1982 First Test: GREAT BRITAIN v AUSTRALIA at Boothferry Park, Hull

Saturday, October 30
GREAT BRITAIN: George Fairbairn (Hull KR); Des Drummond (Leigh), Eric Hughes (Widnes), Les Dyl (Leeds); Steve Evans (Hull); John Woods (Leigh), Steve Nash (Salford); Steve Norton (Hull), Les Gorley (Widnes), Lee Crooks (Hull), Trevor Skerrett (Hull), David Ward (capt, Leeds), Jeff Grayshon (Bradford).
Res: David Heron (Leeds).
AUSTRALIA: Greg Brentnall (Canterbury); Eric Grothe (Parramatta), Mal Meninga (Brisbane Souths), Steve Rogers (Cronulla), Kerry Boustead (Eastern Suburbs); Brett Kenny (Parramatta), Peter Sterling (Parramatta); Ray Price (Parramatta), Rod Reddy (St George), Wayne Pearce (Balmain), Les Boyd (Manly), Max Krilich (capt, Manly), Craig Young (St George).
Reserve: Ray Brown (Manly).
AUSTRALIA 40 (Meninga Boyd Grothe Price Boustead Kenny Pearce Reddy tries Meninga 8 goals) defeated GREAT BRITAIN 4 (Crooks 2 goals). Referee: Julian Rascagneres (France). Crowd: 26,771.
Scrums: Australia 7-3.
Penalties: Great Britain 21-7.
Halftime: Australia 10-4.
Man of the Match: Pearce

[@roberthowe2910]

Was at this match.. Great atmosphere., aussie. Different league. Thou...

[@keats6431]

A lesson on how to play six-tackle rugby. Australia adapted to this rule change much quicker than GB. David Ward opting to run the ball himself towards four defenders on the last tackle then being caught in possession! Imagine how a coach would react to that now!

[@mercurycid]

thanx man!

[@publius1252]

Great Britain putting up a special olympics team.

[@robboxify]

32500 here for this match - i queued for over an hour outside to get one of the last tickets and watched it from the back of the stand opposite the cameras, so many in you couldn't see the whole game. Hull FC v Hull KR matches at this ground pulled up to 25000, but Hull City at the time got 3 to 4 thousand for most games.

[@ZIGSVIDS]

Highlight of the game is

[@paulieplayspoorly]

Game starts @

[@davidjohnston7512]

People to this day still don't know the difference between Great Britain and England......

[@ronanrogers4127]

That’s a pretty solid Kangaroos team. Silky Steve Rogers, what a player. Brett Kenny putting King Wally on the bench. Les Boyd for a bit of intimidation. Price and Pearce for workload...and then of course Big Mal Meninga in the first of his record setting 4 Kangaroo tours.

[@jeffreyparker8329]

Did we run out of film?????

[@markaustin5543]

Different class.

[@MrAMYJACK]

There are things that I remember that stick and one of the main ones was Rex the man.

[@queenslander954]

Ref .. to the Poms , you got flogged but I couldn’t do any more to help you.

[@petermelb123]

Back when rugby was rugby

[@darren2514fv]

One of the stands was being built

[@ZIGSVIDS]

Des is the best the poms have, by a mile.

[@martywarner1779]

When France were a powerhouse too... those were the days.

[@HarleyThrottleJuice]

Offside penalty after only one tackle of the game, give it a rest ref! 😂✌️

[@sampeck6826]

Boothferry Park luv it

[@DeathRacer-yl2hx]

When England stopped playing like grubs they actually had a chance... pity it was only for 5 minutes lmfao