The greatest try of all time and what an atmosphere still sends shivers down my spine ! However, would the try have stood today ?? It looks like Quinell's pass to Edwards is a little bit forward ? Would modern-day video ref have chalked it off !?worth seeing just to hear Cliff Morgan's beautiful commentary !
Yeah good try but pity it was in an exhibition game. In a serious competitive international 9 times out of 10 Phil Bennett would have just hoofed it out of play.
There are too many comments to read, but in case nobody has mentioned it there was a forward pass! Apart from that it was a great try. "I know 'cos I was there." Well, I watched it on TV to be honest. Nos da and good night, New Zealand.
Yes it was a brilliant try by the Barbarians and it is considered the greatest try in rugby history. But lets remember this wasn't an international match but a gala/festival match at the very end of the ABs tour of the UK 1972-73.
Thanks. Have noticed some rugby greats who played in that match have passed away in recent times BJ Robertson, Phil Bennett, David Duckham, and JPR Williams.@@kenjones6441
Gosh when I see The National Arms Park Stadium as it was...The soul of Welsh Rugby..When the National Team was the best in Europe...IF think that the new one has not that inside flamme of hope and proud Well anyway got to live in our time....
I’ve got to hand it to you, you’ve managed to make one of the best moments of sporting history unwatchable thanks to your awful editing. The score speaks for itself, it doesn’t need such an annoying soundtrack etc
What makes this try so special for many who know rugby is the spirit of teamwork infused with the the amateur love for the game. You can sense the sheer abandon with which those Baa-Baas, a scratch team for the occasion, put that astonishing passage of play in motion - spontaneously, selflessly, instinctively, each knowing exactly where to be at in the fleeting moment and exactly what to do. Whenever I get jaded with the laboratory grown version of rugby in this professional era, I return to this game of 1973. Rugby, stripped of all the clutter of money, contracts, scientific analysis, pre-match hype and post-match forensics.
Rugby at its best all playing with vision ie use your eyes , playing what's in front of you , and I do belive they new they would score all from the Welsh guys, and one English guy