CLASSIC HIGHLIGHTS 📼 | Ireland v Scotland 1980 |  

I’m struggling here with the concept that this is 43 years ago! And as a full grown adult, I watched this match live! 😅. Rugby has progressed and also regressed since then.

I remember this well and the players believe it or not I was 9 years old never missed a game with our Dad. Hes gone now but we always appreciated the love of sports he instilled in us. When i see these games it brings me back to my youth a simpler time and a sport that was played with passion for the love of the game not money. The reward was pulling on that old green jersey and marching onto the field to represent your country and your people. No greater honor exists in sport win lose or draw.

Those scrums were just fantastic...two teams getting on with it!

Moss Keane RIP, Legend

Wish we could go back to the good ol' schoolboy rugby. Still a great game, just not the same anymore

How did TV allow the brown ball?? I remember that McDonnell & Patterson were two great prospects for Ireland but their careers were cut short with injuries, on lions tour. What a garry own by Campbel!l. Irvine was a great full back. Scot had a good team. Other thing to note was the speed of scrum formation, today's game?!

The way they engaged in the scrums - no waste of time. Just hook in and press. Amazing.

More of these old highlight videos please.

Rodney O'Donnell. A greatcareer cut short by injury

Remember kicking up the turf to make a tee...

the game is so much better now

Back in the days when a scrum was quick and exciting. The ball from set pieces was so scrappy that it was hardly an advantage to win it.

The old Ireland v Scotland games were always tough battles with no quarter asked for or given. This is a great example.

Would be great to see the France England match 1984 I have memories of that match 😅 Love how these teams just get on with rugby

Pas de perte de temps pour faire une mêlée) Thanks for memories

Ollie Campbell.....what a goal kicker !!!!! Amazing with the old Gibert ball !!!!

The old Lansdowne. Had some great times there

Ah I love this I started to play grade 1981 so round same time scrums just get on with it line out no committee meeting . More actual play time compared to now Tops no walking bill bords and dont look like soccer shirts . Also basically same 30 people start the game is there at the end bar injuries Also if some one lies on ball or tries to stop it coming out of a maul little tap dancing will make them to think twice

so different to today,scrums,taking back into the 22,kicking dead from restart,staying on the pitch at half time,rugby balls that weighed a ton when wet.I was playing rugby in the royal navy when this was played.

I am fairly certain I was there in person at Lansdowne for this match, if memory serves, with my sister. Feb or March 1980.

Great to see the late Paul McNaughton at 12, in one of his last games for Ireland.

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Oranges on the pitch at half time, pitch like a potato field

Grandissima Irlanda!!

Loved an international w/e in Dublin

Love the way they used to just stay on the field back then during the half time break.

I was 5 happy days

Ollie Campbell great player

Was at that game.

God that old stadium was a dump. Mind you the whole of Dublin was a dump in those days.

Tony Ward got dropped, unfortunately. Renwick: one of the best ever. The first try: most pitches that wouldn't happen today, with those extra short in-goals, now called try zones (like end zones?) Even in parks where there IS room to have a deeper in-goal, some signage for adverts has to be put up to take up the space behind the dead ball line.