Great footage of a classic but by crikey the two Aussie commentators can't half whinge.
@SuperBlackted11 жыл бұрын
Still the best lions series I've seen, better than 97. The team was immense. You forget how battered they got in the first test. Also that is some Australian team no rookies there. I feel nostalgic just watching it and it still puts the hairs up on the back of my neck. Look at the age of Guscott he hadn't even finished his GCSE;s probably. Thanks for the upload hike6 much appreciated.
@xpat734 жыл бұрын
The 1989 Lions pack of forwards is probably one of our best ever. The 97 Lions were not very good - in truth they got very very lucky and should have been beaten by 15 points in the second test. They played no rugby at all. The 1993 Lions and 2001 Lions who lost in NZ and Aus were far better sides than the 1997.
@SuperBlackted4 жыл бұрын
xpat73 Agreed, I think in 97 Geech had learned from not playing to your strengths. In 93 the all blacks had no back devision and 4 world class players in the pack, the rest of the side where strong club players nothing more. The decision to take them on up front was daft. The Al Blacks just lapped up the battle. I’m still sore about 2001.
@felixcornelius25774 ай бұрын
Listening to the Aussie commentators saying this wasn't a very strong Lions side? Who should have played if that's true to make it even stronger?
@actionjackson93854 жыл бұрын
Agree. The original one eyed cyclops Ozzie commentators.
@robertroberts26664 жыл бұрын
I notice that Dooley gives Cutler a couple of rib tickles at line-out times before all hell breaks loose. Good on you Sir!
@petermcmanus20375 жыл бұрын
I seen this game live on TV 30 years ago. It was early in the morning over in Wales. Good old days.
@SuddenStorm9823 жыл бұрын
The Lions I remember. Great game Hastings !
@gordonchild1104 жыл бұрын
Campo played well ,that pass to his own player at his goal line was classic ...
@mikemorgan78934 жыл бұрын
The first British Lions test series to be shown live on UK TV and the only one broadcast live by the BBC.
@epowellrob8 ай бұрын
Womens sport is all the BBC budget will stretch to these days 😞
@ianashton12264 жыл бұрын
Great to see proper line outs and competition in the ruck. Dooley and Ackford were v special - great shifts by 2 big fellas
@philipkoekemoer4705 Жыл бұрын
Unwatchable
@curleyteeth11 жыл бұрын
Great result made all the better by the Brit hater Campese making a kiddy-type blunder to gift a try to the great lions.Hopefully he will never forget it.
@melbeeswax60872 жыл бұрын
Australia take the lead once in the match. Then Campese ballses it up. Fat Australian commentator ' a mistake was the only way the Lions are going to get back into the game! Back in the game....? Australia were I the lead for about 1 minute. Love it.
@garyjenkinson7189 Жыл бұрын
Great upload and fantastic series decider, I well remember getting up early to watch it the Lions pack were immense and you just have to love David Campese. The Aussies didn't like it up em.
@barbaradyson69514 жыл бұрын
Another unbiased commentary by the australians. What's wrong don't like loosing to a better team. Bloody hell if the gave the lions a compliment think they would shit themselves.
@chrisandrews807311 жыл бұрын
classic Mike Teague...tackle on ballboy...legend...and Scotland players involved in full...changed days!
@Deebemc11 жыл бұрын
The Aussies weren't mugs. Their legends were out in force, too. A great game. Lots of nice sorting outs, proper scrums and proper line outs.
@user-te3jc3sl7r Жыл бұрын
1989 was the first time a 3 match test series was played between the Wallabies and the British Lions. Previously the Lions would occasionally play the Wallabies in a 2 test series before touring NZ. Australian rugby had grown so strong in the 1980s that a separate tour by the Lions to Australia was fully justified. The 2nd and 3rd tests were close affairs but the Lions deserved to win the 3rd and series.
@jamesritchie21675 жыл бұрын
I love the Tradition of Rugby👍🏻
@supersquats11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading. Games like this were far more entertaining than the games on show today and there was far more stars and unique players back then. For me rugby really went downhill from 2000 onwards, there have been glimpses here and there but few and far between
@Mhjeffrey027running11 жыл бұрын
Hard to believe only 3 of the Wallaby XV made the World Cup winning XV 2 years later (Campo, Lynagh, Farr-Jones). 4 of the forwards were in the extended squad but didn't make the final team (Miller, Cutler, Hartill, Crowley)
@petermcmanus20375 жыл бұрын
Seen them play against Western Samoa in the world cup of 91 down Pontypool park.
@xpat7312 жыл бұрын
Thanks Campo!
