How times have changed ! I was 16 years old and had the great privilege of meeting this All Black team ! Andy Leslie ! Gentleman! Was in love with Brian Williams and Kit Fawcet 😍. Have all the memorabilia from that tour. Although a South African and kept a scrapbook on Gerald Bosch , I fell in love with the All Blacks !❤❤❤
Oh yes, the time of scrapbooks! Mine was made of large sheets of the white paper in which the fish and chips was wrapped. Bryan Williams was my absolute favourite even though I was a Bok supporter.
Those Superspringbok balls were made of full grain leadther. I was a Bok fan as a boy in SA, but me and my buddies thought Sid Going was the MAN. Too bad most don't understand Afrikaans. The greatest commentator ever. Very descriptive and unbiased. Thanks for posting.
My Dad joked, when Sid Going gets into the loose scrums the Springboks would grab his head because he's bold. The boks would think his head is the ball
Just remember these guys were amateur players and expected to perform like proffesionals They all had full time regular jobs The game was every bit as hard then if not harder Hats off to them
Harder in the sense there was some pretty filthy foul play. But the level.of play now is much more intense. And the players are huuuge. They do all right tho. I remember grant fox being asked how he thought his 1987 world cup winning side would go against the 2011 side. He just laughed and said "they'd kill us".
@@anthonytromp6265 You obviously never saw players being raked with one Aluminium studs. Of course that is KAK to I suppose. I saw Balie Swarts back, but that is kak to I suppose. Jy praat Kak swaar I was there.
Don Clarke was our school couch in standard 9 and 10 up in the far northern transvaal and his son Glen Glarke played in the first rugby team with me as lock, strong bugger. Both him and his dad has passed away sadly. What incredible memories.
Now, incidentally, the pair of togs that Paul Bayvel wore in this game, my Dad bought for me secondhand and well wore at Gerald Bosch Sports store in Vereeniging when I started my short lived Rugby career in 1981 at Overvaal. I know that because Gerald Bosch told us so. I was so starstruck meeting him! Both Paul Bayvel and Gerald were my heroes back then
I was 14 and visited my aunt and uncle in Vereeniging from Rhodesia, They had the Bosch`s over for a braai and Gerald signed the plaster on my broken leg. Uncle Ron Blake, what a man. As an aside, this was my 1st ever plane flight, on my own. I landed at Jan Smuts and between my mother and aunt they got the arrival date wrong so there was no-one to meet me. Luckily a friendly staff member got my aunt`s phone number and my aunt dropped everything and drove in from Vereeniging to get me. That was a long few hours, she decided to drive thru Joburg to show me the big buildings, suddenly the roads were cordoned off and we were told there is gunfire near the Carlton Center. Who remembers that 1975 Fox Street siege attack ? 2 hostages and 2 bystanders died there.
Sheer brutality...hard stuff those days...this AB side played North East Cape...a midweek game in Graaff Reinet and won 84-0...was there as a school lightie....they used and signed my mates ball in practise day before...and signed his ball thereafter...good memories...
The ref Gert Bezuidenhout was the headmaster at my primary school Winchester Ridge primary..It was one of the few English speaking primary schools that played rugby We beat everyone. I learned my rugby from the likes of Gerald Bosch and Paul Bywel. I was a Fly half, no 10. Many moons ago
Thanks for this post. I saw this a while back but came back again to watch. Trying to look at this match objectively in hindsight, I would say that the Boks just about shaded this encounter in territory and possession stakes and ultimately, in the scoreline.
This is so lekker to see. I was 14 then and remember seeing this team. Thanks a ton. This team actually came to practice at our school. Pretoria Boys High. Those were the days....
Thanks for the upload ! I played this amateur rugby myself…..I have to say I really enjoy the current professional rugby era handling of the ball and physical fitness Thanks for the upload
Baie baie dankie dat jy die' wedstryd gepos het. Dit is 'n skatkus van rugby geskiedenis en nog 'n voorbeeld van hoe boed die Bokke was en is. Thanks to you Da Underground Mane and here's to many more Bokke victories over NZ. Bokke bo!
Watched this live on TV when I was at the University of Otago in Dunedin, it was about 2.30-3.30 am so we had had a few beers first! What a Game and what a fight!
Makes me laugh how people criticise the standard of Rugby here. The rugby in fact was quite brilliant. Incredibly hard and brutal and beautiful. Raw honest and incredible. Personally I prefer this to today’s sanitised game filled with performance drug enhanced gym bunnies. These players were fucking hard brilliant rugby players.
Nah Going had a shocking performance that day, with passes Going astray and kicks Going nowhere. The least I can say is that he wasn't Going to make it easy for the All Blacks!
Mate. I worked on the sidelines of test matches and super rugby. It's hard. Brutally hard. These players would be blown off the field within 15 mins against todays players. Get a clock and time the "in play" duration of these games compared to today. It's more than 2 to 1. That's not to say, some of these players couldn't step up, but they'd have to work on their fitness
Wow I played the rough n tumble style amateur Rugby way back when. Reminds me of the good ole days. Hilarious to watch, lots of loose balls, all in rucks and hospital pass and kicks to off load the pressure. Not as much worrying about possession in one's own territory. These guys were full time working blokes with a desire to play Rugby for their country. I miss the old style Rugby BUT really love the new sport style.
