1978 was the start of the Wallabies becoming a respected and competitive rugby side on the world rugby scene. Later that year they thumped the ABs 30-16 at Eden park and the following year won the Bledisloe cup in Sydney for the first time in 30 years. Wales were terribly injury plagued before this game with JPR having to play on the side of the scrum. Wallaby strong man Steve Finnane was lucky not to get ordered off for breaking Prices jaw but the Wallabies did enough to win.
The famous game where JPR found himself playing as Flanker!!!! Did ok. So surprising to see him lining up in the lineout and packing down in the scrum.
Good game! My first impression was midwinter in Sydney is like summer in the UK. Biffo! Wales had some hard nuts like Graham Price JPR Williams etc, but Steve Finnane, Mark Loane, and Paddy Batch (Baddy Patch as we liked to describe him) were hard men from what I can recall. Dick Byers the Oz ref made lots of mistakes in Oz favour...not a good look, Wales should have won I think. The All Blacks beat both teams in 1978, but the Wallabies won in 1979, 1980. Good on them, they learned the lessons we gave them.
I watched the game as a 17yr old on the old Hill. Dunno to this day where they came from, but I swear there were more Welsh supporters there than Aussie. Great day!
Graham Price was among the Welsh forwards laying into Steve Finnane in the 1st Test. Finnane decided he wasn't going to cop any more shit. Price tested his luck again against Finnane and came off a distant 2nd best.
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Interesting to see JPR Williams playing flanker. What a player.
1978 was the start of the Wallabies becoming a respected and competitive rugby side on the world rugby scene. Later that year they thumped the ABs 30-16 at Eden park and the following year won the Bledisloe cup in Sydney for the first time in 30 years. Wales were terribly injury plagued before this game with JPR having to play on the side of the scrum. Wallaby strong man Steve Finnane was lucky not to get ordered off for breaking Prices jaw but the Wallabies did enough to win.
The famous game where JPR found himself playing as Flanker!!!! Did ok. So surprising to see him lining up in the lineout and packing down in the scrum.
Good game! My first impression was midwinter in Sydney is like summer in the UK. Biffo! Wales had some hard nuts like Graham Price JPR Williams etc, but Steve Finnane, Mark Loane, and Paddy Batch (Baddy Patch as we liked to describe him) were hard men from what I can recall. Dick Byers the Oz ref made lots of mistakes in Oz favour...not a good look, Wales should have won I think. The All Blacks beat both teams in 1978, but the Wallabies won in 1979, 1980. Good on them, they learned the lessons we gave them.
I watched the game as a 17yr old on the old Hill. Dunno to this day where they came from, but I swear there were more Welsh supporters there than Aussie. Great day!
That was the end of a great Welsh side of the 1970’s .
This was the dying days of that great Welsh side of the 70’s , no Phil Bennet or Gareth Edwards .
Hmmm . . .to what extent did the early violence influence the outcome?
Why wasn’t kick off delayed?? Over 2000 people still waiting outside the ground!
78. When Aus beat Wales. Hahaha. The music suits mate.
JPR as a flanker, it shows how versatile rugby players can be, you’d never get that with overpaid footballers that’s for sure
The gentleman's code of Rugby???
An example of a homer referee par excellence!
Comment les gallois ont-ils réussi à perdre ce match ?
Graham Price was among the Welsh forwards laying into Steve Finnane in the 1st Test. Finnane decided he wasn't going to cop any more shit. Price tested his luck again against Finnane and came off a distant 2nd best.
Dick Byers was a very biased referre.
Dreadful standard of rugby back then ... lol
laughable refereeing