1991 Rugby World Cup Final - England v Australia - Extended Highlights

[@charlesbawden5924]

Awesome win. I was a schoolboy of 15 years old playing rugby at school and idolising this team.

[@jaqe0909]

1991 the Aussies beat England in front of their own, then England beat Australia in front of their own 12 years later

[@pitaberaciri8366]

That Wallabies team was truly incredible honestly had everything

[@Wolfsong27FlyHalfFullHeart]

Hard to believe they were even scoring penalties with a tee made out of soil🤯

[@Endeavour02]

Better then the plastic tees imo

[@MrSkeleton131]

@@Endeavour02 rubbish

[@riccardodepieri4582]

This is great put the other ones also

[@khanpaniora5346]

I don't remember this game because I was at primary school that year 1991

[@Natedawg38]

Bahaha a kid comes out with a mug of mound god i love the 90s

[@robertarrowsmith9865]

I was 7 years old in 1991

[@christopherdale8201]

As moments go in Australian sport you can have your America's cup, Kathy Freeman 400m,Makbie diva Melbourne cup,Ashes wins but to me the 91&99 Wallabies World cup wins beat them all because they had to play tough semi finals against the All Blacks and Springboks to Win those World cups and you can thank the skill of John Eales and Tim Horan for that.

[@lapalad]

The forgotten world cup in England

[@Adam-im3uz]

at 5:52, if Horan had just passed left to Campese instead of kicking, Campo would have been under the sticks

[@xpat73]

Hardly. Rob Andrew is un front of him and there are 2 other players covering acrosss including Guscott.

[@jmjm1920]

Willi O was playing well😊

[@xpat73]

He did nothing much in this game. He was amazing when England played Aus in Sydney in July 1991.

[@lifeOFzeff]

Campese was so dangerous on the field

[@martinvanrensburg4441]

As ons SA gespeel het was die ook ons WC

[@greylynnjr]

Animated ref

[@Skyscraper2015]

So England have a success rate of 25% winning one of four finals. Australia have a 50% success rate winning two and losing one to England and the other to New Zealand. New Zealand have a 60% success rate. Also the only team to make it to five finals but only winning three. Their losses coming at the thundering hands of the Springboks. And then the Springboks the only team to win the title four times and the only team to never have lost a final. For the Springboks they have a finals success rate of 100% and a RWC Title success rate of 50% winning four out of eight tournaments they have appeared in.

[@Dybbouk]

Would the penalty try have been given now?

[@RustyTreeMan]

no but Campese would have been yellow carded!

[@busybody3591]

England had such a good pack then, why didnt they stick to their tried and tested way of playing??!!

[@mosesfakatou7943]

What many people forget is that in the summer of 1991 England actually toured Australia and got resoundingly beaten 40-15 (a huge margin considering a try was only worth 4 points then). They had played their forward-oriented game plan and the Aussies matched them and also had electric backs. When the RWC final came round England were conscious that the Aussies had good enough forwards to match their set piece and general play, so the theory was to surprise them by giving the backs more ball and trying to reduce the forward threat as much as possible. Your point is still valid though in the sense that during the final the English forwards actually were dominating the Australians and the Aussie full back at the time Marty Roebuck was also struggling with the high ball. Had England reverted back to their normal game at halftime during this final we may have had a different story. That being said, the Australian 1991 team was a formidable one and had just beaten the NZ team a week before too...

[@busybody3591]

@@mosesfakatou7943 interesting, I didn't know about that defeat. You've got a good memory! I suppose successful teams are able to adapt and change strategies/ game plan before it's to late. They were an experienced team so you'd think at half time they'd of discussed whats happening and adjusted

[@mosesfakatou7943]

@@busybody3591 apparently players like Peter Winterbottom and Brian Moore were giving this feedback to Carling and co at half time but they decided the stick to the plan. Hindsight’s a wonderful thing but in the heat of a World Cup Final I can sympathise Carling’s decision to stick to the decision. The final score was only 12-6 too, so still a close game. Overall though the Wallabies were deserved winners, they were the best team in the world at the time even before the World Cup. Besides, England got their revenge over them in 1995, 2003, 2007 and 2019 respectively so I think it’s fair game haha

[@muzwell]

Campo goaded them into it - in the press the week before he said england were boring

[@GrahamEnglish-b3v]

3rd Invitational World Cup?

[@Sheena1234ization]

Who's doing the commentary?

[@thenomad525]

John Taylor (former London Welsh open-side flanker and Welsh International, although English born). Since 1991 ITV owned the rights to the World Cup and in terms of covering televised international rugby - until fairly recently - that was about it. Therefore, bizarrely, the world cup tournaments was the only time I recall ever hearing his commentary; think his last tournament he did before retiring, was 2007.

[@Sheena1234ization]

@@thenomad525 Thanks

[@harrynewiss4630]

Campese's cheat crucial - it should have been a penalty try

[@silveronsizzler]

wow

[@herman.stander]

and then south africa joined the world cup and it all changed...

[@kes9684]

What are these line out throws 😂

[@robertomenino8773]

I was in the army back then. Was thinking if the boks were there. Maybe it would be difer in the final

[@robicenco1]

South Africa should have been allowed to enter this one really. They had the underlying strength to be champions in the 1980s/early 1990s but whether they could have put out a match-hardened team that could have competed is another question.

[@Tom-tl1cr]

Dreaming mate

[@xpat73]

@@robicenco1 Look at their results when they came back in 1992. They were well beaten by NZ, Aus and England.

[@Endeavour02]

Why weren’t the Boks there?

[@MrSkeleton131]

@@Endeavour02 did you forget about Apartheid

[@NoName-hg6cc]

Australians must feel gutted now...

[@MrSkeleton131]

the older generations are

[@NoName-hg6cc]

@@MrSkeleton131 The youngers don't care?

[@MrSkeleton131]

@@NoName-hg6cc Rugby union has hardly any grass-root support for kids in Australia, it's always been an elitist private school sport to most people

[@jaminesonymorgan8428]

all I can say if the New Zealand Rugby Union keeped my uncle on as All Black Captain (Buck Shelford) New Zealand would have won the 1991 Rugby World Cup in Sydney Australia but we lost against Australia in the semi finals and 4 years after this the all Black's lost again in (South Africa) because the all Black's got food Poisoning and 3 Rugby World Cups after that in till it was hosted in Auckland at Eden Park in 2011 and we won it again in 2015 but sadly lost it in 2019 thanks to England but I'm glad south Africa won the 2019 Rugby World Cup and not England or Australia and the next Rugby World Cup is next year 2023 in Toulouse France where the All Black's lost the 2007 Rugby World Cup but i just hope history doesn't repeat itself again against the New Zealand All Black's

[@NoName-hg6cc]

Australia was stronger like South Africa was in 1995, nothing would have changed. You'd have lost in 2011 with a decent referee though