Great tries burned into your memory
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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.
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@Chris-B said in Great tries burned into your memory:
Many who were around at this time will have suppressed the memory of these, so drag them up from the depths at your peril. But, they'll be burned in there somewhere....
Gerrie Germishuys - too fast for Bee Gee and Kit Fawcett losing the pass over his shoulder.
Just before my time. Thankfully. I have memories of watching the series (i.e., I remember I watched it). But nothing firm in my mind.
Unlike the next year:
Batty intercept and Super Sid in first test.
Lawrie Knight! To win the series in the 4th -
@Virgil he did
