1972 Rugby League World Cup - Great Britain v Australia (Group Match)

[@zulupenman]

My god one of the greatest Australian teams of all time Bob MacCarthey three immortals Bob Fulton the great Graham Langlands and looks like Arthur Beatson and they couldn’t even beat the English team …now that’s hats off and full credit to the great English players in that game which really outperformed the best we could throw at them 🙏 well done lads great to watch very impressive yes Bob Fulton‘s try was a joke pushing the fullback out the way it was a knock on by Tommy Redonikas just before that that was allowed crazy bad refereeing hey thanks for uploading really enjoyed it

[@Holden308]

And that's considering that Great Britain was missing 3 of their best players of the day because of the then selection policy of only from your home competition. Lions players came from the RFL. Aussie's from NSW and Qld, Kiwis from the NZRL etc. Mal Reilly (Manly), Tommy Bishop and Cliff Watson (Cronulla) were all playing in the Sydney premiership and were thus not considered for Lions 1972 World Cup selection.

[@Holden308]

Interesting fact. Neither Bob McCarthy nor Tommy Raudonikis were in Australia's World Cup Final team that drew 10-all with Great Britain. Arthur Beetson was moved from front to back row in the Final playing in No.11 with Bob O'Rilley coming in at prop. The Aussie halfback for the Final was Manly's Grand Final winning half Dennis Ward.

[@jonglewongle3438]

@@Holden308 This match uploaded here had a similarity to the subsequent final, upon retrospective consideration. 10-all, earlier on, including a Clive Sullivan try. Ripleys, right, you cannot beat it.

[@brettwilkinson9529]

Bobby Fulton kept them in the game.

[@robharris6874]

The ground was like a cow paddock !!

[@glasgowbhoy1980]

eddie warings pronunciation of raudonikis is hilarious!!!!

[@pauladaly]

tommy`s version is worse

[@jobo1954]

Superb. What's gone wrong since those days.

[@johnrobertson2150]

Love how every player gets roughed up when they get tackled! The game was physically harder in those days!

[@jacktattis]

@JG-bw6lu Don't knock it has been popular for over100 years And these blokes were men not wusses from soccer .

[@PrinceAndrew100]

What a wonderful game, pity it was played in front of such a small crowd. Some of those tries were dodgy and wouldn't have been allowed today but it didn't take away from the contest. Even though Australia lost that was a very good Australian side, I do wish however GB would have kept up that standard but it fell away in the 2nd half of the seventies and Australia dominated for way too long. Thanks for the upload, it was great.

[@ToryBoy55]

Jim Challinor, the GB coach, was my second cousin. He died just four years after the tournament

[@frank19593]

Steve Nash the number 7 for great Britain. One of my favourite players of all time. Tougher than most forwards What a great champion

[@lee-annhellner9622]

Nash was superb but Nicholls surely MOM. He's rarely mentioned these days but to me he was the classical Johnny Raper style lock. So many great players on the field that day for both teams!

[@johntate5722]

Thanks for great comment. RL nowhere near as big in UK as it is in Australia. Its massive in the north of England but thats about it. Soccer far and away more popular. But the people who follow it are fanatics. Geo Nicholls very highly rated in Aussie as well? (I think) Looks here as if the Aussies felt they should have won. maybe they should. Tight also in the final, which was a draw. That GB side had amazing spirit. Almost no-one met them off the airplane landing back in the UK. It was all Aussies after this 1972 final. We havent taken a series off them since. I wonder.....u never know...????

[@TheNasher10]

Steve is my grandad and I am sat here with him now watching this video. Thank you for your kind comment☺️

[@frank19593]

@@TheNasher10 Cheers! Best reply I've ever had for a comment. I saw Steve your grandad regularly smashed in a tackle by 3 or 4 forwards three times his size and he was still able to get the ball away.Im in Australia and Steve I was sad when Balmain weren't able to secure your signature to play for them All the best!

