Great tries burned into your memory
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@Siam said in Great tries burned into your memory:
The immediate vision that popped into my head upon reading the thread title was Stu Wilson vs France in thright hand corner where he seemingly (to a child's eye) flew to the tryline. Stuck with me vividly always.
It's 56 seconds into this. I bet it never gets done again 🙂
By the way that baa baas try, the Edwards one from yonks ago, is like lying about an airswing in golf
That try against France is classic. Wilson ran brilliant lines for a winger and the soft hands of Bruce Robertson setting up most of those attacks.
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Earliest memory: BeeGee Williams going over by the touchline and then sidestepping 3 or 4 Boks to score under the posts in '70
Nonu putting BB in the corner RWC Semi against the Boks. One of the best try setups you'll see.
Cullen's tries against Scotland in '96
Gregor Townsend's try in the same game. Looked so simple but as Mains (who was doing TV comments) said "Just class, just pure class"
Lomu's 1st try against the Poms in '95.
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@MiketheSnow said in Great tries burned into your memory:
Gibbs pisses on England's parade
This. This every time. And all the stories that go with it. I'm not even welsh and I remember this try
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karne hesketh try.
This video doesnt do it justice. It was the gradually increasing crowd crescendo in the phases leading up that set this try apart. The unmistakable sound of neutrals, there for a jolly, realizing they're in with a chance if witnessing history.
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@mariner4life said in Great tries burned into your memory:
@MiketheSnow said in Great tries burned into your memory:
Gibbs pisses on England's parade
This. This every time. And all the stories that go with it. I'm not even welsh and I remember this try
I like the Welsh try, with centering kick, that knocked England out of 2015
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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.
There were no World Cups those years...
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@MiketheSnow said in Great tries burned into your memory:
Jiffy for GB
Remember that one well. The Aus press called Davies that "geriatric dwarf". One quote that still has me in stitches was: "He's as old as Mal (Meninga) and weighs about as much as Mal's prick, and the bastard has beaten us."
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@Rapido said in Great tries burned into your memory:
I'm stealing this from reddit thread I saw today (https://www.reddit.com/r/rugbyunion/comments/jezvyi/great_rugby_try_you_will_never_forget/) . But when I clicked in and read it was disappointingly full of recent tries I can't remember or haven't seen. Showing my middle age.
here's a more age-appropriate (to me) list I've made.
82 Wayne Smith (Canterbury v Wellington Ranfurly Shield Challenge at AThletic Park)
87 Kirwan v Italy
87 Blance SF v Australia.
88 Kirwan 3rd test (optics: MJ through a hole, then acceleration by Kirwan burning off Lynagh)
91 RWC SF: Campese
91 RWC SF: Horan
92 Bunce v Aus at SFS (team try: Timu, Little, Brewer, Inga, Bunce)
93 Bunce v Lions (Stensness chip)
94 France at Eden Park. Try from the end of world
95 RWC semifinal. Lomu over Catt
96 Cullen. Hurricanes v Warratahs at SFS
97 Cullen v Aus Carisbrook
2003 Mortlock
2015 Savea QF v France
2015 NMS QF v France RWC. (optics, camera angle change just at time NMS did his right-foot-step)
2015: RWC final: Nonu
2015: RWC final: BarrettGot a bit of catching up to do on this thread
But ...
That 88 try was awesome
Off the top of my head...
Frank Bunce v SA in 1997 (I think at Joburg)Have more ... need to brain ...
Edit: damned autocorrect
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07 RWC that Argies try vs France
Also I remember try by the Lions against the Boks, a chip and chase and flick pass down the left wing.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Great tries burned into your memory:
07 RWC that Argies try vs France
Also I remember try by the Lions against the Boks, a chip and chase and flick pass down the left wing.
45.30
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@MiketheSnow it was in the other match they played, the 3rd/4th playoff.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Great tries burned into your memory:
@MiketheSnow it was in the other match they played, the 3rd/4th playoff.
2.30
5.00
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Richard Tsimba, Zimbabwe v Romania, 1987 RWC
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@MiketheSnow said in Great tries burned into your memory:
Chariots
Fuck he was quick wasn’t he, was a sprinter that was plucked into league wasn’t he?
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Chris Ashton v Aussie and Jonny May skinning Conrad Smith. Also Ben Cohen v Ireland in 2003 ( I think).
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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.
Graham Mourie in the same test v Wales
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@canefan said in Great tries burned into your memory:
@Rapido Speaking of the bloody French
last time we lost at EP, Nightmare on Jonah's debut. Amazing team try and one of those events that adds to their aura
Sorry to nitpick ... But 2nd test. Debut was the week prior in Chch.
