The Good The Bad and the Rugby

This documentary follows the then world champion All Blacks on a 1989 tour of Wales and Ireland. With star winger John Kirwan as guide, 'The All Black Film Unit' gives a players’ insight into an international tour in pre-professional, pre-media trained times - there’s even a plate of oranges. Match, training, and travel footage is complemented by relaxed encounters with players.
CREDIT: Ric Salizzo

[@user-wv4xc1us6u]

14 game tour. 14 wins. Old school All Blacks.

[@StFidjnr]

Dominating

[@hikosaemon]

No logos, no payment, regular career ending injuries, even had to shoot their own documentary. And total legends. Glad they’re getting paid for it now. Amazing guys

[@chanelopesu]

John Schuster, Joe Stanley, John Kiwan, John Gallagher, Buck Shelford, Zinny, Foxy …. Greats of the game. Brilliant to watch this again 👏🏼👏🏼

[@knucklesaukuso5086]

💯% I remember that shhh like if it was yesterday

[@rickypaul7784]

The Whetton Brothers.. Legends..

[@yessiryousir]

As a young fella watching these proper tours were a massive event, it's a shame these small clubs dont get their chances to play the touring sides now.

[@PK-bh2sr]

So many legends in this All Black era

[@saysayblow231]

As an African American I luv the All Blacks the Haka is amazing and I hope to visit or move to New Zealand one day 🏉🏉🏉🏉

[@Rayzajw]

Hey Sekou. The All Blacks are playing in DC this year in October. Love how MLR is looking. Thanks for your support

[@saysayblow231]

@@Rayzajw that’s great I can’t wait to c them play in DC.

[@OldbeanO]

Yes the Haka is tremendous, but back in the day it was performed more like Monte Python and less Ka Mate haha

[@kanebennett6810]

Zinzan Brooke had a mullet haircut 🤯 a bloody good one too😂!!

[@KoolKoru]

Greatest video of all time. My brothers and I grew up on this vid and we still watch til this day.

[@FosterandBoys]

Thoroughly enjoyed that! To see Zinny running a muck reminds me why he was my favourite player growing up.

[@pplska25]

I haven’t seen this before, and it is 100% outstanding viewing. Thanks for sharing it; and thanks to all the legends who featured throughout; just marvellous.

[@twosnakse]

Always wanted to watch this. Essential Level 4 viewing if you ask me 👍🏽

[@anarua3287]

Kia ora - is that you Wayne from Waimana?

[@Rimraz]

Unreal! THE GOOD OLD DAYS!! No hair gel, no tough stickers, no phones, just old school hard c..ts!!

[@stevencahill3628]

amazing seeing these OGs on here. caught a glimpse of robbie deans running onto the pitch too. gatland, deans, JK, foxy, so many people who went onto internation coaching exp

[@nocturnalrites1652]

It was Bruce Deans his brother, sadly no longer with us.

[@stevencahill3628]

@@nocturnalrites1652 was he a twin of robbie? cos im pretty sure i caught a glimpse more than once

[@stevencahill3628]

just looked it up. youre right..... they do look alike!

[@nocturnalrites1652]

@@stevencahill3628 Robbie last played for the All Blacks in 1985 but was still with Canterbury in 1990

[@Sulu-sw3zo]

Good to see this being posted. Had this on VHS back in the day.

[@phoenix1473]

I still have it 😅

[@moronicdooshbaggery756]

Me too

[@rusirius4370]

Brought back memories of better days seeing this vid 😃

[@AlmaDaFunn]

Best watch of 2021 for kiwis

[@clapadamclap]

Hard! Names I haven’t heard for years!

[@patricknaera]

Graeme Bachop for me had a bullet like pass and underated as a halfback.

[@MeanAzz_13]

100% and a crafty wiley No 9 too, bit of a silent assassin

[@dicessdontbenosey438]

The legendary All Blacks who I grew up with when I was a young boy I'm 43 years old and these men in black bring so much good memories watching them with my grandparents that I will always cherish forever.

[@TheClunkingFist]

OMG I have a VHS copy of this mouldering in the garage! Haven't been able to watch for years. I won a matching t-shirt when I bought it.

[@andersonking73]

Great video! Thanks for posting this, some awesome memories and fantastic running rugby! Zinzan on the miniature horse is the funniest thing I've seen 🐎🤣🤣

[@jaredwilson28]

The GREAT Zin Zan Brooke!!!!

[@jgpatterson38]

Gee this reminds me of being a young fella and watching this with the old man

[@verdellellis4043]

We miss you inga the winger our boys in 🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@63LIONHEART]

I interviewed Buck and asked him what he would have done if Willie Anderson had come one step closer to him. I would have head-butted him, he matter of factly replied.

[@jameswaterhouse-brown6646]

Good timing for this with the world as it is. Cheers

[@Rayzajw]

Excellent content. I was born in 1994 so this is pretty crack up for me

[@DownUnderWarboss]

I watched this as a child on VHS. Well done. Mathews Ridge's AKA Gollum with those teeth.

