Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of
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I know it's a league example on a rugby thread....
Warriors vs Roosters was hands down the loudest craziest crowd I've ever been a part of. We'd beaten the Storm in Melbourne the week before, and the place was roaring. A mate and I sat in the top row of the new Eastern stand and we literally screamed for the whole game. The Warriors can blow hot and cold, but that is never a fault of the home crowd, they are farken feral on their best days
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RWC Final 1995. Only time I’ve ever thought, ‘Wouldn’t be so bad if ABs lost this one’;
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ABs Wales Cardiff Arms Park 1989. Been in UK three months. Welsh singing made hairs at back of neck stand up. Such passion; and
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ABs England RWC 1999 pool game Twickenham. Electric atmosphere at train station, with actual buzz of excitement, which only got louder as we walked the 15 minutes to ground. Wonderfully engaged crowd, with plenty of Kiwis. Jonah scored key try right in front of us.
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@crucial said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@pakman said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
- RWC Final 1995. Only time I’ve ever thought, ‘Wouldn’t be so bad if ABs lost this one’;
WTF!!
Ban this man (or Polish girl)
Yup that's a lifetime ban
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Lions Aus 2001 Test 1 in Brisvegas. Was there on a two week modelling contract, scored some tickets, got on the lash, sat next two three random Lions supporters from Ireland called Donal, Donal and Donal. Epic. Just the best rugby vibe - a huge number of international, rugby loving fans, often with their sons, just out on the diesel to have a good time. Little to no aggro, and when the Lions won it just went off. Insane experience, one of my top sporting events of all time.
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@bones said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@nzzp said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Was there on a two week modelling contract, scored some tickets, got on the lash, sat next two three random
You were a model huh, it's not obvious.
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All Blacks vs Wallabies Christchurch 1990. Sheer wonderment at just 14 and in the Smiths City stand with my Dad and uncle.
Canterbury vs Otago RS game 1994. Latta. Mehrts.
Otago vs Lions 1993 Those star Otago backs and loosies, and their journeymen veteran and misfit tight forwards playing above themselves
Otago vs Boks 1994 Read above
Canterbury NPC final 1997 The Cookie 🍪 Time Game
England vs Samoa RWC 2003, Melbourne. Samoa looked likely for a while and you wouldn't have thought there was a Pom in the house.
All Blacks vs Wallabies, Sydney 2001, 2009 & 2012 Any win in Sydney is gold so the latter two games made up for the heartbreak of the former.
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1995 ABs vs France at Parc des Prince. All our back three scored and Culhane played the best game I ever saw out of him. The French crowd was brilliant, very welcoming and generous. They loved Jonah and Zinny, whose name sounded much better the way they pronounced it. The people around us kept giving us food and there was a very French guy in our row who passed us a huge water canteen that turned out to be full of 50:50 Cointreau and Cognac. I remember thinking that if I had too much more I’d be shitfaced so we made it known we didn’t want to use up all his booze. So he reached under his seat and showed us the spare he was carrying. What a great bunch, even after the ABs gave them a belting.
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Any AB game at the Millennium Stadium - roof open or not. Cardiff is fantastic on match day and the Welsh fans passionate, knowledgeable and great to have a beer with.
All Blacks -England 2018 at Twickenham. Incredibly close game, lion's den of noise but none of the crowd ugliness I've experienced from previous visits. (all credit to the RFU). Fantastic day.
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@tim said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Eden Park for 96 Super Rugby semifinal and final was pretty amazing.
Was st the 96 Semi v Northern Traansval. Was up there.
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@williethewaiter said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
geez i wouldn't be too far off those either that Maori game in the tron was INSANE. (which made the recent game at rotorua even worse)
Yeah, those games were like night and day for the atmosphere and the weather conditions.
npc - close one would be winning the shield at eden park with the terraces packed with drunken students who'd come up on a shitload of buses from the Hilly
I deliberately didn't go to the 1993 RS challenge and was hoping for a change of fortune after being at the 1989 and 1991 games. It worked.
Like @MajorRage I was at the 1997 RS game. Great fun and we appeared in the crowd shot of all the Waikato supporters on the terraces that was in the Sunday News.
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Lions tours and RWC pool games. Always a good percentage of people who are there to have fun and like the best part of rugby.
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@antipodean said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Lions tours and RWC pool games. Always a good percentage of people who are there to have fun and like the best part of rugby.
Would love to do a Lions tour to SA.
