Favourite AB tests
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@booboo said in Favourite AB tests:
@Higgins said in Favourite AB tests:
All Blacks v Lions at Athletic Park in 1983, the Trapper Test. Nine nil ahead with the 25 point wind behind us at half time but Trapper was sublime in the second half to get us home with no change to the score.
Still looking for highlight online.........................First test I ever went to.
Cold!
Rimutakas were cut off, as I think was the Pahiatua Track so I recall we went through the gorge from Pahiatua.
I was not present at the Park that day either but can recall watching it at the Tarawera Tavern on the Napier-Taupo Road. You are right it was bitterly cold and using the outside toilet in the blow zero temperature was challenging to say the least!
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@voodoo said in Favourite AB tests:
@Bovidae said in Favourite AB tests:
All of my favourites have been mentioned, particularly Pretoria 1996 and RWC final 2011.
I hated that 2011 final (outcome aside!), have never rewached it!!! Such a sweaty game!
I've said this before, but it seems the final was more stressful for those watching on TV compared to the likes of myself who were there.
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@Bovidae said in Favourite AB tests:
@voodoo said in Favourite AB tests:
@Bovidae said in Favourite AB tests:
All of my favourites have been mentioned, particularly Pretoria 1996 and RWC final 2011.
I hated that 2011 final (outcome aside!), have never rewached it!!! Such a sweaty game!
I've said this before, but it seems the final was more stressful for those watching on TV compared to the likes of myself who were there.
Yeah, at the ground at the end I was confident we were going to win.
But, I watched the replay as soon as I got back to our accomodation which was interesting.
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@mariner4life the game in Sydney was some of the best footy I’ve seen.
One of my favourite matches not so much because of the performance, but for the occasion and what it has meant since, was the follow up game at Eden Park and finally getting the Bledisloe back. I was a nervous wreck that night and constantly had to block out thoughts of a last minute try or penalty by the Wallabies to snag it.
The beginning of what has been an amazing run.
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1997 v SA in Johannesburg. Great game of rugby.
Surpasses the 2000 Bled for me.Funny story.
I was in Argentina at the time on a student exchange. I asked my dad to record the tests and send them to me. I avoided knowing the score for 6 weeks and watched it without knowing who won.
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@booboo said in Favourite AB tests:
1981 Third Test.
Can't find a full highlights package.
Videos posted by Saffas seem to stop at Ray Mordt's third try
Amazing game, surreal atmosphere, awesome ending, great result.
Greatest test match ever.
Ah the memories this brings back.
I was a young lad waking up in the early hours to watch these tests.That 3rd test was quite something. Ray Mordt was an absolute monster for that day and age.
Just a pity the Boks got robbed by some questionable refereeing at the end
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@Billy-Webb said in Favourite AB tests:
@booboo said in Favourite AB tests:
1981 Third Test.
Can't find a full highlights package.
Videos posted by Saffas seem to stop at Ray Mordt's third try
Amazing game, surreal atmosphere, awesome ending, great result.
Greatest test match ever.
Ah the memories this brings back.
I was a young lad waking up in the early hours to watch these tests.That 3rd test was quite something. Ray Mordt was an absolute monster for that day and age.
Just a pity the Boks got robbed by some questionable refereeing at the endSouth Africans ... always the ref ...
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@booboo said in Favourite AB tests:
@Billy-Webb said in Favourite AB tests:
@booboo said in Favourite AB tests:
1981 Third Test.
Can't find a full highlights package.
Videos posted by Saffas seem to stop at Ray Mordt's third try
Amazing game, surreal atmosphere, awesome ending, great result.
Greatest test match ever.
Ah the memories this brings back.
I was a young lad waking up in the early hours to watch these tests.That 3rd test was quite something. Ray Mordt was an absolute monster for that day and age.
Just a pity the Boks got robbed by some questionable refereeing at the endSouth Africans ... always the ref ...
Hahaha. True.
But you kiwis don't moan about the ref that much because you don't lose that much.
Wait until the ABs start losing a bit more regularly and you'll notice how much more critical you become -
@Billy-Webb said in Favourite AB tests:
@booboo said in Favourite AB tests:
@Billy-Webb said in Favourite AB tests:
@booboo said in Favourite AB tests:
1981 Third Test.
Can't find a full highlights package.
Videos posted by Saffas seem to stop at Ray Mordt's third try
Amazing game, surreal atmosphere, awesome ending, great result.
Greatest test match ever.
Ah the memories this brings back.
I was a young lad waking up in the early hours to watch these tests.That 3rd test was quite something. Ray Mordt was an absolute monster for that day and age.
Just a pity the Boks got robbed by some questionable refereeing at the endSouth Africans ... always the ref ...
Hahaha. True.
But you kiwis don't moan about the ref that much because you don't lose that much.
Wait until the ABs start losing a bit more regularly and you'll notice how much more critical you becomeNorling wasn't a favourite of ours until he relaxed as a ref. Probably about the time he got out if the tightie tight shorts ...
As for refs, they're all out to get us. We're still dirty on John Dallas.
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@BartMan said in Favourite AB tests:
1996 deciding test v Boers and 2011 RWC final. Both tests made my eyes a bit dusty at the end, both years ending 'curses' so to speak.
I admit to hiding behind the sofa for large parts of the 2011 RWC Final.
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@Billy-Webb said in Favourite AB tests:
Wait until the ABs start losing a bit more regularly and you'll notice how much more critical you become
Nah. We own the Refs.
Read in a UK newspaper so it must be true.
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The Fern lets me through the defences again, to unload some ancient history.
What about that fourth test against the Boks in 1956?
It was a time when New Zealand had a monolithic rugby culture. There was national unity in the desire to beat these more-than-lifesized invaders. That desire was the highest form of passion allowed a Kiwi bloke.
Selwyn Toogood commentated. Peter Jones scored the clinching try. And we heard the word “buggered” for the first time on air.
I argue that no game since has mattered as deeply to a larger percentage of New Zealander’s.
