What I love about Chabal's hits is that he always (or almost always) wraps the arms round in the tackle. You see too many players - Nonu and Alesana Tuilangi in particular - not wrapping the arms in a tackle. It's illegal and dangerous to shoulder barge and I often see people defending it saying "When you hit that hard it's hard to wrap" and yes, it's difficult but as the good L'homme de Cave Mr Chabal shows us, not impossible. I love big hits but I hate illegal ones.

@jeroennickman

10 жыл бұрын

I don't think I've ever seem him make a hit that was even questionable, whether it be on the timing or wrapping arms. I love the way Chabal channels his aggression into the game without trying to injure people; truly the mark of a great player.

@zisssssou

7 жыл бұрын

That was the beauty of this player. As much he was quite irregular in attack, he was so solid in defence. A monster.

Immense by Heaslip to take it and present the ball perfectly!!

Good solid tackle, really well taken by Heaslip, ball nicely presented for his teamates. You gotta love Chabal really, he plays with a bit of heart at least!

this is sparta

I love how they're both grinning afterwards and looking for eachother! haha

Great tackle but a bit high. Not illegally high but had it been a slight bit lower the hurt in Jamies ribs might have prevented the excellent ball presentation! I'm Irish but Chabal is a legend btw.

chabal is a legend heaslip took the tackle well chabal double ard

BOOM, face full of Frenchman! Chabal, love him!!

Thanks for the footage. Chabal is a great guy on and off the pitch, I definitely prefer him at 8 than playing second row. I just wish his coach would ask him to target the intervals rather than his direct opponent. At Sale he had an excellent ability for off-loads which he never really had a chance to show when playing fro France.

That was a serious hit, the kind that makes you get amnesia of the lt ten minutes. Though Heaslip done well putting it back, I wouldn't have been concious.

Now, Chabal has learned a lot playing as a second row. In the line out he has become quiet outstanding and going through the scrums also made him more endurant than he was. He would make an excellent back up for Harinordoquy at # 8 for France. I also like Picamole in the game play, but Picamole is not as versatile. Only time will tell what Lievremont makes of his qualities.

0:26 that laugh is amazing.

@7dayspking lol i thought it was quite solid.. it was on a no8 and on heaslip who is a very robust and strong player. although you do have a very nice collection of hits in your channel, watching them now :)

@manuelpe1979 except Leguizamon is tackling Chabal after he has passed the ball. Chabal's tackles are legal, that's talent.

The thing is heaslip is actually really light for a forward 108kg (i think)

It's like getting hit by a train

Too bad Chabal got scared and got rid of the ball as soon as he realized he was running at Jerry Collins back in 2006. Thursday - February 4, 2021.

The hit would probably send a skinny footballer to hospital, but Heaslip's just like "Cool, cool."

What pisses me off is that every time Chabal tackles like that, his team mates right behind him stand watching like a bunch of spectators instead of going for the ball. Any tackle is a waste when your team mates do not follow through.

good hit by chabal initially and then 2nd hit into touch caps it off. good play, especially on a quality player like Heaslip

We are in Sparta, we speak Spartan!

The hit by Nacewa on chabal later on was more impressive!

To be fair to Heaslip he was ready right away and got the ball back on hi side, didnt look shaken at all

"Hit on" has a very different meaning here.

Lifemi Mafi softened his cough a few years ago when he was still with Sale. As did Pauly and Donners in Thomond a few years before that.

I've taken huge hits and placed the ball perfectly, only to get up and feel like I was in a car accident.

Thumbs up to both players :D

@dadubs93 I agree, there was nothing technical in that tackle! He's just a bear and a natural one at that. Not just pumped up on mass gainer diets. Hes a natural born house. Hero.

Any (European style) footballer/soccer player taken an impact a third of what Heaslip received, they would have their funeral that afternoon.

We all know who won the match and which number 8 didnt last the full 80mins! Still a big hit though!

I do like the reporters english who like the tackle

CHABAL and HEASLIP i love both of them real men , every so called hard soccer player would have balled his eyes out if he got cought in that crunch !

He's like a game of thrones character

@protected4all That's because in rugby the idea is to get hit. If you were to get hit in rugby and roll around on the floor it would accomplish nothing. If you do in football the referee buys it and dish's out cards. It is not the players in football to blame, it's the referees for buying that behaviour. Look at when Howard Webb referees no one stays on the floor because they know he doesn't buy it. He just says get the fuck up

@TheMooreorless107 There is lots of skill involved, many fine nuances which u have to play the game for years to pick up. Being able to read and predict the movement of play which only comes with time, this is most helpfull to loose forwards. No one is fit eneough to sprint to the ball to be the first one there all the time, so how do u get there first consistently? Predict the movement, aswel as little things u pick up over years. Fullback is an extremely hard pos. to play, lots of skill needed

to be fair to heaslip he took it like a pro and made sure the ball came back.... a monster hit tho

I like that hit its a Chabal special!

@otleybull would been a good interchange to bring on for short spells, in his younger days he played a lot more minutes obviously (AND NO BEARD...lol)

@peshayuk Heaslip is quality, but good for Nothern hemisphere play... Southern Hemisphere producing sh#t loads of backrow talent at the moment.

