Classic match recommendations

pickarooney

Can someone recommend some matches worth watching in their entirety and which are available on YouTube? Heineken Cup or international, from any era.

Teferi

The full Northampton v Leinster final is online. I always watch the final 40 when I need a boost...

marwelie

Barbarians v All Blacks from 1973

molloyjh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPJeuXZCZVw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAlvlLfXjf8

trouttrout

.ak

Nice one, gonna watch that after training! Absolutely epic game.

trouttrout

Kearney was so good, hope he regains that form

twinytwo

trouttrout wrote: »

Has to be one of the best matches ever played.. Had everything. Lions were left with a makeshift team at the end, still should have won

TheGoldenAges

How Schalk Burger wasn't sent off in that match is still a mystery

trouttrout

TheGoldenAges wrote: »

How Schalk Burger wasn't sent off in that match is still a mystery

Complete cop out from both ref and linesman. Lions would have won that and then maybe the series if the correct decision had been made

shuffol

My favourite is the Wales-Fiji game from the 2007 WC, its on youtube but in 8 seperate parts.

thebaz

france v NZ WC 1999 - best game I ever saw -

Guscotts drop goal in second lions test in '97 was pretty special, and I have a hazy memory of an amazing scott Gibbs hit , think in same match

danthefan

Leinster - Toulouse in 2011 is probably one of the highest quality HEC games ever, well worth a look.

That 2nd test from 2009 is considered one of the best ever.

France/NZ from 1999 for unbelievable drama. Even if you can't understand a word the French commentary in the 2nd half is hilarious.

pickarooney

trouttrout wrote: »

Watched that the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it. Kearney was immense at that stage.

pickarooney

danthefan wrote: »

Leinster - Toulouse in 2011 is probably one of the highest quality HEC games ever, well worth a look.

I've been looking for that. I didn't see the whole game at the time and have never managed to see it since.

Podge_irl

twinytwo wrote: »

Has to be one of the best matches ever played.. Had everything. Lions were left with a makeshift team at the end, still should have won

Simon Shaw is just stupidly good in that game.

Podge_irl

trouttrout wrote: »

Complete cop out from both ref and linesman. Lions would have won that and then maybe the series if the correct decision had been made

"At least a yellow card"...complete cop out. Though how any ref can hear fingers in the eye and not give a red is beyond me.

lurtz

the 1995 schools cup final between rock and cwc was put up on facebook recently,not sure if its on youtube

Binge101

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU5Yk9ug5W8

pickarooney

shuffol wrote: »

My favourite is the Wales-Fiji game from the 2007 WC, its on youtube but in 8 seperate parts.

Just watched this now.What a fantastic match!
Any super 15 games I should watch?

[Jackass]

Probably my favourite Irish game of all time...I still well up at the anthems...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ6-bYixpYE

Full match:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQY6hWiD5v8

Podge_irl

[Jackass] wrote: »

Probably my favourite Irish game of all time...I still well up at the anthems...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ6-bYixpYE

An absolutely stellar match, but I must admit that I particularly love the above video partly due to my man-crush on Brian Moore. He perfectly understands the importance and relevance of the occasion (which Eddie Butler doesn't) without being patronising (unlike Inverdale was). He then goes on to dismiss the notion that passion and commitment are enough to win a game, which is something Irish people cling to far too much.

It helped that we delivered a proper shellacking to England afterwards.

Swiwi

pickarooney wrote: »

Just watched this now.What a fantastic match!
Any super 15 games I should watch?

I guess as a Crusaders fan the three-peat victory over the Brumbies in 2000 was good (don't think it's the best SXV game though, but I can't find a lot else on youtube of the older games, other than brief highlights).

Edit: a 19 year old George Smith scores a try off the bench for the Brumbies. Wind the clock forward 13 years, and he's been talked about as making a dramatic comeback to the Wallabies for the upcoming Lions tour.

Swiwi

pickarooney wrote: »

Just watched this now.What a fantastic match!
Any super 15 games I should watch?

