Skinner and Cecillon - the tackle

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มิ.ย. 2011
  • Mickey 'the Munch' Skinner tackles Marc Cecillon early in the second half of the 1991 RWC quarter final in Paris, a game of considerable tension and not a little confrontation. England had set out with the intention of roughing up the French to put them off their game, and it worked. Brian Moore's most memorable game - according to his autobiography.
    As if the tackle wasn't enough, I like the way the England front row hit the ensuing ruck as a unit and clear out the entire French pack.
    See also,
    www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugb...
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ความคิดเห็น • 108

  • @RichThePirate
    @RichThePirate 11 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Skinner, Teague and Winterbottom were, and still are, a vastly underrated back row!

    • @mattmccann8805
      @mattmccann8805 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not by me! They were absolute quality.

    • @LockedDownSpectator
      @LockedDownSpectator 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The sound like a band of notorious pirates!

    • @user-cn3zq2zu2o
      @user-cn3zq2zu2o 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mate, I'm Welsh and this is one of the most legendary back rows ever

    • @oliverhunter9495
      @oliverhunter9495 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Skinner was bang average in a seriously good pack. But as a unit it really worked. Teague and Winterbottom where leagues above him, Jon Hall was the pick of the bunch when he played

  • @dan32113
    @dan32113 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    thankyou for putting this clip up, i haven"t seen it in full since 1991, a brutal game. Skinners tackle was immense, it was a dirty game, but we came through!

  • @andymoffitt6691
    @andymoffitt6691 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hang on mate, these guys were epic, world class in anyone’s book and rated by, of all people , the All Blacks…

  • @shinystones
    @shinystones 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Mickey, you hero! All man!

  • @clitering
    @clitering 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When you look at that scrum now it’s amazing how little player safety was a priority, not to mention what went on in the rucks. That said I was 20 then and playing twice a week and adored it. Mind you, I wasn’t a forward, which helped. Played against a few of the England boys and the scariest, probably because of reputation, was Dooley. All the size and menace but no brains and back then had plenty of opportunities - and latitude - to get in cheap shot after cheap shot

    • @MadMarchTaffy
      @MadMarchTaffy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And to think that he was a policeman....

    • @grahamnoble4887
      @grahamnoble4887 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hope you smacked Dooley around a bit, Bridget.

    • @clitering
      @clitering 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@grahamnoble4887 They build women tough in NZ

  • @RichThePirate
    @RichThePirate 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    you didn't have to be back then, as long as you stayed at the back foot. scrum half was also allowed to dummy from the base to try and catch you offside, which isn't allowed now.

  • @Jackcantsleepful
    @Jackcantsleepful 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was ten, I think this is why I got into rugby. My nose is now in the wrong part of my face.

    • @adambrace5127
      @adambrace5127 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I feel you brother. Familiar.

  • @orac54
    @orac54 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was there. What a bloody game that was. I hadn't seen Wints' kick at the guy's head before - a bit cheap, that.
    Man of the match that day: Laurent Cabannes

  • @bennyhill2073
    @bennyhill2073 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wade Dooley what a machine.

  • @norvegicusbass
    @norvegicusbass 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mick Skinner was a neighbour of mine in West Denton Newcastle. His mother used to tell me he was on telly when he was playing for Quins so i wouldnt miss it

  • @chrisandrews8073
    @chrisandrews8073 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    oh me oh my, how rugby should be played......Teague was my favourite but what a team England had and should of won the final.....

    • @jfrost1942
      @jfrost1942 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      agree.. if it wasn't for a campese intentional knock on we would have won the final

  • @chisterax2013
    @chisterax2013 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    at that time, frenches could not win those games. Bishop definitely chose the winner of the day, nothing else to say. Knowing this, we should have play savage no matter the consequences.

    • @graemestarkey7524
      @graemestarkey7524 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      France dished out a lot of their own - as they often did at the time.

  • @johnodonnell9729
    @johnodonnell9729 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Those were the days.....

  • @johnx9774
    @johnx9774 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thought he was supposed to stay bound to the scrum tillthe ball was out or was it different then?

  • @xpat73
    @xpat73 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The reason that the French lost this game is that they didn't play their usual running game at the time - they tried to go toe to toe with England up front - and really that played into the English hands. England had a limited game plan, win lineouts and kick for position and wait for the French to give away penalties. It worked.

    • @axvuyg9218
      @axvuyg9218 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You're so right... The English planned a real good trap and the French felt in it...
      (I don't know if my words are real English.... Sorry...)

  • @chanctonbury63
    @chanctonbury63 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Cecillon was probably better than Skinner with a gun, but here, unarmed, he comes a distant second.

