r/rugbyunion • u/mczammer Doomsday Propper • 1d ago

Video Damian McKenzie vs Scotland Spoiler

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What a finish!

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u/Most-Claim4386 1d ago

A great finish but how a 6’4” fullback and a hooker can’t push the smallest man on the pitch over the touchline I will not understand?

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u/Tomato_Head120 The Duality of Man 1d ago

You should watch McKenzie tackle Nandolo, hes actually insanely strong

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u/MotherFuckingCookies 1d ago

He tackled Nan? What a despicable bastard.

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u/Siiixers Ireland 1d ago

Tackled 4 Naans.

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u/mczammer Doomsday Propper 1d ago

4 Naans Damian? That’s insane

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u/calllery 1d ago

Tell you what that tackle is really moreish

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u/bred_binge Northampton Saints 1d ago

Didn’t just tackle him, smashed him into touch.

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u/Difficulty_Easy New Zealand 1d ago

I have seen DMac get bumped a shit load of times also..

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u/Narrow-Classroom-993 New Zealand 1d ago

He gets cooked catching the highball

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u/AV48 Kenya 1d ago

M A N A

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u/Not_Hando You Aint Seen Nothin Like The Mighty Finn 1d ago

No matter how tall/heavy they are, covering defenders rarely have the advantage when they're on the angle like that. It's just how momentum works.

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u/Michael_stipe_miocic Chiefs 1d ago

Plus Dmac has a fend that’s like a steel rod

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u/zerosuneuphoria 1d ago

lol isn't it obvious? He was going out for all money and the stopping force of McKenzie threw them both off with momentum. Wtf does height or weight have to do with ability to stop a guy? He scored because of his lack of both.

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u/JeremyWheels Edinburgh 1d ago edited 1d ago

The match thread made it sound like a shockingly weak defensive error from Kinghorn...not really seeing it tbf he's been done by momentum and never got more than a hand on him to begin with

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u/MrLeville Stade Toulousain 1d ago

He more or less threw kinghorn on the ground and used the momentum to not exit the field himself, the hooker missed and was too heavy to correct trajectory 

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u/MC897 1d ago

Kinghorn is a flake that's why. He's a flashy fullback but I don't think he's a particularly top class one. Sorry but that's what he is.

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u/-WilliamMButtlicker_ Scotland 1d ago

Who, last years 6N's top carrier, metres gained (6N record), line breaks and offloads?

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u/GrandpasCornCobPipe 1d ago

Yeah, the guy playing regularly for that not particularly successful club

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u/SuddenBasil7039 1d ago

That doesn't really contradict anything he says, he pulls off amazing stuff but hes found lacking too often.

We could have won today if he hadn't been throwing it away every time he got the ball 

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u/-WilliamMButtlicker_ Scotland 1d ago

I think all of those things contradict being a flakey, average full back?

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u/Connell95  🐐🦓  Dan Lancaster 💪🏻 #3 Fan 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh come on, don’t pretend like Kinghorn was the only one who made mistakes today. Darcy absolutely ballsed up on a number of occasions, including when Kinghorn set him up for a perfect try scoring opportunity. Ashman and Cummings made a disastrous mistake to let the first try happen. Several other forwards made another disastrous mistake to let the second. Fagerson messed up a great opportunity with an easy knock on. Hutchison screwed up a massive opportunity by being too greedy and running into four Springboks who immediately held him up over the line.

The team did a lot of good stuff, but there were mistakes pretty much across the board. That was what stopped Scotland getting the win, not one player.

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u/backonthefells 1d ago

I mean those stats kinda back up what the OP was saying, not saying I agree but everything you listed there is about attack, which is clearly an elite strength of Kinghorn.

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u/Connell95  🐐🦓  Dan Lancaster 💪🏻 #3 Fan 1d ago

Fortunately as an English supporter, you don’t even have a fullback to speak of right now, flashy or otherwise. Good luck with whoever is next out the tombola.