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<blockquote data-quote="TRF C A Iversen" data-source="post: 410853" data-attributes="member: 12312">I voted fine and legal, but I honestly have to say that it&#039;s not something I applaud. It appears not to be Lima&#039;s intention to hit an unprepared player (as he couldn&#039;t have predicted that juggle), but it does appear to be an attempt to hit a player hard the split second after he has received the ball. Of course that&#039;s legal, but I just feel that the object behind tackling in that way is to knock a guy hard enough when he&#039;s not ready, so as to possibly injure him, or attempt to instil hesitance or fear. It&#039;s the kind of thing that changes the focus of rugby play from skill, running, passing, catching, setting up the ball and all the best techniques to finding away around all that by merely smashing the player as hard as you can.It has an element of timing (a lot in this particular example), but is also kind of cheap in it&#039;s goals.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TRF C A Iversen, post: 410853, member: 12312"] I voted fine and legal, but I honestly have to say that it's not something I applaud. It appears not to be Lima's intention to hit an unprepared player (as he couldn't have predicted that juggle), but it does appear to be an attempt to hit a player hard the split second after he has received the ball. Of course that's legal, but I just feel that the object behind tackling in that way is to knock a guy hard enough when he's not ready, so as to possibly injure him, or attempt to instil hesitance or fear. It's the kind of thing that changes the focus of rugby play from skill, running, passing, catching, setting up the ball and all the best techniques to finding away around all that by merely smashing the player as hard as you can. It has an element of timing (a lot in this particular example), but is also kind of cheap in it's goals. [/QUOTE]

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