[@frank19593]

@@johntate5722 Hi mate Thanks Nash was rated in Australia because a Sydney club wanted to get his contract so known better than Nicholls. All the best to you Excuse the late reply just saw your comment

[@peterjongsma2779]

Fulton, Langlands, McCarthy, Raudonikous. Legends in one team.

[@Steveaustin007]

GB had some great players to beat a strong Australian team . Phil Lowe outstanding. Lots of players who played in Australia years later too from GB around the time .

[@connorduke4619]

Agreee Phil Lowe appears to have been the best player on the British side, particularly if that was him setting up the Stepgenson try. Timed his runs to perfection at the right angle and pace and great hands as well - a complete handful!

[@jonglewongle3438]

Some of those Great Britain players played subsequently in Australia. Phil Lowe, 1976 premiership with Manly-Warringah. Brian Lockwood, 1974 grad-finalist with Canterbury-Bankstown Future team-mate or at least same club with Australia's Steven Knight at Balmain in 1977. Mick Stephenson, long service Penrith player. I spoke with him, as the anonymous nobody, on talk-back radio in 1986. Nice bloke, agreeable, not testy. All of them, of course, contracted on what was then considered decent money, and not just doing it for the fresh air.

[@terrortorn]

You say that secure in the knowledge that Unions position in the UK effectively banned Rugby League from schools, public parks and banned it's own players if they should wish to play RL. RL was outlawed in France through a collaboration between the FRU and the Vichy Govt after RL became dominant! U is secondary to RL in Australia. Just a fact that club RL dominated the UK rugby scene for most of the 20th century yet was not afforded the recognition of this through the Southern dominated press.

[@jimmytav120]

Perpignan , I wish I was there , great game, glad the 13 fans got to see I it, love the area , spentv2 years of my life there, viva las pia, no xv , welsh love league hate union

[@spinmyhead1667]

The oval was similar to what i played on as a lad back in the 80's.

[@truckerfromreno]

Gorgeous video.

[@popeyedish]

Big Phil Lowe..Rovers legend !

[@jonathanwood2465]

,Terry Clawson class act..

[@terrortorn]

RL world cup, some 33 years older than the Union campaign but not afforded the same privilege as a protected sports event under the broadcasting act.

[@NoName-hg6cc]

There was professionalism in league, they could afford to pay if they had a strong base, problem is they didn't and still hasn't

[@simondavis942]

Yet another game where Fulton was unstoppable. He was the most complete player I ever saw.

[@connorduke4619]

Australia had a good team but seemed to lack some strike power in the centres. Soon after this, Steve Rogers entered the Australian team and he helped put an ended Great Britain series or championship victories for the next decade and beyond.

[@jonglewongle3438]

I think that your synopsis is fair enough. Steve Rogers, the purported " prince of centers ", somehow makes the difference. There is always some ' born to star ' pre-selection which they focus on. Immediately before him it was Geoff Starling, but he got done by medical condition, but he did play a couple of early Tests. But, you are right. There is with this 1972 World Cup a preponderance of big bullocking forwards with O'Neill, O'Reilly, and Beetson, in contrast to the lack of overdrive in the centers. They used big Harris like a winger.

[@johnjullien]

Remember getting up in the early hours to watch .😮 Loved the commentator. Bob Mc Carthey a field goal?

[@jonglewongle3438]

Great Britain had parity with Australia in that tournament and in those days.

[@newwy95]

did colour tv get invented 20mins into this match?

[@dleigh9997]

@MANCHESTER UNITED grow up

[@frankporto2646]

@MAN UTD what the FUCK are going on about if u don't like rugby league don't watch it u shit head who cares about ure stupid stats rugby league is still a better game than ure boring soccer seeing a bunch of pansies falling over without anyone barely touching them to get a free kick or penaltie who cares how many people watch ure shitty soccer we rugby league fans don't care fool it's a lot more vicious in the crowd watching the game with ure hooligan fans especially the pommy fans how many riots have u FUCK heads caused and deaths ure moron

[@virgil81nz]

Lol that's brilliant. Yes I guess it was mate.