Pickarooney, this is one of the greatest 3N games

totallegend

OK this is totally my Leinster bias coming out but there is some absoutely top-notch rugby on show in this match, it's definitely the game I've watched most often. Drico, Felipe and Hickie tearing Toulouse to shreds in their own backyard, wonderful stuff.

twinytwo

Podge_irl wrote: »

An absolutely stellar match, but I must admit that I particularly love the above video partly due to my man-crush on Brian Moore. He perfectly understands the importance and relevance of the occasion (which Eddie Butler doesn't) without being patronising (unlike Inverdale was). He then goes on to dismiss the notion that passion and commitment are enough to win a game, which is something Irish people cling to far too much.

It helped that we delivered a proper shellacking to England afterwards.

I find that funny, england could have had the best team in the world and we would have still blown them off the pitch that day. It was the passion and commitment that was never going to allow us to lose.

opinionatedfan

twinytwo wrote: »

I find that funny, england could have had the best team in the world and we would have still blown them off the pitch that day. It was the passion and commitment that was never going to allow us to lose.

that was a once off thing. Consistently playing with that level of passion and commitment is impossible.

.ak

For any of the non-Irish here, if you haven't seen the Leinster v Munster game in Croke Park 2009 it's defo worth a watch. Even for people who aren't aware of the history between the two teams it's hugely tense and some great displays of skill throughout the game.

pickarooney

totallegend wrote: »

OK this is totally my Leinster bias coming out but there is some absoutely top-notch rugby on show in this match, it's definitely the game I've watched most often. Drico, Felipe and Hickie tearing Toulouse to shreds in their own backyard, wonderful stuff.

Gleeson was immense in that game. Every openide we've had since seems like a lumbering oaf compared to his speed to the floor.

bilston

Swiwi wrote: »

Pickarooney, this is one of the greatest 3N games

That was the year I got Sky and therefore that was the first Tri Nations match I ever watched. Incredible stuff.

molloyjh

twinytwo wrote: »

I find that funny, england could have had the best team in the world and we would have still blown them off the pitch that day. It was the passion and commitment that was never going to allow us to lose.

He said it wasn't enough. He didn't say it wasn't a factor. Passion and commitment aren't going to win you the game if you don't have the skill and talent. We had both on the day.

pickarooney wrote: »

Gleeson was immense in that game. Every openide we've had since seems like a lumbering oaf compared to his speed to the floor.

He really, really was. I watched the game back again there last year and was in awe of him all over again. Every aspiring openside should be made to sit down and study him in that game.

Thekidneybean

Anyone think that Ireland Vs. France 2009 was a good one? one the best games iv ever seen IMO and defiantly the best game i was at. Sorry very slow computer at home so can't post a link but a classic game for me no doubt.

bilston

twinytwo wrote: »

I find that funny, england could have had the best team in the world and we would have still blown them off the pitch that day. It was the passion and commitment that was never going to allow us to lose.

Shame we weren't playing the All Blacks. I wonder if we could convince the NZ government to come and colonise the country for 800 years so we could create the passion to beat them once in a while too.

totallegend

twinytwo wrote: »

I find that funny, england could have had the best team in the world and we would have still blown them off the pitch that day. It was the passion and commitment that was never going to allow us to lose.

Ah it was a fantastic occasion but let's keep things in perspective, this was the England XV that day:

Morgan; Lewsey, Tindall, Farrell, Strettle; Wilkinson, Ellis; Freshwater, Chuter, Vickery, Deacon, Grewcock, Worsley, Lund, Corry

That was an awful, awful team coming up against possibly the best Ireland XV that has ever played together.

Pudsy33

Swiwi, what classic super rugby games would you recommend? Doesn't need to be on YouTube! More recent the better

Swiwi

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Swiwi, what classic super rugby games would you recommend? Doesn't need to be on YouTube! More recent the better

I'll probably get a few sniggers, but the SXV is relatively homogenous and with a lot of matches each season, so that it's a bit hard to remember individual games.

Here are a couple of good games

Sharks v Crusaders from Twickenham 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvrnGU3Dyj8&list=PL996C293304360923

Blues v Chiefs 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxUfwtslryQ

I can't find it on youtube, but the Blues v Crusaders final 2003 was great.