    • @axvuyg9218
      @axvuyg9218 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You should talk about what you known...

    • @kenrehill8775
      @kenrehill8775 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He shot his wife didn’t he?

  • @georgelooney53
    @georgelooney53 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What happened to that brilliant blindside stop by skinner on st andre when he picked him up,carried him ten yards,dumped him into touch?can anyone upload?

  • @glennpells9712
    @glennpells9712 ปีที่แล้ว

    Those were the days.

  • @xpat73
    @xpat73 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @superjb64 In those days it was legal for flankers to break from the scrum early, as long as they retreated onside behind the No8's feet (or the try line). They have changed the law since then so that you cannot slip your bind like that.....Cecillion should have gone left not right...

  • @SupremeBros2012
    @SupremeBros2012 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    During that sustained pressure on the England line, I remembered thinking that if France scored then, they would go on to beat the English, but in the end, they scored shortly afterwards but ended up losing..The English capitalised on the temper of the French and the French swallowed the bait...I wonder how the game would have changed had Berbizier and Camberabero been playing that day...Berbizier had a way of ensuring discipline

    • @lardinhoredbeard5089
      @lardinhoredbeard5089 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      YEAH i watched that as an England fan thinkng "we've got a better scrum, better ruck, better counter ruck, better forwards and Jeremy Guscott" so England was always going to win.

  • @inmos35
    @inmos35 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    My favourite tackle

  • @rhurbstafalcon4807
    @rhurbstafalcon4807 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm sitting here in 2022 watching this and let me tell you that if iur backs hadnt been so girly we would have dominated rugby union .....that pack was as good if not better than anyone else....my favourite pack selection ever....

    • @richardtaylor9483
      @richardtaylor9483 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That tackle hurt the commentator more than the player.

  • @bg365
    @bg365 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ah, the good old days. Winterbottom casually kicks a trapped player in the head, all quite acceptable back in the day…

  • @xpat73
    @xpat73 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s funny people complaining about the ref. ENGLAND beat France in every game between March 1989 and Feb 1995. At this time they were simply a better side.

  • @zisssssou
    @zisssssou 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    and i won't comment about this ref...
    i think he is officially persona non-grata in the whole south-west of France :)

    • @xpat73
      @xpat73 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      By the time this game came around England had beaten France three times in a row....including a slaughtering in Paris the year before. So it's not like France had a better team.......they didn't. In fact France did not beat England until the 1995 World Cup...they lost EIGHT games in a row to England.

  • @itchycooable
    @itchycooable 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    such a tense game , i think this was the one where the ref. was assaulted in the tunnel at the end , by ondarts ?

    • @xpat73
      @xpat73 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes - but it was by Dubroca the coach.

  • @xpat73
    @xpat73 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Has- the French are complaining about the ref? England has beaten France three times in a row by the time this game was played.

  • @zisssssou
    @zisssssou 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the kick from the english number 7 summarizes perfectly this match. The tension was immense. English had an excellent defence but gave an incredible numbers of cheapshots (Blanco shoulders still remember...), never sanctionned and french players lost their nerves as usual

    • @xpat73
      @xpat73 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well the game was dirty back then. Blanco and Champ should have been sent off in the first 5 minutes for their cowardly assault on Heslop. The game was just just violent back then.

    • @graemestarkey7524
      @graemestarkey7524 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@xpat73 would have finished at 10 a side today.

  • @astrebleu12
    @astrebleu12 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    it's not skinner ( number 6 i believe) but rather the number 7 , Winterbottom?

  • @georgelooney53
    @georgelooney53 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Too long ago to remember..sure it was in Paris,happened in the first few minutes,remember it kept st andre quiet for the rest of the game,England won of course! Great hit by the munch!

  • @xpat73
    @xpat73 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think you mean the hit on Marc Cecillon the French No. 8, there was no such hit on St. Andre in this match.

  • @xpat73
    @xpat73 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    it's in this clip

  • @matthewvarney6214
    @matthewvarney6214 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fringing like a boss

  • @zisssssou
    @zisssssou 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @77kraxx bishop was a terrible and biased ref. but in a certain way, he wasn't helped by the 2 sides. dubroca was sacked after the match because of an agression attempt on the ref, 2 frenchies were sent off, and of course every english cheapshoters weren't sanctionned ;)

    • @axisfolate4300
      @axisfolate4300 ปีที่แล้ว

      No mate. The two French were sent off in 1992 by Stephen Hilditch. Both deserved it that day, but Winterbottom's kick here is bang out of order even for 1991.