[@markwilesmith5599]

Everyone was shorter and fatter as well in those days.

[@neil2550]

Comments on pic quality at beginning

[@peterryan438]

Nice conversion by the great Changa Langlands

[@antidepressant11]

I think the standard of defence was lower then. More missed tackles. It may have been rougher and tougher. But tackles were missed.

[@lapalad]

As an Astralian i couldn't help but laugh when Bob Fulton scored@02.07 after deliberately pushing a GB player out of the way,when he coached Oz he was constantly whinging about foreign referees and blaming them for any Aussie loss or close game.I noticed you were happy to take that try Bob!!!

[@Fuzcapp]

And the other two. Fulton is a legend.

[@filipina5953]

@@Fuzcapp 👏👏👍🇦🇺

[@filipina5953]

@@Fuzcapp And an Immortal if I’m not mistaken! 🥇

[@lapalad]

@@filipina5953 I'm talking about him as a coach, he was an embarrassment to Australia with his constant whinging, I was living in the uk during 1990 tour and every game Bob had a cry about the referee, thankfully when my pommy mates pointed out his constant moaning I just informed them he was born in England

[@lapalad]

@@Fuzcapp Last Australian captain to lose a test series to France

[@filmdude007]

How many of these old rugby league world cup games were broadcast on espn classic?

[@peterdunn8603]

George Nichols best player on the pitch. A great Widnes lad.

[@elizabethfarrell9650]

lovely job. 💞

[@blaztgamingclan1960]

who here has heard of michael crank he played for austraia

[@frankhyland6333]

The British team played the way Australia then copied and still do today, run pass and support at all times.

[@terrortorn]

RL was banned from schools, at the request of the Rugby Union, err who was to blame there? RL was banned fro public parks and playing fields under the request of the union toward local authorities, err who was to blame there? Players were banned from trying the game, who was to blame for that? RL is the dominant rugby in Australia it's only rival is AFL who's to blame for that? Headmasters in Australian schools in the 1920's were told to allow rugby league, who's to blame for that?

[@pseudapollodorus]

New Zealand losing to France in RL? Wow, truly a different time in the sport.

[@dleigh9997]

@MANCHESTER UNITED nonce

[@johnrobertson2150]

@M Free Neddy Smith!

[@jacktattis]

@user-gu4tv4hp6s Yes but Rugby League have men playing Not Boys and Bums at that.

[@terrortorn]

You make that statement as if the RU has competed with RL on an even playing field rather than relying on corruption, bigotry, theft and social prejudice and influence outside of sport.

[@terrortorn]

@neverindoubt RL was defined as a profession rather than a sport and those who wished to play RU could never play RL else they would be banned. Just explain where preference comes into play when "banning" and all the added problems that come with it is a consequence of wishing to play another sport.

[@NoName-hg6cc]

@@terrortorn Rl poached players, if it wasn't successful even if PAYING it means it's not a great sport

[@MachineThatCreates]

Absolute classic and big Bobby Mac,, running gaps , tackling everything and potting field goals. For you youngsters there was some very good talent back then: McCarthy probably as good as Sonny Bill. Fulton as good as Wally. Changa kicked as good as Halligan.. big Lurch O'Neill as good as Beeston. Great times.

[@filipina5953]

@Machine ThatCreates - Silly Bill not in the same stratosphere as The Great McCarthy, nor many forwards of his era. 🥱💤💤

[@connorduke4619]

Fulton seemed to be similar to Lewis in that both were very quick thinkers, wiith a faster reaction time than others such that the camera had trouble keeping up. This is partly due to to both being sun sign Sagittarians, meaning Earth (physical matters) in Gemini (fastest thinkers).