Just watched this match in Cape Town during the Corona virus lockdown (day 4 in SA) on the 30th March 2020, what a gem, its very strange seeing the lineouts with no lifting allowed, the boks were already using their hooker to throw the ball into the lineout whereas the All Blacks were using their two wings and scrumhalf throughout the game. The scrums and lineouts were a shambles and it looks like every scrum was a lottery, there were some heels against the head for both sides. The bok captain, Morne du Plessis was already doing offloads those days without anyone actually calling them offloads. The 1995 rugby world cup final was similar in the lineouts and scrums, quite disorderly compared to what we have today. I prefer the order of today's scrums and lineouts, although the amateurs could play a bit of rugby when they got it together.
WP's Peter Whipp and OFS's Gerrie Germishuys were arguably the Boks' two most dangerous backs in this series. Whipp was particularly adept at making jinking runs from broken play, he reminded me a little bit of All Black Grahame Thorne from the 1970 tour. An example from 29:33 onward where he almost created a try. Germishuys was fast and with a good outside swerve, able to run around opponents on the left wing, and he demonstrated this in scoring tries both in the Durban test and also for OFS against the '76 All Blacks. He also scored a try against the All Blacks in Wellington in 1981.
I have the Radio NZ commentary of all the 1976 Test matches. John Howsen was the finest commentator of all. This Test match sounded epic. Remember when the first scrum went down and John Howsen said ...." this is going to be..... a torrid battle ...in the forwards ".... (with the crowd noise in the background ).Never forget it.
Rugby has certainly changed over the years, after watching this game I will never complain about another modern day rugby game. It really looks like two pub teams out and about just kicking the ball around and then back to the pub for a good laugh, still always a joy to watch the All Blacks vs Springboks play each other.
+Izzy Craig Thanks to League in the 80s (Winfield cup) union entirely change their rulings to accommodate a faster game in 1995 ..wont the proof watch League in the same era
Back in those days, if a Union player had any contact with a league scout; he faced threats of getting banned from the sport for life. If they switch codes from union to league, players will face a lifetime ban. This occur a lot in England and Wales.
There are many things to complain about in modern rugby. Teams are coached to the point that they are unable to think on the field of play (think of players walking backwards from a driving maul not even thinking of joining in and stopping it!). The turgid, over-long scrums with meticulous setting instructions from the referee - only for the ball to be put in crooked so that there is no competition anyway; they needn't have bothered! The farce of lifting. This 1976 match showed rugby at its best. So what that the amateur players were not bulked up with steroids like the modern professional players? So what that handling, passing and kicking sometimes goes awry? All of those deficiencies were made up in the sheer speed and frenetic excitement of the match. The driving rucks - and god help anyone caught on the bottom - had everyone on the edges of their seats.As McLaren would have said, "it's harem-scarem stuff".
There's nothing professionals about today's sports Most of our 80 minute games are whistle line outs 70 kicks and time wasting These men actually played close to 80 minute's of physical sport
A couple of thoughts. Firstly you have to admire the skill of the SH in getting clean ball to away from some unbelievably scrappy situations. Second it’s not a great idea to be on the floor anywhere near the ball ever!
Yes it is great watching it again; very messy and I was a One Eyed All Black supporter; but fun to watch it again! Yes these guys all had refugial jobs!
I know the records show Joost and Gareth Edwards as being the top scrumhalves ever, but Sid Going must rank as the most troublesome .... what a slippery tough bugger he was....
Watching this because of Super Sid Going from Maromaku Northland New Zealand,What a game,Sadly Sid Going passed away last night 17 May 2024 ,Rest in peace Super Sid Going..Going..Gone😢
The saddest story about the rivalry between the Springboks and the All Blacks,is when Jonah Lomu came especially to meet with Joost,and to encourage him through his illness.then he passed away just before Joost.but I like to think they are great mates up there.lovely history between the greatest rugby history between these two countries.theres just something magical in the air every time these two teams meet, nothing in world rugby comes close to this.respect to our NZ friends.its a privilege to play against you.
Imo the thing I do get just because it’s in the Psychology of SA players (?) is when the have a good team the still feed the need to go to rugby shithousery to win. And that is why imo Gareth Edwards was the GOAT. JVW very good player but reputation marred by dirty play throughout his career, anyone remember the 95WC dust up with Canada which he started? Respect him yes
I was at High School watching this series. Massive players from both sides. Bruce Robertson, Bill Osborne, Sid Going, Bryan Williams....that series was amazing to watch in real time..... "Wer'e hoping to score off the field as well as on it"- All Black Fullback Kit Fawcett to a beautiful reporter. You'd be fined and banished these days for a comment like that lol
Watching Fawcett played for Uni couple of time, Never fancy him as a AB FB material type. There was a reported several players were going awol in that tour .
Always interesting to watch these early test matches. I must admit I sometimes find it difficult to follow along knowing whats going on. Talk about messy scrums, oh my, lots of resets, but at least they don't take as long to setup like the modern game does. Lots of illegal ( by todays standards ) stuff going on too if you watch carefully. Thanks for the early gems mate!
I believe the reason the Boks did the collapse scrums on purpose because they don't want the All Blacks to get the straight feed and wanted them to get a penalty. Collapsed scrums weren't that common back in the old days because forwards were small back then as back rows.
@@aboriginalbrotha9947 thats right. They brought in a 20 stone prop Johan Strauss to lift Perry Harris (a lightweight prop) out of position and disrupt the scrums and it worked to a degree
TV was new to South Africa then. We viewed this match at a friend's house who had a colour tv and only the first half of the match was broadcast. We had to switch on the radio there after to listen to the second half of the match. I still remember clearly the incident when Sid Going was penalised for taking too long with the penalty kick.
My all time favorite All Black player playing in this game, the wing Brian Williams. I saw him playing in South Africa in 1970 against Eastern Transvaal at Pam Brink Stadium.
