1973 Test Match: New Zealand All Blacks vs England (highlights)
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2013
- Great match for both sides but England came out with a victory. An Upset!!!! John Pullin lead this England side who beaten South Africa and Australia in the same year to upset the All Blacks in this match. Enjoy this highlights England fans.
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Great win for England, but the best moment of all was seeing Fran Cotton running with the ball, selling 2 dummies and to cap it all, kicking ahead!
God bless the memory of Andy Ripley! A true giant and gentleman of the game! This Welshman honours Mr Ripley!
The supremely talented Mr Ripley. RIP
John Pullin died recently - RIP to an England legend (although sadly he's an obscure figure these days, as are most England players from before the Carling era).
He will never be forgotten in Ireland, that's for sure.
@@Muesli711 Good to hear. Legendary after-dinner remark on an important day.
Pullin was an outstanding hooker.
Love Fran Cotton’s dummies at the end. Absolute classic.
Great stuff wasn't it. But you could hardly call it a run, more of a trundle.
Great win and especially enjoyed watching Jan Webster in his prime..
Fran Cotton, 2 brilliant dummies and a kick ahead, magic. He did an after dinner speech at our school in the mid 70s, one big fella.
One top top player.........'ahead of his time' you could say
I honestly jumped for joy when I saw this win by England at Eden park, what a brilliant match and a brilliant All black side, I miss how the players used to play before the Carlin era
At the end of the game, in the dressing room every England player walked up to Jan Webster and shook his hand. He was simply outstanding that day.
And Webster doesn't even have a page on Wiki today.
Oh for the days of short shorts, self-set 'let's get on with it' scrums, no lifting at line outs and goodness: wingers throwing in !!!!
Happy days, eh!!
That was a pretty decent England team. They'd beaten South Africa the year before, and supplied some fine players to the 1971 and 1974 Lions. They went into this game as underdogs because they lost all the provincial matches. But this was the game they wanted. The AB teams of this era had good form out wide but were generally very loose and unpredictable. Lendrum was a good stalwart for Counties throughout the 70's but this game was not his finest moment. This was the first test I watched live on TV as a kid.
+Pihasanddunes1 its almost as if te rucks in the games in that era are not reffereed at all
They weren't, especially in New Zealand.
We were rubbish. We couldn't win a thing in the Five nations or on tour in New Zealand. I still have no idea how we turned up in South Africa and New Zealand and won. Pullin led us to victory against the Australia as well. The first England captain to do so. The next was some bloke called Martin Johnson.
@@johnbryant9741 Not quite! Will Carling captained England to wins against Australia in 1988, South Africa in 1992 and New Zealand in 1993.
Johnson's achievements were on another level, though - Multiple wins against each, beating all three in the space of 3 weeks in 2002, all three overseas in 2003. Beat them all as a Lion too, which is a pretty rare feat.
I think England actually beat the Boks 1972 in SA. This result against the ABs was a real upset considering England lost all their 3 warm matches against NZ provincial teams and the ABs were expected to win comfortably. Halfback Webster outplayed Sid Going and the England pack with Cotton, Ralston and Ripley got the better over the AB's pack.
England have always had the physique to match anybody.
England had some big guys up front even in those days eg Cotton, Ripley etc
My late welsh mate went to this game, predicted the England win and nearly got wacked by everyone around him at the end.
Ironic. The great Welsh teams(69-79) never beat the all blacks even with home advantage. England won out there. Fact.
@@graemeandrew8747 Geraint new hos Rugby though. He woiuld have played for Auckland, had it not been for his burgeoning medical sales career. He also predicted France would knock the ABs our of the 99 World Cup- months before it happened.
Thank-you! Great rugby!
England could have been great in this era but selectors were dreadful .They beat New Zealand and South Africa away. Not even the great Welsh team did that .
Wasn't Squires' try a knock-on?
It's amazing how the opposing scrums just slammed into each other back then. Those guys in the front row absorbed a large number of hard impacts, not unlike a car crash.