[@jacktattis]

Better than Sonny Bill

[@furball8967]

The referee when calling the first Australian try must have been blind to see that! Goodness.

[@tommyhassan3545]

The great Clive Sullivan good cardiff boy

[@jacktattis]

Never underestimate the Poms

[@heilvichy633]

who was to blame there? History of British amateur rugby league association BARLA was created in 1973 in Huddersfield at the George Hotel by a group of enthusiasts concerned about the dramatic disappearance of many amateur leagues and clubs Fewer than 150 amateur teams remained with a mere thirty youth rugby league teams. The RFL was controlled by thirty professional clubs and the amateurs hadn’t any say or vote in their own destiny and their sport was seriously declining.LEAGUE ADMINISTRATION

[@heilvichy633]

They were competing on an even field its just that one sport decided to develop its grassroots in many countries and the other its professional clubs in Northern England, QLD and NSW..

[@johntate5722]

2:15 or so clear push on the GB players before aussie try - not sure they had to get out of the way

[@johnjullien]

Who can remember to communtators name

[@CosgroveNotts]

Nothing like Eddie Waring from the Yorkshire School of Elocution.

[@furball8967]

4:08 was that a Kangaroo trying to slap the face of the try scorer ?

[@terrortorn]

Even field! You simply choose to argue from a point of ignorance, a faulty generalisation. The RU were choosing to ban completely amateur, unpaid student RL players from competitive, representative union even in 1994. Fact.

[@terrortorn]

You understand RL was invented by Rugby Union clubs. You understand people who play contact sports were banned from playing Rugby League under the fiction of alleged professionalism but in reality only to maintain the monopoly on sport that stemmed from southern English administrators. You understand that you make a straw man out of the union's influence on rugby league which again shows the paucity of you grasp of the issues.

[@heilvichy633]

Which code is bigger again world-wide? Oh wait yes it is RUGBY.

[@peterryan438]

Soccer

[@peterryan438]

Bozo Fulton was a speedster

[@popeyedish]

How on earth was the first aussie try allowed...🤣🤣

[@jameswittman6452]

This commentator never did a scrap of research on names etc. Terrible monotone.

[@heilvichy633]

Yes, the evidence is there that League administration fail to expand the game even in its towns and cities in three major countries that the game was strong (UK, Australia, New Zealand.). Rugby isn't to blame for League not having professional teams in five other Australian states or many other towns and cities in Northern England for over 70 years. Who is to blame those major mistakes Mr Terrortorn?

[@terrortorn]

It's not your fault you are stuck with a tired, flawed Victorian relic of a game that is forced to aggrandise the crap Rugby League threw out. Oh wait yes it is.

[@travels129]

Poms the best then

[@terrortorn]

Again argument from ignorance, Union was invented in a restaurant in Pall Mall. You can try an argument from authority but you fail, players banned for playing RL is proven fact your personal make believe as if it the norm is not required. With reasoning like this I am not surprised you follow a school boy game.

[@number9scores]

Bizarre refereeing...

[@terrortorn]

mediocrity loves company!

[@terrortorn]

Name one other sport that chose to ban other forms of footballers from it's code. Only union. Your willful ignorance of this and fallacy that it was the administration of RL that wished not to expand is typical of the evasiveness of the schoolboy followers of the schoolboy code.

[@halgong]

Where do you live? The answer to your statement is that in basically every country people prefer union. That is just a fact of life.

[@andybibby342]

Not anymore it seems

[@heilvichy633]

What does Rugby rules and laws if that was the case upset you so much? Why is it important to League? Doesn't League know how to develop its own players or its game around the world without Rugby? Please tell us why Rugby decisions eat you up so much inside that your getting paranoid from it?

[@terrortorn]

"Rugby Union is a game for wankers". Laurie Daley wrote that! You follow a schoolboy game with a lot of others who accept the limitations of their own discernment.