Wow you must have a good memory, that was almost 54 years ago now. I was a young boy in 1970, I watched highlights of some of the tour matches on b&w TV with my dad back here in NZ. I also have an old copy of the book Battling the Boks by NZ author TP McLean. Williams scored a try within the first few minutes of the match at Pam Brink. However it was better remembered as the match in which Pinetree Meads broke his arm. The All Blacks won 24-3.
2:28 - Number 2 looks like he really enjoyed those 70s aerobics classes LOL! NZs Haka sure came a long way - they look like they all do Pilates in 2020 :D
I am desperately searching for a copy of the 1976 first test match that was played on the 24th of July. You see I was born on that day, and my dad missed the game because of my birth :-) My dad is a HUGE rugby fan, and I would love to be able to finally get him a copy of that match so that we can watch it together. Do you have any idea where I can find a copy?
Some of the Boks in the '76 series had unusual nicknames: Jacobus Fredrick Beatrix "Piston" van Wyk Jacobus Casperus Johannes "Rampie" Stander Johannes Lodewikus "Moaner" van Heerden Johannes Hermanus Hugo "Boland" Coetzee Johannes Lodewyk "Klippies" Kritzinger Jacob Johannes "Kol" Oosthuizen Johannes Servaas "Gerrie" Germishuys
Whoa trip down memory lane. So much has changed in the game since then: Apartheid finished, scrums more structured (the unrestrained and rapid scrum sets were amazing - I've forgetter how wobbly platforms were then), more accurate specialist goal kickers (Going and Williams kicked some shockers), neutral refs in internationals (how many games did biased local SA refs steal for the Boks), lifting in the line outs , hookers throwing in at line outs versus wingers, more rules at the breakdown, T's versus pottles of sand (or digging your own hole as we did when I played), being paid to play (these guys all had jobs) and short international tours with few non test games (versus the 10 week tours - 20+ provincial team games plus tests) and better ball handling skills all round. Oh and decent hakas. Was great to see some childhood heroes again - thanks for posting this.
Thanks for the upload, Undaground ! I really enjoyed watching this game. I was only about 6-7 years old around then. If you have the 1981 Springbok tour please upload it ?
This brings back alot of memories. My dad was at the Ellispark - Johannesburg test. Yes Gert Bezuidenhout was Shocking. He made wierd decisions in Club and provincial games at that time. rugby has changed over time
I used to listen to afrikaans commentary in the 70's as a kid. Sometimes I could not get Eastern Province games in English. Especially up in the Transvaal
I would add that this is pure rugby. Hardly any interference from the refs and no TMO. It's amazing how many times I saw arms around necks, offsides, etc, an no one seemed to mind. Would love to see the game 'less controlled' today. But its also amazing how the still level has changed.
Watching Bruce Robertson here and Damien MacKenzie today, I wondered what an all time NZ blondie backline would look like (post 1976). This lot would be pretty handy: Justin Marshall, Grant Fox, John Kirwan, Damien MacKenzie, Christian Cullen, Jeff Wilson, Bruce Robertson, Colin Farrell...
This was a really close series and could have gone either way. One of the key reasons the All Blacks lost 3-1 was because we didn't really have a goal kicker. Sid Going did most of the kicking. The series may have been won if Joe Karam - yes, that Joe Karam of later David Bain-fame - didn't sign up to play professional rugby league in 1975. He was a reliable kicker, Going was far from one.
Gerald Bosch was equally bad at kicking for posts. Notice how he doesn't even look at goal before kicking! How can you hope to score if you don't even look where the posts are? Weird...
Obviously lots of differences between then and now but they didn't seem to be able to kick the ball very far. Ball only travels about 25m. Was the ball heavier back then?
Jo Brown I don't think it was heavier: legs were less powerful. You can see the same thing if you look at a football match of the seventies: goalkeepers' kicks barely reached the midfield line.
Visiting teams were unable to take non white players during apartheid. In the 1976 tour South Africa allowed no more than four non white players only after NZ threatened not to tour. Those four players were made honorary whites.
@@wellingtonian2009 today South Africa are playing with a second best rating team due to politics ,not our best players , a disadvantage other countries team's don't have
A number of the Boks were students and if your university was Stellenbosch you were very much favoured by Doc Craven. Dawie Snyman had a bit of a nightmare in this game.
Perhaps a drawn test series would have been a fairer result between the ABs and Boks in 1976. The Boks deserved to win the 1st and 3rd tests and ABs the 2nd and should have won the 4th test,. How the referee didn't award a penalty try to the late great Bruce Robertson will remain a mystery.
NZ would've won 3-4 series in SA if they had neutral refs the SA refs were the worst that incident you brought up about Robertson would've been a yellow card and penalty try today
@@Rugby-union-and-league That disallowed penalty try to the late great Bruce Robertson in the 4th test which probably would have given the ABs the win left a sour note with him. Robertson refused to play against the Boks in 1981and sited the apartheid system and the refereeing in 76 as the reasons.
Well considering how the 3rd test ended in 1981 with a NZ ref making up new rules on the spot I think it is safe to assume you lot were pretty good at it too. It is a piss poor NZ way of crying about cheating that you see in the older people in that country. Even the players. You weren't good enough to win more. Could hardly put a kick over.
@@Rugby-union-and-leagueyeah, as bent as the AB refs were in NZ. The 1981 3rd test penalty at the end was pure cheating. Picking boxers to beat up props. Grow up you sad excuse for a New Zealander.
