Great tries burned into your memory
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@Rapido said in Great tries burned into your memory:
Bit before my time. I started watching in 1982.
But 2 length of the field team tries in 1980, both finished by Hika Reid. At a time when test rugby was still tight and dour they were extraordinary.
Set up by Bruce Robertson (well one was anyway)
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@Rapido said in Great tries burned into your memory:
Weirdly. While Horan, Campese and Mortlock tries are burned in my memory. I have no vision at all of tries that knocked us out in 99 & 07 by France or even 2019 by England. I vaguely remember a kick and chase in 99.
The Michalak involvement is burned in my mind...
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@sparky said in Great tries burned into your memory:
Same year, Frank Bunce crashing over through Michael Brial in last minute after Mehrtens/Cullen break to score at Suncorp.
I remember this try well. It was even funnier at the time as Brial had earlier thrown all those punches at Bunce.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Great tries burned into your memory:
@Rapido said in Great tries burned into your memory:
Weirdly. While Horan, Campese and Mortlock tries are burned in my memory. I have no vision at all of tries that knocked us out in 99 & 07 by France or even 2019 by England. I vaguely remember a kick and chase in 99.
The Michalak involvement is burned in my mind...
aaaaah, duh, I'm seriously worrying I'm going to have alzheimers in the future.
Ol' Wayne Barnes and Michalak .Lol at myself.
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This one stuck in my memory from my formative years.
Even though we wouldn't have had live coverage of 5 Nation in those days. Must have watched it no knowing the result (which was easy and normal in those days).
The legendaryness of it is added by them meeting again a year later at same venue in RWC semifinal.
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@Rapido said in Great tries burned into your memory:
This one stuck in my memory from my formative years.
Even though we wouldn't have had live coverage of 5 Nation in those days. Must have watched it no knowing the result (which was easy and normal in those days).
The legendaryness of it is added by them meeting again a year later at same venue in RWC semifinal.
Ha! You beat me to that one. Was just looking up the clip.
I was living in Edinburgh then. Wasn’t at the game but was at the aftermath. It was a messy night. -
@Rapido said in Great tries burned into your memory:
This was the 1992 Bledisloe try I was talking about.
That was a great series. Pretty sure all 3 scores lines added up to identical totals for each team. Think we scored another great length of the field try in that series too?
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@Virgil said in Great tries burned into your memory:
@Rapido said in Great tries burned into your memory:
This was the 1992 Bledisloe try I was talking about.
That was a great series. Pretty sure all 3 scores lines added up to identical totals for each team. Think we scored another great length of the field try in that series too?
I think we scored an all time great try in each match of the series. Defintitely remember a great Kirwan try in second test at Ballymore.
1992 was the watershed year All Blacks turned from dour to exciting.
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@Crucial said in Great tries burned into your memory:
Woodcock 2011 RWC Final
Such an underrated try this - especially when you think about the occasion, the planning that would have gone into it for 2-3 years prior when they decided to shelve for just this moment, the perfection of the execution - right down to Piri's kick to the corner to set it all up.