  • @acasacas9844
    @acasacas9844 ปีที่แล้ว

    18 stone of pure Geordie manhood

  • @kevinholtom1966
    @kevinholtom1966 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved peter winterbottoms commitment but he loved a scrap too much 👍

  • @cardigan3000
    @cardigan3000 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    should have been a penalty for teague clearly breaking early from the scrum

    • @softwareofexcellence
      @softwareofexcellence 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That was legal in those days. Skinner broke early too to make the tackle.

    • @Nieghorn
      @Nieghorn 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +cardigan3000 Accidental offside / obstruction in the maul at :20 :)

    • @cocricklewood4441
      @cocricklewood4441 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      The back row were allowed to break from a scrum back then, however once broke? You cannot rejoin if your scrum is going backwards

  • @henguspod3899
    @henguspod3899 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    mick the munch

  • @chriscontrare
    @chriscontrare 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Winterbottom did'nt have much speed but he was has hard as nails.

  • @GaMeRzbOyzz
    @GaMeRzbOyzz 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who would do the same move again and again

  • @xpat73
    @xpat73 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's at 1:33

  • @chanctonbury63
    @chanctonbury63 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    @zisssssou Daniel Dubroca the French coach caught up with the ref in the tunnel after the game and pinned him up against the wall by his neck. He was not unsurprisingly sacked for that!

  • @glenntilbrook7328
    @glenntilbrook7328 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    A tackle that cost England a world cup. Had it not happened, Richards would not have been omitted.

    • @xpat73
      @xpat73 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      What are you talking about? Richards was off form and was dropped for this 1/4 final....so he was dropped before this tackle.

  • @adambrace5127
    @adambrace5127 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    turned the match

  • @77kraxx
    @77kraxx 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    bishop was a fucking bad referee during this game

  • @pragma5475
    @pragma5475 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    il y a des arbitres qui n auraient jamais du exister...de vrais charognes

  • @xpat73
    @xpat73 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    no

  • @xpat73
    @xpat73 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Today Winterbottom would have been cited and missed the semi and final. Skinner would have been cited for a "dangerous tackle" and banned for life. ;)

    • @graemestarkey7524
      @graemestarkey7524 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      As woould more than one French player.

    • @rdgrdg1632
      @rdgrdg1632 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That is exactly why rugby is shit now

  • @jack.charlesc4750
    @jack.charlesc4750 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Referees were biased for years and years ........
    In football it was mr pool ......Thierry Rolland 😉
    Then professionnalism came and things went better

  • @willlawrence6632
    @willlawrence6632 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was he bound on?

    • @MrT67
      @MrT67 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wasn't even bound when the ball went in.

  • @superjb64
    @superjb64 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a Shame, 2 big fault in 2min, the kick in the face and look the flankers are totaly out of the scrum, easy to tacle Cecillon on this way..

    • @xpat73
      @xpat73 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      you don't know the rules. that was legal in 1991.

  • @r.cjones1515
    @r.cjones1515 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The French are just getting their comeuppance for all the years of cowardly cheap shots from behind that they were known for

  • @Charlie8eee
    @Charlie8eee 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    hes my mates dad! hahahaha

  • @didierc.2708
    @didierc.2708 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Et jou tabé

  • @maxwellfan55
    @maxwellfan55 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    French humiliation big time, they are so much better disciplined now. It all started from here.

  • @fatbuddhafitness
    @fatbuddhafitness 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I believe Skinner should really have been penalised for not binding...

    • @graemestarkey7524
      @graemestarkey7524 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Under the rules of the time this was legal.

    • @MrT67
      @MrT67 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@graemestarkey7524 No. He wasn't even bound when the ball went in.

  • @jamestrevelyan3912
    @jamestrevelyan3912 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cecillon later murdered his wife.

    • @axvuyg9218
      @axvuyg9218 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's why Winterbottom tried to kill him first ??This makes no sense...

  • @simontaylor305
    @simontaylor305 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stop fretting about this that and the other try and win the world Cup ps I'm welsh

  • @amilsomrodrigues4954
    @amilsomrodrigues4954 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    good demo of tradicional and unnecessary french dirty play

  • @keithmccormack9182
    @keithmccormack9182 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    2 minutes 23 seconds of nothing

    • @JackoJ15
      @JackoJ15 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Not a rugby fan eh? Bless your simple mind.

    • @babaza1972
      @babaza1972 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad it wasted 2 mins & 23 seconds of your life then sweetcheeks!

    • @carlgarner9807
      @carlgarner9807 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You clearly don't know rugby.

  • @trevortreverson3049
    @trevortreverson3049 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mick the Munch, was not has good has he thought he was