The Greatest Test Matches Ever?
-
1996 was such a good year, that Springbok series win was epic
-
@Davesofthunder said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
Oh god was that the one where Goldie shelled it on the line? Epic finish to a match but heartbreak.
No. He's talking the "Greatest Test of All Time" where we jumped to a huge lead, Wallabies clawed their way back, and Jonah scored at the death to win. Then in the return the Wallabies jumped to a lead, we pulled two tries from our ass (a Ron Cribb grubber and that ridiculous U21 B level set play) and then Eales kicked a penalty in the 154th minute because Todd Blackadder was a shit captain (or really our lineout fell apart, and then a duuuuumb penalty).
-
2004? v France was excellent, basically kick started a rather dominant period of rugby (outside of RWC of course)
I think one of the tries in those games @Hooroo refers to was that reedonkulusslee complicated move that saw Cully go over untouched.
-
@taniwharugby yeah, actually there are a couple of France away games that were awesome. That 2004 one was great for a number of reasons. Then there is one a couple of years later where we hosed them as well, i remember Mils cutting them up.
Was the 2004 one where we just destroyed their scrum?
-
also, does it make you officially old when you would rather talk about tests from 15-25 years ago, rather than Super Rugby this weekend?
-
@mariner4life think so, you talking the French 2007 tour to NZ we toweled them up, then missed our flights to France for the RWC.
-
@taniwharugby said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@mariner4life think so, you talking the French 2007 tour to NZ we toweled them up, then missed our flights to France for the RWC.
nah, it was definitely away, maybe remembrance day?
Got it. Nov 2009. The Mils try is one of my favourites. He puts Sivi in space, Sivi runs miles, then gives it back to Mils to score.
-
2000 Bled Sydney. 21 - nil - comeback from Aus. 24 all half time. Jonah scores to win it in front of 110,000 crowd. Hard to beat.
@mariner4life said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
2005 Lions test 2
This but can't be Raeburn shield I don't think as not one nation?
But yes this:@mariner4life said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
1996 Springbok test #2 at Loftus.
A few are memorable for the wrong reasons and probably not "greatest":
Chicago
Rustenburg Rodney
We have a deal (not Raeburn again)And some more, but I'm getting depressed so stopping that now.
Japan versing Bok in RWC 2015 was a great match and not only for the upset factor.
-
@mariner4life we smoked them in 2006
-
@taniwharugby said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@mariner4life we smoked them in 2006
that's the date that was in my head, but not the game. That is a belting!
All these France results by that AB side make 2007 all that more perplexing. Sport aye?
-
-
@Virgil said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
2011 RWC final - a certain monkey off a certain back
It wasn't a great game to watch, but the pressure was immense. RWC 1995 SF vs England, final test of the winning SA tour in 1996, the rain game in Wellington vs Oz for ridiculous skills in abject weather, the come from behind game vs Oz in Brisbane when Buncie scored in the corner to win it
-
@canefan said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@Virgil said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
2011 RWC final - a certain monkey off a certain back
It wasn't a great game to watch, but the pressure was immense. RWC 1995 SF vs England, final test of the winning SA tour in 1996, the rain game in Wellington vs Oz for ridiculous skills in abject weather, the come from behind game vs Oz in Brisbane when Buncie scored in the corner to win it
Oh it was a shit game to watch, easily the most tense game to watch.
Yeah not a great test at all, not sure why it’s even mentioned here really... -
@mariner4life said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@Davesofthunder said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
Oh god was that the one where Goldie shelled it on the line? Epic finish to a match but heartbreak.
No. He's talking the "Greatest Test of All Time" where we jumped to a huge lead, Wallabies clawed their way back, and Jonah scored at the death to win. Then in the return the Wallabies jumped to a lead, we pulled two tries from our ass (a Ron Cribb grubber and that ridiculous U21 B level set play) and then Eales kicked a penalty in the 154th minute because Todd Blackadder was a shit captain (or really our lineout fell apart, and then a duuuuumb penalty).
I was at the game with the Eales penalty to win it. I don't remember much about the game but the walk back to town stands out in my memory - a big crowd in basically complete silence all the way back. Everyone was in shock.
-
@No-Quarter said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@mariner4life said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
@Davesofthunder said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
Oh god was that the one where Goldie shelled it on the line? Epic finish to a match but heartbreak.
No. He's talking the "Greatest Test of All Time" where we jumped to a huge lead, Wallabies clawed their way back, and Jonah scored at the death to win. Then in the return the Wallabies jumped to a lead, we pulled two tries from our ass (a Ron Cribb grubber and that ridiculous U21 B level set play) and then Eales kicked a penalty in the 154th minute because Todd Blackadder was a shit captain (or really our lineout fell apart, and then a duuuuumb penalty).
I was at the game with the Eales penalty to win it. I don't remember much about the game but the walk back to town stands out in my memory - a big crowd in basically complete silence all the way back. Everyone was in shock.
And Kaplan had a huge amount of ref's time
-
@No-Quarter that was the return leg...
IMO both those games the better team lost in the end.
-
I don't know about best, but ones I like watching time and again are:
- Putting 60 past Ireland in 1997 at Lansdowne Rd and again in 2012 at Waikato Stadium.
- Humping France in 2006 at Lyon.
- South Africa third test in 1996
- South Africa at Pretoria in 2003
- Half century against the Wallabies in 2003
- Teaching the Wallabies how to play in the wet 1996
- Lions 2nd Test 2005
- Wales at Millenium Stadium 2005 or 2006 - I can't remember which one.
-
@antipodean said in The Greatest Test Matches Ever?:
I don't know about best, but ones I like watching time and again are:
- Putting 60 past Ireland in 1997 at Lansdowne Rd and again in 2012 at Waikato Stadium.
- Humping France in 2006 at Lyon.
- South Africa third test in 1996
- South Africa at Pretoria in 2003
- Half century against the Wallabies in 2003
- Teaching the Wallabies how to play in the wet 1996
- Lions 2nd Test 2005
- Wales at Millenium Stadium 2005 or 2006 - I can't remember which one.
I'd put the RWC15 final in a list like that