The First overseas test televised live back to NZ was the 1972 NZ vs Wales NZ 19 Wales 16 At the time when Wales were having thier golden era, the All Blacks were a young and very inexperienced team, with a few rebels and trouble makers. On paper Wales should have thrashed the All Blacks The Welsh are still bitter and twisted about this result as they are about the 1978 result against proably one of the weakest All Black teams that ever toured The UK
I was 13 tv was new and i was riveted to the tv. Incidentally the free state was the only provincial team to beat the all blacks and they also won the Currie cup for the very first time in their history in that year of 1976 the year i turned into a teenager. Another great highlight was yhe 76 olypics and Nadia comenici for me.
I attended this game as a kid with my Dad and is one of the best memories I have of us together.
Were there any black people at that game?
@@eddien01 Yes all blacks!
ME AND MY DAD WERE ALSO THERE. I WAS 7 YEARS OLD FROM GORDONSBAY😀
@@eddien01Yes, many
@@SilverHayzeYes, but it was strictly segregated, non-whites were compelled to stand behind the south side try area.
wat een heerlijk commentaar in het Zuid-Afrikaans! Kan bijna alles letterlijk verstaan als Nederlander Go Bokke!
he sounds ridiculous
Afrikaans is baie ( heel ) na Nederlands. Hy is as amptelike taal verklaar in die Suid-Afrikaanse Unie, op 08 Mei 1925. Deur Nederlands te vervang.
@@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4?
Ik kan ook wel Nederlands maar ik versta er toch best weinig van. Niet niks. Maar bij lange na niet alles of zelfs het gros.
Ek kyk julle movies en verstaan alles 😅
How times have changed ! I was 16 years old and had the great privilege of meeting this All Black team ! Andy Leslie ! Gentleman! Was in love with Brian Williams and Kit Fawcet 😍. Have all the memorabilia from that tour. Although a South African and kept a scrapbook on Gerald Bosch , I fell in love with the All Blacks !❤❤❤
Oh yes, the time of scrapbooks! Mine was made of large sheets of the white paper in which the fish and chips was wrapped. Bryan Williams was my absolute favourite even though I was a Bok supporter.
Those Superspringbok balls were made of full grain leadther. I was a Bok fan as a boy in SA, but me and my buddies thought Sid Going was the MAN. Too bad most don't understand Afrikaans. The greatest commentator ever. Very descriptive and unbiased. Thanks for posting.
I bumped into Sid Going at the supermarket the other day. Not a tall man at all, but legendary player.
Would love to understand the commentator.
Yes full respect from new Zealand for afrikans
Afrikaans
My Dad joked, when Sid Going gets into the loose scrums the Springboks would grab his head because he's bold. The boks would think his head is the ball
Just remember these guys were amateur players and expected to perform like proffesionals
They all had full time regular jobs
The game was every bit as hard then if not harder
Hats off to them
Harder in the sense there was some pretty filthy foul play. But the level.of play now is much more intense. And the players are huuuge.
They do all right tho.
I remember grant fox being asked how he thought his 1987 world cup winning side would go against the 2011 side.
He just laughed and said "they'd kill us".
Not to mention that there were no subs in these days.
Was a wet muddy day with a bad ref and 2 cynical teams both kicked every ball. Not a spectacle but tough and enjoyed it.
Never as hard as today talk kak.
@@anthonytromp6265 You obviously never saw players being raked with one Aluminium studs. Of course that is KAK to I suppose. I saw Balie Swarts back, but that is kak to I suppose.
Jy praat Kak swaar I was there.
Don Clarke was our school couch in standard 9 and 10 up in the far northern transvaal and his son Glen Glarke played in the first rugby team with me as lock, strong bugger. Both him and his dad has passed away sadly. What incredible memories.
You all sat on him while watching tv did you?
Don Clarke lived in South Africa and saw nothing wrong about Apartheid! Yeah!!!!!!
A nostalgic tour through great All Black and Springbok names. Utterly epic!
thanks for posting! I was 7 years old but still remember the tour.
Now, incidentally, the pair of togs that Paul Bayvel wore in this game, my Dad bought for me secondhand and well wore at Gerald Bosch Sports store in Vereeniging when I started my short lived Rugby career in 1981 at Overvaal. I know that because Gerald Bosch told us so. I was so starstruck meeting him! Both Paul Bayvel and Gerald were my heroes back then
I was 14 and visited my aunt and uncle in Vereeniging from Rhodesia, They had the Bosch`s over for a braai and Gerald signed the plaster on my broken leg. Uncle Ron Blake, what a man.
As an aside, this was my 1st ever plane flight, on my own. I landed at Jan Smuts and between my mother and aunt they got the arrival date wrong so there was no-one to meet me. Luckily a friendly staff member got my aunt`s phone number and my aunt dropped everything and drove in from Vereeniging to get me. That was a long few hours, she decided to drive thru Joburg to show me the big buildings, suddenly the roads were cordoned off and we were told there is gunfire near the Carlton Center. Who remembers that 1975 Fox Street siege attack ? 2 hostages and 2 bystanders died there.
How times have changed. I played in this era, cannot believe the difference once the game became professional.
a high school team from Portugal 2023 would beat these teams
True,so loose and free to carry on scrumming while the whistle has been blown.
@@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4No they wouldn't,not even close,where is Portugal in the Schools rankings?.
Sheer brutality...hard stuff those days...this AB side played North East Cape...a midweek game in Graaff Reinet and won 84-0...was there as a school lightie....they used and signed my mates ball in practise day before...and signed his ball thereafter...good memories...
