Rugby Test Match 1993 (2nd) - New Zealand vs. British Lions

Test 2 - June 26, 1993 -- Athletic Park, Wellington

[@joshkarena3058]

R.I.P Inga, forever in our hearts 💕

[@Crintingnut]

Love the sound of boots in the tunnel.

[@doxey65]

Listened to his on the radio. One of my favorite rugby moments when fitzptrick knocks on and rory goes in the corner. Shame on NZ for not allowing PC Punch big Wade Dooley to rejoin the tour after having to return to UK for his fathers funeral.

[@neilcarpenter2669]

Lord knows I have my issues with NZ but in this case it was the Lions big wigs who wouldn't let him return, not the new Zealanders , NZ were happy for him to return, staggering but True , Amateur Committee men for you.

[@66Nico]

Thanks for posting! Great to see this again. Jonno in his first Lions Test!! And many other famous names...

[@bronzemen34]

Temperatures Rising (Myself,Kevy,Danny and Phil) are singing the National Anthem in this video. The actual anthem starts about 4:15....but if u listen carefully from the start you can hear us singing "In the still of the Night" We went on to form "Sex and Chocolate" - a well-known and popular R&B and Motown group based on the Gold Coast - and X Factor 2011 finalists. You can find Sex and Chocolate Motown group on Facebook!

[@xpat73]

this was the last Lions tour where the provinces played their test players. The Lions tours have been devalued ever since.

[@nepiahemopo1702]

Professional rugby in general has "devalued" the integrity of the sport.

[@TheForge10]

Ahhh at the end a spectator handing one of the Lions props a can of Steinlager beer at the end of the game. Man how times have changed,.

[@xpat73]

It was Brian Moore who got the beer. Lions hooker.

[@kevyjm]

I was at that game with my sister at the Top of the Millard Stand. The evening before we watched the Kiwis get routed by the Kangaroos in Palmerston North then endured this. It was a package tour so we got into the supporters bar with the Lions and AB's post match. I will never forget how big Sean Fitzpatrick was.

[@virgil81nz]

This was a great game. Thank you very much for sharing. Kia kaha mate!!!

[@TheForge10]

I went to the 3rd test at Eden park. 16 years old my first AB test. Took a freezing train up from Hamilton to Auckland. Richard Loe who was serving a suspension for eye gouging Matt Cooper in the NPC final the year before clipped the train tickets. I remember dad being very put out we were sitting next to a couple of blokes drinking vodka and orange juice all the way up

[@ldfreitas9437]

Nice. He had a job on the railway then. Rugby blew it by going full on professional. Rugby should have allowed payment for test matches like this one, from gate receipts, and then a set up for having the top 45 players in any nation be salaried employees while being internationals, under contract for a set time period of seasons. A semi-pro set up could have emerged with the top clubs and provinces eventually, like rugby league many decades ago, when players still had to work jobs. It seems rugby today has morphed into something not too attractive to watch, and the seats in stands are empty except for big test games.

[@TheForge10]

@@ldfreitas9437 rugby had to go full professional, AUs , NZ and SA were at risk of losing players to NH and being decimated. The lure of an intl jersey only goes so far.

[@GazzaJAnimal]

Wonderful video showing a classic Lions kit. All rugby shirts should be made that way, with a proper collar, to look like a rugby shirt not a soccer one. Not that there's anything wrong with a soccer shirt as such, but only for playing soccer in not rugby. But thank you hike6ones for putting up this video!

[@TheForge10]

totally agree .,full thick cotton jumpers with a collar. not these naff Chinese collar designs with 'futuristic' fabric.

[@DHTCF]

Hear hear

[@philipg52]

I look back over 45 years of international rugby and marvel at the southern hemisphere sides ability to get away with dangerous dirty play.Stamping, elbowing in the face,shoulder under the chin,knee in the solar plexus.I've watched it all over the years and have come to believe that the referees accept this only from these people because of their so called reputation!

[@Yardbird68]

Great match! I really found it interesting seeing Foxy, J Preston, I Jones playing rugby instead of as commentators, plus, Nesbo as a "on field" reporter instead of as a regular commentator hahaha, priceless........

[@GaryDuncanson-s4g]

Great to see peter winterbottom touring new zealand for a second time. I know the nz public rated him. Two tours. Seven tests. One victory. Six defeats. Perhaps the first test in 1993 should have gone the lions way and perhaps then this series. Brian moore isnt bitter. He thinks the test side was a match for the ABs but the second team lacked enough quality to push for lions test places and so some of them just went on the piss

[@Denis-tg6jw]

The lions actually had a good team! Martin Bayfield, Ben Clarke, Dewi Morris and Nick Popplewell, Andrew, Winterbottom and the worlds fastest prop forward Hastings.

[@xpat73]

The worlds fastest prop was Gibbs. After he came back from league. This tour was before league for him. He was nowhere near as big.