@carpusbarsum3 жыл бұрын
Campo giving the ref a mouthful and throwing the ball towards him at 1hr.10 is interesting given how much old players waffle on about modern players having a go at the ref
@hike6ones12 жыл бұрын
@57.30 is still the second half of the 3rd test....the 2-3 minutes before that is indeed the first test, don't know how they ended up here.
@philipmarsden7104 Жыл бұрын
Interesting.....if an Aussie does it, it's skilful, but if a Lion does it it's "a fortuitous bounce".....Never thought of rugby that way.
@MyRammy111 жыл бұрын
Rob Andrew kicked ball after ball.
@frankwuebker77322 жыл бұрын
What a strange broadcast. Coming in at 9 all at half time and suddenly it's 15:6 to Australia at the restart.
@thanhhanguyen9354 Жыл бұрын
That was a hard watch. Lots of heart and effort, but overall poor skills from both sides.
@philipkoekemoer4705 Жыл бұрын
Lineouts half the time turn into scrums, knock on every few passes. All these epic games from the past were mostly unwatchable
@kantst6177 жыл бұрын
The Mighty British Lions...
@YARROWS911 жыл бұрын
1;14;48 Finley Calder knocks Greg Martin on his Arse.
@colindebourg38844 жыл бұрын
Proper line outs with no lifting allowed.
@xpat7310 жыл бұрын
They weren't called the British and Irish Lions in 1989.....
@mrx-qy7cd7 жыл бұрын
xpat73 Too much pandering to Southern Ireland, especially annoying given they don't respect Northern Ireland.
@cianw29427 жыл бұрын
how is there pandering towards the REPUBLIC of ireland. Do you not understand that the Irish are not British .So its offensive when you call us british. And how can you speak for 4.5 million people saying we don't respect the Northern Irish.
@stephenreeds36724 жыл бұрын
Nth better than beating the Aussies in Australia. 2016 was glorious.
@xpat7311 жыл бұрын
Not really. Because in 1989 they were not known as such. They only brought in the Irish part into the title in 1997. Anyway, there were no Irish players in this test line up....just Welsh, Scots and English! lol
@xpat7312 жыл бұрын
One problem! The first half is this 3rd test...then at 57:25 it the second half....of the first test!!!
@sopochachanidze780511 жыл бұрын
cool
@jcrawley111 жыл бұрын
Watching this to compare the scrums to today's shambles. The front rows just get on with it, no "crouch touch pause" or "crouch touch set" or any of that nonsense! Also, the ball goes in straight! Says everything that this seems poignant when all it was was the rules being observed.
@supersquats7 жыл бұрын
Ive been saying that for years! Im sick watching rugby internationals now where the scrums take 90-150 seconds to form for play to be restarted or either a free kick or penalty to be awarded. The scrums back then formed and were over in like 15 seconds! I think in each rugby international now at least 12 minutes per game is lost with scrums and about half as much with line outs as well, throw in to the mix time wasting with on field injury treatments and rolling on numerous subs the gane has been destroyed!
@melbeeswax60872 жыл бұрын
How could Campese be penalised for knocking the ball into touch when he caught it! The same way he scored a try in the 1987 world cup pool game against England without being in possession of the ball.
@sexobscura3 жыл бұрын
Bastille Day
@xpat7312 жыл бұрын
Teague tackled a ball boy to get the ball!
@xpat7312 жыл бұрын
yes..sorry i saw that after i posted!
@stevennicholas41602 жыл бұрын
"You don't wear the green and gold jersey to pull out that sort of Mickey Mouse rugby" LOL very angry commentator.
@lolypoplolypop12 жыл бұрын
is it me or england's 6 juste tackled a freaking kid @1:43:00 ???? and also, what happened to the rabbit?
@melbeeswax60872 жыл бұрын
You can really see how unnatural passing was to Rob Andrew on this tour. He was hard wired to kick every time. I pity his three quarters.
@johncourtneidge2 ай бұрын
Not so much blood this time.
@sockington12 жыл бұрын
i love australian commentators - it's always someone else's fault
@alexscott722611 жыл бұрын
Bedzy lfc - they lost the second test... it was against SA in 1974 that they were unbeaten...
@michaudlawllc Жыл бұрын
First test.,
@xpat7311 жыл бұрын
"Genius" McGeechan did not even pick Rob Andrew for this tour. He picked Chalmers and Paul Dean of Ireland. Andrew only came out when Dean went home early with a knee injury. When the Lions lost the first test with Chalmers playing 10 - Andrew was put in and the rest is history.
@frankmckane52754 жыл бұрын
xpat73 nonsense
@xpat734 жыл бұрын
@@frankmckane5275 what's nonsense? Everything I posted is factually correct. Andrew was not picked for the tour's original party.
@onexone72463 жыл бұрын
1:43min the ball boy gets taken out! 🤪
@MrEvosticky11 жыл бұрын
You haven't got the whole of this tour on download have you???