The ref Gert Bezuidenhout was the headmaster at my primary school Winchester Ridge primary..It was one of the few English speaking primary schools that played rugby We beat everyone. I learned my rugby from the likes of Gerald Bosch and Paul Bywel. I was a Fly half, no 10. Many moons ago
I was in Std 6 and used to go every weekend to Luftus and Ellis Park to watch these guys play. Wonderful memories
Outstanding video. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Remember the old school rugby man I miss it
Thanks for this post. I saw this a while back but came back again to watch. Trying to look at this match objectively in hindsight, I would say that the Boks just about shaded this encounter in territory and possession stakes
and ultimately, in the scoreline.
This is so lekker to see. I was 14 then and remember seeing this team. Thanks a ton. This team actually came to practice at our school. Pretoria Boys High. Those were the days....
I was at Pretoria Boys in 1976 and remember them practicing at the school....good times
so lekker to see? so delicious 🤔✨
@@lyndongloag5774i was born in 1976
Thanks for the upload ! I played this amateur rugby myself…..I have to say I really enjoy the current professional rugby era handling of the ball and physical fitness Thanks for the upload
Most of professional rugby players will not last whole match. Let alone played 30 odd matches in 3 months tour
Baie baie dankie dat jy die' wedstryd gepos het. Dit is 'n skatkus van rugby geskiedenis en nog 'n voorbeeld van hoe boed die Bokke was en is. Thanks to you Da Underground Mane and here's to many more Bokke victories over NZ. Bokke bo!
Speak Swahili, mate!
Watched this live on TV when I was at the University of Otago in Dunedin, it was about 2.30-3.30 am so we had had a few beers first! What a Game and what a fight!
Makes me laugh how people criticise the standard of Rugby here. The rugby in fact was quite brilliant. Incredibly hard and brutal and beautiful. Raw honest and incredible.
Personally I prefer this to today’s sanitised game filled with performance drug enhanced gym bunnies. These players were fucking hard brilliant rugby players.
Nah Going had a shocking performance that day, with passes Going astray and kicks Going nowhere. The least I can say is that he wasn't Going to make it easy for the All Blacks!
I agree. Games were more compelling. However offside was only loosely refereed making it a bit of a lottery.
You dumb idiot
Mate. I worked on the sidelines of test matches and super rugby. It's hard. Brutally hard. These players would be blown off the field within 15 mins against todays players.
Get a clock and time the "in play" duration of these games compared to today. It's more than 2 to 1.
That's not to say, some of these players couldn't step up, but they'd have to work on their fitness
some great skills by the bok forwards
Thank you for this old game
Sid Goings passes were shockers, wobbly asf!
the scrums back in those days have me in stitches! Love it.
Mayhem.
Fun to watch the good ol'days...the kicks as goals were shockers though and no one minded lol
Never heard of Foster before.
Maaaaan,he's an awesome player.
Cool,calm and fearless.
Great watch.
The old days are gone, yes, but the memories will live on, FOREVER !!!
Wow I played the rough n tumble style amateur Rugby way back when. Reminds me of the good ole days. Hilarious to watch, lots of loose balls, all in rucks and hospital pass and kicks to off load the pressure. Not as much worrying about possession in one's own territory. These guys were full time working blokes with a desire to play Rugby for their country. I miss the old style Rugby BUT really love the new sport style.
oh so true
All Blacks never really amateurs - nudge nudge wink wink
@@chrisbaxter3597 Shamateurs, like England at the time.
My ❤ goes out for those props, what a mess neck injuries and lower back problems at 36 years old!😂😂😂
Agree, those scrums look wild now! 🙂@@loveofsports7096
Thank you very much for this video!
Just watched this match in Cape Town during the Corona virus lockdown (day 4 in SA) on the 30th March 2020, what a gem, its very strange seeing the lineouts with no lifting allowed, the boks were already using their hooker to throw the ball into the lineout whereas the All Blacks were using their two wings and scrumhalf throughout the game. The scrums and lineouts were a shambles and it looks like every scrum was a lottery, there were some heels against the head for both sides. The bok captain, Morne du Plessis was already doing offloads those days without anyone actually calling them offloads. The 1995 rugby world cup final was similar in the lineouts and scrums, quite disorderly compared to what we have today. I prefer the order of today's scrums and lineouts, although the amateurs could play a bit of rugby when they got it together.
the order of today is boring
Thanks for the upload!!
WP's Peter Whipp and OFS's Gerrie Germishuys were arguably the Boks' two most dangerous backs in this series. Whipp was particularly adept at making jinking runs from broken play, he reminded me a little bit of All Black Grahame Thorne from the 1970 tour. An example from 29:33 onward where he almost created a try. Germishuys was fast and with a good outside swerve, able to run around opponents on the left wing, and he demonstrated this in scoring tries both in the Durban test and also for OFS against the '76 All Blacks. He also scored a try against the All Blacks in Wellington in 1981.
Jinne as ek kyk na hoe die skrums destyds was yo Dan lag ek van lekker kry geen orde nie die was maar wil in die skrums .
Wat my onmiddelik getref het is die uiters swak toestand van die veld.
I have the Radio NZ commentary of all the 1976 Test matches. John Howsen was the finest commentator of all. This Test match sounded epic. Remember when the first scrum went down and John Howsen said ...." this is going to be..... a torrid battle ...in the forwards ".... (with the crowd noise in the background ).Never forget it.
Wow, excellent!!
Interesting to see how chaotic the scrum formation was then!
But effective. No time wasting like today.
Rugby has certainly changed over the years, after watching this game I will never complain about another modern day rugby game. It really looks like two pub teams out and about just kicking the ball around and then back to the pub for a good laugh, still always a joy to watch the All Blacks vs Springboks play each other.
+Izzy Craig Thanks to League in the 80s (Winfield cup) union entirely change their rulings to accommodate a faster game in 1995 ..wont the proof watch League in the same era
Manwell Haumu You are 100 percent right, and I believe the Aussies had something to do with this. League wasn't fully professional back in those days.
