The Try from the End of the World - NZ commentary 

Loving all the positive comments from Kiwis.

The enigmatic French... I'm Irish, and no matter where you come from, I think we can all agree, only the French could do this. Who couldn't feel joy from watching this?? I think that even Kiwis enjoyed it, its just that good...

The last pass is the synthesis of what rugby is. An offering.

Brings a tear to the eye. That's the most beautiful try in the greatest sport in the world. Love the totally unnecessary pass at the end. Magnifique.

Fantastic team-try with the lovely French Flair. So happy to see it back again with todays team.

i really like the fact that the no. 9 passed to Sadourny at the end, even though he probably would have gone over. Not only was it unselfish, but it just made it that much more elegant that the kiwis had no chance to undo France's epic work.

I remember Dad taking me to the first test and second tests as a birthday gift. Dad was shattered, even more so when I told him I wanted a Les Bleus jumper for Xmas XD

This try is just incredible. Give me tears. The fact that they are facing the mighthy all blacks too, that can't contain these waves. They cant stop that french flair, all this movement, these runs, and well executed passes, to breach their lines. Well, it's just art. And cheers to ABs there too, because you need opposition of the best rugby nation to create such a magical moment.

Good on the NZ commentators. They were following the magic of the play as if they were just fans of the game when NZ had just lost the previous Test and would lose this one to this very try.

I've always believed that the French taught the world running rugby - before that it was played in the forwards and wingers were lucky to see the ball at all. That try is a classic and the unselfish last pass is thew team gane at its most proud - and the world plays rugby this way in the modern era

One of the best tries of all time. Thats the France we all remember. Its been a long time since we have seen a French team that could run like that.

Quand un cadrage asseoit un mec : Yan Delaigue. Un milliard de fois que je vois cet essai, jmen lasse pas. Cabannes crée le décalage en revenant intérieur, il les aspire. Benazzi pars sa feinte passe la ligne d’avantage. C’est réellement une tuerie.

So sad to consider what French rugby has been reduced to these days. Please France come back. The Rugby World needs you.

The last pass says it all - a team effort - could have probably dived over the line, but he passed it out to be 100% sure. Total "for the Team" moment.

Possibly the greatest international try ever scored. I really miss that French style of play. Please someone bring it back.

This is the best test try ever in view. Not only was it brilliantly executed but it won the French a home series against the AB's.

I was at that match, about 5 rows behind the AB coaching staff & reserves . The groan when Bachop’s kick stayed live & was picked up by Saint Andre was so loud. Typical French flair and do-or-die tactics in the closing minutes to score a memorable try and win the series . This was also the first series that a young Jonah Lomu played in the AB jersey and the vastly experienced French side kept him quiet.

Some talk about the barbarians try in '73 but this was the french doing what they do best.Even as a kiwi i consider this the best try i have ever seen

Ive seen this try many many times but the one thing i love above all is the movement between N'Tamack - Cabanne - Deylaud. Two crosses passes in opposite directions, very rare! Freezes the all black defense. What a try!

It is why rugby is so magic. Sadourny is nothing but the last link in the chain of this collective movement at that moment; I just cried like a baby when I saw this on TV

If you can only watch or show 1 min of rugby again or to anyone ever - show this .. There will not be a better example to what rugby is than this

I remember as a kid watching this screaming no, no, nooooo as the French kept getting ball alive and closer to the try line until they scored. Great rugby, great try and typical French style of flashy rugby for that time.

One of the all time greatest tries, given the opposition they faced and the number of hands it went through. They won the series 2-0 I believe. French flair is all but impossible to contain as the 1999 all blacks also found out. They are good for the game when they play like this :)

This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my entire life. Vive la France!

Only the French could do this. It remains the greatest test try I've seen.

