I remember getting up early ,5am if my memory recalls, watching these games and then straight to work . The good old days when you watch any sport without having to pay for a channel

@martingonzalez2850

2 ай бұрын

Licence fee.

@derrickyeo4451

2 ай бұрын

@@martingonzalez2850 yawn 🥱

@philipallen-729

10 күн бұрын

​@martingonzalez2850 Doesn't compare to Sky subscription fees, though.

@gingervirus2988

6 күн бұрын

That was the last of the truly amateur tours. A great bunch of players and a real pack of hard men... Calder, Iron Mike, Deano, Dooley etc

Teague tackling the ball boy at the end was the best bit! 😂

@mauricegarvey4631

2 ай бұрын

I had to rewind that on first watch - that ball was coming home with Mike. Liked how there was different rugby balls native to the respective countries back then in the UK, Ire, France, Australia etc

@marcdaniels9079

2 ай бұрын

Wanted it for his pub I guess 😅

@staceyleeellis9160

2 ай бұрын

Now I know where boris got it from 😂😂😂

@ldfreitas9437

Ай бұрын

@@mauricegarvey4631 Yes, Australia continued to use a leather ball at this time. I played in a game in Canberra where one was used when on tour in 1987 with Bay Area Touring Side of San Francisco. We were there for the first RWC, and played six games in three weeks time, one in Auckland, and the rest in Australia. 0-6 record too.

@alanmjohnson

8 күн бұрын

@@ldfreitas9437 I played against the Bats (for Pasadena) at the Santa Barbara tournament in 1991.

Watching this brings back a lot of memories, it also made me think how much of what went on then would now be penalised, full credit to the commentator for his remarks for the Campese mess up, Mickey Mouse rugby!! Thank you for uploading.

This was one of the hardest Lions sides of all time

@joebaci1214

2 ай бұрын

Thuggiest.. nothing hard about toe rags taking cheap shots

And now we see Lynagh in the Italian stands watching his son. He hasn’t aged a bit!

Superb! Thank-you!

Rugby was very different in those times, pause the video at minute 0:12 and play it at 0.25 speed. Follow Australia's number 9 carefully, in the next 10 seconds you can see how he gets involved in the maul and receives a blow to the face and neck, then a punch to the head and then when leaving the maul another punch in the face.

@mauricegarvey4631

2 ай бұрын

The Oz captain Nick Farr Jones, looks like the Lions wanted to get at them early doors.

@remlenomis

12 күн бұрын

That's what you get for tackling Wade Dooley on the wrong side of a ruck. Dean Richards could hardly believe his luck. And Finlay Calder didn't punch him, it was a shoulder-led elbow to the face.

Just realised Guscott played alongside Gavin Hastings in this series and then his brother Scott in South Africa in 97.. and produced another match winner

@iainpaton5548

2 ай бұрын

Both Scott and Gavin Hastings played in this match 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 whilst Guscott played in 97 but no Hastings brothers 😢

@sirgoodge

2 ай бұрын

Both Hastings played in '93 in New Zealand as well, Gavin was captain, Scott sustained a very nasty broken cheek

Was this series that made me take up rugby, loved the biff.

Mike Teague made such a huge difference, excellent series.

It would be lovely to see a few full classic matches put up. It's nigh-on impossible to find them. Even DVDs aren't the full tests - just extended highlights from tours. I'd pay a subscription if you had them all on the site. Please.

Back when rugby was more open, less predictable and much more entertaining

@charlespirate1

2 ай бұрын

Did you watch the video? Chaotic, error strewn penalty fest.

@ronhall9039

Ай бұрын

@@charlespirate1 Yeah, I thought that - chaotic. Don't get me wrong, I started playing in the early 70's, tries were three points, lineouts all over the shop (and wingers chucking them in) scrums were rhinos headbutting and all that. As a player I loved it, but it must have been tedium to watch. With professionalism - in other words people (other than rugby nerds) should feel the need to (pay to) watch it, totally different product. I know that the rules that have been imposed due to professionalism have adversely impacted the grass roots - the front row thing and the need for replacements - we used to borrow their players and vice versa - and my first game for my first (and only club) was as a substitute and I was put in as a prop - I was 6'3" and skinny as a rake. I folded quicker than a shit poker hand. I'm not sure what my point is but rugby is a bit like history - what was ok in the 70's wouldn't was in the 90's etc etc. Love it for what it was/is.

The third test was incredible. Though the funniest part was the best part was the Welsh behaving like thugs and the Australians blaming the English.

Watched that on an old B&W telly during my early turn shift at Tonbridge Station ticket office back in my British Rail days. Hid the telly round the back out of sight and kept diving round between those pesky passengers wanting to buy tickets.......🤭🤭🤭 To come back and win that series after the drubbing in the first test was pretty special eh!

The Daily Express did a piece comparing The Lions to Wigan RL team , man to man position to position , they concluded that Ellery Hanley was as good as the three loose forward put together

@HKFunster

2 ай бұрын

I'm mostly a Union man but I wouldn't disagree with you. Ellery Hanley was one of the finest players in any code, a proper legend.

