the scariest scrum in rugby?

[@RugbyManual]

See what happens in that match vs the Lions... kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHuoeqKCp8SBfdk

[@MikeyC92]

Thought this was so epic to announce the teams during the 09 Lions tour although it took about 20 minutes every game haha

[@RugbyManual]

Yeah haha, I think it's great made me laugh

[@stylekat]

As a Kiwi I can say that is a nice forward pack.

[@LeonKotze70]

Besides Smit, great speaker in front of the camera, his only skill.

[@unclefester831]

@@LeonKotze70 Oh keep quiet🤫 Jon Smit is an absolute legend of Springbok rugby.

[@marcusd9192]

Incredible pack. Speaks to how good the All Blacks we're to rarely lose to a team with that pack

[@timoakley277]

Nice? Interesting use of "nice"

[@morgandunn8163]

​@@marcusd9192pierre spies was deadly what a player

[@michael_d_420]

These guys are fu*king legends.

[@tbrowniscool]

Anyone with a first name of Bismarck is 100% death dealer

[@LJBrown25]

Bakkies alone just has a formidable Aura. Would have made a great villain in a film

[@Miiiiiiighty]

Eben is just Bakkies 2.0 though

[@Stud440]

Last man was like the last boss

[@wot4922]

So glad these boys are still around and at home✌🇿🇦

[@gorditoempanada]

It should be noted that the first row all play in Sharks and the second row in Bulls, the chemistry they must have when playing together all year is very strong

[@unclefester831]

This was the 2nd test between the British and Irish Lions & South Africa back in 2009. It is still labelled to this day as the most physical game of rugby in the modern era. That South African forward pack was brutal.

[@christophernoble76]

jacques fourie popped off

[@Graham-vi9he]

I remember that 2nd game, ronan o gara came on as a sub in the second half and got marmalized

[@garyodriscoll7988]

@@Graham-vi9he we Irish still haven't forgiven him for that. What about O'Driscoll hid on Danie Rossouw

[@Woke2Broke]

@@garyodriscoll7988 Yes indeed, a knockout tackle from a centre on a forward, remember it well! Springboks my team but Ireland a very close 2nd! Brian is an absolute legend!🇿🇦 🇮🇪

[@Bernie-xj2lh]

@@garyodriscoll7988illegal, but still a brutal hit no doubt 😂

[@piccolo_nz1142]

My favourite forward pack of all time, favourite second row of all time and favourite back row of all time with Danie Russouw and Francois louw off the bench I miss these days 😢

[@naytefors1047]

As a kiwi I would say that is the highest quality of a forward pack I've ever seen

[@tafatapaleao4588]

2015 ABs would smoke them mate ..

[@TheTruthDon]

@@tafatapaleao4588 doubt it.

[@Tom_McMurtry]

​@@tafatapaleao4588agreed

[@unclefester831]

@@tafatapaleao4588 2015 ABs couldn't smoke the 2015 Springboks🤡😂

[@KickingTeeRugby]

@@tafatapaleao4588really? Yet they were dominated in the scrums by the sa team that lost to Japan

[@mashianonelson9692]

imagine you look up and see this lineup running towards you😅

[@dtac_10_29]

I would have walk off the pitch, get on my car, drive home and have a braai

[@ollie-qu8ny]

Yes, yes it is. Every single player was a Spartan. Respect.

[@nicolaslegrand9414]

Legend has it their knitting club was a great success at the time, Bakkies whispered Keats poetry unlike anybody while Shalk served tofu asTendai played the flute...

[@laftw93]

Pierre Spies, still my favourite No.8 of all time.

[@zap0086]

Crouch , Pause , Jesus Christ .

[@Apexgambling]

😂😂😂This cracked me😂😂😂

[@jasonbrebner8095]

😅

[@shelr8204]

POES funny!

[@dantewalters5209]

I think that the current tight five of the Boks is the best tight five of any team, ever.

[@shein4830]

The Tendai mtwarira PROP gives me chills

[@shelr8204]

Reason they call him The Beast🔥

[@jameswyatt4443]

@@shelr8204The actual reason they call him the Beast is because he was the heaviest baby ever born in Zimbabwe. So he’s been the Beast since day 1, which is crazy.

[@shelr8204]

@@jameswyatt4443 😳 Oh shit. Interesting!

[@thomasVA9707]

that pack was absolutely brutal, especially individually, but they didn't have the brutal replacements group we've got now , so i would say our pack now together with the bomb squad is better

[@LomuHabana]

Probably the best pack of forwards ever. What a team. Many of them were also part of the World Cup winning team of 2007.

[@kainoizking]

Our greatest rivals. South Africa produces some gigantic men.

