The Greatest Try of All Time - All Blacks vs Barbarians 1973

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  • Опубликовано: 26 янв 2025

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  • @thenoobpolice3002
    @thenoobpolice3002 Год назад +50

    Today we lost a titan of rugby. Rest peacefully JPR. You will never be forgotten.

    • @GaryDuncanson-s4g
      @GaryDuncanson-s4g 5 месяцев назад

      Very true

    • @jean-michelpascal9622
      @jean-michelpascal9622 4 месяца назад

      Je suis français et j'ai adoré les gallois. Et ce n'est pas peu dire

    • @GaryDuncanson-s4g
      @GaryDuncanson-s4g 4 месяца назад

      @@jean-michelpascal9622 yes Jean a wonderful team

    • @GaryDuncanson-s4g
      @GaryDuncanson-s4g 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@jean-michelpascal9622a french referee!

    • @nathanwilliams2152
      @nathanwilliams2152 2 месяца назад

      @@thenoobpolice3002 - wonderful full back, one of the best in history. He wouldn't go in my all-time XV, but he was considered.

  • @monkeyboy007007
    @monkeyboy007007 Год назад +51

    This is the rugby equivalent of Carlos Alberto's goal for Brazil in '70. Sport personified as art.

    • @andycurtis9270
      @andycurtis9270 Год назад +6

      100% perfect answer.

    • @grahamharlow7471
      @grahamharlow7471 Год назад +3

      100% agreed👍

    • @charliegorman1797
      @charliegorman1797 Год назад +5

      The thing I love most is Quinell i think, who makes the final pass to Gareth Edwards is actually looking to pass it to the far outside when Edward’s comes from behind him like a train and meets the ball to perfection. The greatest sporting work of art right enough, I’m just glad I was here to see it.

    • @tomcarroll4909
      @tomcarroll4909 Год назад +3

      Such a brilliant comment and so true

  • @championthewonderhorse9733
    @championthewonderhorse9733 10 месяцев назад +17

    It's the magnificent commentary that makes it iconic.

    • @pipster1891
      @pipster1891 8 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, actually watching, and reacting to, the game. Nowadays, they'd be blah-blahing about something else or listing meaningless statistics.

    • @BlooMKunKy
      @BlooMKunKy 6 месяцев назад +5

      Good old Cliff Morgan, he was a cracking fly half too

  • @badhamian
    @badhamian Год назад +13

    The commentators words at the end just sealing a moment of pure sporting art.

  • @rogerjackson7318
    @rogerjackson7318 Год назад +17

    RIP JPR and Phil Bennett. Had the pleasure to meet both in my time. Incredibly polite, humble men who had time for everyone. Total class.

  • @multipleman78
    @multipleman78 11 месяцев назад +7

    Morgan is superb on commentary here. Sums it up with, "Edwards, what can touch a man like that." Perfect

  • @koosk41
    @koosk41 Год назад +14

    Immediately on hearing of the death of the great JPR Williams, you have to include this in you list of 'must watch' posts. Rest in peace Big Man 🙏

    • @nathanwilliams2152
      @nathanwilliams2152 2 месяца назад +1

      @@koosk41 Brilliant full back, one of the best. He wouldn't get the 15 jersey in my all-time XV, but he was on the shortlist.

  • @dennisstallard6457
    @dennisstallard6457 7 месяцев назад +4

    Simply the best .If the greatest writer of the written word would have written that story , no one would have believed it .

  • @kaballas123
    @kaballas123 8 месяцев назад +4

    Imagine this play today. TMO interfere for 3 potential high tackles, forward passes etc.
    What a try. Let the game flow again

  • @TheItalianAtheist
    @TheItalianAtheist Год назад +14

    As Italian, I was impressed by Cliff Morgan's commentary on BBC: "If the greatest writer of the writing world would have written that story, no one would have believed it". I guess that great stories need also a great storyteller, and Morgan was one of them.

  • @marko-ze4nl
    @marko-ze4nl Год назад +11

    Watched this so many times but the moment when Edwards comes steaming through on the absolute perfect line to take the pass still gives me goosebumps.Absolutely my favourite sporting memory.

    • @julianhodgson1961
      @julianhodgson1961 Год назад +2

      Me too along with Gordon Banks save against Pele in the 1970 World Cup.

    • @pipster1891
      @pipster1891 8 месяцев назад

      Incredible timing of the run.

  • @michaelclayton960
    @michaelclayton960 Год назад +5

    I was aged nine when that great Welsh side started to break up and until that point had no idea that sporting careers were finite. Nor had I any idea that I was supposed to be supporting England. So glad that I can remember that period in history and that wonderful Welsh side.

  • @BlooMKunKy
    @BlooMKunKy 11 месяцев назад +5

    I have a programme from this game signed by Duckham and JPR. Priceless

  • @SNOK1986
    @SNOK1986 Год назад +8

    Along with the greatest commentary of all time. Love it!

  • @MrKelso85
    @MrKelso85 Год назад +3

    The passion “This is GARETH EDWARDS” … goosebumps him and Bill wow

  • @paulcaswell2813
    @paulcaswell2813 Год назад +13

    Still sets my heart pounding all these years on...