Back in those days, if a Union player had any contact with a league scout; he faced threats of getting banned from the sport for life. If they switch codes from union to league, players will face a lifetime ban. This occur a lot in England and Wales.
Use your damn eyes, the game has gotten slower for generations, mainly by playing overweight players.
There are many things to complain about in modern rugby. Teams are coached to the point that they are unable to think on the field of play (think of players walking backwards from a driving maul not even thinking of joining in and stopping it!). The turgid, over-long scrums with meticulous setting instructions from the referee - only for the ball to be put in crooked so that there is no competition anyway; they needn't have bothered! The farce of lifting. This 1976 match showed rugby at its best. So what that the amateur players were not bulked up with steroids like the modern professional players? So what that handling, passing and kicking sometimes goes awry? All of those deficiencies were made up in the sheer speed and frenetic excitement of the match. The driving rucks - and god help anyone caught on the bottom - had everyone on the edges of their seats.As McLaren would have said, "it's harem-scarem stuff".
Notice how RAPIDLY (few seconds) both SCRUMS bind and engage and "no fussing around" - ball in ... No wasting time as in today's "professional" era
There's nothing professionals about today's sports
Most of our 80 minute games are whistle line outs 70 kicks and time wasting
These men actually played close to 80 minute's of physical sport
Thanks for posting. Great copy.
The 2nd test in Bloemfontein was the first rugby test I ever saw LIVE!
Guess you had many black and Asian mates with you!
Was 10yrs old and listen to commentary on radio. Used to know the names and positions of both teams.
The rugby back then wasn't as good as in the 90s when I played, our pukekohe under 19s team would of thrashed both of these team I garuntee
A couple of thoughts. Firstly you have to admire the skill of the SH in getting clean ball to away from some unbelievably scrappy situations. Second it’s not a great idea to be on the floor anywhere near the ball ever!
Loved the video mate, but jeez that SA accent was strong, couldn't understand a word of English that commentator was saying!
Because he is speaking afrikaans
Lol
John Ritchie that’s the joke he was making
You never know nowadays
I'm sure I heard "Going" "Robertson" and "Leslie" and I dont speak afrikaans
Yes it is great watching it again; very messy and I was a One Eyed All Black supporter; but fun to watch it again! Yes these guys all had refugial jobs!
I know the records show Joost and Gareth Edwards as being the top scrumhalves ever, but Sid Going must rank as the most troublesome .... what a slippery tough bugger he was....
Watching this because of Super Sid Going from Maromaku Northland New Zealand,What a game,Sadly Sid Going passed away last night 17 May 2024 ,Rest in peace Super Sid Going..Going..Gone😢
Super Sid. Going Going Gone..... but NEVER forgottenn. RIP.
The saddest story about the rivalry between the Springboks and the All Blacks,is when Jonah Lomu came especially to meet with Joost,and to encourage him through his illness.then he passed away just before Joost.but I like to think they are great mates up there.lovely history between the greatest rugby history between these two countries.theres just something magical in the air every time these two teams meet, nothing in world rugby comes close to this.respect to our NZ friends.its a privilege to play against you.
Imo the thing I do get just because it’s in the Psychology of SA players (?) is when the have a good team the still feed the need to go to rugby shithousery to win. And that is why imo Gareth Edwards was the GOAT. JVW very good player but reputation marred by dirty play throughout his career, anyone remember the 95WC dust up with Canada which he started? Respect him yes
Sid Going was the best ever scrum half. Sadly missed. @@zardragon8859
I was at High School watching this series. Massive players from both sides. Bruce Robertson, Bill Osborne, Sid Going, Bryan Williams....that series was amazing to watch in real time.....
"Wer'e hoping to score off the field as well as on it"- All Black Fullback Kit Fawcett to a beautiful reporter.
You'd be fined and banished these days for a comment like that lol
Watching Fawcett played for Uni couple of time, Never fancy him as a AB FB material type. There was a reported several players were going awol in that tour .
Awol - associations without love
Lol, how camp was the Haka back in the 70s?!
That's why they have to fully commit to it now...because the alternative is hilariously camp!
Morris Dancing
What do you mean back in the 70s?!
Its always camp
Always interesting to watch these early test matches. I must admit I sometimes find it difficult to follow along knowing whats going on. Talk about messy scrums, oh my, lots of resets, but at least they don't take as long to setup like the modern game does. Lots of illegal ( by todays standards ) stuff going on too if you watch carefully. Thanks for the early gems mate!
I believe the reason the Boks did the collapse scrums on purpose because they don't want the All Blacks to get the straight feed and wanted them to get a penalty. Collapsed scrums weren't that common back in the old days because forwards were small back then as back rows.
@@aboriginalbrotha9947 thats right. They brought in a 20 stone prop Johan Strauss to lift Perry Harris (a lightweight prop) out of position and disrupt the scrums and it worked to a degree
I wasnt even born back then..Its amazing to see how the game have changed..
I was only ten when they toured Sout Africa, but names like Syd Going, Bruce Robertson; Andy Leslie are names that bring good memories
TV was new to South Africa then. We viewed this match at a friend's house who had a colour tv and only the first half of the match was broadcast. We had to switch on the radio there after to listen to the second half of the match. I still remember clearly the incident when Sid Going was penalised for taking too long with the penalty kick.
Only first half of the game broadcast, wtf
My all time favorite All Black player playing in this game, the wing Brian Williams.
I saw him playing in South Africa in 1970 against Eastern Transvaal at Pam Brink Stadium.