[@kagi2784]

​@balrajtakhar3622 it's called pap and genes you dummy

[@LebogangRatsoana]

​@@balrajtakhar3622 Nah! The food we eat plus gym

[@HemiJB91]

​@@balrajtakhar3622Holland produces the biggest white boy genetics. South Africa's DNA is a lot of Dutch colonialism. Looks it up yourself. Big farm white boys..

[@winco68]

@@HemiJB91Nah Dutch DNA is a myth. Afrikaners probably around 30% of Netherlands descent. German, French, Scandinavian and British as well as other minorities are prevalent too. Their names are also in main non Dutch. The Afrikaans language that they speak was derived from Dutch.

[@LomuHabana]

@@HemiJB91exactly. Tallest country in the world the Dutch. Being (way) above 1.90 meters as a guy is the most normal thing in the world there.

[@24NIEMAND]

Legends, they will never be forgotten

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

One of the most epic matches ever

[@wexcity4974]

The more I watch this I'm get hyped up.

[@Lesssvav]

Legendary forward pack!

[@mrgreen3629]

From an Australian this pack is freakin scary.

[@SilkRoad6]

Each time Bakkies got the ball, just know, no one gangsta when he has the ball 💀

[@sheshd]

Miss this team. Fkn beasts

[@Giga_acorns]

Probably one of the best forward pack

[@owyn4799]

Bring back this type of team announcement.

[@joshmartin8481]

All respect to this pack, it is intense, but Os du Randt is the finest prop I've seen from SA. He was a beast, best prop in the game for a few years

[@jameswyatt4443]

The Beast was better.

[@dtac_10_29]

Felt like it was just yesterday

[@skullmanji1825]

Pierre Spies has to be one of my all time favorite players. The dictionary meaning of Solid

[@csdvideouk]

We need these lineup reveals for all Internationals

[@rizwaanali6562]

Now thats a forward pack

[@jackymatthews4584]

The beat goes hard Wat is it

[@DivinaeMisericordiae77]

As I also a Kiwi Id have to say this forward pack would smash all teams in the world today!

[@HemiJB91]

This pack would be red carded today 😅

[@DivinaeMisericordiae77]

@@HemiJB91 it would because rugby has gone soft yet rugby league carries on as normal

[@HemiJB91]

@DivinaeMisericordiae77 trust me alot of sports has gotten soft just like the world itself. Can't be straight up with someone than it's harassment.

[@DivinaeMisericordiae77]

@@HemiJB91 yeah very true mate. It almost seems as tho we need wars to toughen us up and humble us again

[@mightynobble]

As a kiwi I would be sliced in half and scooped out with a teaspoon.

[@nahshondaniel5824]

😂 as a kiwi I would be peeled down and eaten raw

[@koketsoragatjifidelthema8289]

Bakkies was a very scary man 😂🔥

[@TeamBringIt8]

As an All Black fan....the SA Scrum in general haunts me 😂

[@LMDrudeboy]

Comfortably the scariest scrum of all time

[@flyinghigh5309]

One of the best scrums in springbok rugby history. I would like to see Os du Randt theiras a prop. Bakkies Botha and Victor Mattfield was for me the best combination in their position in world rugby.

[@Chuene_Ashley_kgomo]

Legends. Absolute legends

[@Wharney]

I’m English and even I will admit that Frances scrum is good

[@lukawilliams4822]

As a kiwi I can confirm yes this is a scary scary forward pack

[@josephrhodes8293]

I’d argue the current starting pack is even more formidable

[@thomasVA9707]

yeah i also agree, this starting pack was mean but we didn't have such a big group of so many great replacements back then

[@moyesinho]

This. And Heinrich Brussow on the bench, who for one year was the best openside in the world and stole every mfing ball from the ruck. Damn. Don't think I'd change much from this, except the double world cup winning back row, as the back row, Bakkies and Etzebeth can coin toss for the start and Ox on the bench if John Smit needed a lie-down. Also. Best SA kit ever.

[@metsemamabolo5097]

Spies! 🔥

[@j.psensational6860]

Monster forward pack

[@davidrabbolini6574]

Sheesh. That was a cracking set up.

[@WetSands]

Postman Pat. Back row.

[@user-nq1wu6oe3e]

I miss this Era of South African rugby

[@ryanwaugh1]

That scrum got destroyed with Jon Smit at prop.

[@andysmith1898]

Agree! Great captain and hooker, but not scary and not a tighthead

[@RugbyManual]

You're right, Gethin Jenkins and Adam Jones tore them apart in the second test

[@daviddempster8717]

..and won the series 2/1🇿🇦 anyway.

