Kangaroos vs Great Britain Games 1 2 3 1978

[@s.e.wagger3888]

This brought back so many memories. I'd forgotten just how bad those Refs were. Thanks so much for posting this.

[@stevegriffiths5364]

Cheers NZ RugbyVidzz for making these available....back when football was football.

[@bullfishdaryl]

So good to hear old Thesaurus Rex and see those players. Gentleman Mick’s pointy toe place kick! The days…

[@Yeviscount]

Ah Rex Mossop. Couldn't knock a sick girl off a chair. Could only come from Rex.

[@kelvinnash5539]

Stevie Nash Proud to say he my grandad 🤩

[@darren5971]

Your pop was a good half back mate.

[@Yeviscount]

Wow. Stiff arms , coathanger tackles,old style scrums with the hooker flat on his back and the ref misses the loose arm. Gotta say even though I'm a Manly supporter Ray Price was brilliant.

[@jamesthackeray7421]

Thank you to the person who uploaded this video thoroughly enjoying it👍😉

[@luckygibbo1]

Well done and thanks for putting this up. Vintage stuff. I still love the modern game.but it's very clinical.

[@mickstunes6383]

No wonder Tommy hated the Poms so much. Grubby, dirty buggers. Going for the head in almost every tackle.

[@grahamlowe7388]

stay away from your sister there mate. You aint much of an advert for inbreeding.

[@darren5971]

Mate tommy hated everyone on the field .That's the funniest thing I've heard for a while ,Tommy whinging and hating the English because they were dirty 🤣 He was one of the filthiest dirtiest toughest around .We were no angels back then either ,its how it was.

[@oldguy8177able]

bob fulton future coach playing.I don't think the poms got worse over time but the aussies got better,the aussie developed the keeping the ball alive.

[@darren5971]

Aussie game became more professional.

[@davidduffin1580]

Cronin always looked old! :)

[@FergusHodgson]

I love these old commentators, calling a guy prematurely bald. In another old game, they called a guy a carrot-top. You would never get away with that these days.

[@anthonykennedy5324]

Gee, RL has evolved into a quite different ball game. Still, it is"the greatest game of all" - in my opinion.Just compare any match today in the NRL today (2023), and you may agree. I was in awe of these players. Still remember having a beer at Mick Cronin's (immaculately kept) pub in Gerringong. Many players had other jobs in those days.Pre State of Origin. The beginning of Australian dominance was post-Origin. Coincidence? I think not. Anyway, thank you for posting. Much appreciated.

[@OldFellaDave]

1978 was the start of our long running dominance of the game at Test level. In the first two tests they were competitive, including tuning us up in the Second, but even with dodgy home side refereeing, the Third Test was a dead set spanking and set the tone for the next 40 years. The Australian game modernized and turned professional while the British game stagnated.

[@zzzpip]

great vids thanks for sharing. have you got the Widnes v Australia game also Warrington v Australia. in which they got beat.

[@neil2550]

Great Aussie Team

[@neil2550]

Eadie, Anderson, Rogers, Cronin, Boustead,Fulton,Raudonakis ,Young Krilitchh,Olling,Reddy,Gerard,Ray Price,,,

[@andrewg6555]

I was at the 1st test at Wigan. Stood right near where John Bevan scored. Why did they edit out the fight between Nash and raudonikis? A proper scrap

[@Sq12Sq22u22]

The referee was a joke and it is hard to understand why an independent referee was NOT appoint ed !

[@dasrhinegold]

Give me a list of all the post war independent referees that reffed the Australia v GB games in Australia between 1946 and 1992 .

[@johntate5722]

Thank you for adding these 3 tests - I was v familiar with the second test which in the UK we refer to as the "dads army" test as the GB players were fairly mature to say the least. I think you could say this was the last time the teams might have been seen to be of a similar standard. By 1982 of course the aussies had moved far far ahead of GB RL.