One pretty blatant AB stamp on an English player's head in the second half went unpunished - players just got on with it, no arm waving or histrionics!
Very generous comments by both captains. Well done.
Two gentlemen of the game - it was great to hear, wasn't it.
Claude Brian 'Stack' Stevens, of Penzance-Newlyn. Great character.
They played hard to win those matches. That's all. Australia was woeful back in the 70s. I think this is one of the biggest upset in rugger history. 1973 was a year of upsets. lol
I'm pretty sure half the All Blacks were hungover. Diabolical performance.
Note to current scrum halves: how to feed a ball in straight into a scrum.
God how thing's have changed. David Duckham was a genius though ....apart from always getting injured.
he could play anywhere
@Jeremy Boot: True, but some things do stay the same. Then, as now, England players upon selection have a little switch built in, to disable any ability to think for themselves. Such a pity, because so many had real talent, yet so often reverted to muscle-based, unimaginative play.
England had been due to tour Argentina but the tour was called off because of terrorist threats.The vist to New Zealand was hurriedly arranged in its place!
Super match !
D'autres victoires contre les black ont elles suivie celle là ?
if you look at the scrums in this video, in some engagements, the props are prebound, thats what the IRB hope to introduce with this new crouch bind scrum, where they will do exactly that, bind on before they engage
I also like the fact that back then there was actual dispute of the ball by the hookers, so it made sense to have a scrum as a means of trying to regain possession. Today is kind of predictable who gets the ball.
scrums are seen primarily as a way to win penalties these days. They should fine every front rower (and possibly the referee) £1000 for every collapsed scrum - that would improve the situation pretty quickly.
Yeah. This was England first ever win in New Zealand. They took out the Wallabies, Springboks, and All Blacks. They took out South Africa in 1972 then the All Blacks and last the Wallabies. The Wallabies lost to Tonga in Brisbane in the same year this game occurred. This is from NZTV and I'm sure England rugger fans read the newspapers the next day after this at home.
At the same day The King of Sweden died who was the niece in law of The Queen so the result in the English papers would have not much in the columns.
@@markhall7117 I'm not sure how much coverage a rugby union tour (outside the Lions) would have got in the media in those days. Not none - but not a huge amount.
I don't think the King of Sweden's death would have pushed any sports stories off the back pages though!
Scrums are so quick. Even when resetting the players are often staying bound. Intriguing to see when the mark is called for a catch in the 22 the attacking player positions himself on the mark & the attacker steps back to make the kick.
Great to watch. Scrums were so quick and evenly contested. Don’t get caught the wrong side of the ball or you’ll get raked, stamped on and kicked. Required both sides to want to play non stop. So much better without VAR type replays. Get on with the game!
This including deliberate stamping if caught on the wrong side of the scrum, maul.
Whatever happened to Tony Neary , he seemed to have scored a few those days
Une rare et belle victoire des "rosbeefs" au pays des Blacks avec une belle équipe anglaise sous le commandement du vaillant et regretté talonneur John PULLIN
Great game. Bet the next Eng side had very few of those in it. Selection was amazing. Jan Webster's only problem was that he wasn't Welsh. Made all tties despite being tripped up for the last one.
That was our huge problem, selection. Running scrum halves who couldn't pass to a kicking fly half (Lampkowski and Old) or slow passing scrum halves to a runner. If you were a good chap you got picked. It was pathetic..
@@stephenreeds3672 Or had been to Oxbridge - cue Nigel Starmer-Smith, dropped after 3 caps, or Gerry Redmond, who won even less, from memory.
Back in those days England were amateur with a capital A. Selection was a nonsense with the varsity match being key to selection and how an England Rugby team had to have at least 1 Cambridge Man. Geoff Cooke in 1988 was England's first coach. Wales had coaches over 20 years before that.
@@stephenreeds3672 They changed half the team every year, sometimes every match. I really think results didn't matter at all to the RFU in the old days.
Yes!
A cette époque, la différence n'était pas énorme (comme aujourd'hui).