[@ldfreitas9437]

@@xpat73 Scotland had another fullback slower than your average prop, as is the title of his autobiography: Ian Smith. "Can Ian Smith get him?" as McClaren said as Gerald Davies crossed the goal line for Wales.

[@MrRugbylane]

A refreshing lack of Banal music being piped over the tannoy. If you want to hear rick music - go to a rock concert.

[@xpat73]

0:57:52 Fitzpatrick steams into a ruck and knees Ben Clarke hard in the shoulder...you can hear the impact and the yelp from Clarke. Right in front of the ref....nothing happens. LOL. the game was tougher back then....

[@TheForge10]

yep over the weekend a player was yellow card fir a huge tackle because his shoulder was slightly in front of the arms , I couldn't see anything wrong with it.

[@budwhite1]

Some all time All Blacks here.... Fitzpatrick, Brown, Brooke brothers, Jones, Fox, Bunce, Kirwam etc and some all time British Lions.... Moore, Leonard, Johnson, Winterbottom, Richards, Andrew, Guscott, Gibbs, Evans, Hastings. Great stuff :)

[@driffter1976]

You are right. I remember the uproar back in 92/93 when they removed Keith Quinn for John McBeth. This is the commentary as it was.

[@thoughtfulprofessor4198]

What I liked about this tour wa when the Lions returned the rucking to the provincial sides, that they’d been receiving the New Zealanders didn’t like it. Could dish it out but not take it.

[@philipmarsden7104]

Kirwan was quick, but Underwood skinned him with ease for that try!

[@pcwleung]

Was this video being filmed on a camcorder whilst being played on TV?

[@DBZ5371]

Shocking tv coverage 🙄🙈

[@ldfreitas9437]

Yes, this was the last real tour when there still was amateurism. Sure, some of these players got some money under the table, but they had to have real jobs to survive, and had to take leaves to go tours like this one was, weeks away from home.

[@joursans]

The players might be bigger today but the game was a lot dirtier back then. Cheap shots a plenty and no citing commissioner : ).

[@TheForge10]

Underwood was quick !

[@GaryDuncanson-s4g]

Rob andrew. Tackling fly half

[@GaryDuncanson-s4g]

Hastings place kicking off this game. Cost the lions points.

[@Tupouish]

Awesome rendition of the national anthem.....

[@xpat73]

No it is the original NZ TV commentary....It's GRant Nisbett and ...it will come to me

[@YuusukeOnodera]

xpat73 TVNZ or One, to be precise

[@Mr2shine2shine]

How the game shas changed - see near the end - a supporter handing brian moore a can of beer ! ha - the oul days

[@xpat73]

Incredible watch the game...I am not kidding...the Lions don't do one backline move for the entire game. lol! They have probably 5 of the greatest British backs of all time Guscott, Gibbs, Evans, Underwood and hastings and they literally don't do anything but chase kicks and tackle (very well). In the whole game they made one backline break with Gibbs breaking through in the first half.....but nothign came of it. How the game has changed....still a great test though.

[@KanyeKetchup]

Hastings bruh what a start 😂

[@xpat73]

It's amazing how much rugby has improved as a spectacle in the past 20 years.

[@rabbitss11]

too right, the AB's looked terrible in that game

[@TheForge10]

+xpat73 Yes I was watching the ABs play the world 15 in 1992 on KZbin as well. Very slow and ball security was terrible ! . I noticed passing wasn't the bullet like passes you get now but quite loopy

[@rabbitss11]

I guess this is when rugby players had regular jobs, now they practice passing, kicking and ball retention 5 days a week, 8 hours a day

[@driffter1976]

Bullshit. It’s cookie cutter crap now. It had more identity back then.

[@DHTCF]

If you want a spectacle, you watch rugby league

[@shane-irish]

Nick poppelwell

[@YARROWS9]

Try saving tackle by Gavin Hastings near the end.

[@driffter1976]

Why was this on Fox Soccer Plus?

[@YuusukeOnodera]

driffter1976 it was a reair of a match (it was on Fox Sports' historical archive)

[@kkknoxywulf3293]

NICE GAME 10/10

[@ianbetts4435]

How Andrew ever got to play for the Lions is a mystery.

[@grahamo22]

How hastings ended up being the kicker with only 54 points to his tally is also a mystery.

[@ianbetts4435]

​@@grahamo22 I agree, Hastings has got to be the worst player ever to captain the Lions. Shocking.

[@MrRugbylane]

Great video to watch. However I reckon the the U13s team that I coach plays with more skill and teamwork than than either of these teams in 1993 !!

[@jonathanwhite460]

the all blacks were effectively pros,the lions were not

[@peterboyd7304]

that's not true.just the opposite in fact.check it out.all blacks still amateur then.

[@sharifela7993]

Actually it really is. The lions were all strictly amateur.

[@TheForge10]

Rory Underwood left JK for dead scoring that try lol

[@Slaneous]

Rory Underwood leaving Kirwin for dead...what a try!

[@barbaradyson6951]

Yoiks non biased NZ commentators. I don't think.