[@colinr1960]

@J G hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha What a crock of shite! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[@kevinwheatley6342]

@J G i reckon i would be a great soccer player,george best standard at least,because im always falling over clutching at my legs or whatever.

[@jonglewongle3438]

Err. Fulton was still playing Tests by 1978. Okay. I'd have thought that his two seasons with Eastern Suburbs in 1977 and 1978 was his retirement phase. Job in life just to do some club stewardship with the Roosters. But, there it is.

[@docgonzales]

Jongle Wongle Arko was head of the ARL, he'd have made sure Bobbie was on the 78 tour.

[@antward353]

A little past his best

[@lizardears4861]

@@docgonzales hey loser, Fulton was an immortal. It didn’t take any special favours from anyone to get him on any national team.

[@sebastianbivona5808]

Bozo was always going to be selected! He wasn't first choice captain- Greg Pierce was the original choice but injury ruled him out and Arthur Beetson made himself unavailable after a dispute with the ARL prior to the '77 world cup over team selections.

[@neil2550]

79 could have been his last year at easts

[@rewster7]

lol commentary keeps calling them "England" instead of "Great Britain".

[@gdaym8635]

rewster7 same difference.

[@dasrhinegold]

@@gdaym8635 not really .

[@neil2550]

Love th ol Rex Mossip calling

[@darrenpugh8919]

i,ve still got the programme ... possibly my first test match

[@jonglewongle3438]

That might be worth a few pounds or dollars on ebay. And easy enough to ship. If sell, sell it to what you know would be a good or suitable home for it. Not to me. I wouldn't want the friggin' thing. And, a 1978 Kangaroo tour jersey goes for $ 500.00 on ebay, I believe. Whether or not it was worn in Tests is another thing.

[@jontydenton1898]

A full bowl.....with grass on it! Odsal Miracle! My first ashes series still waiting for a series win...

[@Sq12Sq22u22]

wow this referee was REALLY bad!

[@brettwilkinson9529]

The mitre ball they used in the test was a dreadful ball. If they had used the Adidas ball with the black ends, we would have had a far more exciting series.

[@darren2514fv]

In fact the adidas ball was used in France

[@brettwilkinson9529]

@@darren2514fv that's correct.

[@docgonzales]

Brett Wilkinson lucky they didnt use the steeden balls from australia, slippery leather javelins, held the game back for a generation in australia

[@brettwilkinson9529]

@@docgonzales weren't they dreadful. Bounced around like a broken peanut. Try using the Ballymore ball in the wet . Like passing a heavy boulder. If only they had rugby players with kicking and passing skills, design the balls instead of people that never played the game in their lives. On a dry day the Adidas black end ball was the most beautifully balanced ball ever made.

[@docgonzales]

Brett Wilkinson yeah, its no coincidence that Ricky Stuart came along with his wide passing ability both sides learnt from growing up playing rugby union halfback, with the black end addidas, and changed how league was played in australia.

[@vantheman1238]

The Australian players look physically bigger and overall taller.

[@docgonzales]

Vantheman12 3 the 1982 tour saw the biggest gap physically, Mal Meninga was 110 kg centre, bigger than the pom forward pack

[@dasrhinegold]

@@docgonzales this result was brewing from when the Aussie school boys toured in 1972 . They didn’t lose a game and I don’t think they had a try scored against them . Ian Schubert and Les Boyd where in that school boy squad . I went to all 3 tests, they where terrific games and the Warrington v Australia game was an epic .

[@barrettcarr1413]

True but the Poms were shorter AND wider

[@melancholiac]

@@docgonzales Meninga was mightily impressive in the 82 team. Signalled a great change in the game.

[@MisterRSG]

Frank Stanton was the coach , who were the 2 trainers on the tour ?

[@johnnyhabitual9183]

The team Doctor was Nathan Gibbs. That much i know.

