Very sorry to hear of Phil's passing, as such a relatively young age. The sidestepping genius of rugby, on display in this video. RIP Phil, you were truly brilliant...
God bless you Phil not only were you the king on the field but a wonderful humble human being off it. We will not see your like again, thank you for some wonderful wonderful memories . Benny the king 😢 Gone but never never forgotten.🙏🙏🙏
Not only was that the greatest try but the great move that lead to it, the barbarians kept the ball moving and once the ball was picked up by Gareth you knew there's only gonna be one conclusion, and let's not forget how it was all started with Bennett
JPR's near the end of the match was a classic too, but I'd have to say that Cliff Morgan's presentation of both are classic. He managed to squeeze in not just the players' names on that ultimate try of the match, but their country as well as the ball was passed along between Barbarians. What can match that? Even the great Bill McClaren didn't do that.
I was a student and didn't have a tv so me and my mate stood outside a radio rentals shop and watched the entire game, there must be been about 20 other people who were transfixed....absolutely fabulous!!
JPR, JJ, Gareth Edwards, fantastic Welsh players and team who dominated the decade.Always a pleasure to watch. When rugby was a sport played by amateurs and gentlemen and the playing field was not biased to the larger countries and money.
However the Welsh national side never beat the All Blacks in that time and still havent.. It would be more fairer to say that the combined united Kingdom team were the best team for the first half of the decade
I was there- at the end where the try was scored, so saw it all coming towards me. I've never forgotten it- all started by the genius of Phil Bennett...
Rest in Peace Sir Phil Bennett, a TRUE WELSH RUGBY LEGEND. GOD BLESS YOU PHIL SENDING MY LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS NOT FORGETTING YOUR ARMY OF FANS ALL AROUND THE WORLD. TRULY, TRULY SADDENED BY YOUR PASSING. MUCH LOVE XX
Bennett's stepping is yet to be equalled! For once, the over-used "greatest of all time", is TOTALLY warranted - and , imo, *an understatement.* I remember watching it as a 13 year-old. Our school game had been cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch, so we all went into the main school hall and watched it live. *That's the day I truly fell in love with Ruby Union,* and became, and still am, an "Honorary" Wales fan. They've been my National team ever since - even though I'm born and raised in Sarf London. David Duckham was absolutely outstanding on the wing;; the whole team were just out of this world. Rugby played the way God intended. The only game in recent times that comes close, is Japan vs South Africa @ the 2015 RWC. *THAT* was one helluva game!!!
Been said...but truly a thing of beauty. RIP Phil Bennett. I imagine he has just sidestepped St Peter, dummied Jesus and placed the ball between the pearly gates with a smile.
As a young English lad I was often in awe of the Welsh side of that time. To me Phil Bennett was probably the greatest fly half that ever lived. I know many welshmen will Say Barry John was the greatest. But Phil Bennett possessed the greatest of side steps. Just watch him in this try. RIP Benny
There haven't been very many Maoris in the AB's for decades, they're almost all Islanders these days, and a lot of those player (Brian Williams, Sid Going, et al) were of Maori heritage. The Haka didn't become an integral part of All Black culture until the mid 1980"s . They only did it overseas, for instance. Never in New Zealand (Making the Haka important the ONLY thing I give Taine Randell any credit for as AB captain).
All Blacks of Maori descent in recent times. Israel Dagg, Aaron Smith,Aaron Cruden, Damien McKenzie, Liam Messam, Cody Taylor,TJ Perenara, Dane Coles, Tawera Kerr Barlow, Hosea Gear,Reiko Ioane, Jackson Hemopo ,Piri Weepu, Carl Hayman,Kees Meus etc etc Not many Maori yeah right.
What makes this try so special for many who know rugby is the spirit of teamwork infused with the the amateur love for the game. You can sense the sheer abandon with which those Baa-Baas, a scratch team for the occasion, put that astonishing passage of play in motion - spontaneously, selflessly, instinctively, each knowing exactly where to be at in the fleeting moment and exactly what to do. Whenever I get jaded with the laboratory grown version of rugby in this professional era, I return to this game of 1973. Rugby, stripped of all the clutter of money, contracts, scientific analysis, pre-match hype and post-match forensics.
