Thank you for this slice of rugby history 😊

New Zealand seemed to have a penchant for JPRs neck

Still the greatest game ever.

“If the greatest writer of the written word would written that story no one would have believed it.” One of the great bits of commentary ever in sport. Chills every time I hear it.

I was there! The last Match I saw in Wales before I left for Canada the following month! I saw many of them later when Wales toured Canada a few weeks later. Jeff( Ebbw Vale) and me, (Croesyceiliog) put on our blue blazers and we got into the reception for the team at the Vancouver Rowing Club! We stood in a circle with a bunch of them and I remember Gareth(?) saying, "Duw this beer tastes like Pop" (It does have more alcohol though, it is NOT like American beer) I had to work the next day, I made it to 11am before they sent me home!

Absolutely Superb! We were taught a lot about how to play rugby. Even 50years later, my heart beats faster watching this!

With todays laws at least 3 red cards for high tackles by the All Blacks.

Gets me every time i look at this, beautiful ruby

Los que dicen que ahora se juega con más ritmo 😂😂

Great memories. Duckham's agility and acceleration were marvelous. The match itself, a classic.

David DUCKHAM eas the best player on the field that day

If you're of a certain age, that game, and that try especially, is one of THE great moments in sport. Cliff Morgan's commentary did it justice too. Wonderful all round.

Rugby was better back then. It flowed better!

So so many elements came together this January day in Cardiff to make this game of a lifetime so utterly unforgettable and etched in my memory. Cliff Morgans unique, brilliant, summation and appreciation of the epic nature of what we were witnessing . Largely made in Wales, but throw in Mike Gibsons wizardry, Duckhams side stepping dash, Fergus Slattery s contribution is often overlooked. But it was key to the ba bas win. It was an afternoon like no other. And for me the try by JPR at the death even eclipses Gareth Edwards try with it's wave after wave of sustained awesome play.

I remember watching this with my Grandad The best try ever! Phil Bennett performing wonders! Quinell catching that loose ball with his fingernails! Magic!

Rugby was so much better then that it is today. There were more dummies and offloads in that 1 match than what will be in all this years 6 nations matches combined.What an eta for rugby. Strange to see how the haka has changed over the years. Now they try to intimidate and scare their opponents were as then it was a display for the crowd.

Those white boys sure know how to Haka 😂

There were some of the best rugby players in the history of the game on that pitch, on both sides. Legends. Sad to know that so many have passed away. RIP, all of them.

They were on another planet amazing

My favourite thing on the whole of youtube

Duckham... JPR,,,emotional

No Mauris just dads at a line party wedding gone wrong 😂 Intimidating was lost in the conviction and what looked like forgotten moves.

17 when i watched this match. For me still the greatest ever rugby match

By Gum...brings tears to your eyes, does that

I am more naturally a rugby league fan, but this was probably my favourite game ever of either code and I remember watching it on tv as a 15 year old. In the context of the time, has any flank forward ever had a better game than Fergus Slattery that day? The uncapped player Wilkinson seemed to be involved so much too.Also, Mike Gibson ; what a player but you could just go on and on. And that is before even mentioning the great players on the All Blacks side. I could understand the game in those days; I don’t understand it now, and that is my failing, but I would love to go back to those days of watching sport any day.

All black ...only high tackles....

Wow - what talent on display. Very impressed with how the onus is on keeping the ball alive even if greater risk. It's one of the very few occassions when you can look back 50 years and say the skill level was equivalent and perhaps beyond what it is today. A joy to watch.

Everyone talks about "The Try" and rightly so. It's the greatest moment of rugby and in the top 5 best ever moments in sport. But...this game. I mean all the other tries were so well put together and scored. I still watch the whole game from time to time. It's untouchable rugby. Special mention for David Duckham and J.P.R. Williams. Both immortal.

The greatest match in the history of ALL ball sports.There have been great football matches (NFL Aussie Gaelic included) but this beats everyone hands down. 30 men playing the game how all should , hard but fair.

If one closes one's eyes and recalls JPR in action, in the mind's eye, through the mists of time, it all comes vividly back. The leap, the catch, the sideboards, the seemingly obligatory opposition stiff arm to the head and yet, undaunted and apparently invulnerable, JPR just ploughed on. The side step, the socks rolled down, the inimitable gait, part athlete, part warrior, wholly immortal. RIP and thanks for the memories JPR.

Les cravates sur JPR Williams, quel délire ! Requiescat in Pace

RIP JPR. Should have had at least an OBE for services to side-boards 😊

Had to see JPR in action after the sad news yesterday. What a player...what great players. What a match.

Now we have lost jpr

JPR 🙏

JPR gone today. So sad. I am English but I loved the great Wales side of the late 1960s and early seventies that were the heart of the Lions and the Barbarians in that era. A very sad day for all of us who remember these great players.

As a Welshman I thought David Duckham was absolute class a joy too watch.

What a magnificent game and unbelievable I will never see another game like this in my life and what some legends at their best, I can remember seeing the game live on tv 🙏🙏🙏

All dirty blacks.. high tackle specialists. Cant stand them... Thank God the Bokke are 4 time world Champions...It is good for World Rugby by far... ❤❤❤

Fair play / Honesty !!!

My first ever match to watch as I entered a new public school. It was too wet to play, (the school field was flooded). I didn't really appreciate the game then. But, I do now.

What a game ,oh that fellow edwards,what a try what a team the babas were

Jaysus JPR getting his head taken off three times at least. If that last move had come off it would have been almost as good if not better.

Is nobody going to mention that "haka" 😂😂

Back home in Northern Ireland at the time, I was at Grammar School but also playing for one of the local teams of Limavady RFC. After the morning game we all crowded into the club house to watch the game, we'd lost the game but the pints were flowing. Back then rugby was considered a Protestant game, and Catholics played Gaelic football. I never played it, and that day we were all together in the club house to watch what was a seminal game of rugby enshrined later and for many years as how running rugby should be played - Phil Bennet's side steps, the counterattack with the forwards supporting the backs and Gareth Edwards's sprint for the line. Absolutely brilliant, knocking the wind out of the All Blacks' sails.

The greatest try of all time followed by the worst conversation attempt of all time.

Great game but the haka was a bit lame!

Awesome

Like a fine wine, this game aged well. Too many good men no longer with us. Sadly, Tane Norton left us a week or two ago. He was on that tour and later captained the All Blacks against Phil Bennett’s Lions a few years later. The game doesn’t excite me like it use to but it is great that we can take a trip down memory lane. Kia ora mai i 🇳🇿.

Taofia. Kuka .