a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TLHM7tOra_I/AAAAAAAAEoY/P5c8aH3J-4g/s1600/chabal-heaslip-tackle.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TLHM7tOra_I/AAAAAAAAEoY/P5c8aH3J-4g/s400/chabal-heaslip-tackle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526423543885818866" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Leinster got their Heineken Cup campaign off to a positive start as they beat Racing Metro 38-22 with a stylish performance in the Pool 2 opener at the RDS. The match was played at a great pace and there were plenty of big tackles. This is just one of them from the opening passage of play. /spanbr /br /Leinster scored five tries while the visitors only managed the one in what was a fascinating and enjoyable game to watch. Both sides bashed eachother on numbers occasions, with French talisman Sebastien Chabal putting in the first big hit of the match early on.br /br /It was Jamie Heaslip who was on the receiving end as Leinster started well with a serious of pick and drives before releasing the backs. By the time it got to Heaslip out wide, Chabal had lined up and put in a quality tackle, smashing back the big British amp; Irish Lions number eight.br /br /There were plenty of other notable highlights, including Rob Kearney’s try, Francois Steyn’s massive penalty, and then a few hits from Isa Nacewa that actually went in on Chabal himself. If there’s time over the next few days I’ll try get something up showing all of them. For now, here’s another nice Chabal moment for the archives.br /br /Please be patient while waiting for highlights or clips as this weekend was one of the busiest on the rugby calendar in a long time. If you have specific requests, get in touch via the a href="http://www.rugbydump.com/contact.html"contact page /aor post them in the a href="http://forum.rugbydump.com/forumdisplay.php?f=41"requests section/a on the forum.br /br /Also note that there are a few competitions on the go, namely for a href="http://www.rugbydump.com/promos/heinekencup/"Heineken Cup tickets/a, tonight’s a href="http://forum.rugbydump.com/showthread.php?t=7164"free Poker tournament/a, and shortly, a comp for a signed Barbarians jersey will be announced. If you liked this tackle, please share it with your mates on Facebook via the Share button below, or tweet about it on Twitter. Traffic keeps the site going, so all help is appreciated.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aCsWKA9B7c8?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aCsWKA9B7c8?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;":: Related Posts ::/spanbr /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/04/exclusive-sebastien-chabal-interview.html"Sebastien Chabal interview and France video tribute/abr /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-imanol-harinordoquy-broke-his-nose.html"How Imanol Harinordoquy broke his nose on Sebastien Chabal/abr /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2007/06/ali-williams-breaks-his-jaw.html"Ali Williams breaks his jaw from Sebastien Chabal charge/a/span/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-1362178664005688280?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=yS0tXVlP2ow:MOEGuU9EDZM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/yS0tXVlP2ow" height="1" width="1"/ More...