New Zealand vs British and Irish Lions 1993 3rd TEST Rugby 

rugby in the professional era is a much improved game thanks. Games from this era did not havr anywhere near the same continuity . professionalism improved the skill level and physicality 100%

Yes your right. This pick and go rugby we have now is tedious

@@MrAhuapai I could not disagree more. The game has become boring, not that there weren't boring games back then. There's multiple phases, little in the way of contesting rucks, mauls have become legalized obstruction wedges similar to American football between the 1890s until the flying wedge was banned in 1906 (when rugby replaced American football in California until 1918 for that matter). Back then the aim was classic rugby, forwards getting possession and getting the ball to the backs.

That boot money was not all that much, not enough to live on, so most players had to have a job. There's an interview of Carling and Guscott on YT and they say that they didn't want to be paid to play, but would have liked to have been able to endorse products and get sponsorships as a way to supplement their work pay. Guscott got a job with British Gas, and he admits he worked about half a week and then had time to train. That's the way American sports amateurism existed pre-1992 Olympics. It was semi-professionalism.

By then the referees weren't New Zealanders, who, except for Pring in 1971, were not honest brokers.

@@ldfreitas9437 Going on memory I think it was an Aussie ref who awarded that last min penalty against the Lions in the Ist test. btw Sid Going was very critical of John Prings refereeing in the 1971 test series.

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Grant Fox, Frank Bunce, Vaiinga Tuigamala, John Kirwan, Michael Jones, Ian Jones, Sean Fitzpatrick were not mediocre...

That was the team everyone wants to beat , because they was the best back in the 90s😂

@@paulthomson2288also John Timu was well underrated. A great fullback.

@@annefilippobertozzi7601 yes I marked him a few times when playing at high school and in 1st 15 game. Slippery as hell.

Bullshit! NZRFU had no control over ticket allocation.

@@zabaleta66 They even admitted it.

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Nonsense

@@xpat73 it's a fact

@@oliprj8676 Actually there were far too many Scots on the tour...thanks to McGecchan. Not English. Heck he didn't even pick Martin Johnson for the tour originally. That's one of the reasons the Lions lost this test series - too many Scots.

@@xpat73 17 English players were in the squad and 8 Scottish. Gavin Hastings was the only Scottish player that started the 2nd and 3rd test. McGeechan was the only Scottish member of the coaching team

@@oliprj8676 McGeechan was in charge. It's well known that far too many useless Scots were picked who went off tour and spend the whole tour drinking. The mid week team was an embarrassment - it's well documented that Burnell, Milne, Cronin, and Peter "Teapot" Wright were useless and went off tour. Hell, Leonard had to play out of position at tight head in the second and third tests because Burnell was so useless. Three Scots were dropped after the 1st test, and rightly so. Which Scots should have been test starters? The only one that deserved it was Hastings and he was far off his 1989 form and was carrying an injury. Scott Hastings played well but he broke his cheekbone v Otago had had to go home. Ben Clarke was player of the tour, there was nobody better than Richards and Winterbottom. Bayfield and Johnson played well. Leonard played out of position and still played well. Brian Moore forced his way in. I'm not sure who you think should have toured from Scotland and didn't;t get picked? Or who should have been in the tests that didn't;t get picked? Gary Armstrong would have gone but he refused to tour.