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All Black star Damian McKenzie pulled off a ridiculous offload in the center of of being absolutely flattened by an opposing player.
Chiefs faced Moana Pasifika in Great Rugby on Saturday, April 6, and McKenzie was turning out at coast-half for Chiefs. The Unique Zealand facet ran out comfortable winners in a 68-12 battering at FMG Stadium Waikato.
Alternatively, it was a spine-tingling tackle from Pasifika open air centre Handsome Inisi, coupled with an out-the-back-door offload from McKenzie which caught the attention of social media.
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Receiving a kick-on from William Havili near his contain 22, McKenzie carve an arcing line across the left facet of the self-discipline. Picking up a serious head of flee, McKenzie got absolutely nailed by Inisi, with a tackle technique which can be deemed questionable.
Upon watching the replays, you are able to look how McKenzie manages to obtain an exceptional offload. The transfer did now not materialise in the highest but that chaotic sequence has racked up half a million views on X. There’s even a additional 120,000 on TikTok.
You can watch the clip below.
Alternatively, fans have been torn on the tackle itself and have puzzled its legality.
“‘Spectacular tackle’? Totally illegal you mean: no arm wrap, lead with the shoulder…” said one.
“Real, no arms, and at flee appears to be like treasure shoulder to head. Purple card.” said another.
Despite claims to the contrary, many completely different rugby fans disputed their claims with screengrabs showing the tackler clearly wrapping their arms around McKenzie.
The final consequence for Chiefs leaves them four features adrift of Australian outfit ACT Brumbies, who are in third place. McKenzie pinged over nine of his 10 conversion attempts in the game, and will be hoping to e-book himself a place in the All Blacks squad for their summer Exams.
They are going to face England twice, then Fiji, sooner than getting their Rugby Championship campaign underway against Argentina in Wellington.
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