- Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:10 am
#23842
Wayne Barnes' latest video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rov3vhtz_s0 refers to "jackling". Surely the player, like a jackal, rushes in to the kill (breakdown), tears off a ruddy great lump of meat (the ball) and makes off with it. Our man is surely therefore not a jackler but a jackaller; he doesn't, after all, take any part in the tackle. Is anybody still awake, or am I the only logophile with nothing better to do?
And yes, I do realise that it's a made-up word so it doesn't matter. In case someone quotes some tosspot online dictionary at me, I've just searched the web and found something called Rugby Coach Weekly which agrees with me, for what that's worth. I'm off to sulk n the corner now.
And yes, I do realise that it's a made-up word so it doesn't matter. In case someone quotes some tosspot online dictionary at me, I've just searched the web and found something called Rugby Coach Weekly which agrees with me, for what that's worth. I'm off to sulk n the corner now.