[@davidduffin1580]

@@johnnyhabitual9183 A.Didas and P.Uma

[@jamesblanshard9468]

There'll be some Barrow Raiders older supporters interested in this how Knocker Norton and Rod Reddy go.....

[@racingflashbacks]

The Poms should have been UFC Fighters not Rugby League players 🤪

[@brucelee-wo5ge]

Who edited out the Nash V Radonoukis blue in the first game! Disgraceful! Also where was the disallowed Anderson try?

[@Sq12Sq22u22]

British referees gave habitually been one eye bused cheats and thus dude was indifferent, it is a pity that there cannot because forensic series on buasedcrefereeung.

[@Baskerville22]

This Australian side lacked the pace of later sides.. Graham Eadie looks to be grossly overweight

[@lapalad]

Then Australia went over to France to lose both tests

[@connorduke4619]

The Kangaroos scored two tries to one in each French test but lost on goal kicking and field goals. I wonder what the penalty count was in each game.

[@dasrhinegold]

@@connorduke4619 yawn.

[@lapalad]

@@darren5971 So why did Frank Stanton say the referee of the 2nd test against France was the fairest they played under all tour??? And I am not talking about the 60s and if you want to go back to the 60s Australian referee Darcy Lawler was renown for his biased refereeing also.

[@lapalad]

@@connorduke4619 Frank Stanton coach of the Kangaroos said the French referee of the 2nd test was by far the fairest they played under in the entire tour.

[@darren5971]

@@lapalad It wasn't cranky Franky who said that .It was a bloke called Calldwell .Stanton was ready to take the players of the field ,penalty count 30.3 against Australia. The frogs never beat us the ref did ,where are you getting your info from man? I don't care what decade your talking about ,I stipulated a fact given to me by Bernie Purcell, the frog in a match late 60s ran out of the field of play ,then around the Aussie bench ,back on the field then putting the ball down in the corner .Awarded a try .Dont worry about Darcy he was nothing compared to those grubs in France. Penalty count 30. 3 and you want to argue with me .Tell me how can a team win with a count like that .the pots where why we were there for anyway ,not so much the French as everyone knew the players were dogs ,king hitting players then running away eye gauging as well .poms didn't run they were tough .

[@davidduffin1580]

Bozo...20 years ahead of everyone! The real King.

[@barrettcarr1413]

Before the State of Origin matches NSW alwways thrashed Queensland, problem was that half the NSW players were Queensland playing in NSW club games. Fulton was a Queenslander and in one game in Brisbane he was brilliant to such an extent the Queensland crowd cheered him. When the State of Origin games commenced if any Queenslander who played in NSW or Victoria , and he was good enough, he was selected for the Queensland team and this started the run of Queensland victories. The very first game played under the new rules Queensland won and started to dominate NSW teams, so you would have team mates on opposing sides. Good example was Cronin and Beatson who both played for Parramatta were on opposite sides and the story goes that Beatson hammered his team mate Cronin. These games are far more intense than any test games

[@davidduffin1580]

@@barrettcarr1413 I thought Fulton was from Woolongong…

[@barrettcarr1413]

@@davidduffin1580 You are probably right as he played in the Illawarra Rugby League with Western Suburbs. He was born in Cheshire England and migrated to Aussie when he as 4 years of age. Cannot remember as to why I considered him to be a Queenslander

[@davidduffin1580]

@@barrettcarr1413 As a blues diehard grown up at Brooky Oval, I’m relieved you say that 😅🤣🤣 Have a nice festive season 👍🏻

[@Sq12Sq22u22]

Biased refereeing

[@peteilijevski4553]

England were a joke, couldn’t tackle couldn’t put any attack on so they decided cheap shots were the go because they obviously couldn’t fight either 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

[@franko1174]

Jim Mills would flatten the entire Aussie pack on his own 😂

[@nuggetnelson2865]

Go tha Aussies yyyeeeeeewwwwww 🤙

[@benderx8837]

shows what a mess the modern game is today refs still below average tho