Totally agree, they say the -players now are fit but the rules are very different from back then which I believe makes this team unbelievable
@matcole19758 ай бұрын
I remember my uncle waking me up to watch the Australian team. I was playing junior league with my brother and cousin as a kid. Great Memories
@martinharvey39904 жыл бұрын
This is like the 2 teams playing in a time zone... GB in the 70s - slow, concentrating on scrums, mixing it and the Kangaroos - 80s open, athletic, professional football!
@martinharvey39903 жыл бұрын
@J G Thanks for your reply, even though it has very little to do with my comment. Maybe you meant to reply to someone else.
@drainmudvayne273 жыл бұрын
@J G rugby league is the greatest sport on Planet Earth with 4.5 Billion fans and massively popular in over 240 countries including dependencies. soccer/football is a micro sport on the global stage popular in only 4 countries. Its a minority sport in the UK, France, Lebanon, Iraq etc. rugby league will be and still is the number 1 sport in Australia and NZ by 2050
@bobbytreetop1701 Жыл бұрын
@JG-bw6luBoston Jim - gobshite
@darylkanofski9327 Жыл бұрын
Well said
@darrylmackie918411 ай бұрын
@@drainmudvayne27there are not 240 Countries in The World ! ya Goose. Not even 200.
@charliez76979 ай бұрын
mighty side what a team. including the grett Brett kenny
@imanenigma33482 жыл бұрын
Ah, the good old days, like early motor racing, this era of Rugby League was easily the best to watch. Variety in the build, size and different strengths of the players.
@rovert-rj7bg8 ай бұрын
Mal was a fast moving mountain...unstoppable action man...
@davidcalland8504 жыл бұрын
The best Australian team ever to come over here have got the dvd
@johncater78612 жыл бұрын
Talking about Oz, the ball is thrown around like a hot potato, unlike the attack and defensive set plays of league in 2022. The players seem to play ad lib on instinct, always looking to pass, always backing up. Exciting and entertaining unlike the football in 2022 I feel.
@martinhardcastle99708 ай бұрын
The difference is nowadays you have backs that are bigger than the forwards 20 years ago and faster than the backs.
@robharris68743 жыл бұрын
How`s the British commentator, "Max has come back from his breather whether he had a cup of tea or not I don`t know "!! 🤣
@conandis55429 ай бұрын
Not to mention Australia's fullback being renamed to Gary Brentnall instead of Greg Brentnall 🤣🤣
@MachineThatCreates3 жыл бұрын
Probably my favourite Kangaroo side ever. Had a bit of everything,nice mix of Qld & NSW,class, mongrel and fitness. Sterlo tackling around the socks just for fun.
@glenchapman38992 жыл бұрын
It really is hard to pick a favorite from that era. From 1978 to 1990 the Kangaroo teams just oozed talent and strength.
@jonwalker5050 Жыл бұрын
I always remember this game for the disgusting late and high shot of fairburn on prop craig young, swinging arm to his throat and i bet the idiot was proud of himself. As a kiwi i always admired the ozzies for their discipline and professionalism despite being on the receiving end of plenty of cheap shots from both the poms and the kiwis
@zabaleta668 ай бұрын
Don't worry, they dished it out too.
@GreenDistantStar3 жыл бұрын
Helluva team that could leave Steve Ella on the bench.
@stevenguegens95162 жыл бұрын
And how can you not remember ONE Mr Wally Lewis who didn't get picked as a reserve until the next test
@GreenDistantStar2 жыл бұрын
@@stevenguegens9516 despite him being a Queenslander, Wally Lewis was the best all-round Rugby League player I've ever seen. He could do everything. Brilliant in attack, solid in defence, and he read a game better than anyone. He could change a game in the blink of an eye, which he often did against my beloved Blues. He made excellent players look like hacks, he was indeed The King.
@saxonost73 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploadng these. I made the tragic mistake of watching another of your uploads just before I switched on the TV to watch St George vs the Tigers recently and was horrified by the latest game. Soft, formulaic and the idea that more points equals more entertainment remains tragically wrong. Give me RL from the 50s through to the 90s any day! Great to see Laurie Nichols up there shadow boxing in the stand. I met him once at Cooma RSL when I was on an end of season trip for The Entrance Tigers. A lovely bloke.
@drainmudvayne273 жыл бұрын
@J G rugby league is the greatest sport on Planet Earth with 4.5 Billion fans and massively popular in over 240 countries including dependencies. soccer/football is a micro sport on the global stage popular in only 4 countries. Its a minority sport in the UK, France, Lebanon, Iraq etc. rugby league will be and still is the number 1 sport in Australia and NZ by 2050
@Antechynus3 жыл бұрын
Laurie Nichols was a great bloke and die hard tigers fan... he'd be as disgusted with the current NRL in Australia, its become a full on woke wankfest full of pretenders and Tiktok losers...
