1969 3rd Rugby Test - Australia v South Africa

[TheJamSessionDL]

why are there four paragraph long comments, we should write a novel about this 10:00 vid

[madwham]

I love it!!! Pure RUGBY played by pure MEN the way the game was meant to be LOVE IT LOVE IT

[RobertM408]

This is rugby at its most brilliant and violent. A precursor of the 70 all black tour. The second test between NZ and SA in 70 was probably the greatest and most violent game of rugby every played. But these tests between SA and Aus are unimaginably brilliant rugby like a war game .

[RobertM408]

You wonder if the 1970 All Blacks studied this film and the other 69 tests because they should have realised from this that the Springbok test team was powerful up front and had lethal fast loose forward and kickers. But they didnt and were hopelessly overconfident.

[RobertM408]

An interesting prelude to the NZ v SA series the following year. Difficult to know if the 69 SA team with De villiers at full back at Bedford on the flank was stronger. Essentially SA was using many of the same tactics aiming to hit Hipwell hard just as hit Laidlaw. The 69 Aussie side was stronger than the 72 Wallabies in NZ team but the real reason why the 72 Wallabies were ineffectual that the All Black prop Keith Murdoch was so strong he bucked ever Aussie scrum. Great film.

[pencilbuck]

Great clip, 3.07 boks control the set pieces. Lets hope the same happens this saterday in the 2011 RWC QF.

Always a great test against the Wallabies.

[bcfsl]

Great rugby played by men, not genetically engineered freaks of nature. Pro Sports is killing the joy and appeal of sport for me. These were just regular guys doing something extraordinary.

[Strijdraaf777]

@bcfsl Hear, hear!

[OBJones28]

can u do this video without the background music?

[zsifk]

I was a whole of 6 months old. Great post.

[caiissa]

wow!! Great! thanks for this!

[nzl123]

wats with the , de villers and du preez names?

[Keranofkri]

@nzl123 traditional safa names

[Infloresence]

and a few minor dustups at 7:57 seriously cool fottage

[Infloresence]

big hit at 4:30

[ouboet12]

First footage I have seen of this series which I followed on radio back in 1969. Listened to the commentary of Gerhard Viviers, the well known afrikaans commentator. Thank you very much.

[galya]

when I say simple I mean a world without TV, without sponsorship and superstar coverage. we would wait years for touring teams and every tour would be a landmark in out lives. there was something magic about a radio test commentry from another city - somehow your imagination made it even better than it was or maybe i was just young and enchanted by the world before cynicism set in.

[galya]

great seeing muller, visagie and was that syd nomis on the wing - some thing very deep and naively simple existed then and somehow it was lost.

[uthikoloshe]

simple? There where numerous possible citations in that game :D

Seems less athletic, but far more vicous.

[sm180]

Thanks for posting this!