[@moinpatel9164]

​@@RugbyManual Correct and how many more times the boks tore them apart in the scrums 😂

[@RugbyManual]

@@moinpatel9164 they didn’t with Jenkins and Jones in the front row🤷‍♂️

[@jlemalu]

What a forward pack this was🔥✊🏾🙌🏾

[@markarnold2257]

This pack won a world cup. They are to be revered and feared. So what the hell do they fear.? Turns out Henry Tuilangi charging from 40m back.

[@MR-tb4po]

All legends

[@ChampagneRugby]

These old graphics were so cool then. Terrible now 😂

[@simonharris1327]

I have to say. Quite intimidating

[@boardingbear526]

Most physical game of rugby I have ever watched live.

[@gianphares6550]

Number 4 sounds like Noel Deyzel

[@unclefester831]

Bakkies Botha has a deep voice.

[@HemiJB91]

Could you believe he was a fly half in high school lol his dirty as they come

[@herb2078]

That’s a team of hard tough men.

[@elbatagoino4208]

Legends!

[@badtiger7471]

By the powers of GreySkull 😮 Go the Bokke Much love from NZ

[@luaschengovender5022]

The stuff of nightmares for any opposition team 😢

[@DK-fq4jw]

What a monster pack

[@dilhandayananda7466]

That foward pack would give you nightmares

[@6eight5ns92]

Spies was as fast as a centre

[@angusevans0621]

Why dont they do introductions like this anymore?

[@edwinahabwe8932]

I’m an All Blacks fan but this pack was it!!!!🔥🔥

[@f.a.b.m.7669]

The Classic between the best Rugby teams all times All Blacks vs Springboks maybe on this 2023RWC Boks are taking lead 4-3 becoming N°1

[@ThaHomieRB]

They had a mad back line tooo

[@CraigThomas1991]

That was one hell of a pack in 2009 especially that second row almost unplayable

[@fidelcasteroil4662]

Pier Spies is a legend

[@alexanderweideman324]

That's enough for any opposition forward to crap himself.

[@raniera13]

As an All Blacks supporter i concur you dont mess with that forward pack 😢

[@ithammertime7995]

2009, we were unplayable

[@hencocluckinbell3170]

Just casually the 2 best players in the scrum come from the bulls

[@SPACECOWBOY705]

These are literally Gods... All of them

[@eddietomasi6164]

Mtawarira and John Smith are the two that hold the African bridge 😂😂😂😂. They will do a lot of damage to make it easier for their dangerous bk line to cross over the try line. I hope my fiji will meet them again in qt final. God bless my African. Bula.

[@cebokhumalo602]

Beast made me love rugby. He didn't give me a choice.

[@dhirshg]

Insane pack, wow!!!!

[@mynameisnotbob6369]

Golden age of springboks 2007-2013

[@kidMclean]

They were incredible

[@fortunatengubeni6410]

Botha the head smasher

[@CristMakhanya]

Pierre spies will always be my favorite player. Big and fast

[@wolfgangvonuce9803]

only schalk and pier spies

[@alexandermalan8077]

I grew up watching this pack. But damn our 2023 pack takes it

[@dehanleroux3883]

Imagine if etzabeth was in that scrum💀 everyone would be dead💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@loganwilliams7635]

Their pack today is probably even better😭

[@WaIIium_editz]

Nah this pack is golden

[@fidget2020]

Don’t think so…..

[@Leo_Kruger]

@loganwilliams Agreed. I grew up idolising these guys, so they are legends in my eyes. But I think the current Boks pack is unrivalled.

[@JayM-wg7dd]

@@Leo_Kruger Ireland fairly rivalled them last week. Going for 60 yard no hope kicks instead of facing them down.

[@ghostguin1398]

One of the scariest in one team would be interesting to see a dream team

[@sportislit]

Fax that’s an aggressive pack

[@blaze0750]

its funny coz you see all these giant men and you think its over and then Pierre Spies shows up

[@gabrielsadaraka494]

Pierre Spies best Number 8 in the world

[@DuncanMcintyre-jk3qb]

Even eben not there ouch what a scrum ouch what a bench 😂

[@RexfromIslaNublar]

A forward pack where everyone is at least 6’2” or taller and 110kg or more. Now that’s terrifying

[@Richyw0278]

Pack weight: error

[@andomemiri8766]

They look like they are spawning right out the fiery abyss of hell.

[@HemiJB91]

This forward pack would be all red carded in todays game. Bakkis would be off on first 2min

[@letsgo8814]

Bakkies botha " Team Security and logistics " 😂😂😂

[@ongavellem6512]

You should have seen them with Os du Randt and CJ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