6 players from the great Parramatta side in the 80's.
@stewright5392 жыл бұрын
Fairbairn was crap during this tour,offered nothing.All he could do was a hight shot after the ball was passed
@PaulScott-b8q8 ай бұрын
Peter Stirling, what a player
@andywest8363Ай бұрын
Rugby league is played in a few towns in England.
@deanleng74033 ай бұрын
Ref loved his own whistle
@StuartRyan-yi5ok5 ай бұрын
I am confused. Queensland won the 1982 state of origin series. Yet there are 2 Queensland players out of 15 in this side.????????
@Wamphyrii16 ай бұрын
anyone notice the commentator kept calling Greg Brentnall gary?
@kenjones64413 жыл бұрын
Like watching St Helens v Siddal
@tersay26323 жыл бұрын
W Pearce - have to be man of the match
@karlhunt27272 жыл бұрын
The pitch looked huge compered 2 modern times
@darylkanofski9327 Жыл бұрын
I think the Poms went into this series thinking they could win, but there was nothing going to stop the Aussies with these performances
@stephenwright14763 жыл бұрын
So good to see snorkel with hair-do you reckon he can remember?
@warmonger87993 жыл бұрын
AWESOME
@freedomofchoicelover3734Ай бұрын
Sterlo is by far the greatest 1/2 ever for mine, daylight second, PS Brett Kennys defence on this tour was amazing...you never ever see him getting beat..ever...
@marksheehan80262 жыл бұрын
Wayne pearces try the ref was striding right next to him very impressive.
@cousy65nc6110 ай бұрын
How did fairbairn or Burke ever get in the team before mumby still baffles me .
@zabaleta668 ай бұрын
A huge gulf in playing standards.
@charliez76979 ай бұрын
magnificent side nothing else to say these guys may not as big or as fit as todays players but ohh lord they would eat todays players fir breakfeast 💪💪💪✝️✝️👍
@scarey2me3 жыл бұрын
31:50 Craig Young copped a head high.
@michaelokeefe89353 жыл бұрын
Yep, crap ref and linesman. Should have been a send off!
@markcrean66892 жыл бұрын
And junior copped a nasty one at 13:04 bloke would have been sent for at least five weeks if hed done that in todays nrl
@johnhoggard4640 Жыл бұрын
George Fairbairn, the GB fullback, committed at least 3 acts of foul play any one of which should have been a send-off. He stuck out his boots as Meninga went in for his try. At 13:04 he hit Wayne Pearce with a late high elbow to the head and did the same to Craig Young as you pointed out. Nothing but a dirty thug who was regarded as a legend at his club.
@JonnyDredd Жыл бұрын
Yeh and bousted copped a high shot in the lead up to les boyds try
@thomasdaniel26692 жыл бұрын
No Glamor men here. And thankfully technology was behind at the time, unlike every size, shape of camera to be poking in their face. And they still say today "there's stories we cannot share about that tour" 🤣🤣🤣 Thank the Lord social media was non existent 😅
@MrPaul1collins3 жыл бұрын
The English always seem obsessed with being rough & ready...punches and swinging arms etc...I don't doubt they are hard guys..but it's not enough. Australian club Rugby League is fast & athletic and they can mix it if need be but they also know it's not how you get results. Not in the long run anyway. Now that guys like the Burgess brothers play in the NRL they are getting much better. With Wayne Bennett as coach they almost won the last World Cup
@jonrichardson84618 ай бұрын
Ah the old NSW and Queensland vs Yorkshire and Lancashire. AKA Aus vs GB. But some great players. Still before the 4 point try so they still had stupid boring 2 point penalty goals , as at the beginning. Thankfully changed not long after. Rugby union still hasn’t learned. Completely ridiculous points system.
@bondoqbn7318 Жыл бұрын
Great Britain grubs
@markcrean66892 жыл бұрын
juniour playing like a man possessed
@jandavis98712 жыл бұрын
No point celebrating has beens.
@imanenigma33482 жыл бұрын
Better a "Has been", than a "never was", we can celebrate those who have done , as opposed to those who haven't.
@Failedcivvy2 жыл бұрын
Were you born a muppet or did it take practice? I’m just trying to wonder why you would watch a 40 min video and then go to the lengths of making a comment like that…clearly you have some sort of problem and I wish you all the luck in the world in getting some help with that.