[@10rgv]

These vids were gold. Blood sweat and touring, The Wyllie bunch, Ridgeys league convert one even. All classics.

[@GBY_VIDEO]

LOVE THIS VIDEO GUYS. THANKS FOR FINALLY LETTING THESE OUT.

[@LC__15]

YES 💪🏾! So glad you guys put on KZbin after The Wyllie Bunch upload :). LOVE this video so so much, truly brings back some great memories watching this as a young in in the mid 90s on VHS and in awe of this legendary squad, made them more human rather than rugby juggernaut machines lol. Thanks again ABs Channel 🙏🏾.

[@bevanjackson2694]

Thanks for the up load

[@mysr]

Just came from watching marc ellis’s between 2 beers interview and he spoke about matthew ridges teeth now i cant stop looking 😩😂

[@Saiyan4eva]

I remember the ol man had this on VCR back in the day, hardcase viewing but ohhh so good & great watching for this lockdown where in... 👊🏼💪🏽✊🏽 #AllBlackseverything

[@s.a.1834]

I’m 39 now and This the All blacks I know from watching as kid with my dad making me sit on the floor and watch their games late 80s early 90s 💯👌 miss them days... still member my dad took me to Eden Park in 1993 to watch All blacks vs Western Samoa

[@Kahuasuasu1519]

Great memories . Brilliant team.

[@scottdawson1607]

Some of our greatest ever

[@poerava]

Innes was one of the most solid defenders. Powerful runner. Brilliant player.

[@LC__15]

💯, Wallaby Great Tim Horan even said in an interview awhile back, Craig was the most difficult player he ever played against.

[@KiwiCL8]

That no try call in the Wales game was a shocker!

[@kevinskipworth6342]

I remember dad has this on video tape! So good!

[@JimboPrague]

Kirwan also narrated a documentary entitled "in a Different League" which followed All Black Matthew RIdge's first year in Rugby League. Also excellent.

[@luchiboy]

Where have you guys been hiding this gem? Back when no mobile phones and social media. Get to see real people being themselves

[@LC__15]

💯

[@MobKnowledge]

I remember reading about this tour in Ridge's book. Apparently, he and Frano Botica tried to take on Richard Loe on the team bus after Loe took Ridge's hat off his head and crushed to shreds but Loe held them both off. Also, there was another massive fight between the young guys/debutants (which included Ridge) who sat at the front, and the OGs who sat at the back (which included JK and most of those big monstrous forwards), which is traditional in every tour where the younger ones try to claim the back of the bus. Don't know if the current ABs still do that stuff.

[@davidk7672]

If there was a social pecking order of some kind, it certainly would be par the course for elite rugby. On the bus Zinzan takes a dig at Ridgie for being the only player in their entourage who wasn't wearing a dress shirt. It was a funny moment cause Ridgie took it seriously

[@MobKnowledge]

@@davidk7672 yeah Ridge's reaction was odd, especially because he'd later become known for comedy and goofing around. I remember from the book though that Zinny used to give him rides to and from trainings and, back when league was making offers to both of them, they both confided to each other how much they'd respectively been offered, so they were mates off the field. If it wasn't for lockdown, I'd go back to my parents' place and hunt for that book. It was great!

[@Jade-bz3sg]

Heard a yarn about young justin Marshall trying to take on backseat and loe broke his nose

[@poerava]

Buck was an exceptional leader. Lots of mana

[@Tee.NZ.07]

What a team!!! Legends the whole lot of em, well, apart from Ridgey 😅 everyone else 1 to 23 or however many that squad had. Legends

[@j.t.k.ventures9887]

That was great rugby days and players.

[@rickypaul7784]

The lads beat Munster .. then celebrate by drinking beers and singing to the guitar.. love the 80s..

[@theuntalentedone3527]

@All Blacks, can you upload the All Hart doco please?🙏🏽 I remember that being hilarious 😂 I’ve been trying to locate it for a while now

[@bFORCe2003]

Probably the most ever All Blacks in one team to switch to rugby league. Botica, Innes, Ridge, Inga, Schuster, Kirwan and Timu.

[@nztigga23]

2.36. The day after celebrating Foxys new baby...Ryan the pro Golfer

[@mosetokuma4947]

Love the guys from Munster at the end of the haka..."Fock you!" hahaha

[@aperaruapeeta4309]

If grant fox couldn't kick like he did botica would have started every test

[@Tee.NZ.07]

46:14 now thats team chem. Great vibes and Zinny with the local irish kids. Awesome

[@hohepateika1]

Thank you! I used to have the Video of this and leant it out and never got it back from someone?

[@yowzahful]

Wow look at all these legends back in their youth. They started the professional Era.

[@sanjivat]

Sir John Kirwin

[@akmoss3092]

This is gold

[@IAMMURAGE]

Amazing tour Docu! Absolutely loved it. Would be amazing to see some of the docus in the lead up to '95 World Cup. Are they available anywhere?

