Classic match recommendations

pickarooney · 25-03-2013 5:01pm #1

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

Teferi · 25-03-2013 5:03pm

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

marwelie · 25-03-2013 5:04pm

Barbarians v All Blacks from 1973

molloyjh · 25-03-2013 5:13pm

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

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

trouttrout · 25-03-2013 5:16pm

.ak · 25-03-2013 5:24pm

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

trouttrout · 25-03-2013 5:26pm

Kearney was so good, hope he regains that form

twinytwo · 25-03-2013 5:29pm

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 · 25-03-2013 5:47pm

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

trouttrout · 25-03-2013 5:49pm

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 · 25-03-2013 6:23pm

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

thebaz · 25-03-2013 6:42pm

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 · 25-03-2013 6:46pm

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 · 25-03-2013 7:27pm

trouttrout wrote: »

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

pickarooney · 25-03-2013 7:28pm

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 · 25-03-2013 7:36pm

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 · 25-03-2013 7:37pm

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 · 25-03-2013 8:31pm

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

Binge101 · 25-03-2013 9:04pm

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

pickarooney · 28-03-2013 12:06am

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] · 28-03-2013 1:17am

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 · 28-03-2013 1:45am

[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 · 28-03-2013 8:24am

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 · 28-03-2013 8:51am

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 · 28-03-2013 9:16am

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 · 28-03-2013 10:58am

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 · 28-03-2013 10:59am

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 · 28-03-2013 11:18am

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 · 28-03-2013 11:21am

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 · 28-03-2013 11:23am

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 · 28-03-2013 11:59am

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.

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