A better brand of rugby in those days ;- more expansive, more entertaining and played by “normal sized men” with passion. “The Try” is credited to Gareth Edwards, but everyone seems to ignore the man who started it - Phil Bennett - with a catch, 3 side-steps committing 4 All Blacks. Yes, there was Edwards, Duckham. Gibson, JPR, Bevan, but don’t forget Phil Bennett, who was capped by Wales at every position in the backs except from scrum half and is probably “the most complete outside half” that the British Isles has ever produced, save only perhaps for Johnny Wilkinson. The commentator, Cliff Morgan MBE ( should have been knighted ). His eloquence in saying “If the greatest writer of the written word had written what we have just witnessed, no man would have believed him”.
My father was at this game. Said he was in the crowd near to the sheep that you can see during the celebration. How I wish the pixelation was better and perhaps I could find him in the crowd. Fantastic try, and a real ‘I was there’ moment.
Still get goosebumps remember watching it live and starting to jump around shouting go on keep it going keep it going magical those names Jpr Gareth Davies Phil Bennett Gareth Edwards
Back then rugby was played by real men who didnt moan or whinge and high shots were just part of the game and before you moan all teams did it - it certainly was a different game back then
JPR requested those high tackles, to exercise his neck muscles!! Toughest bastard to ever pull on a rugby jersey! Probably the best all round full back ever too!
Whenever i see this bit of team sporting genius i always think of the Brazil 1970 wonder goal in the World Cup football final against Italy which also started with brilliant skill in their own half.
Jerry O'Shea football is better now, rugby is worse. It’s a limitation of the game that in the end, muscle, not skill, wins. The opposite is becoming true of football.
Yes it was a brilliant try by the Barbarians and it is considered the greatest try in rugby history. But lets remember this wasn't an international match but a gala/festival match at the very end of the ABs tour of the UK 1972-73.
Thanks. Have noticed some rugby greats who played in that match have passed away in recent times BJ Robertson, Phil Bennett, David Duckham, and JPR Williams.@@kenjones6441
I love all these comments but the bit that does my head in is garath Edwards facing the wrong way at a standstill 8m behind John pullin and then he appears from nowhere to take the final pass. Incredible speed and desire. Bolt wouldn't have got near him!
The greatest try of all time and what an atmosphere still sends shivers down my spine ! However, would the try have stood today ?? It looks like Quinell's pass to Edwards is a little bit forward ? Would modern-day video ref have chalked it off !?worth seeing just to hear Cliff Morgan's beautiful commentary !
Last time I saw Phil Bennet was in 1977 when they played a match in Fiji after their tour of New Zealand. The Lions lost that game, but Phil Bennet was a different class of player. RIP Phil Bennet.
unforgetable but just imagine, the modern whistle blowing wally would have stopped the game twice in this sequence for harmless high tackles. they have destroyed a once beautiful game.
RIP Phil Bennett.....probably the most memorable try I've ever seen, started by a jinking wizard that the Kiwis could NOT lay a hand on. One of a kind.
Well said. I am a Kiwi and All Black fan and I totally support your comment. Phil Bennett is a jinking wizard and he bought an extra something special to the game of rugby. RIP Phil and much aroha / love to you, your family and the great Welsh Rugby players.
In today's game,the try would of been reviewed by the TMO. The pass to Edwards was marginally forward but the Ref would of taken it back for the high tackle by Bryan Williams back on the AB 25 yard line. Great try. The only one to rival is probably the Try from the end of the world scored against the ABs by the French to win the last test series lost by the ABs in NZ in 1994
They got to play it slow motion as people today can't believe how fast and much skill the game used to be played with..... Unlike the dull, dull, slow, slow, boring, boring game it has become today.
I was a young kid playing for my town and high school at juniors level when I watched this live, I saw it at an exemplar of perfection and courage straining every muscle to achieve then and still do, memories of why we live in the greatest country on earth.
Gosh when I see The National Arms Park Stadium as it was...The soul of Welsh Rugby..When the National Team was the best in Europe...IF think that the new one has not that inside flamme of hope and proud Well anyway got to live in our time....
