Talking about Oz, the ball is thrown around like a hot potato, unlike the attack and defensive set plays of league in 2022. The players seem to play ad lib on instinct, always looking to pass, always backing up. Exciting and entertaining unlike the football in 2022 I feel.
This is like the 2 teams playing in a time zone... GB in the 70s - slow, concentrating on scrums, mixing it and the Kangaroos - 80s open, athletic, professional football!
@J G rugby league is the greatest sport on Planet Earth with 4.5 Billion fans and massively popular in over 240 countries including dependencies. soccer/football is a micro sport on the global stage popular in only 4 countries. Its a minority sport in the UK, France, Lebanon, Iraq etc. rugby league will be and still is the number 1 sport in Australia and NZ by 2050
@@stevenguegens9516 despite him being a Queenslander, Wally Lewis was the best all-round Rugby League player I've ever seen. He could do everything. Brilliant in attack, solid in defence, and he read a game better than anyone. He could change a game in the blink of an eye, which he often did against my beloved Blues. He made excellent players look like hacks, he was indeed The King.
Ah, the good old days, like early motor racing, this era of Rugby League was easily the best to watch. Variety in the build, size and different strengths of the players.
I always remember this game for the disgusting late and high shot of fairburn on prop craig young, swinging arm to his throat and i bet the idiot was proud of himself. As a kiwi i always admired the ozzies for their discipline and professionalism despite being on the receiving end of plenty of cheap shots from both the poms and the kiwis
Probably my favourite Kangaroo side ever. Had a bit of everything,nice mix of Qld & NSW,class, mongrel and fitness. Sterlo tackling around the socks just for fun.
Thanks for uploadng these. I made the tragic mistake of watching another of your uploads just before I switched on the TV to watch St George vs the Tigers recently and was horrified by the latest game. Soft, formulaic and the idea that more points equals more entertainment remains tragically wrong. Give me RL from the 50s through to the 90s any day! Great to see Laurie Nichols up there shadow boxing in the stand. I met him once at Cooma RSL when I was on an end of season trip for The Entrance Tigers. A lovely bloke.
@J G rugby league is the greatest sport on Planet Earth with 4.5 Billion fans and massively popular in over 240 countries including dependencies. soccer/football is a micro sport on the global stage popular in only 4 countries. Its a minority sport in the UK, France, Lebanon, Iraq etc. rugby league will be and still is the number 1 sport in Australia and NZ by 2050
Laurie Nichols was a great bloke and die hard tigers fan... he'd be as disgusted with the current NRL in Australia, its become a full on woke wankfest full of pretenders and Tiktok losers...
George Fairbairn, the GB fullback, committed at least 3 acts of foul play any one of which should have been a send-off. He stuck out his boots as Meninga went in for his try. At 13:04 he hit Wayne Pearce with a late high elbow to the head and did the same to Craig Young as you pointed out. Nothing but a dirty thug who was regarded as a legend at his club.
Ah the old NSW and Queensland vs Yorkshire and Lancashire. AKA Aus vs GB. But some great players. Still before the 4 point try so they still had stupid boring 2 point penalty goals , as at the beginning. Thankfully changed not long after. Rugby union still hasn’t learned. Completely ridiculous points system.
The English always seem obsessed with being rough & ready...punches and swinging arms etc...I don't doubt they are hard guys..but it's not enough. Australian club Rugby League is fast & athletic and they can mix it if need be but they also know it's not how you get results. Not in the long run anyway. Now that guys like the Burgess brothers play in the NRL they are getting much better. With Wayne Bennett as coach they almost won the last World Cup
magnificent side nothing else to say these guys may not as big or as fit as todays players but ohh lord they would eat todays players fir breakfeast 💪💪💪✝️✝️👍
No Glamor men here. And thankfully technology was behind at the time, unlike every size, shape of camera to be poking in their face. And they still say today "there's stories we cannot share about that tour" 🤣🤣🤣 Thank the Lord social media was non existent 😅
Were you born a muppet or did it take practice? I’m just trying to wonder why you would watch a 40 min video and then go to the lengths of making a comment like that…clearly you have some sort of problem and I wish you all the luck in the world in getting some help with that.
