@Nepia said in Classic Rugby Vids:
@mikedogz Cheers for posting that, I was at that game ... the girls we were with (from the local Catholic school) wouldn't shut up about how hot Marc Ellis was.
I hope you enjoyed a bit of second hand success on the back of it?
@taniwharugby Why are you @ing me when mostly discussing Manawatu players. 
But agreed - moe mai rai Jared and Norm.
@taniwharugby not too many people gas Christian Cullen on the outside..Joe Mafileo has story to tell his grandchildren, from what I have heard chatting to some individuals that played in that game..Cullen had not come across the very little known Mafileo, but having seen him run around in North Harbour club in the mid nineties..I knew he could shift..,Cullen in most cases would show the player the outside knowing he had the pace to rope him in..problem was Mafileo possessed stunning pace over the first 30 metres.
@mariner4life said in Classic Rugby Vids:
Watching these videos, rugby was at its absolute pinnacle in the late 90s
Which is why it's so annoying that for all but 2.5 years of the 90s we were fucking shit.
@Steven-Harris said in Classic Rugby Vids:
@taniwharugby not too many people gas Christian Cullen on the outside..Joe Mafileo has story to tell his grandchildren, from what I have heard chatting to some individuals that played in that game..Cullen had not come across the very little known Mafileo, but having seen him run around in North Harbour club in the mid nineties..I knew he could shift..,Cullen in most cases would show the player the outside knowing he had the pace to rope him in..problem was Mafileo possessed stunning pace over the first 30 metres.
Any relation of the THP?
@mikedogz said in Classic Rugby Vids:
Not to denigrate the great man, but boy was there some shoddy tackling technique in there! The prop and the winger in particular
@mikedogz said in Classic Rugby Vids:
Some rare provincial footage of Jonah.
I watched that this morning.
Some hideous jerseys on display.
I love the way some of the tackle attempts were half hearted as players were in two minds whether to have a go or get steamrolled.
1996 AB series in SA on Sky now with Bill McLaren commentating
Pitch in shocking condition looks like they’ve been grazing sheep on it until just before kick off.
It’s actually the last game of the Tri Series with the 3 match test series to follow
@Bovidae said in Classic Rugby Vids:
Some of those SA provincial games on the 1992 tour would be good to see again.
Is the 1992 tour documentary that screened on TV and had the old timers (Bob Scott, Kevin Skinner etc) watching available on Youtube? IIRC it also had Herscel Gibbs who got to tour round with the ABs as he was a big schoolboy star at the time.
I remember the punch up in one of the provincial games, Ian Jones was showing his Northland mongrelness despite looking like a choirboy.
@taniwharugby said in Classic Rugby Vids:
@Bovidae you able to post the teamsheets?
I haven't been able to find it. From the commentary, RBHS had Messam, Ripia and Aporo in their side, and Ruki Tipuna was the halfback and made the NZSS team. Sailosi Tagicakibau scored the first try for Wesley.
Wesley didn't have any NZSS reps in 2001. 
Joe Schmidt, what were you thinking?
Rotorua did score plenty of points themselves, just not enough.
Wesley College: 53 (Sailosi Tagicakibau 2, Tekori Luteru 2, Sitiveni Sivivatu, Viliami Veikoso, Michael Spence, Stephen Donald tries; Donald: 5 con, 1 pen)
Rotorua Boys’ High School: 32 (Ruki Tipuna, Sam Cameron, Raureti Grace, Penalty Try; Tipuna: 3 con, 2 pen)
@Bovidae said in Classic Rugby Vids:
Sivivatu magic for Wesley. Their hooker has some wheels.
Love that the WC open side is already thinning on top
I played with Spence when I was in my prime, Counties Under 13 open weight. He was man size and as hairy at 14/15. He would have been a second year 7th former there. He ended up playing a few seasons for Wairarapa Bush.
I watched "Blood, Sweat and Touring" on allblacks.com's YT channel last night. Fun times back in 1990 with local French refs. I hope they also release a good quality version of "The Good, the Bad, and the Rugby" as that is even better. A VHS transfer doesn't look good on a big screen.
There was a trailer earlier this month but nothing since then.
@junior said in Classic Rugby Vids:
@Bovidae said in Classic Rugby Vids:
Sivivatu magic for Wesley. Their hooker has some wheels.
Love that the WC open side is already thinning on top
because he's 23
I've just been watching the NZ-SA Pretoria test from 1996 on Sky. One of my favourite games to watch and I remember vividly that Sunday morning.
Anyway, I had forgotten how bad some of the kicking was in this game. Stransky and Joubert missing touch from penalties, Culhane and Cullen kicking out on the full and Marshall getting box kicks charged down. No mucking around with scrums though.
Two superb tries from Wilson and that DG from Zinny. Brooke's set move try from the scrum was a beauty too.
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@Bovidae Classic match. That All Black side was fearsome. And they played as though they'd made a pact after '95 to write their names into the history books as legends and not just the bad guys in a Matt Damon vehicle.
And every springbok fan knew they were coming to SA to rip the title of world champions from our hands. Which was why that series was infuriating as a Springbok supporter. Shit selections: Steve waste of space Atherton at lock instead of Wiese, John Allen and then Henri Tromp at hooker instead of Dalton, the revolving doors that were Justin Swart, Hendriks and Joubert defending one of the most potent back threes in the modern era. A game plan that was essentially leave it to Joost. You have to hand it to Markgraff - it takes genius to undermine a World Cup winning captain and to ignore the critical pieces of a World Cup winning team in favour of players that should have been no where near a springbok touring squad let alone facing one of the finest All Black teams ever hell bent on revenge.
That must have been a very unhappy springbok team.