  • @tobe2199
    @tobe2199 2 года назад +32

    Those high tackles though..

    • @michaeleager9017
      @michaeleager9017 2 года назад +2

      Christ 😂

    • @tomludlam3832
      @tomludlam3832 2 года назад +2

      Game's gone soft

    • @richln9682
      @richln9682 Год назад +5

      They were after JPR's classic early 70s sideburns for a trophy to hang over the mantelpiece. Or failing that, the entire head.

    • @itwoznotme
      @itwoznotme Год назад

      they were not high.................the guy was short!

    • @martinmalone6324
      @martinmalone6324 Год назад +2

      @@richln9682 RIP JPR williams 😥

  • @multipleman78
    @multipleman78 11 месяцев назад +2

    I love the start of the love to see where Edwards is. At one point he is facing his own line as he watches it go through the hands. He isn't even in shot as it goes over halfway. At some stage he must have thought, "I am getting in on this." His sprint must have been from way inside his own half. Incredible.

    • @richardbagshaw4534
      @richardbagshaw4534 3 месяца назад +1

      So agree multipleman, it incredible where Edwards comes from

  • @TheHrb1234
    @TheHrb1234 Год назад

    I was 7 when watching this live on TV. It truly is the greatest. RIP JPR

  • @welshieworldwide
    @welshieworldwide 11 месяцев назад +4

    Here’s a fun fact…
    The great Bill McClaren was meant to commentate on this but he fell ill just before so they got Cliff Morgan to stand in instead.
    Cliff Morgan just 12 months before this suffered a massive stroke and just 6 months before this game could hardly speak..6 months later and he was commentating on this iconic game and try.

    • @SeaJayAudit
      @SeaJayAudit 5 месяцев назад +2

      And let's not forget. There were 7 Welshman, and and one token Englishman involved in That Try. In Cardiff, with a Welshman commentating. It was mean to be!

  • @BlueAndWhiteZebra
    @BlueAndWhiteZebra Год назад +4

    See you in a few years JPR. RIP sir.

  • @margaretyronwy-davies8995
    @margaretyronwy-davies8995 Год назад +2

    Gives me goose pimples every time I watch it, brilliant time for Welsh rugby👏

  • @RD-wg2nt
    @RD-wg2nt Год назад +8

    Jeez this is rugby perfection ❤

  • @andrewwilliams3678
    @andrewwilliams3678 8 месяцев назад +1

    Magnificent every time I watch.

  • @DC-hf7td
    @DC-hf7td 11 месяцев назад

    It still sends chills. Outstanding levels of skill

  • @martincorner6273
    @martincorner6273 Год назад +3

    Fuck me. That NEVER EVER gets old. Rugby at its finest

  • @deanabrahams9480
    @deanabrahams9480 5 месяцев назад

    tears and goosebumps everytime

  • @Dark-H0rs3-Ap0caIypsys
    @Dark-H0rs3-Ap0caIypsys 5 месяцев назад

    Magnifique !🤩

  • @ebrahiemdaniels6491
    @ebrahiemdaniels6491 6 месяцев назад

    Most beautiful running try of all time

  • @Kevin-b8e5g
    @Kevin-b8e5g 4 месяца назад

    What a try what a man

  • @marcconroy9276
    @marcconroy9276 2 месяца назад +1

    Ironically the try would never have happened in todays game with a couple of brutal high tackles on JPR in the build up!

  • @stoolpigeon4285
    @stoolpigeon4285 9 месяцев назад +1

    That tackle directed at the neck @0:23 from NZ number 2 is sick (i.e. awful), as is from number 14 at 0:49. Animals. Forward pass @1:01

    • @pipster1891
      @pipster1891 8 месяцев назад

      Momentum. Look at the direction of Quinnell's arm, it's backwards. Legal pass.

  • @oldershikari828
    @oldershikari828 Год назад

    That support line from Gareth Edwards. Lad came through with rockets attached to him..

  • @MonMon-ji5pv
    @MonMon-ji5pv Год назад +1

    The following conversion attempt, though often mocked, made for a far more entertaining running game in that golden era. There’s a price for everything🏉

  • @NPA1001
    @NPA1001 3 месяца назад

    It might have been the Barbarians but the Lions roar was in the air that day.

  • @daynerpotter9514
    @daynerpotter9514 Год назад

    No one is catching Edwards flat out ❤❤🎉

  • @burntrim
    @burntrim 2 месяца назад

    The commentator, the roar of the crowd, and the players. It's hair standing up on the back of your neck stuff

  • @pinkhombre
    @pinkhombre 3 месяца назад

    Awesome! Outta shape compared to today's breed though 😮

  • @timm8562
    @timm8562 11 месяцев назад

    The most iconic moment in rugby… and to think that in the modern day, the video ref would. Have put 2 all backs in the sin bin for high tackles on jpr and disallowed the try for Quinnells’s forward pass. Who says technology really has brought progress?

