Subbuteo Table Rugby - Ireland vs New Zealand All Blacks

Subbuteo Table Rugby game between Ireland and the all blacks with Movietone commentary

[@UrMom-tz4sm]

Love old videos like this, this is pure gold

[@UrMom-tz4sm]

I love this so much ❤❤

[@RypienGT]

im so high right now. this is just what i needed.

[@nmdono]

Happy to help

[@cuebj]

Just seen just about the most uplifting video I've ever seen.The channel is called 'Love Ro&Ra' - it'sa couple of twin? girls introducing and explaining and reviewing a modern production of Subbuteo Football from a company address in Stoke Newington (iirc from the video). Absolutely brilliant explanation of rules and how to flick properly, Total enthusiasm, very precise and accurate explanation, crystal clear critique of some aspects of the product and... a comment about it being easy to play, hard to master, and easy to get out and pack away. A lesson in how to make a KZbin video and what a refreshing change from us boring old farts. Understandably, comments are turned off, hence my mentioning it here

[@shantydoctor]

Not a rugby fan, I play subbuteo football , but what a great video.Great stuff.

[@nmdono]

Thank you, I’m not a Rugby fan myself and making this video was the first time I’d played Subbuteo Rugby. I can understand why it didn’t catch on

[@tonymcvann4504]

Absolutely brilliant 👏

[@RobTaylor1985]

This was great!!!

[@DC-jf8pl]

great work well done :)

[@nmdono]

Thank you

[@cuebj]

Great vid, as is your cricket one. Still have cricket and rugby but not played either for 50 years. Aren't you limited to 3 flicks per figure? Growing up in Tunbridge Wells, we had the company down the road and permanent display at the bottom of Nevill Street behind Church of King Charles the Martyr. It only worked well for football. Anyone else ever try their Fishing game? It was utterly dreadful. Also had the Five-a-Side Football which was good but fragile. I think they did hockey too

[@nmdono]

Hi Stephen, glad you like the videos. The 3 flicks rule was only in football. The bit in the Rugby video where the Ireland player is slowly inching the ball upfield is classed as ‘running with the ball’ and has unlimited flicks as long as he’s always behind the ball and I THINK it can’t land more than two inches away. What’s missing are the opponents flicks where they can try and block his run and tackle him. I’ve never properly played the Rugby game but I gather this is where the game falls down, as the player in possession has to carefully dribble the ball but defenders can streak upfield in one flick to catch him. Never done the fishing game, I saw it being played on the Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishing show recently. Would love to get my hands on a hockey set but they’re very rare and go for £££s

[@davidperry7128]

@@nmdono Had the rugby game but it was deeply flawed. Football was good but the better you got the more like an all-court game it became. We used a polystyrene ball (from Pro-shot golf) it changed the game for the better in my opinion. It slowed down shots, shortened those 70 yard passes and made the goalkeeper more realistic. Cricket was the best IMO but only if you had two good players. Hockey, never got my hands on it.

[@garypritchett8136]

Awesome!, what is on the site of the factory now?, surely it’s not still standing!. Do you know of anyone around the town that painted the figures?, I believe they were all painted by local housewives?, I guess you got lucky if you got a team painted by someone with a good talent or unlucky if you got a set that was just rushed together. I remember like yesterday, when I was a youngster buying sets in the mid 70’s the shopkeeper would always open the box before you bought it to make sure you were happy with it. No matter what team you wanted, the shop always had it!, happy days!!

[@andrewguthrie2]

@@davidperry7128 Wow, I remember pro-shot golf. My cousin had a set and we used to play in his garden during school holidays. Also Chad Valley Soccer.

[@cuebj]

@@nmdono Thanks. I'd forgotten or never noticed Rugby letting you have more than 3 flicks. But you're right about the difficulty of running with the rugby ball. My other difficulty was nobody else keen to play rugby whereas I could play with brother and friends at football and cricket

[@lowercentenary]

Brilliantly unsatisfying...i mean you would think either the creators or players of the game would have come up with a way to tackle and add some fast paced chaotic action...look at subbuteo!!!

[@nmdono]

I think that players of the game have come up with their own rules to improve it. Obviously I’m just mucking about in a one player version, but I think a defending team could flick a player within an inch of an attacker and he was classed as ‘tackled’, but it is famously unplayable

[@mr.pavone9719]

Nice job with the 'olde tymie" film artifacts. Not many people can use that effect without going overboard with it.

[@grandadneal8114]

Very clever. Well done

[@nmdono]

Thank you

[@mattelectro78]

Fantastic! Where do you find the commentary tracks for these?

[@iainsharp7486]

Sounds like a Pathe News Reel track (there's loads of them on You Tube) called by the legendary Bob Danvers-Walker

[@nmdono]

Sorry, only just seen this. Yes, they’re Pathe news vids from KZbin with the audio extracted

[@MrX_TV]

Well Burger Me!

[@patrickleonini4916]

Brilliant! "By the unsatisfying scoring in rugby" HAHAHA

[@graemeatkinson2138]

Mmmmmm.....got the old football Subbutoeo out today. ,My young adults in the family were fascinated by it - the pre playstation days!!!! However I was never sure why the rugby version was created. Just does not land for me.

[@nmdono]

That’s good to hear that Subbuteo sets come out at Christmas Graeme. Yes, I think they tried to Subbuteo all sports and it only worked with football (I’ve never played the Hockey game mind)

[@graemeatkinson2138]

@@nmdono They tried hockey Neil? Must look that up and share with my wife, a life long hockey player. Never knew that.

[@nmdono]

@@graemeatkinson2138 yes, sets go for big money on eBay as they didn’t sell well at the time (early 80s)

[@andrewguthrie2]

The Subbuteo version is almost as slow as the real thing.

[@cuebj]

For slow as the real thing - you should have tried Subbuteo Fishing! Got it, played it twice, stayed in the game drawer and didn't keep it when parents died. Didn't expect it would be worth a bit of cash. Subbuteo Rugby didn't work well but, as with Football, it was much better if you played advanced version with both players flicking at ball or to block at same time. Still got my original Cricket and Rugby but sold Football so my set comes from 1990s bought for son and it is nowhere near as good as 1960s - the players are lighter and don't do the controlled spins you could do with the older set. Probably the main reason I stopped playing Subbuteo about age 15 was I injured my fingers at real rugby and could no longer flick Subbuteo figures like I used to. Anyone else injured out of a board game?