Laurent Cabannes sat on an adjacent table to my girlfriend and I in this great little French bistro in Bristol a few years ago on a Thursday lunchtime. Could not believe it. Did say hello and what a genuine bloke. Great player

I rate this above 'that' try by the barbarians by 'that' man in Cardiff 1973. The baa-baas game was an exhibition match, it was more or less straight after kick off, at Cardiff Arms Park, where the team was made almost entirely of Welshmen (I think only John Pullen was the only non-Welshman to touch the ball). - this try was to win a tour to New Zealand, at Eden Park, in the closing minutes of a game, and there are no questionably forward passes... oh, and by the way, I'm Welsh

Classic French, this is the last time we lost at Eden Park.

All Blacks have lost once at Eden Park since 1986 - and this was the try that did it. Just outstanding.

France, always unpredictable....thats part of their charm.

I remember watching this beautiful try... and I think France today have recaptured the same flair.

This is the best try ever and overlooked because of the Barbarians try. I have always felt this was better. It led to the series win for France in New Zealand. Something very very few teams have ever achieved.

Fantastic comment too. So enthusiastic because of the beauty of this now classic try even if h'e's not French. Respect.

The upcoming generation look so promising after all those years of disgrace ! Make french flair great again :)

Ntamack almost replicated this today.

Truly one of the great tries

This was the last time NZ lost at Eden Park 22yrs ago. It was a fantastic game by the French, they gave it to the All Blacks. Vive la France!

Wow, New Years eve 2020 and I'd forgotten that all those years. Thanks for bringing up painful memories being a Kiwi and all and a haarty All Blacks supporter and all but one of the most beautiful team trys you'll ever see, Well done France youss deserved it😎😎😎

Just amazing. I remember it well. France were so exciting and unpredictable in those days.

The try from the edge of the earth. Outstanding. Thanks for sharing bro.

The speed of the passes, sacre bleur!

Only the French can do that to the ABs.

Forget the Edwards try this IS the greatest try ever scored.

Even the all blacks fans applauded, thats how good the try was

Brought tears to my eyes after watching that game, I totally forgot about it too, till now, my eyes..😂

IMHO the best international try ever (and I'm Welsh and remember watching 'that' try in 'that' game on TV in 1973).

Stunning try by France.. Rugby really is so simple when handling skills are executed correctly with good old fashioned support play either side of the ball carrier.. Simples.. 👍

The final assist is just what rugby should be about

One of the greatest tries ever from our old nemesis. Love watching France play.

Une inspiration et du génie de A à Z. Du bonheur!!

They are coming back !

France could play like absolute magicians in those days. Amazing.

Best try ever... Team effort and what an execution at warp speed

Forget that baabaas try... this is much better and such an important score. Amazing

Watching after France almost topped this today against ABs

This try is a choreography! A moment of Art in the most beautiful sport !!!

I've always thought that the AB's were the best team in the world when it came to broken play but that day the French showed that they were just as good. Sadly now, only the AB's remember how to play like this.

Greatest try ever

What beautiful and instinctive play.

Wish France could play like this again. Absolute excitement machine!

Great, great try! We Kiwis appreciate good Rugby and that was about as good as it gets!

Best team team try ever. Better than Gareth Edwards' Lions try.

The French had to run it from inside their own 22 and go the whole length of the field to win the test and the series in New Zealand at Eden Park. It went through 9 French men. This is clearly superior to that try from a Barbars exhibition game in 73. This was a test match with the series in the balance.

2021...... them and their legendary flair are back !!! i can't wait for the next RWC 😋

I remember watching that game on tele when I was about 8 or 9. I can remember thinking when are they going to stop them?! Brilliant try.

One of the profoundest moments in rugby sporting history .. Phillipe Saint Andre should be entitled to rugby sporting immortality to run the ball from his own line in the circumstances .. sure, Phil Bennett did the same in that famous NZ/Barbarian game in 1973 , but that was only an "exhibition" .. and what is more he so politely hung around after the game to do the obligatory TV interviews, when it was so clear that all he wanted to do was join in the join in the sublime "joy" of the team in its celebration . Go France for the 2021 World Cup! Make rugby artistically exciting again!!