Wow you must have a good memory, that was almost 54 years ago now. I was a young boy in 1970, I watched highlights of some of the tour matches on b&w TV with my dad back here in NZ. I also have an old copy of the book Battling the Boks by NZ author TP McLean. Williams scored a try within the first few minutes of the match at Pam Brink. However it was better remembered as the match in which Pinetree Meads broke his arm. The All Blacks won 24-3.
2:28 - Number 2 looks like he really enjoyed those 70s aerobics classes LOL!
NZs Haka sure came a long way - they look like they all do Pilates in 2020 :D
Haka was incredibly camp in 76
Cringe worthy bro.
Best thing Buck Shelford ever did was sort out the AB Haka.
I am desperately searching for a copy of the 1976 first test match that was played on the 24th of July. You see I was born on that day, and my dad missed the game because of my birth :-) My dad is a HUGE rugby fan, and I would love to be able to finally get him a copy of that match so that we can watch it together. Do you have any idea where I can find a copy?
That was my 13th birthday lol 👍
Congratulations Natasja, that was 22nd birthday and in the bush war. If I find the match, I'll post it.
Piston is a cool name. I was 7 when the ABs played this game, so my recollection is vague. great coverage.
Some of the Boks in the '76 series had unusual nicknames:
Jacobus Fredrick Beatrix "Piston" van Wyk
Jacobus Casperus Johannes "Rampie" Stander
Johannes Lodewikus "Moaner" van Heerden
Johannes Hermanus Hugo "Boland" Coetzee
Johannes Lodewyk "Klippies" Kritzinger
Jacob Johannes "Kol" Oosthuizen
Johannes Servaas "Gerrie" Germishuys
I believe his fists pumped like pistons in the scrums.
really enjoyed this!
Whoa trip down memory lane. So much has changed in the game since then: Apartheid finished, scrums more structured (the unrestrained and rapid scrum sets were amazing - I've forgetter how wobbly platforms were then), more accurate specialist goal kickers (Going and Williams kicked some shockers), neutral refs in internationals (how many games did biased local SA refs steal for the Boks), lifting in the line outs , hookers throwing in at line outs versus wingers, more rules at the breakdown, T's versus pottles of sand (or digging your own hole as we did when I played), being paid to play (these guys all had jobs) and short international tours with few non test games (versus the 10 week tours - 20+ provincial team games plus tests) and better ball handling skills all round. Oh and decent hakas. Was great to see some childhood heroes again - thanks for posting this.
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Better ball handling skills eh lmao
I watched the entire game, from what I could see the ref was very fair, not sure where he was bent?
New Zealand refs were equally biased.
Thanks for the upload, Undaground ! I really enjoyed watching this game. I was only about 6-7 years old around then. If you have the 1981 Springbok tour please upload it ?
third test is on you tube..ray mordt's hat trick
Gert Bezuidenhout the ref. was my teacher. Cas de Bruyn at the same school has been a referee as well.
HEY REF THATS AGAINST THE RULES !!!! REF: This is 1976 there are no rules !!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks man that was old style rugby
10:25 Bruce Robertson what a genius
Good eye bro..had a gliding acceleration into the gap..Mr Set up !
The thoroughbred of the team.
This brings back alot of memories. My dad was at the Ellispark - Johannesburg test. Yes Gert Bezuidenhout was Shocking. He made wierd decisions in Club and provincial games at that time. rugby has changed over time
But that is the point - he did it to everyone including the Boks. A bit like Stuart Dickerson. Somewhat dosy but not out to get anyone.
I ushered people to the seat in Kings Park Stadium, we were Scouts. Sid Going was my favourite player.
Great Rugby!🏉🏉
I was going to say what I thought of some of the players who were my heroes. But who am I to criticise. Enough to say, what a depressing game.
Commentary in Afrikaans? Pretty cool
That's because it's their language. Funnily enough French commentators do it in French.
I used to listen to afrikaans commentary in the 70's as a kid. Sometimes I could not get Eastern Province games in English. Especially up in the Transvaal
@eggchasers have you seen this game?
The scrums look brutal... and half the tackles would be red cards now... this is a great watch!
19:40 spectator helpfully gives Batty the ball so he can throw a quick line out on the Springbok line...
Can you post the other 3 games in the series that the All blacks lost Aboriginal brother ?
The Boot is my uncle, on my mothers side of the family. He use to be on the Kelloggs corn flake boxes when I was a kid. Great player cool uncle.
Loving the Afrikaans commentary. Would love to understand what the very first bit is pre-game about Ron Jarden, George Nepia etc
The Haka was only performed in overseas tests in those days
Exactly bro
Yeah only foreigners were exposed to the AB theatrics. Now the whole world needs to hear about their inbred culture
@@Bokgaatjie
Come now, there not so bad.
@@Bokgaatjie Elaborate..
Judy Te Kanawa your jumping cavemen of course. It’s a bit much. No diff than the zulus catching fire in sa, or the roach eating abos. passé
Why is the commentary in welsh?
No 11... winger Bryan Williams brilliant... Sid Going.. Legends of 1976 tour of SA
I would add that this is pure rugby. Hardly any interference from the refs and no TMO. It's amazing how many times I saw arms around necks, offsides, etc, an no one seemed to mind. Would love to see the game 'less controlled' today. But its also amazing how the still level has changed.
Schitterende beelden met prachtig Afrikaans commentaar.
Ik wil meer..
Absolute choas but very watchable. You wouldn't know what was going to happen at any point. Some legendary names playing in this game.
Looking for the '76 1st test at Kings Park if you happen to have that I would appreciate an upload!!
Johnny Kessel that would be the second test wouldn't it. The one NZ won.
