a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TL7UbVCxwdI/AAAAAAAAErQ/ZkPF_spcsKs/s1600/benoit-baby-mikaeletuugahala.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TL7UbVCxwdI/AAAAAAAAErQ/ZkPF_spcsKs/s400/benoit-baby-mikaeletuugahala.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530090958427898322" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"It was an all French affair in Pool two of the Heineken Cup on Saturday as Racing Metro picked up their first win of the campaign by beating Clermont Auvergne 16-9. The only try of the match went to Sireli Bobo, but the clip featured here comes from another Pacific Islander. /spanbr /br /We all know the penchant for big hits that stems from that part of the world, and while there have been unfortunately a few that have been misdirected of late, there was nothing wrong with this punishing hit from Racing Metro prop Mikaele Tuugahala.br /br /Benoit Baby was the unlucky recipient as he picked the wrong guy to run into. The fullback was brought to a halt instantly by the veteran from Wallis and Futuna, who is actually the cousin of Toulon’s a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2009/03/classic-toulon-counter-attack-and-try.html"Jocelino Suta/a.br /br /Possibly the most impressive thing is that despite running into and being smashed by a far bigger man, Baby got up after a few minutes and continued on.br /br /It's actually not the first time we've seen Baby hit hard, as two years ago (to the day!) we posted a clip of him being nailed by a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2008/10/jean-philippe-viard-hit-on-benoit-baby.html"Jean-Philippe Viard/a of Montauban.br /br /Morgan Parra picked up a late penalty for Clermont which gave them a valuable losing bonus point as the result means that both sides are now sitting with one from two so far.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e1zhLFeC9C4?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e1zhLFeC9C4?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-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" :: Related Posts :: /spanbr /span style="font-size:85%;"a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2008/10/jean-philippe-viard-hit-on-benoit-baby.html"Jean-Philippe Viard hit on Benoit Baby/a/spanbr //divspan style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span01:23/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-1550949786378683887?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=i3bml94ILZE:5_-aOPUZnsY:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/i3bml94ILZE" height="1" width="1"/
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