a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SkSpk1o41CI/AAAAAAAADKE/1zbydJXQXxw/s1600-h/mortlock-sonny-bill.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SkSpk1o41CI/AAAAAAAADKE/1zbydJXQXxw/s400/mortlock-sonny-bill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351588707561952290" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"We've had a number of requests for this bone-jarring hit from the Barbarians match against the Wallabies in Sydney a few weeks back. /spanbr /br /As always, Sonny Bill Williams making an appearance in a big rugby union match was surrounded by hype and speculation. Many people questioned his ability, and he no doubt was a prized target for the opposition players.br /br /Stirling Mortlock chopped the League superstar down to size early on with this great tackle.br /br /At the end of the match Sonny Bill apparently span style="font-style: italic;"thanked/span Mortlock for the sore ribs, to which the Wallaby captain replied "That's the way the big boys do it. "br /br /"He seems like a good bloke and a very funny character," Williams said later. "But I'd love to come back here in a few years' time and show him how I do it."br /p"I know I am going to have my critics and they are going to come out and bag me but I know that there is definitely a lot of improvement in my game and hopefully in another 10 months you will see a different player."/pp"I knew there was a lot of pressure on me and I knew that a lot of people wanted to see me get pumped but that's cool," he said./ppWilliams did show a few touches of class, even getting the better of Mortlock on a couple of occasions, but it was the Aussie center who came out on top overall.br //pbr /centerobject width="400" height="288"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sAMYDNoe0S0amp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sAMYDNoe0S0amp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="288"/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/2009/06/wallabies-crush-barbarians-in-sydney.html"The Wallabies crush the Barbarians in Sydney/a/spanbr //divspan style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time:/span 01:03/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-8668315910137502956?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com'//divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=g_It3gsd-d8:9d89JXa5bos:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/g_It3gsd-d8" height="1" width="1"/ More...