Imagine players like Bennett and gareth Edwards playing in the modern era, with all the professionalism that comes with it, so they could concentrate fully on rugby and have the best training, fitness ect. They would be unstoppable
Does anyone else on here think when you watch the all black haka at the beginning it wasn't intimidating at all It looked wrong. When the moaris of new zealand do it you are in awe. And also the try from Gareth Edwards what a try that was one of the greatest ever from the Welsh wizard awesome 👌.
Not only the greatest try but the greatest commentary of all time, the great Cliff Morgan
Very sorry to hear of Phil's passing, as such a relatively young age. The sidestepping genius of rugby, on display in this video. RIP Phil, you were truly brilliant...
Left 4 All Blacks on their *rses !
awesome much respect to our welsh brothers from NZ
I was there that day. Sitting in the corner where the famous try was scored. WOW! Carried off my feet by the crowd! What a try!
That must have been a fantastic experience!
RIP Phil Bennet
What a team, what an era and what a player.
Those boys terrorised the rugby world.
🏉🏴🏉
You sure but he was very good when Grahame Higgins got sent off he ask ref leave him on here please
agree one hundred per cent
Remember watching it as a 10 year old - just incredible.
@@FishingwithLukee More like taught the World how to play excellent rugby..
God bless you Phil not only were you the king on the field but a wonderful humble human being off it. We will not see your like again, thank you for some wonderful wonderful memories . Benny the king 😢
Gone but never never forgotten.🙏🙏🙏
Phil Bennett... we will miss you for Ever... Respect from Springbok South Africa.
Absolute genius. Sport as I remember it. I have seen this try so many times and just marvel at that moment in time. God bless Phil - A genius.
I cry every single time. Beautiful!
What a marvellous player he was. We won't see his like again.
Rest in peace Phil.
Much better 10s out there .
Love my football, love my rugby but let me tell you this is THE greatest try I have ever seen, magnificent.
I watched it at the time and it remains my favourite moment in the history of sport
Not only was that the greatest try but the great move that lead to it, the barbarians kept the ball moving and once the ball was picked up by Gareth you knew there's only gonna be one conclusion, and let's not forget how it was all started with Bennett
JPR's near the end of the match was a classic too, but I'd have to say that Cliff Morgan's presentation of both are classic. He managed to squeeze in not just the players' names on that ultimate try of the match, but their country as well as the ball was passed along between Barbarians. What can match that? Even the great Bill McClaren didn't do that.
The best era for world class rugby ,,and world class rugby players ,,sadly all gone now but their memories live on forever,,bless them all
Gareth Edwards is still alive.
I was a student and didn't have a tv so me and my mate stood outside a radio rentals shop and watched the entire game, there must be been about 20 other people who were transfixed....absolutely fabulous!!
One of the motivating videos to watch as kid growing to play the game RIP
Goosebumps everything time I see that try. What a score....
Margaret Thatcher on credit cards
Goosebumps when I see the haka
Me too, incredible try!
RIP Phil, JJ, JPR, Barry John now, super stars not of this world any longer but will shine bright FOREVER ❤!!
Definitely in the heaven Welsh fifteen
@@malcolmgullam8348 And World 15
JPR, JJ, Gareth Edwards, fantastic Welsh players and team who dominated the decade.Always a pleasure to watch. When rugby was a sport played by amateurs and gentlemen and the playing field was not biased to the larger countries and money.
+Sam F Lovely comment. Cymru am byth. (Ex-Llambedr-pont-Steffan and Caerfyrddin)…
+marsvltor2 thank you.
However the Welsh national side never beat the All Blacks in that time and still havent.. It would be more fairer to say that the combined united Kingdom team were the best team for the first half of the decade
@@MrAhuapai theres always one haku paku pricko and the reason we didnt beat you is because unlike you.....were not cheating bastards
@@TheNixbrix Sorry you have confused me with someone who was actually playing. Reality check.
I was there- at the end where the try was scored, so saw it all coming towards me. I've never forgotten it- all started by the genius of Phil Bennett...