[@heilvichy633]

Sharks in lockdown as ASADA circles Date March 7, 2013 Betting suspended on NRL clash Rugby league was thrown into chaos on the eve of the season after widespread speculation Cronulla were set to become the first major victim of the Australian Crime Commission's investigation into drugs in sport with several players believed to be facing a minimum six-month ban.

[@lapalad]

Rugby unions super 14s in Australia could only achieve a sporting rating of 425th in the ratings of sports programmes downunder and the tournament is still looking for a sponsor!!

[@filipina5953]

@@lapalad - Yes, Proof is is the Pudding, well at least for those whose ears aren’t painted on I suppose! 🤣🤣

[@heilvichy633]

Playing the VICTIM MENTALITY again are we? No Rugby wasn't ban from any schools its just that League wasn't prepared to do the hard work and develop its game in schools. Professional League clubs did what was best for them not the game while a amateur game call Rugby was thriving everywhere played and enjoyed by many people and many countries. Rugby wasn't trying to tell the world they were the greatest game played only by a few. Now look who's blaming who for not letting obese kids play theirs

[@heilvichy633]

Denial, Liar, Paranoia and Hatred has No Friends!

[@heilvichy633]

I follow Rugby THE BIGGEST TEAM CONTACT SPORT ON THE PLANET. You follow some bogan regional game played in NSW, QLD and Northern England.

[@dasrhinegold]

Heil Vichy get back in your kennel , you tiresome turd.

[@filipina5953]

@@dasrhinegold Sums him up Perfectly 💩🤣🤣🤣

[@teallythered6652]

Why you watching this then.knob

[@harrycallahan9764]

Not much worse than listening to poxy one eyed pommy commentators

[@terrortorn]

Oh right what can we call your attitude now? I have already quoted the Sydney morning herald account of headmasters being forced to remove their opposition to rugby league competitions. You argue from ignorance, you use suppressed correlatives, now you are continuing with false attributions toward RL. Very tedious

[@heilvichy633]

Rugby league was played in many private schools in Australia for many years it just died out because there was no interest but you can count on League Fans like yourself using VICTIM MENTALITY to blame everything and everyone except the League Administration who chose a few professional clubs over expansion League schools in NSW & QLD ban Rugby for many years from starting up in their schools instead telling kids to join local Rugby clubs or force to play League. Willie Tonga's father wrote that

[@heilvichy633]

There's no argument here just reality that League fans like yourself blame everything and anything instead of your adminstration on why your sport is minor compared to Rugby world-wide. All sports have history of discrimination but they all move on unlike Rugby League and a small minority of fans or internet warriors. Fact

[@terrortorn]

More waffling nonsense!

[@heilvichy633]

Who's Lauren Daley again? So he's been in the Pacific Islands, Africa, South America, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asia where Rugby is played and seen that for himself ayeeeeee!! I follow a SPORT like many people on this planet who follow different types of football and games. Its only a sport and Rugby success around the world shouldn't let it affect you and your everyday life. Its not Rugby faults that League got stuck in NSW, QLD and Northern England. Your administration was a joke.

[@dleigh9997]

Speak English

[@filipina5953]

@Heil Vichy - A Sports journalist once said, in response to “Rugby is the game they play in heaven”, “WELL HEAVEN MUST BE A BORING PLACE THEN”, How True, How True! 😘😘

[@heilvichy633]

Rugby League started at George hotel so please don't mix up up the two different sports. Rugby is played in more than 120 countries and I saw many players playing both codes in New Zealand in the 70's and have been for over 100 years so please take your fake make up history and tell that to your paranoia fans who can't stand the fact that Rugby is bigger than League world-wide. Turning professional ahead of Rugby back in 1895 League thought they will rule the world BUT WERE THEY WRONG.

[@SlowRock1000]

Why do you ruin just about every rugby league videos with anti rugby union statements and rants? Get a life man.