Like watching club rugby!
Watching Bruce Robertson here and Damien MacKenzie today, I wondered what an all time NZ blondie backline would look like (post 1976). This lot would be pretty handy: Justin Marshall, Grant Fox, John Kirwan, Damien MacKenzie, Christian Cullen, Jeff Wilson, Bruce Robertson, Colin Farrell...
How about a good ol' redhead backline for good measure? Glen Osborne, Grant Batty, John Gallagher, Tony Brown...
What's the point, mate?
Haha they just start the scrum regardless of anything, like they all know it's scrum time in a seconds notice. Goeies
What Moaner van Heerden did at 1:05:10 would be red carded today
Herman van Staden Peter Whiting lost part of his ear
Three of them had a go at him.
These days they'd risk never playing again.
Most of what Moaner van Heerden did would be red-carded today :-)
He didn't miss.
Че та я прям залип )) Хоть и вообще спорт не могу смотреть. НО это - "ДРУГОЕ" )))
Why do we have to hear Boet. This is an English channel
Were there any quotas in those days ?
😂😂😂 No
This was a really close series and could have gone either way.
One of the key reasons the All Blacks lost 3-1 was because we didn't really have a goal kicker. Sid Going did most of the kicking.
The series may have been won if Joe Karam - yes, that Joe Karam of later David Bain-fame - didn't sign up to play professional rugby league in 1975. He was a reliable kicker, Going was far from one.
yeah, they kept on changing Duncan Robertson from 1st five back to fullback.
Laurie Mains was a top class goal kicker in the squad but the selectors ignored him.
Perhaps, but only a max of 4 NZers could be awarded honorary white man status ... So he may have missed out anyways.
Gerald Bosch was equally bad at kicking for posts. Notice how he doesn't even look at goal before kicking! How can you hope to score if you don't even look where the posts are? Weird...
Back in the day. Man you had to be a hard fulla to play back in the day. Heck I didn't get my boots on till the 80s - ORIES 4eva son.
The old rugby games were terrible they always booted the ball away like it was going to explode
Obviously lots of differences between then and now but they didn't seem to be able to kick the ball very far. Ball only travels about 25m. Was the ball heavier back then?
probably!!!
Yeah I think that was still the leather balls.
yeah it was, brown thick leather
Jo Brown I don't think it was heavier: legs were less powerful. You can see the same thing if you look at a football match of the seventies: goalkeepers' kicks barely reached the midfield line.
yes thats right, but the kickers these days are more physically developed and have more knowledge and skills to launch the ball further.
The real Springboks ..imagine if they never got kicked out of sport for twentys years and could pick the right players regardless of colour
Lol... Imagine neutral refs ...
@@rahowherox1177 Imagine 100% of our population playing from day 1. We're only just getting there. You've done it for 80 years.
@@bunnychowmuncher indeed.
Visiting teams were unable to take non white players during apartheid. In the 1976 tour South Africa allowed no more than four non white players only after NZ threatened not to tour. Those four players were made honorary whites.
@@wellingtonian2009 today South Africa are playing with a second best rating team due to politics ,not our best players , a disadvantage other countries team's don't have
Correction for my last post
The only test I have had the privilege of attending
Was Snymans drop over?I don't think so
A number of the Boks were students and if your university was Stellenbosch you were very much favoured by Doc Craven. Dawie Snyman had a bit of a nightmare in this game.
Perhaps a drawn test series would have been a fairer result between the ABs and Boks in 1976. The Boks deserved to win the 1st and 3rd tests and ABs the 2nd and should have won the 4th test,. How the referee didn't award a penalty try to the late great Bruce Robertson will remain a mystery.
NZ would've won 3-4 series in SA if they had neutral refs the SA refs were the worst that incident you brought up about Robertson would've been a yellow card and penalty try today
@@Rugby-union-and-league That disallowed penalty try to the late great Bruce Robertson in the 4th test which probably would have given the ABs the win left a sour note with him. Robertson refused to play against the Boks in 1981and sited the apartheid system and the refereeing in 76 as the reasons.
Well considering how the 3rd test ended in 1981 with a NZ ref making up new rules on the spot I think it is safe to assume you lot were pretty good at it too. It is a piss poor NZ way of crying about cheating that you see in the older people in that country. Even the players. You weren't good enough to win more. Could hardly put a kick over.
@@Rugby-union-and-leagueyeah, as bent as the AB refs were in NZ. The 1981 3rd test penalty at the end was pure cheating. Picking boxers to beat up props. Grow up you sad excuse for a New Zealander.
The 1981 test series had neutral referees. I think the 3rd test ref was Clive Norling from Wales.@@christoduplessis8177
The first big NZ rugby tour to be televised live via satellite to New Zealand
The First overseas test televised live back to NZ was the 1972 NZ vs Wales
NZ 19 Wales 16
At the time when Wales were having thier golden era, the All Blacks were a young and very inexperienced team, with a few rebels and trouble makers.
On paper Wales should have thrashed the All Blacks
The Welsh are still bitter and twisted about this result as they are about the 1978 result against proably one of the weakest All Black teams that ever toured
The UK
I was 13 tv was new and i was riveted to the tv.
Incidentally the free state was the only provincial team to beat the all blacks and they also won the Currie cup for the very first time in their history in that year of 1976 the year i turned into a teenager.
Another great highlight was yhe 76 olypics and Nadia comenici for me.
What was controversial about this match?
Good day- I am interested in acquiring this footage. Do you know who the owner to the rights of this is?
This match was broadcast by the SABC. They probably still own the rights.
What language is this? It sounds like a mad mix of English, Dutch, and Welsh...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans
Afrikaans