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@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.

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Love that the WC open side is already thinning on top

@junior is that Spence? Classic - I thought for his try he looked like the wiley-old 200+ club caps, typical openside.

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.

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@Bovidae said in Classic Rugby Vids:

Sivivatu magic for Wesley. Their hooker has some wheels.

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Love that the WC open side is already thinning on top

because he's 23

@Bovidae

Here it is.

I watched this about a 1000 times as a 10 and 11 year old in 1990. Was great at the time.

@erps But the picture quality is not great if watching on a TV. I could just dust off the VCR and find my VHS copy of this.

I am hoping an official cleaned up version is in the works.

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.

@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.

@Smuts

There were certainly some strange Bok selections, and players I had completely forgotten about in that team like van Schalkwyk.

Natal and NT were the dominant SA teams that year so you can understand why Markgraff favoured some of them.

Good pace from Jerry in the build up to the first try

@Duluth I remember hearing about how awesome he was and how quick he was....before he broke his leg.

I was trying to find some footage of Jerry playing at no.8 for the NZ U19s in 1999. Player of the tournament and a beast with the ball in hand.