@GaryTss dude it whas a nice hit, he put him on his back and after that he made another great tackle.. heaslip is a great player, but that doesnt mean chabal isnt

brad thorn and chabal at lock for leinster would be sick. only 1 will come though and it looks like thorn.

Se le quedó bien recordado lo de Leguizamón...

@scarpittpimpernell He took like a champ, wasn't fazed by it at all.

Chabal was a monster, just looking at him would put the shits up the opposition. lol

I prefer the one that Chabal is hitted by Leguizamon in RWC 2007.

Nothing but a good hard clean hit.

nothing wrong with that hit,round the upper mid section,arms wrapped,nice job

I got to this video from "Tough Granny Attacks Robber"

@Russell101 i dont agree with you, i think ego money and looks, whilst too much a part of football, is certainly not more important in the sport than the gameplay itself, and i can show you many famous players right now who are hardly the stereotype you describe. yet i do agree that all those top level rugby players are hardly fat at all and most of them only look to "broad" (fat to an ignorant person) because they have a very large and wide (yet muscular) core. theyre all huge.

He just fell over him, no tackling to be seen!

thats a spear tackle! Thats a card!

0:01 OMG ITS SANTA

ooooooooo the comentatrys wet their pants when they see chabel do anything an average big player. Sean O Brian and chabal would be some fight.

You would know if you saw the game that Chabal got his ass handed to him by Nacewa twice and the rest of the team for the remainder of his appearance. I don't think he lasted the whole game.

a overseas player that plays like a islander finally !

@Russell101 Serge Betsen a cheat???? How? When? You must be kidding me. Betsen is THE most dedicated and uncompromising player I have ever seen. He is the only rugby player to have a boxer's face. If he has so many cuts and scars that is because he used to put his head where no one else would, not his fist. He was certainly not a cheat. Serge Betsen, Olivier Magne and Imanol Harinordoquy were the dream combination in the row. Betsen was a World Class flanker.

last time i saw Chabal play he was really skinny

More impressive is Heaslip shaking it off like nothing!

Ouch!! I no how he feels it's happened to me

I'd have liked to have seen him play league

he got back up right away ,,,,

@GaryTss i disagree, he is overrated and his preformance is inconsistent, but he is a hard hitter and a decent ball carrier.. and i kinda like the caveman thing :P

i don't like chabal as a rugby ball carrier, he lacks of vision and skills he has become a marketing thing but his defence and courage are always brutal and generous

a train going full speed

the ball took most of the impact

OH MY GOD! Is the ball ok?

now his weight is 115kilos!

Thanks to the appalling ignorance and xenophobia of my fellow Americans, the great career of Sebastien Chabal, and the wonderful sports of soccer, rugby, and cricket, are treated as if they occur on some unknown alien planet. I am American born but my favorite sports are soccer, rugby, and cricket. I worked for Motorola as a Software Engineer, co-workers from India were always surprised that an American like me loved cricket.

@gordonjackson217

2 жыл бұрын

That's great, but we don't say 'soccer' in England!

Heaslip - "Come on Chabal, You can do better?;)"

I thought spear tackles were illegal?

Chabal may be big and scary but hes NOT a rugby player he should have stayed a body builder

Chabal chews on his opponents bones as a snack

that wasn't even a big hit?? what the fuck was thAT??

What team is chabal on

@handsomesquidward5160

4 жыл бұрын

The team in the white and light blue Jersey

.5 of a second on the floor then 'shit', sets it back ;) Good Man

albus dumbledore is comentating!!!!!

By today's standards that is a high tackle and Chabal might get a yellow if he was unlucky. Back then it was a good hit and play on.

Great to see a legend of rugby with passion running in his veins toss over a posh leinster boy. Keith Earls did a better job on him this year, left him out on the astro turf haha.

@wildebest lol it wasn't meant to be there

@SweetLeftFoot1971 wat r u doing here, then?

sebastian chabal is a living legend :)

Ahg rugby players hitting on each other...

a good hit well taken evryone's a winner move on

heaslip needs the respect in this video not chabal

not gonna lie i'm not a weedy little guy i play rugby to a high standard but i still but've shat myself if that had been me

@tuhaks No he doesn't he got the better of Spies on the Lions tour, was excellent again in last years autumn internationals, and only featured for 16 mins in the summer tour before he got banned for kneeing McCaw in the head. He's arguably the best No 8 in the world a long with Harinordoquay, Parisse and now after the Tri Nations Read.

@dadge35 correct, rugby does have it's cheats. I've always disliked Serge Betsen and quite a few of the South African players can be nasty. The difference is, when people are caught cheating in rugby, whether it be during the game or after, proper action is taken. The only reason the fake blood incident got so much coverage was because that kind of thing hardly ever happens, but if every time someone cheated in football made it to the news, there would be no time to talk about anything else

@atticus712 ye he just placed the ball like normal

thats a big hit by mr chabal !!!

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I love Rugby....just for watching. For playing Cricket

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RIP JERRY COLLINS

are you serious ?

Had little effect though........

i wouldnt wana be hit by him

Jamie is already sitting down. Not so great

Good gawd what a hit!

@rockingrugger that's a remarkable video.

To all the people talking shit about footballers. Not all footballers are the same, dont tar all people with the same brush.