I'm a 300 game veteran & i still stand & applaud this game.
Oooft what a try, poetry in motion! RIP Phil Bennett.
Rest in Peace Sir Phil Bennett, a TRUE WELSH RUGBY LEGEND. GOD BLESS YOU PHIL SENDING MY LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS NOT FORGETTING YOUR ARMY OF FANS ALL AROUND THE WORLD. TRULY, TRULY SADDENED BY YOUR PASSING. MUCH LOVE XX
50 years later and still it's pure magic !!!
RIP Wee Man. Those side steps…a thing of beauty.
RIP Phil Bennett, I remember watching him on television when I was young. Very gifted player.
Bennett's stepping is yet to be equalled!
For once, the over-used "greatest of all time", is TOTALLY warranted - and , imo, *an understatement.*
I remember watching it as a 13 year-old. Our school game had been cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch, so we all went into the main school hall and watched it live.
*That's the day I truly fell in love with Ruby Union,* and became, and still am, an "Honorary" Wales fan. They've been my National team ever since - even though I'm born and raised in Sarf London.
David Duckham was absolutely outstanding on the wing;; the whole team were just out of this world. Rugby played the way God intended.
The only game in recent times that comes close, is Japan vs South Africa @ the 2015 RWC. *THAT* was one helluva game!!!
In Wales it was Dai Duckham that`s how highly they rated him.
Was only a wee watching it happen live, my heart still swells watching. Many thanks and God Bless.
Been said...but truly a thing of beauty. RIP Phil Bennett. I imagine he has just sidestepped St Peter, dummied Jesus and placed the ball between the pearly gates with a smile.
I can watch this for ever
I've seen this 100 times on You Tube and this version may be my favourite.
Great team, great man.
x4 dummies... done effortlessly, just brilliant ....Rest in peace Mr Phil Bennett.... 🙏👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Side stepping that left *4 All Blacks* for dead! *Out* *Rageous!*
i remember watching this great match live on tv. What a match!
As a Kiwi - I'm glad the forward pass was missed - the try was still magical. I saw PB play in wellington on the Lions tour in 77 - lucky me ;-)
Passive aggressive is a bitch move. Typical little girl kiwi.
It must be surely regarded as the best game of all time. That is why I am still very much a fan of amateur rugby.
And easily the worst haka ever seen!😂🤣
I agree amateur rugby was the best stadium's full proper tours just pay players 3 grand a week.
@@stevemorris6855 more Macarena than Haka :)
Fantastic!
As a young English lad I was often in awe of the Welsh side of that time. To me Phil Bennett was probably the greatest fly half that ever lived. I know many welshmen will Say Barry John was the greatest. But Phil Bennett possessed the greatest of side steps. Just watch him in this try. RIP Benny
As a Welshman ,Barry John is king sorry
an amazing try but that has to be the least convincing haka i have ever seen they looked like dads trying to disco dance
tommy gun i know 😂 must be before the Maoris replaced all the white dudes and showed em how do it properly 😊
The All Blacks were a very white team for generations - now with Maoris and those of islander heritage it is 50-50.
Not surprising there were less Maori especially as they werent allowed to tour South Africa
There haven't been very many Maoris in the AB's for decades, they're almost all Islanders these days, and a lot of those player (Brian Williams, Sid Going, et al) were of Maori heritage. The Haka didn't become an integral part of All Black culture until the mid 1980"s . They only did it overseas, for instance. Never in New Zealand (Making the Haka important the ONLY thing I give Taine Randell any credit for as AB captain).
All Blacks of Maori descent in recent times. Israel Dagg, Aaron Smith,Aaron Cruden, Damien McKenzie, Liam Messam, Cody Taylor,TJ Perenara, Dane Coles, Tawera Kerr Barlow, Hosea Gear,Reiko Ioane, Jackson Hemopo ,Piri Weepu, Carl Hayman,Kees Meus etc etc Not many Maori yeah right.
Look at that high tackle on JPR would have been a straight red today.
When a high tackle was a real high tackle, but you shrugged it off and just got on with the game!
Never tire of seeing that try.
