Singing together does build tight bonds and increases morale. Brilliant

I really enjoyed that snapshot of B & I history. I was 3 years at the time! Utterly fascinating and please share more!

Hi there. Awesome footage. Ive sent you a mail about using this footage. Can you perhaps have a look? Regards

Andy Irvine was a hero of mine as a young schoolboy at Scrumhalf,centre then the wing.

Won 21 games, drew 1, lost 0. The 1974 Lions were the GOAT.

South Africans don't like it when people fight back

This was the first rugby test game I ever watched live. I was ten years old, and my dad took me.I saw a tear in his eye after the game. I was shocked. In the last century our invincible aura was gone. This lion's team was the best team that ever lived. Beat the All Blacks in 1971 as well. Any comments? Better than the current Boks, the AB; s of 2011 - 2015, ... Your views?

Wit Kant.

Every team can do the same. U f. Cry baby

British Lions ? must have been no Irish players on that tour ?

Proper lions rugby team, some of those players were the best at the time and a thrashing they gave the springboks

What an eye opener of a video. So, the highly rated boks in 70-80 were nothing but a bunch of bullies and thugs, who wanted to win at all costs, and got beaten in the game and on the field? Sies!!!

The South Africans are still like that. They intend, every match, to try to put a player out of the game for good. They are thugs, they will never change. They use violence to compensate for a rugby structure that discourages skills over destruction. They didn't care if they put someone out for good.

There will never be another team like the 71 and 74 lions and he who lives by the sword dies by it, watch the all blacks against Llanelli When Llanelli beat them and see how they kicked and punched the welsh team all game . Different game now but the springboks and all blacks were great at putting the boot in.

GLORY DAYS!!!!!

ahh the good old days

Shit sport 😡😡😡

Some of those British Lions were seriously hard ,no Private School boys among them.

The Dutch are fab ❤

Was at PAM Brink for the game before the first Test... moer hom boeta

Die beste "non-professional" span ooit - '74 Lions. Nou het Rassie uitge-"figger" dat ons krag lê in fisiese vermoe. Hoop dit kan nog geslagte aanhou. Bôykie -het jy dalk ou 32mm films van al die toetse?

Great team. Saw them on the Rhodesian leg of the tour

Snyman whas not ofside

South Africa made the Lions played good stupid mistakes why did we draw the 4th Test and Newlands team should be like that in the 4 test

Best lion's team to ever play the game. I was at this game was attending I was in standard 4 . We sat on the field .

Interesting documentary. In reality though, reflects very poorly on the character of those involved. Genuine days of when rughy players were brain dead imoral thugs - thankfully stuff changed+

Thank you for sharing this.

I Remember it Well

Come on, how many of you miss those days as much as I do? It made the game interesting.

I have had bigger knocks in the shower ,you want to watch the rugby league fights from the 80s and 90s both Australia and UK,proper battling

Both not good at fighting like the AB.

The foul play continued against the Lions from all Southern Hemisphere teams even years later. Doddle (RIP) in 97. O’Driscoll getting dropped on the head by the All Blacks, Richard Hill getting taken out by Aus. Guess it is a testament to how worried there were by us!

My recollection of British Lions tours here in Aus have been of very strong teams and you’d never think they were soft.

Balls of BRITISH STEEL !!!!!

All those Lions players knew each other well and they looked after each other

Lions also won the fights.

Another great Ulster lock forward Blair [ Paddy} Mayne had a ‘colourful’ Lions tour of South Africa, although many years earlier. He was a University heavyweight boxing champion and went on to lead the SAS , with distinction, through WW2.

JPR taking zero shit. What a legend.

Did anyone else notice how Kolbe dipped his shoulder to make sure there was contact with Doris. He knew he was getting nowhere near Crawley and he made the most of it

Can't make up my mind who i despise the most SA or the Aussies

Around the same time a relative of mine was a young Welshman studying mining who ended up being sent to one of the huge Afrikaner mining towns for a year (pre sanctions). Many surreal stories, one of which is he turned out for the town’s rugby team which caused a stir in the region which was all Afrikaner and he was the only ‘Englishman’ for miles. First game he was continually hit late and dirty by the opposition flanker til he lost it and clocked the guy so hard in the face he felt the nose break. In the bar after the game he sees the guy approaching and thinks here we go, the guy claps him on the shoulder, clicks his broken nose with his hand and says ‘we’ll make an Afrikaner of you yet’ and buys him a beer.

All the attacks was from behind,cowards

Would be nice if you’d learned to speak English before making this garbage!!!

The villain of this piece was Nigel Stalmer-Smith; an abject communicator; personification of all that was wrong with English rugby at that time. I’m sure he was a ‘clubbable’ chap but actual ability is important, too. Pompous, entitled… 😡

I was incredibly privileged - as a Rooinek working in the Western Transvaal - to have travelled all the way to PE (by train!) and seen the amazing third test match. I'd seen the second test at Loftus and later the fourth one at Ellis Park. In the last one, I remember Fergus Slattery running up to Max Baise - who's in the video, but actually didn't ref the PE game - and accusing him of being a cheat as he disallowed an obvious try (you didn't have to be lipreader to know what he said) that would have won the game for the Lions, and Hannes Marais being carried off on shoulders at the end of the game as it was a draw. But in defence of the Boks, having played rugby in the Eastern Free State and seen the results of the Boer wars (and got a few bruises once the opponents realised I was a pom) I have great sympathy for them, although I have to admit that it took me ten minutes to love Free State rugby but ten years to love Bok rugby - in fact I supported them against the 1980 Lions!

Good lads.

A team enjoying their filthy apartheid society. They should never have played them.

The early seventies were the golden years of UK rugby.

I see a lot of typical BL's starting shit as well. Typical BL garbage. I stopped watching Lions tours. Garbage rugby.

Played in a primary dchool opening game that day