Wales suffered a 27-17 defeat against Ireland despite a tenacious performance in which they made 240 tackles.<\/p>\n
According to Opta, Dafydd Jenkins (82) and Alex Mann (75) top the Six Nations tackle chart.<\/p>\n
Lydiate was 2012 player of the Six Nations for his chop-tackling defensive efforts when Wales won a Grand Slam by conceding just three tries and 58 points.<\/p>\n
“We’d like to have the ball a bit more and be scoring points, but the boys put their bodies on the line for the jersey and you can’t ask for much more than that,” said the former Lions blind-side flanker.<\/p>\n
“It’s a collision sport and there is no shying away from that. The boys are putting in some big shifts and there is a lot of unseen work that is creating a good vibe and feeling.<\/p>\n
“It’s contagious and you’ve got to want to do it and love doing it, because it’s tough to keep throwing yourself in. You are sore and banged up a couple of days afterwards, but that’s what Test rugby is about.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales suffered a 27-17 defeat against Ireland despite a tenacious performance in which they made 240 tackles. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-469043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}