I remember it well; jumped up and ran around with excitement
Men who looked like your mate from the pub but touched by genius.
What makes this try so special for many who know rugby is the spirit of teamwork infused with the the amateur love for the game. You can sense the sheer abandon with which those Baa-Baas, a scratch team for the occasion, put that astonishing passage of play in motion - spontaneously, selflessly, instinctively, each knowing exactly where to be at in the fleeting moment and exactly what to do. Whenever I get jaded with the laboratory grown version of rugby in this professional era, I return to this game of 1973. Rugby, stripped of all the clutter of money, contracts, scientific analysis, pre-match hype and post-match forensics.
RIP Phil. True genius and true gentleman.
As a proud welshman I always enjoy watching this try .
What do you mean? John Pullin was allowed a pass too!
A better brand of rugby in those days ;- more expansive, more entertaining and played by “normal sized men” with passion.
“The Try” is credited to Gareth Edwards, but everyone seems to ignore the man who started it - Phil Bennett - with a catch, 3 side-steps committing 4 All Blacks. Yes, there was Edwards, Duckham. Gibson, JPR, Bevan, but don’t forget Phil Bennett, who was capped by Wales at every position in the backs except from scrum half and is probably “the most complete outside half” that the British Isles has ever produced, save only perhaps for Johnny Wilkinson.
The commentator, Cliff Morgan MBE ( should have been knighted ). His eloquence in saying “If the greatest writer of the written word had written what we have just witnessed, no man would have believed him”.
Cliff Morgan was an outstanding fly half in his own right. I remember seeing him play for Wales at the old Cardiff Arms Park
That pass was pretty awful though
How many welshman involved in that
One of my favourite tries ever from the amateur era of all times.
Bennet was absolute quality! He had the opposition players chasing shadows with his awesome balance, agility, vision and electric turn of pace.
RIP Phil Bennett. Astonishing.
I saw it on the actual day what a try as an Englishman i just loved the Welsh players they played rugby as it should be played
I wish the haka was still done like that!
Phil was thr CR7 of then witha rugby ball. No one has come close to his wizardry of playing this butiful game called rugby. RIP Phil.
Imo, the greatest try of all time scored by the greatest players of all time
I can hear my dad... Yeeeeess.
My father was at this game. Said he was in the crowd near to the sheep that you can see during the celebration. How I wish the pixelation was better and perhaps I could find him in the crowd. Fantastic try, and a real ‘I was there’ moment.
The good old draw & pass.
Phil Bennett. Extraordinary
Still get goosebumps remember watching it live and starting to jump around shouting go on keep it going keep it going magical those names Jpr Gareth Davies Phil Bennett Gareth Edwards
This is probably why rugby is one of the most underrated sports ever.
this is and will be the best try ever in rugby union....
RIP Benny 😞
If anyone out there can provide the full match please that would be great to be shown on TH-cam
th-cam.com/video/89h49kubZI4/w-d-xo.html
Today , Brian Williams would have been sent off the field with a red card for the first tackle on JPR and for e second on Pullin.
Back then rugby was played by real men who didnt moan or whinge and high shots were just part of the game and before you moan all teams did it - it certainly was a different game back then
@@aoteagirl60 pretty dangerous.
JPR requested those high tackles, to exercise his neck muscles!!
Toughest bastard to ever pull on a rugby jersey!
Probably the best all round full back ever too!
Do you remember the Welshman Bevan? He was as hard as nails and a wonderful friendly man. I met him in a pub in Wales and he was incredible.
Great comment RIP uncle JPR
Don't forget Cliff Morgans superb commentary
Incredible ❤
Whenever i see this bit of team sporting genius i always think of the Brazil 1970 wonder goal in the World Cup football final against Italy which also started with brilliant skill in their own half.
skeelo69 ..Excellent Comment,definitely a bonofide comparison..Rugby was better then and so was Football...The fans weren't being exploited..
Jerry O'Shea football is better now, rugby is worse. It’s a limitation of the game that in the end, muscle, not skill, wins. The opposite is becoming true of football.
Makes you believe there is a God.