Probably one of the toughest British Lions sides ever

@clydebear6914

2 ай бұрын

British AND Irish Lions please.

@cityzens634

2 ай бұрын

@@clydebear6914 Wrong! in 1989 they were known as the British Lions, it wasn’t until 2001 that Irish was added.

@clydebear6914

2 ай бұрын

@@cityzens634 So presumably you'd be okay then with using the N word to describe African-Americans back in the 60's would you? Grow up.

So the bench at 1:52. As I see it: Dods, Robinson, Hall, Chilcott Armstrong, White, Chalmer, Smith, Norster, Griffiths Lenihan, Clement, Mullin Unknown, McGeechan, Uttley, Rowlands. I might be wrong about Norster. Judging by the level of his head and the makeup of the rest of the reserves, that might be a back next to Steve Smith, so I guess John Devereaux? Assuming I'm right, I guess that shot is missing John Jeffrey and John Devereaux/Bob Norster. Chris Oti and Paul Dean would have already gone home. Thoughts?

It's the Irish Wolfhounds playing with the British lions

Great commentary.

They might not be as powerful and as fast as today's professionals but bloody hell alot tougher as was the game thankfully ,

@123bwlch

8 күн бұрын

The difference is more space to play which makes it a better game to watch.

Don't forget how much a Lions series means to Australia. Andy Farrell be warned.

Some hard men in that Lions pack.

my god those pile-ups were a mess. ref spotted a hand in the ruck under a dozen bodies 😂

@clydebear6914

2 ай бұрын

Speaking as someone who played during that era, they may have looked like a mess but trust us, we knew what we were doing. 😉

@jonesyjones7626

Ай бұрын

Yes, I am of that vintage and I still believe the game was better then. Now we just have two lines smashing into each other. Bring back rucking!

A young Jim Maxwell on comms!

@felixcornelius2577

2 ай бұрын

No Bill Lauri? What a horrible cantankerous negative POM hater Maxwell was always switching the volume off when I hear dour dull wingeing tones

About the only place the Lions win regularly... this tour will be crushing 3-0

1st Test loads of Scots players in the pack and Lions beaten up. Next Test, in comes a few English forwards and the reverse. The Lions were then split Eng v Scotland.

@daveyjuice7710

2 ай бұрын

Evans scoring all the tries and Jones supplying and Brian at hooker . Thorburn selected for full back had other things to do

@adrianperry8352

2 ай бұрын

Laws have sure changed. Almost all the penalties here would, these days, be pumped into the corner for an attacking throw and drive.

@robbiefleming7648

27 күн бұрын

In the first test the only Scot to be replaced was Derek White. Bob Norster of Wales also dropped out.

Poor Campase 😅

A prime example of why tries were upgraded to 5 points.

Campese, what a plonker😂

5:54 🤣🤣

Sand for the tee!!!!! 😮

How many Scots in this test match counted 5?

@TheMisanthropyOne

2 ай бұрын

I think None .

@davidhorton1064

Ай бұрын

I counted 3,Sole, Hastings and Calder

@YARROWS9

12 күн бұрын

​@@TheMisanthropyOne Four. Hastings sisters, Hard as nails skipper Finley Calder. Soon to be Scotland captain David Sole.

Iconic? Well I guess everything is these days, iconic or historic

Rugby was enjoyable back then but it was bloody rubbish 😂

Good to rewatch for nostalgic reasons, but one try in the whole match from a non-pressurised, self-inflicted error hardly makes an iconic match.

@driffter1976

2 ай бұрын

Iconic is definitely an overused adjective, but this was a memorable match regardless of Campese’s error.

Australia scrum , 35 years later is still the same😂

1989 hell jonah is still 6 years away

@alanmjohnson

8 күн бұрын

He debuted in 1994, but he was a very different player at first.

Campese...hahahaha

Biased commentary from the Aussies 🥴🤔

Campese showing why he was never good enough

Probably the worse commentary ive ever heard

Campers...What a mug!

Gee, but the goalkicking were poor back then!

@johngamba4823

2 ай бұрын

You could even say it was amateurish 😂

@seanbradley3755

2 ай бұрын

Always thought Hastings and lynagh were different gravy till I watched this

@allendixon3225

2 ай бұрын

I don’t think you were allowed kicking tee’s in those days. You can see Michael Lynagh using sand to raise the height of the ball. Most kickers back then just made a small indent in the pitch using their heel. I also seem to remember the balls being heavier and less aerodynamic but I may be wrong.

When rugby was played by proper men not like today's protected pretty boys. They we're called the British Lions then and still are fuck the having too put Irish into it.

@sureseam

2 ай бұрын

Britain as a geographical term includes all of Ireland. Honestly the rest of us have good reasons to appreciate the Irish - not least the number of volunteers who fought in WW2.

@Triple5live

2 ай бұрын

Irish always got something up their arse about something. Always have had, always will

@thomaslockhart1138

2 ай бұрын

W and anchor comes to mind

@martingonzalez2850

2 ай бұрын

​@thomaslockhart1138 That's not a nice thing to say about the Irish.

@TheLastAngryMan01

2 ай бұрын

Things change, get used to it.