The Greatest Test Matches Ever?
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@canefan said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@Virgil said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
2011 RWC final - a certain monkey off a certain back
It wasn't a great game to watch, but the pressure was immense. RWC 1995 SF vs England, final test of the winning SA tour in 1996, the rain game in Wellington vs Oz for ridiculous skills in abject weather, the come from behind game vs Oz in Brisbane when Buncie scored in the corner to win it
Oh it was a shit game to watch, easily the most tense game to watch.
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@mariner4life said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@Davesofthunder said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
Oh god was that the one where Goldie shelled it on the line? Epic finish to a match but heartbreak.
No. He's talking the "Greatest Test of All Time" where we jumped to a huge lead, Wallabies clawed their way back, and Jonah scored at the death to win. Then in the return the Wallabies jumped to a lead, we pulled two tries from our ass (a Ron Cribb grubber and that ridiculous U21 B level set play) and then Eales kicked a penalty in the 154th minute because Todd Blackadder was a shit captain (or really our lineout fell apart, and then a duuuuumb penalty).
I was at the game with the Eales penalty to win it. I don't remember much about the game but the walk back to town stands out in my memory - a big crowd in basically complete silence all the way back. Everyone was in shock.
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@No-Quarter said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@mariner4life said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@Davesofthunder said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
Oh god was that the one where Goldie shelled it on the line? Epic finish to a match but heartbreak.
No. He's talking the "Greatest Test of All Time" where we jumped to a huge lead, Wallabies clawed their way back, and Jonah scored at the death to win. Then in the return the Wallabies jumped to a lead, we pulled two tries from our ass (a Ron Cribb grubber and that ridiculous U21 B level set play) and then Eales kicked a penalty in the 154th minute because Todd Blackadder was a shit captain (or really our lineout fell apart, and then a duuuuumb penalty).
I was at the game with the Eales penalty to win it. I don't remember much about the game but the walk back to town stands out in my memory - a big crowd in basically complete silence all the way back. Everyone was in shock.
And Kaplan had a huge amount of ref's time
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@No-Quarter that was the return leg...
IMO both those games the better team lost in the end.
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I don't know about best, but ones I like watching time and again are:
- Putting 60 past Ireland in 1997 at Lansdowne Rd and again in 2012 at Waikato Stadium.
- Humping France in 2006 at Lyon.
- South Africa third test in 1996
- South Africa at Pretoria in 2003
- Half century against the Wallabies in 2003
- Teaching the Wallabies how to play in the wet 1996
- Lions 2nd Test 2005
- Wales at Millenium Stadium 2005 or 2006 - I can't remember which one.
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@antipodean said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
I don't know about best, but ones I like watching time and again are:
- Putting 60 past Ireland in 1997 at Lansdowne Rd and again in 2012 at Waikato Stadium.
- Humping France in 2006 at Lyon.
- South Africa third test in 1996
- South Africa at Pretoria in 2003
- Half century against the Wallabies in 2003
- Teaching the Wallabies how to play in the wet 1996
- Lions 2nd Test 2005
- Wales at Millenium Stadium 2005 or 2006 - I can't remember which one.
I'd put the RWC15 final in a list like that
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@taniwharugby said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@No-Quarter that was the return leg...
IMO both those games the better team lost in the end.
Agree
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In terms of Tests not involving the All Blacks:
1990 Scotland beating England at Murrayfield in a tense Grand Slam decider.
2003 RWC Final. England winning it with a last minute drop goal at the end of extra time
Japan beating the Boks in the last minute in 2015 RWC:
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You guys are so young.
26 posts and not one mention of THE greatest test match ever played:
1981 3rd Test ABs v Springboks Eden Park
Flour bombs
Spectacular tries
Brute force
Pseudo championship of the world
Massive comeback
Controversy
Bad Allan Hewson
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@booboo said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
You guys are so young.
26 posts and not one mention of THE greatest test match ever played:
1981 3rd Test ABs v Springboks Eden Park
Flour bombs
Spectacular tries
Brute force
Pseudo championship of the world
Massive comeback
Controversy
Bad Allan Hewson
Great Allan Hewsonhow the fuck would you know, you haven't read the thread!
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@mariner4life I protest.
A booboo is more subtle and nuanced than just not reading a thread.
It is to respond to a post immediately without checking if the point had been made subsequent thereto. You can assume I have (usually) read up to that point...
(The other meaning is of course 'to go to bed in order for New Zealand to take a wicket'.)
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@mariner4life said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@taniwharugby yeah, actually there are a couple of France away games that were awesome. That 2004 one was great for a number of reasons. Then there is one a couple of years later where we hosed them as well, i remember Mils cutting them up.
Was the 2004 one where we just destroyed their scrum?
Yep, epic away games against the Frogs in 2004 (Norm Maxwell, Ma'a Nonu, Collins and So'oialo, DC at 10), 2006 (pumping them in Lyon) and 2009 (pumping them in (Marseille, with Tialata destroying their scrum, Cory Jane's classic "don't argue").
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@booboo said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
I get a vibe of "Great Test Match" = one where we smashed the opposition.
Don't want to get all Justin Marshall on it but i think we need to think outside our All Black bubble.
So going to throw in 1987 Semi Final Aus v France.
In fact I think there was a series of brilliantly written articles on the greatest games of the RWC on the TSF front page. Search "Best of RWC"
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England v Aus on the northern tour of 1988.
It was like 4 tries to 3 (huge in those days).
Carling captain.
England just about likeable. Thankfully they ruined that over he following years.
Stuart Barnes at 10 ( when we didn't know he was a dick), Guscott 12, and England running the ball.
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@canefan said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
It (the RWC 2011 final) wasn't a great game to watch, but the pressure was immense.
The back of my sofa still has my teeth marks.
