Great tries burned into your memory
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@Rapido said in Great tries burned into your memory:
I can half remember two great France tries v England in 5 Nations in crica 1990 and 1991.
In particular the one at Twickenham started by Blanco behind his own line and I'm pretty sure included a centring kick. Sure it was in the dieing minutes.I've looked it up.
This is categorically the best try ever. Fact.
Trickery. Not putting it down for the 22 drop out.
The switch in angles by two players, that only the French seem to do, (like 1994 v us).
The chip and regather on the full.
The centering kick.
The guy runing the centre line having to slow to pick it up with the chasers in camera view.
The acceleration from the slow start.
Involving 2 all time great in Blanco and Sella.
But not in the dying minutes. Score was 6-3 after the try. Only area it loses out The Try From The End Of the World.
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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.
Set up by Bruce Robertson (well one was anyway)
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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.
The Michalak involvement is burned in my mind...
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@sparky said in Great tries burned into your memory:
Same year, Frank Bunce crashing over through Michael Brial in last minute after Mehrtens/Cullen break to score at Suncorp.
I remember this try well. It was even funnier at the time as Brial had earlier thrown all those punches at Bunce.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Great tries burned into your memory:
@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.
The Michalak involvement is burned in my mind...
aaaaah, duh, I'm seriously worrying I'm going to have alzheimers in the future.
Ol' Wayne Barnes and Michalak .Lol at myself.
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This one stuck in my memory from my formative years.
Even though we wouldn't have had live coverage of 5 Nation in those days. Must have watched it no knowing the result (which was easy and normal in those days).
The legendaryness of it is added by them meeting again a year later at same venue in RWC semifinal.
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@Rapido said in Great tries burned into your memory:
This one stuck in my memory from my formative years.
Even though we wouldn't have had live coverage of 5 Nation in those days. Must have watched it no knowing the result (which was easy and normal in those days).
The legendaryness of it is added by them meeting again a year later at same venue in RWC semifinal.
Ha! You beat me to that one. Was just looking up the clip.
I was living in Edinburgh then. Wasn’t at the game but was at the aftermath. It was a messy night. -
@Rapido said in Great tries burned into your memory:
This was the 1992 Bledisloe try I was talking about.
That was a great series. Pretty sure all 3 scores lines added up to identical totals for each team. Think we scored another great length of the field try in that series too?
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@Virgil said in Great tries burned into your memory:
@Rapido said in Great tries burned into your memory:
This was the 1992 Bledisloe try I was talking about.
That was a great series. Pretty sure all 3 scores lines added up to identical totals for each team. Think we scored another great length of the field try in that series too?
I think we scored an all time great try in each match of the series. Defintitely remember a great Kirwan try in second test at Ballymore.
1992 was the watershed year All Blacks turned from dour to exciting.
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