Now that is what you call proper rugby and exactly how the game should be played…keep the ball in hand with quick ball to keep the pressure on the defending team

I love this try. Points to note: One (possibly two) All Blacks actually get close enough to touch a player with the ball. 0:56 Deylaud puts a guy on his arse, whilst carrying the ball, and before getting within 5ft of him.

Saint Andre absolute legend but for me the try was made when Ntamack received and the All Blacks were thrown wide...great release and wide open through the middle. The greatest try ever!

Formidable, La France !!! From England

Made by Cabannes' brilliant line and pass inside that changed the angle of attack. What a talent that guy was

The kind of thing that only the French can produce. Skills level just unbelievable but spectacular to watch. Allez Lez Beus!

That's the danger of the French. A wet afternoon pretty much anywhere in the world. The sun comes out for a few minutes and the French backs do the Gallic shrug and say "OK, let's go". 30 seconds later you're 5 points down.

It’s unusual these days to see so many players in one team with blistering speed: so many options for passing, as well as multiple dummies.

Such a great try, remember watching it on Free to air when I was a teenager. Wish we could have that sort of French team again.

"Well, what a wonderful try that was" said Derek Bevan to Fitzpatrick after this was scored. The response was "Oh, fuck off Bevan"

To my mind, what is so amazing about this try - like the other extra-ordinary try that the Barbarians scored against the All-Blacks in 1973 - is that two of the best players in rugby history (Gibson and Sella who played in those games) could not get a piece of the action. And I suspect it was because those tries were so "out of the box" for their times that even their superb skills and sense of anticipation and positioning etc could not get them into the picture.!

I miss 90s rugby. It was much simpler with not so many silly rules to clutter it. Friday - December 18, 2020.

I remember that, haha. Always respect the French rugby side

This is old good rugby!

This french team were one of the greatest ever

The times when France's movement trough the field was dictated by "search the hand pass". You only can do such a high speed score only with hand passes and ball in hand, the dominance France had of his own style (risky because a loss othe ball could be a disaster) against the power of other teams was a nightmare at the same time. France was speed, unfortunately not anymore.

Now thats French rugby..love it..

Yeah that was literally the best try in world rugby......ever. - kiwi

That day broke NZ hearts but established France as the All Blacks archillies heel! French flair at its best

I've never seen it before. That was ..that was... fucken good

Love that this try has its own name: "L'essai du bout du monde" ("The Try from the End of the World", as in the title)

For the record the players involved in this epic try are (in order of appearance): Philippe Saint Andre (11 & current France coach), Christophe Deylaud (10) to Abdelatif Benazzi (8) to Emile Ntamak (14) to Laurent Cabannes (7) to Philippe Sella (13) to Guy Accoceberry (9) to Jean-Luc Sadourny (15 & try scorer)!!! Side note: That same French team lost to Canada in Canada before traveling to NZ and beating the All Blacks twice.

Un chef d'oeuvre l'essai du siècle

French flair is back baby!

Poetry. France looking good lately.

...and the All Blacks were so pissed off by this try (and losing the game) they resolved to never be beaten at Eden Park again. 2014 and they still haven't.

If the French play at their best, no one can beat them.

And the sense of relief on the face of coach berbizier a moment in history the French winning a series on nz soil.

France are exciting to watch and a Try like that happens once in a blue moon

On ne s' en lasse pas... 👍👍👍👍👍😉😊😀

Je ne me lasserai jamais de voir Abdelatif sortir le grand et à l'époque tout jeune Jonah Lomu de son short comme ça: 0:50

This video typifies French Rugby.

Very kind from you Richard - Sadly the point is that Rugby is less popular in France those days and loses 10000 licenses each year! In fact what we call "French Team" those days is "South West French Team"! Only 20% of the country (I would even say less) is playing Rugby: The south West mountains. Don't ask me why. I love Rugby myself. Maybe an "old fashioned" image for the youngsters today? This sport is great and I hope some day my country will love it again!

French flair at its best!! Sadly no such thing exists anymore ☹️