    • @pipster1891
      @pipster1891 8 месяцев назад

      That doesn't count as a forward pass in rugby union. Direction of the pass is backwards, it's the player's forward momentum that causes the ball to go slightly forward.

    • @johnwilliamson9657
      @johnwilliamson9657 6 месяцев назад

      @@pipster1891 That pass is a forward pass under all rulesets and interpretations - Quinnell throws the ball in front of himself, it moves forward faster than he was moving when he made the pass.

  • @DavidTait-m1p
    @DavidTait-m1p Год назад +4

    Last pass would be sent to the TMO but who cares?

    • @pipster1891
      @pipster1891 8 месяцев назад

      ...who would declare it fine, according to the laws. I don't know if the rule was the same in 1973.

  • @WaferBrik
    @WaferBrik 7 месяцев назад

    A forward pass to Gareth but thank goodness it wasn't pulled back, all this beauty would have been lost to us.

  • @stephenlloyd9596
    @stephenlloyd9596 6 месяцев назад

    😊the best try ever

  • @davidlynch6545
    @davidlynch6545 Год назад +2

    Not a single legal tackle in todays game... GREAT TRY

  • @WilliamCurran-uc3wu
    @WilliamCurran-uc3wu Год назад

    Tom Sloane did that almost every time. Bill Curran

  • @cordial
    @cordial Год назад

    yup, correctly titled.

  • @NanHeredia-r6n
    @NanHeredia-r6n Год назад

    Homérico!

  • @daithi48
    @daithi48 Год назад +10

    The last pass was forward!😮

    • @michaeljudd4319
      @michaeljudd4319 Год назад +3

      Actually it was released backwards and momentum carried it forwards. Perfectly legal.

    • @RD-wg2nt
      @RD-wg2nt Год назад +2

      His arm moves backwards…

    • @Flubbydubbydoodoo
      @Flubbydubbydoodoo Год назад

      Idiot.

    • @Oscarspoem
      @Oscarspoem Год назад +4

      I have been told by many rugby fans it is not a forward pass. I don't understand or follow rugby, yet the noise, the try, is what sport should be about. Exciting even after all these years.

    • @timothyfmbrown
      @timothyfmbrown Год назад

      perfectly marginal. Today it would've been examined on replay about 100 times and the call could have gone either way to be fair. But given the high tackles, we won't quibble that one@@michaeljudd4319

  • @stevenwilliams8566
    @stevenwilliams8566 Год назад +1

    Greatest try. What was going on with that conversion attempt though 🤣

  • @BronzeBoy37
    @BronzeBoy37 Год назад +2

    That last pass looked forward

    • @SNOK1986
      @SNOK1986 Год назад

      It was but who cares haha

    • @BronzeBoy37
      @BronzeBoy37 Год назад

      @@SNOK1986 It shouldn't be considered a try at all let alone greatest try of all time. More like "Almost the greatest try of all time."

    • @pipster1891
      @pipster1891 8 месяцев назад

      Not by (today's) laws. Arm direction is backwards, the ball goes forward from the player's momentum. Perfectly legal. I don't know what the laws said in 1973. Rugby league used to be more strict but it, too, has used the 'momentum' rule in recent years, I believe.

  • @TryathleteNeil
    @TryathleteNeil Год назад +3

    Proof that Union players couldn't tackle any better in the 70s than they can today, and that they've never policed the forward pass (the last one is half a yard forward!!). Wouldn't even come close to winning try of the season in RL in any of the last 50 years 🤣

    • @Flubbydubbydoodoo
      @Flubbydubbydoodoo Год назад

      Twat. It’s a backward pass, you mug.

    • @championthewonderhorse9733
      @championthewonderhorse9733 Год назад +9

      Seriously, that's your response to this clip? Any sports fan knows it is a tremendous moment.

    • @TryathleteNeil
      @TryathleteNeil Год назад +2

      @@championthewonderhorse9733 *any rugby union fan. There, fixed that for you 😉

    • @marliechiller
      @marliechiller Год назад

      Real stinky take from @TryathleteNeil. Dont feed the trolls @championthewonderhorse9733

    • @robertcheatle2685
      @robertcheatle2685 Год назад +3

      Tackle technique was completely different from the Upper Body Seal Off The Ball Technique that has been dominant in recent years with the introduction of players from Rugby League. Of course that has resulted in the Head On Head & Shoulder on Head Tackles that is the plague of current Rugby Union. It is a different era shown here, where little time was spent stuck in scrums, where there was no lifting in the line out, typically tackling was around the legs, forwards were heavy & slow, backs were light & fast.
      Today's game is very different, often bogged down rather than free flowing, with forwards crashing repeatedly into each other near to the try line. As to forward passes, NZ has been renown for 'Flat (Possibly Forward) Passes'. In this WC (2023) Argentina scored and were award a try against England following a blatant forward pass that was missed by the officials & not reviewed. So that has not gone away & is unlikely to do so, even with slow motion, high definition reviews, unless VAR type technology is used in the future.
      Finally, it is sad that you cannot recognise this timeless try as the marvel that is so clear to the vast majority of Rugby Fans of any nationality. Take care.