.ak

The Crusaders game in Twickenham is a great game in terms of watching a team loving to play running rugby. They literally put rings around Sharks, and the set plays were a piece of magic. It was a great advertisement for S15, and really lived up the running rugby stereotypes... Was a bit one sided tho.

Swiwi

.ak wrote: »

The Crusaders game in Twickenham is a great game in terms of watching a team loving to play running rugby. They literally put rings around Sharks, and the set plays were a piece of magic. It was a great advertisement for S15, and really lived up the running rugby stereotypes... Was a bit one sided tho.

Yeah, there are probably more HEC games that remain as "classics" for the fans. I really enjoyed the Crusaders final wins in 98/99/00, but I don't know if they would be classics for outsiders looking in.

The best final is probably the Blues v Crusaders in '03, or the Reds v Crusaders in '11, both of which my side lost.

Some of the games right at the start of the competition back in the mid-90s were great, but you can't really find them on youtube.

captbarnacles

Thanks for Lions game, watched it last night. So good I had to go watch the first test again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFxBeQzRZ2o

Was a great game too notwithstanding the scrum disaster.

Lions had great chances but some of SA's defence was outstanding especially the two cover tackles on Monye

phog

I don't know if this is up on YouTube but the 2004 H/cup semifinal in Lansdowne Rd between Munster & Wasps was one of the best I've been at, I couldn't believe the 80mins was gone when the ref blew it up, the game seemed to be non stop and Munster just ran out of steam.

Rightwing

Munster - Leinster H Cup semi-final 06, just about has it all.

ConFurioso

Just looking at that Toulouse - Leinster game from 2006......Honestly it's like looking at a different sport sometimes.

PJ Maybe

pickarooney wrote: »

I've been looking for that. I didn't see the whole game at the time and have never managed to see it since.

It was a great match, atmosphere in the stadium was brilliant. Will have a link for you this evening.

pickarooney

Binge101 wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU5Yk9ug5W8

Some beautiful rugby in this game. Shane Williams was phenomenal.

Just a question - at 59.00 in the video NZ are pulled for wasting too much time throwing in the lineout and possession is given to Wales. What exactly is the sanction here? The Welsh 4 throws the ball to the SH (I thought it was a quick line-out first) who then moves to position, passes to the FH who boots it out for a line-out to NZ. The camera cuts away before the SH's pass so I'm not sure if he taps it or not, but if it was a penalty it makes no sense that Jones didn't take it and kick to touch for a Welsh lineout. It's not a free kick as he doesn't kick it... ???

PJ Maybe

PJ Maybe wrote: »

It was a great match, atmosphere in the stadium was brilliant. Will have a link for you this evening.

Here you go:

Chabals Beard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFIXp_CsnYQ

pickarooney

Another quick one from the Leinster toulouse game. On 62 minutes Sexton kicks straight to touch from just inside his own 22 and the lineout is brought back to where he kicked it from. Why is that?

.ak

pickarooney wrote: »

Another quick one from the Leinster toulouse game. On 62 minutes Sexton kicks straight to touch from just inside his own 22 and the lineout is brought back to where he kicked it from. Why is that?

How did he receive the ball? Was it passed to him from a player who received it outside the 22? If so it would be deemed to be carried back inside. You can only kick it out on the full from within your 22 so long as the play started there, i.e; you fielded a garryowen, or turned the ball over within the 22 etc., etc.

PJ Maybe

pickarooney wrote: »

Another quick one from the Leinster toulouse game. On 62 minutes Sexton kicks straight to touch from just inside his own 22 and the lineout is brought back to where he kicked it from. Why is that?

Hines passes the ball back to Sexton who is inside the 22. Just before he kicks it you can hear Pearson say "Taken In". Sexton can't kick it directly into touch because it was brought in to the 22 by Leinster (Hines).

The actual Law is 19.1 (b) and that link has a couple of videos showing similar instances. They have a nice graphic showing it too:

FellasFellas

Incredible. So free flowing and entertaining. One of the best Baa-Baa's sides in terms of the people playing.

lurtz

FellasFellas wrote: »

Incredible. So free flowing and entertaining. One of the best Baa-Baa's sides in terms of the people playing.

Aww..