@GodSaveOurTeam11 жыл бұрын
Btw, it REALLY should be 'British and Irish Lions' in the title.
@xpat734 жыл бұрын
No
@markbennett79003 жыл бұрын
At the time it was the British lions not British and Irish tho
@michtur6347 Жыл бұрын
Jones rattled the shit out of Farr Jones
@coupland8211 жыл бұрын
sorry u didnt win MATE
@sockington12 жыл бұрын
the great campese ha ha ha
@xpat7311 жыл бұрын
Probably the best Lions pack ever: Young, Moore, Sole, Dooley, Ackford, Teague, Calder, Richards. Norster was actually dropped after the 1st test debacle - and he was seen as the best 2nd row in Britain and Ireland at that time. Winterbottom did not tour as he was injured....and Phil Matthews of Ireland was not picked for the tour which was a travesty. A victim of McGeechan's Scottish bias.
@philipmarsden71043 күн бұрын
Norster was injured, if I remember correctly. I don't think Dooley ever won a lineout against him, but Dooley's particular "skills" (translate that as thuggery) were better suited to those internationals.As you can imagine, I'm not a fan of that man Dooley and Ackford was a far better sort of person and a fine player. My dislike of Dooley is most definitely not anti-english sentiment. He always seemed to me psychologically unsuited to police work and rugby. Also Finlay Calder was an excellent choice as flanker on that tour and I don't think bias came into it.
@xpat733 күн бұрын
No Norster was dropped. The first test was awful. If I remember correctly from Brian Moore's book, McGeechan said "Wade you are in because you are big." Hardly a ringing endorsement. lol. Still they won 2 tests with Dooley.
@andrewgrimshaw67604 жыл бұрын
Fantastically biased commentary lol
@johnhowellroberts23364 ай бұрын
I have never ever heard such Comentaters comentating that their Team are so good and the Lions are not,what a load of BS 😂😂😂
@harrynewiss46305 ай бұрын
Campese - how we laughed
@cardigan30008 ай бұрын
Ieuan always looked so peed off whenever he scored
@kataotr38164 жыл бұрын
25 stitches to nil...
@robertroberts26664 жыл бұрын
The Aussies can thank themselves lucky that the Welsh and Lions selectors overlooked the talents of the world's best scrum half of that time ie Dai Bishop of Pontypool. We in Wales all knew it regardless of club bias including Robert Jones! The Bish's only crime was playing his club rugby for the unfashionable valley's side of Pontypool as we at Pontypridd know only too well! If you want to get ahead, get yourself down to the cities of Newport, Cardiff and Swansea plus the delapidated but privileged one horse town of Llanelli.
@markbennett79003 жыл бұрын
I watched jones play and he was one of the best scrum halves in the world at the time, dai bishop was competitive and was a good kicker, but jones was a much better passer than bishop, quicker at the base, more creative and was a very good box kicker, Jones even won Wales player of the World Cup and Southern Hemisphere player of the World Cup shows how good of a player jones as a 9
@barbaradyson69514 жыл бұрын
Poor creature.
@SuperEdge6711 жыл бұрын
Best lions series you've seen? You are obviously British you don't have many winning series to choose from.
@sockington12 жыл бұрын
if you here to watch rugby, skip the first 11 minutes, it's a pile on sensationalist bollocks
@jamesritchie21675 жыл бұрын
How the Lions smartly fucked the rules. Glad their crap has been exposed.
@zzzaaa0990 Жыл бұрын
It’s not the British Lions dude,it’s the British and Irish Lions,there are also Irish players on the team dudes! Ireland is a totally different country from Britain. Amen.
@michaudlawllc Жыл бұрын
It was the British Lions back then. Name was not changed until 1997.
@zzzaaa0990 Жыл бұрын
@@michaudlawllc no dude,Ireland was always a different country to Britain,hence the British and Irish Lions dude. Amen.
@zzzaaa0990 Жыл бұрын
@@michaudlawllc no it wasn’t dude,Ireland is a totally different country from Britain,you’re a dinosaur dude stuck in the ‘Empire’ era,doesn’t exist anymore dude. Amen.
@michaudlawllc Жыл бұрын
@@zzzaaa0990 I am not making a political argument. I am just telling you want is was called in 1989.
@zzzaaa0990 Жыл бұрын
@@michaudlawllc no dude,you’re trying to be a little clever clogs but you failed miserably dude. Ireland is a totally different country from Britain,which funnily enough isn’t a ‘real’ country,its artificial really to come to think of it dude. Amen.
@rentaghostokish56287 жыл бұрын
Ireland should never have joined the Lions - it has destroyed the national identity and spirit of the team. We're now in the farcical situation of having no anthem before kick off, when we used to have "God Save the Queen".