Le niveau de jeu est exceptionnel.
J'ai aussi revu le match des black contre les français de 1973.
Les français étaient très forts.
they had to herd the dinosaurs away from the stadium for this match ...
In the buildup to this international, England beat Fiji by only one point and lost all three matches against New Zealand provincial teams but completed the tour with their first win against New Zealand since 1936. They had a number of all-time greats and were a far better side than their results against provincial opposition indicated.
This tour was arranged after a scheduled visit to Argentina was cancelled because of terrorist threats against the players. Beat
Fiji 13-12, lost to Taranaki 3-6, lost to Wellington 16-25, lost to Canterbury 12-19, beat NZ 16-10.
Wouldn't it be great to go back to how the scrums were, not the crap of today.
A team win a test match in this period in New Zealand refereed by a New Zealander. Thank god for refs in the professional era
YEAH AND STILL ENGLAND WON!!!PRO GAME NOT A PATCH ON THE AMATEURS.
Thanks for putting the result in your heading! No point in watching it now!!!
and the amateur era scrums takes around like less than 10 seconds to set up. If you watch rugger today, you will find today's scrums very boring to watch because it takes long to set them up and too many collapses. Crouch, touch, set, collapse. Crouch, touch, set, collapse.
The ref was an ex All Black!
Yes! Of course,and England was the better! Congratulation! 🤗😇
Very fair though I thought he did well
As late as 1977 were no neutral referees in the Southern Hemisphere
@@spencerclark5440 Not surprising really - neutral refs would mean flying someone thousands of miles for (usually) one game. Bit of a no-no for an amateur game.
But of course the same thing applied in cricket up till the 90s i think?? Always home based umpires. Obviously as the game became more professional and post packer (cricket that is) much more money came into it, umpiring decisions became much more pressurised and players' futures and incomes might turn on them so neutral umpires had to come in
That's when NZ and their famous haka used to be feared.
Who were the English locks in this game?
Roger Uttley who later played at No8 and Chris Ralston, both toured with the 1974 lions to South Africa.
@@peterevans1025 Uttley at that time played for Gosforth, Ralston for Richmond - he was at least 6'6", I used to drink in the same pub as the Richmond team, Ralston once elbowed me - on the top of the head !
@@grahamturner97 Sun Inn?
is this really the best quality of image from 1973? blobs of fuzzy black and white almost unwatchable.
Players like Bruce Robertson, Joe Karam and Bob Burgess, missing from the backline ,was a telling blow. Scrappy unorganized performance.Joe Karam was the most organized All Black of the 1970's. The only decent goal kicker we had during that entire decade. 90% Strike rate. Karam would have made a huge difference in this test and the 1976 South African test series. Once again the NZ Rugby Union blew a great opportunity.
Most effective opposition to the All Blacks: NZ rugby administration.
Karem’s replacement that day - was it Lundrum (sp?) from Counties? - had a shocker. Missed shots at goal, kicked a ball that lead to one of the England tries. Was he ever selected again?
@@CalTheKiwi1 It was Lendrum's third and last game for NZ. His other two games were against NZ provincial teams on an internal tour.
Suspicion of a knock-on by England at 19:51! Can understand the referee missing it but not the commentators after watching the replay. Oh well, not complaining!
What a couple of years for England that was! On a funnier note, anyone who complains about the standard of refereeing these days need to watch these old clips.. hilarious some of the missed calls back in the day, including two knock ons just before England tries 😂😂
so nobody is going to talk about that huge knock on for englands first try?
No, the best team definitely won that day.
@@trondog8503 thats not what i said though is it
You see how quickly they set up the scrums here in this match to keep the game flowing. IRB needs to look at the amateur era and see how scrums were set up quickly. The forwards here know where they supposed to be and they set up very quickly and put the scrum straight in. Collapse were a minimal back then compared to today. Today's scrums has a heck lot of collapses and killing the flow of the game. Today's scrums takes 1 minute to set up.