Yes, this country of mine, lives and breathes rugby. 1995 will ALWAYS be extremely special to us, and solidified our greatest rivalry with the All Blacks.
I was 13 in 1995 and for me personally, this was the best rugby team. Haven't seen a team like that since. Bokke was so hungry for it. Good memories...
Great win but this kicking defense only playing pattern has brainwashed our way of play for years afterwards. We are a ball in hand high speed attacking rugby based nation. That's our true DNA
@@president6645 how do you think we were nicknamed by the english media as the Springboks? For how we ran and attacked with the ball. Not for how we charged head first in opposition. Then we might have named the South African donkeys or Rhinos. We pioneered attacking rugby in the 30s to 80s. Go and watch any Grey College or Any top 10 schools game. While your at it go and catch a club game. We have and will always be a ball in hand nation. Go and do your research before you comment. Bok rugby is both beauty and the beast. I mean doc Craven invested the dive pass for crying out loud. He didnt invent the dive kick. Maybe a visit at the bok Museum might help educate you
@@Br0kensaint1 Well, firstly, we weren't. We called ourselves the Springboks because of the emblem we wore on our jerseys in 1906 tour of the UK led by Paul Roos. Secondly, we have almost always adopted a style that allows us to be successful and that style is not cast in stone. We won the 2009 Lions series and Tri Nations by dominating with our forwards and kicking pin point up and unders off Fourie du Preez and Morne Steyn - it allowed us to be the only team in history to ever beat the All Blacks three times in a row and we have the added accolade of doing that in a single season. We won two RWC finals without scoring a single try, and three RWC finals based on our defence. Having tried a running game under AC (go see what Squidge has to say about that.. these are not my words) and losing 57-0 to the All Blacks; we went back a year later with a tightened up defence (Jacque Niebaber orchestrated that), started only going wide when we had 'earned to right' and beat the All Blacks in Wellington - first to beat them at home since our victory there 10 years earlier. Rugby has evolved and we have evolved with it. Will the utmost of respect to the All Blacks, they have not. They blame the coach for their woes but they have no power up front so their lethal backline (the running with ball in hand people) are permanently on the back foot. I would rather win the game, or at least be close, than lose 57-0 while trying to run with ball in hand....
@@NoName-hg6cc the early Bok sides had a massive Western Province influence which tended to shift to a more ball in hand approach. This stayed until sporting isolation
@@malanneelslourens4568 back then Springboks were better than New Zealand. Only from 1996 and officially 2003 onwards the ABs became better than the springboks.
@@Sabundy Im a young lad so was nit sure whether it was 1996 or 2003. But I would say 2018 it started to change again till niw but lets see what happens today and next week.
The French managment were dumb at that semi final They should have refused to play due to the weather conditions, on the grounds of player welfare, then they would have go through to the final And in all likely hood would have won the Final, That world cup was the Louis Luyt show.
Weird how the offer to postpone the final was on the table yet NZ decided to play. Don't be selective in your history, tell the whole truth. Fact is NZ cant stand losing against SA, always an excuse
I saw Francois Pienaar yesterday at a mall in Brackenfell. He hasn't aged at all. He is still huge and hasn't lost any shape. So many of his contemporaries have passed on like Joost vd Westhuyzen , Ruben Kruger and James Small.
Im so shocked kruger small and Williams have passed I knew joost passed away they couldn't have been that old my brother Wayne pullen from Wales was a brilliant scrum half trained by Robert Jones didn't get into the Welsh team because of favoritism he passed away last year just 47
@@Brianlaccwinning the RWC doesn’t mean you should host it more. SA have PARTICIPATED in less world cups than any of those nations. There’s no conspiracy
I agree but it's also interesting to see the stuff that hasn't really changed. The inside balls, the no spin passes, simple hands. The basic rugby skills are all still there and that's what makes it still watchable.
Question: The Rugby World Cup - will return to Australia in 2027 and 2029 , why did you do that Bill Beaumont !? there should be a Sepp Blatter type investigation done here !
All the recent WC hosting countries were just handed it on a platter. There was no competitive bid whatsoever in both the Australian and US WC announcements. Now ....I wonder will it equally be handed on a platter without any competitive bids when say.... South Africa or any other non traditional rugby playing country wants to host it? I'm guessing that's a big NO. F#&K the IRB. Easily one of the most ideas bankrupt, old boys club, foolish sport governing bodies in the world. Maybe only the ICC is worse.
@@masoapathie5655when he said we won our first rugby world cup he meant it's the first time we'd won a rugby world cup. But the second time he emphasized that this was the first world cup we participated in and that it was hosted by us i.e. our world cup
That's honestly the funniest thing ever - shows how much has changed in the professional era. Imagine it's the final play of a WC final, your whole purpose is to get the ball back to win the greatest competition for your entire nation.. and you throw a punch right in front of the ref 😂 just so funny how loose the forwards were back then!
As a neutral, it just shows how good the AB's were at cheating and got away with it for years. Reputation overstated and a pleasure to see a ref punish they for it. Well done to a team, S Africa, who played for their new democracy.
This is the year ABs got food poisoning from an SA restaurant? Also, the car alarms that were set off outside the ABs hotel 😂 which the hotel management did nothing about, just let the sirens 🚨 go all night.
Maybe SA are use to practising in the dark, when the national power grid starts load sharing. SA are good at Rugby and Cricket, but what else for a country of its size, and resourses. NZ for a country of 5 million NZ punch well and truly above its weight in a wide array of sports
All Blacks had food poisoning a few days out from the final, but that's just bad luck. SA had plenty of try scoring chances which they didn't take, Boks never change eh. All the drama when SA should have won comfortably
@@NoName-hg6cc Now its the ref. What this clown conveniently doesn't mention is NZ were given the option to have the final postponed. They chose to play and rather cry about it afterwards. Some sportsmanship, yet they want to paint SA as sore losers