[@shane-irish]

Nick popewell

[@chittsy99]

My lion's team from performance Leonard wood cotton Johnson johnmcbride dallaglio slattery Davies Edwards Bennett Robinson JJ Williams odriscol s Williams. JPR Williams

[@DHTCF]

Rob Andrew and Grant Fox, surely two of the least interesting outside halves in history

[@marcellin20a]

lol.what a very one eyed observation

[@isitwasit8756]

Gutsy defensive effort by the lions not helped by an absolute shite performance from Hastings at full back

[@jolo9573]

What nonsense is this just put a watermark in the middle and stop this jumping around !🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@driffter1976]

Christ how shit was this All Blacks team? Kirwan was a joke.

[@ottconsulting7]

The Lions should have won this series - 0-11 up in the deciding test then AB’s came back. Robbed in the 1st Test by an awful ref.

[@TAG1801]

Never understood the fascination with Gavin Hastings he's crap kicking out of hand and passing is even worse..least his brother was decent

[@GaryDuncanson-s4g]

Solid fullback. Decent place kicker but missed a few important ones. Thorburn a better kicker. caught well and would run back into maul or ruck. Decent tackler but Jpr better. Jpr better in broken play too.

[@budwhite1]

Good team, here's my choice of the top of my head... 1 Fran Cotton 2 Keith Wood 3 Graham Price 4 Martin Johnson 5 Gordon Brown 6 Richard Hill 7 Peter Winterbottom 8 Meryvn Davies 9 Gareth Edwards 10 Phil Bennett 11 Rory Underwood 12 Jeremy Guscott 13 Brian O'Driscoll 14 Gavin Hastings 15 JPR Williams Bench: 16 Brian Moore 17 Tom Smith 18 Willie John McBride 19 Dean Richards 20 Rob Howley 21 Rob Andrew 22 Ieuan Evans

[@michaelhussey440]

I remember it well especially Rory winging in to the corner . Shame about the ref allowing that suspect NZ try in the first test because this win could have sealed the series !

[@warren52nz]

You need to turn up the crowd noise, I can still occasionally hear what the commentators are saying... 🤔😡

[@honahwikeepa2115]

Kicked to much in these days.

[@beatonthedonis]

To win a test in New Zealand against an All Black side with that talent in it is an achievement in itself.

[@clevertrevorsdad]

Yes that was some all black team. Great series

[@bigg5582]

thank you hike..once again brings back great memories of getting up at 4am to watch it on utv as there was no bskyb then..

[@TheForge10]

Ahhh Athletic Park, long past its useby date even then Eden Park needs to go the same way.

[@mapachehombre1581]

No lifting in the Line-outs a free for all, "those were the days 🤗

[@xpat73]

Thanks for this! You rock,....I have been waiting nearly 20 years to see this!!!

[@scottjohnstone2620]

Lions lose to 4 provincial unions this tour, these were great tours.

[@avebac1]

All black games were so boring when grant fox was fly half. Ping pong rugby. All he did was kick the ball every time he got it. Back three Hardly ever touch the ball the entire game. Frustrating to watch

[@TheForge10]

we say that now , but that was the norm back then. NZ was rebuilding after 91 and the 92 tour of Australia was awful. A big loss to a Sydney club side and 2-1 series loss to Aus.

[@simi1N]

back in the days when ref's love their whistle

[@apgwilym]

Brilliant performance by the Lions

[@paulthomson2288]

always hated steinlager beer

[@cardigan3000]

i'm guessing youre american

[@MyRammy1]

Got to love commentary so biased

[@TheForge10]

What annoyed me the most was NZ losing 15-13 (?) to England on the end of year tour in 1993 Timu scored what would have been the winning try near the end but his boot was a cm into the white line. I take comfort that England only beats the ABs once every 10 years. So their next win should be 2022.

[@xpat73]

I was at that game at Twickenham. England did deserve to win that game to be fair.

[@TheForge10]

fair play. I recorded it 16 years old , all I remember is having my face up against the TV looking at Timus foot on the white line.

[@xpat73]

To be fair, the All Blacks were a slightly weakened team in 1993 v England. They did not have Michael Jones - who had broken his jaw and did not tour. They had some journeyman at lock Steve Gordon and the fly half they had Matthew Cooper was not fit for the test and so they had to put a very young and inexperienced Mark Ellis at fly half. Mark Ellis did not direct the game, whereas England had Rob Andrew who was very good at directing the game, kicking well, and keeping his forwards going forward. They also had Jeff Wilson kicking goals on what I think was his debut - and he had a shocker - missing many kicks at goal. He had a blinder the week before v the Scots so not sure what happened. The All Blacks back row was big tough and slow - Pene, Joseph and Zinzan at 7 - which basically played into England's hands as they also had a back row which was similar - Richards, Rodber and Clark.

[@apb3440]

It doesn't really matter how far into the white line it was, it wasn't a try and Jamie Joseph should've been sent off.@@TheForge10

[@xpat73]

15-9.