Yes it was a brilliant try by the Barbarians and it is considered the greatest try in rugby history. But lets remember this wasn't an international match but a gala/festival match at the very end of the ABs tour of the UK 1972-73.
Totally agree
Thanks. Have noticed some rugby greats who played in that match have passed away in recent times BJ Robertson, Phil Bennett, David Duckham, and JPR Williams.@@kenjones6441
Incredible that the ref allowed so many high tackles on JPR to go unabated.
JPR was always targeted --- one brave committed player
The editing in this is insane
I love all these comments but the bit that does my head in is garath Edwards facing the wrong way at a standstill 8m behind John pullin and then he appears from nowhere to take the final pass. Incredible speed and desire. Bolt wouldn't have got near him!
..and this year is the 50th anniversary of it all -
its so good def one of the greatest tries ever just magic rugby magic
The greatest try of all time and what an atmosphere still sends shivers down my spine ! However, would the try have stood today ?? It looks like Quinell's pass to Edwards is a little bit forward ? Would modern-day video ref have chalked it off !?worth seeing just to hear Cliff Morgan's beautiful commentary !
Lifts your spirit still. The only sporting comparison containing such jaw dropping beauty is the 1970 Brazil footy team
Last time I saw Phil Bennet was in 1977 when they played a match in Fiji after their tour of New Zealand. The Lions lost that game, but Phil Bennet was a different class of player. RIP Phil Bennet.
unforgetable but just imagine, the modern whistle blowing wally would have stopped the game twice in this sequence for harmless high tackles. they have destroyed a once beautiful game.
Cet essai est le plus brillant qui soit. Je valide
2:24? Was it really regular?
RIP Phil Bennett.....probably the most memorable try I've ever seen, started by a jinking wizard that the Kiwis could NOT lay a hand on. One of a kind.
Well said. I am a Kiwi and All Black fan and I totally support your comment. Phil Bennett is a jinking wizard and he bought an extra something special to the game of rugby. RIP Phil and much aroha / love to you, your family and the great Welsh Rugby players.
Phil Bennett - arwr rygbi cymru 🏴
Sir Gareth Edwards shirt he was wearing just sold for £240,000, worth every penny.
Phil Bennett sending 4 all blacks back to New Zealand with his side steps.
In today's game,the try would of been reviewed by the TMO. The pass to Edwards was marginally forward but the Ref would of taken it back for the high tackle by Bryan Williams back on the AB 25 yard line. Great try. The only one to rival is probably the Try from the end of the world scored against the ABs by the French to win the last test series lost by the ABs in NZ in 1994
Until Ireland arrived on your shores in 2022.
@@pondlife1952 yep
They got to play it slow motion as people today can't believe how fast and much skill the game used to be played with..... Unlike the dull, dull, slow, slow, boring, boring game it has become today.
RIP Phil
I was a young kid playing for my town and high school at juniors level when I watched this live, I saw it at an exemplar of perfection and courage straining every muscle to achieve then and still do, memories of why we live in the greatest country on earth.
Beats the kicking game all day long!Proper rugby.
Is it a forward pass, that final pass?
Can you just play the clip at normal speed without all the dramatic music and fade to black etc.
Gosh when I see The National Arms Park Stadium as it was...The soul of Welsh Rugby..When the National Team was the best in Europe...IF think that the new one has not that inside flamme of hope and proud
Well anyway got to live in our time....
I cannot imagine this try ever being surpassed.
RIP Phil Bennett....
It was a bloody good job that Derek Quinnell caught Tom David’s pass wasn’t it?
Would love to see this remastered.
Forward pass 2:24?
Kiwifruit?
The All Blacks really loved a neck-high tackle!
Imagine players like Bennett and gareth Edwards playing in the modern era, with all the professionalism that comes with it, so they could concentrate fully on rugby and have the best training, fitness ect. They would be unstoppable
the fly half what a side stepping machine
Does anyone else on here think when you watch the all black haka at the beginning it wasn't intimidating at all It looked wrong. When the moaris of new zealand do it you are in awe. And also the try from Gareth Edwards what a try that was one of the greatest ever from the Welsh wizard awesome 👌.