magic Moments:

Fastest Rugby Players

Fastest Rugby Player

#1 Fastest Rugby Player Toderai Chavanga

10.27 seconds 100m

#2nd Fastest Rupeni Caucau (2nd Best Wing) FIJI

100m Unknown

#3 Brian Habana Springboks (Best winger currently)

10.4 seconds 100m

#4 Takudzwa Ngwenya U.S Eagles

10.5 seconds 100m

#5 Joe Rokocoko NZ All Blacks

10.66 100m

#6 Doug Howlett NZ All Blacks

10.68 100m

William Ryder

Jason Robinson, England

Other deserved mentions:

Paul Sackey England

10.7 100m

Jonah Lomu NZ All Blacks (Best Wing of all time)

10.8 100m

Agility & Fastest short distance 0-40m unorderd:

FASTEST Recorded 40m: Soseni Anesi 4.53 40m (Chiefs)

Fastest: William Ryder (my opinion)

Rugby top 50

1 Richie McCaw

2 Juan Martin Hernandez

3 Dan Carter

4 Victor Matfield

5 Sergio Parisse

6 Matt Giteau

7 Shane Williams

8 Bryan Habana

9 Schalk Burger

10 Juan Smith

11 Jean de Villiers (SA)

12 Mike Blair (SCO)

13 Ma’a Nonu (NZ)

14 George Smith (AUS)

15 Pierre Spies (SA)

16 Stirling Mortlock (AUS)

17 Fourie du Preez (SA)

18 Vilimoni Delasau (FIJ)

19 Paul O’Connell (IRL)

20 Luke McAlister (NZ)

21 Nili Latu (TON)

22 Tony Woodcock (NZ)

23 Brian O’Driscoll (IRL)

24 Nathan Sharpe (AUS)

25 Thierry Dusautoir (FRA)

26 Mario Ledesma (ARG)

27 Jean-Baptiste Elissalde (FRA)

28 Mils Muliaina (NZ)

29 Martyn Williams (WAL)

30 Bakkies Botha (SA)

31 Joe Rokocoko (NZ)

32 Nick Evans (NZ)