The Greatest Test Matches Ever?
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@Damo that was the one we came back from a decent deficit wasnt it?
I didnt watch live, and we were heading back to Whangarei from a 21st in Auckland and managed to avoid any results, we said we were leaving to go home and watch it, and my mates dad said 'you will be happy'
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@taniwharugby hate that. Just say nothing. Not a grunt. Not a smirk. Nothing.
Anyway @Damo was that the one with Frank Bunce's try? That one flashed into my memory this morning.
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@taniwharugby said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@Damo that was the one we came back from a decent deficit wasnt it?
I didnt watch live, and we were heading back to Whangarei from a 21st in Auckland and managed to avoid any results, we said we were leaving to go home and watch it, and my mates dad said 'you will be happy'
I can beat that story.
I was on a student exchange in Argentina. We didn't have the rugby at my house. My dad sent me the tapes of the games and I watched them without knowing the score. I saw that game about 3 months after it was played. No worries because I didn't know the score.
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@booboo said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@taniwharugby hate that. Just say nothing. Not a grunt. Not a smirk. Nothing.
Anyway @Damo was that the one with Frank Bunce's try? That one flashed into my memory this morning.
Yeah, Bunce got a couple of good tries in that game, one memorable one. It was a cracker of a game.
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@Damo said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
1997 v Boks at Ellis Park. Great game. Underrated and underappreciated.
Those two tries by Frank Bunce (end of video below). Something else. He wasn't the biggest or the quickest Centre but he was outstanding at seeing the gap in the defence and keeping going.
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@sparky they hang off him expecting him to pass. And he doesn't!
Loved it. When they had htat try on a sky sport commercial in 97 we used to fire up in the flat and yell at him to keep going. Keep going Buncy, don't pass it,a nd then go nuts when he scored.
I feel old, but it was awesome
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@sparky said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@Damo said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
1997 v Boks at Ellis Park. Great game. Underrated and underappreciated.
Those two tries by Frank Bunce (end of video below). Something else. He wasn't the biggest or the quickest Centre but he was outstanding at seeing the gap in the defence and keeping going.
Don't you EVER denigrate the great man. Frank Bunce is the greatest centre in rugby history.
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@mariner4life Not criticising him but praising him.
Never seen a Rugby player do more with his natural athletic ability than Frank Bunce 1993-1997. Not even Richie McCaw.
Frank Bunce in the mid 1990s was off the scale in terms of nous, calmness, speed of thought and determination. Voodoo is right about his defence too. Won test after test for the ABs. A total team man and super humble with a wicked sense of humour to boot. Legend. One of my favourite ever All Blacks.
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@voodoo said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
Hold the ball in 2 hands.
Still seems like valid advice for a modern day centreThe best AB no. 13's this old bugger has seen are Bruce Robertson, Conrad Smith And Frank Bunce. They all held the ball it two hands and bewitched the opposition with it. None of them had any real weaknesses.
But Frank Bunce was the best of the lot
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@mariner4life said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
Gibbes scoring for Wales late to deny England the slam and I think the championship for some reason sticks in my mind.
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ABs v Wales RWC 2003
Still a knock-on at 5.26 and forward pass from Marshall.
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@MiketheSnow Perhaps, but 98 years earlier Bob Deans definitely scored.
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@MiketheSnow I watched that unfold with a air of inevitability. My only consolation was that it was an away game for us.
-clutches at straw-
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@MiketheSnow said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@mariner4life said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
Gibbes scoring for Wales late to deny England the slam and I think the championship for some reason sticks in my mind.
Rugby in the sun is gorgeous
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@MiketheSnow said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
ABs v Wales RWC 2003
Still a knock-on at 5.26 and forward pass from Marshall.
I was at this one! It got tense!
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@mariner4life said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@MiketheSnow said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
ABs v Wales RWC 2003
Still a knock-on at 5.26 and forward pass from Marshall.
I was at this one! It got tense!
I was there also. Strange game, not a lot of D. It felt like we were so confident we could beat them in a Super Rugby style game, that we just kept on that path...and it almost went very bad!
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@voodoo} A reminder how standards in certain areas improved within the ABs camp soon after Ted took charge. Neither Justin Marshall nor Carlos Spencer bothering much with tackling in those clips.
On the other hand, a reminder what fantastic finishers Joe Rokocoko and Dougie Howlett were!