[@kingoftheworld53]

Perfect

[@StFidjnr]

5:26 The world famous all blacks film unit Spielberg productions

[@molimaupoupoasa5254]

Can uz post up the John Hart series?? When Tana Shmana made his debut against argentina ?? That was good one to watch 🤙🏾👍🏽👍🏽

[@shannonrameka819]

Great team x

[@user-zz5wk8dr3w]

2024,and this is why i love youtube

[@Communist-Warrior]

The big thing was the NZ players were professional way before the Irish and Welsh rugby unions got there act together . England were the only British team coming from the first ever Rugby World Cup, that changed there game from amateur to professional and England changed there league system, and took up the professional mantra undercover but more in the professional ethic in training . In Wales the Wales first and second Welsh team left to go to rugby league, after the WRU meeting with the players resulted in the biggest rugby players exodus ever to rugby league why the WRU did not want to change there structure. The English wanted Welsh clubs to join them in starting a new league called the Courage league with the English teams across the bridge, but the WRU didn’t want that and because of that left Wales in the rugby wilderness for a quite a long time..

[@colinfuller6361]

Classic!

[@moronicdooshbaggery756]

Buck shelford. Legend

[@MeanAzz_13]

27:55 ffs never a dull moment when Zinny's around 🤣🤣

[@scoliva]

Rugby's, 'The Last Dance'.

[@hem8729]

The good old days 👍🏽

[@vittoriooconnor7071]

lol I am currently going through an achilles injury, same explanation as JK, I thought someone kicked me as I lost a step in my run

[@eric7889]

Oh man my dad bought this on VHS back in the day

[@Trajan2401]

When rugby was amateur and cards weren't handed out like candy

[@rechoice9010]

Back when I used to know all their names lol

[@PapaBaush]

All Hart will be another good upload please champs

[@tamanimaiesia5344]

Boy the game has really changed!

[@MadamSteamfunk]

Can anyone tell me what is being sung at 29:53?

[@davidk7672]

A few observations. 1. Is it me or was Pervis abt to roll a ciggy on the field before the Wales game and 2. seems funny now but I use to wonder why Craig Innes would always want to run battering ram plays. Did he ever switch codes?

[@Sulu-sw3zo]

Innes went to league, came back to union a few seasons later but couldn't really crack it again.

[@granvilleheights3411]

has anyone read Eric Rush: Gold Rush? wish there were cameras to follow them around esp Lindsay Raki

[@moronicdooshbaggery756]

What about Steve McDowell bunting of the BC reps tacklers like bowling pins

[@merlin5420]

52:58. There’s a high price for hitting a Police Officer Mr Loe! 😂😂

[@markv2596]

Real tours. They were great

[@Gamingprofessional_2020]

Hello all blacks

[@BushManu]

It’s a shame so many of the dynamic backs went to League

[@MeanAzz_13]

Least we forget *THE GREAT ONES* 💪🏾🇳🇿 When you watch these great players the question still remains.. which is the *GOAT ALL BLACK side?* 1987? 1996? 2011? 2015? or The 1925 Invincibles? Imo *The 96 side* ☝🏾🇳🇿🇳🇿

[@yingle6027]

Why does Zinny always look like he's up to no good

[@hem8729]

Cause he was lol

[@koko-yi5uv]

🤘🏽

[@RedRock-PlasterPanelPaint]

The time no one is on there phone.

[@TheMarathonomahos]

Why did they call coaches Mr and referees Sir back then? That's like school 40 years ago

[@FKTHESYSTEM063]

22:33 Ridge

[@isaiahonesi3987]

I subscribed to and I press (🔔) button & and I joined the Notifications Squad to

[@Sulu-sw3zo]

1:43 this is the moment a hatred of the All Blacks began which lasts to this day

[@justinpreid]

Mr Stephen Jones. Well spotted!

[@Sulu-sw3zo]

@@justinpreid Indeed. Looks like he was scowling even back then.

[@yingle6027]

Ah haha

[@jonnyblaze1164]

🤣🤣😂

[@MrKano00]

28:05 is why you came here 😂

[@Tee.NZ.07]

🤣 all fun n games until Loe slaps the ass

[@jaredwilson28]

So good!!

[@bigfella426]

That’s a real rugby team if they fight each other lol

[@hellogoogle9215]

Victoria Burton deserves to be Queen

[@DougieBarclay]

37:00 i don't get what Fitzy's up to? fomo'd or something...

[@dax274]

Thank Zinny What for?? Lol

[@685_Era]

Maaan, JK could be dalton papalii's twin

[@beyondthepale2023]

or JK's secret love child

[@685_Era]

@@beyondthepale2023 😂

[@drewgarvie08091976]

I was only an infant when this was happening. My question is, was it true that they caught a couple of people breaking into their hotel rooms? What clowns to attempt to burgle a few international Rugby players rooms, I bet they blooded their noses 👃 🩸🩸 too lol

[@lifeofGhana]

8uuu7ii

[@clapadamclap]

How did JK stay on tour injured? Anyway, not keen on blowing up knock ons back then aye?

[@mizz8248]

SPOT THE MAORI OR ISLANDERS 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

[@rayclark3043]

Nah..hardly any of the bros on Europe g.

[@Skiwi685]

The bad - reappointing a crap coach