It should be noted that the first row all play in Sharks and the second row in Bulls, the chemistry they must have when playing together all year is very strong
This was the 2nd test between the British and Irish Lions & South Africa back in 2009. It is still labelled to this day as the most physical game of rugby in the modern era. That South African forward pack was brutal.
@@garyodriscoll7988 Yes indeed, a knockout tackle from a centre on a forward, remember it well! Springboks my team but Ireland a very close 2nd! Brian is an absolute legend!🇿🇦 🇮🇪
Legend has it their knitting club was a great success at the time, Bakkies whispered Keats poetry unlike anybody while Shalk served tofu asTendai played the flute...
My favourite forward pack of all time, favourite second row of all time and favourite back row of all time with Danie Russouw and Francois louw off the bench I miss these days 😢
that pack was absolutely brutal, especially individually, but they didn't have the brutal replacements group we've got now , so i would say our pack now together with the bomb squad is better
@@balrajtakhar3622Holland produces the biggest white boy genetics. South Africa's DNA is a lot of Dutch colonialism. Looks it up yourself. Big farm white boys..
@@HemiJB91Nah Dutch DNA is a myth. Afrikaners probably around 30% of Netherlands descent. German, French, Scandinavian and British as well as other minorities are prevalent too. Their names are also in main non Dutch. The Afrikaans language that they speak was derived from Dutch.
@@shelr8204The actual reason they call him the Beast is because he was the heaviest baby ever born in Zimbabwe. So he’s been the Beast since day 1, which is crazy.
Yup. Who else are you going to put in there in that discussion? England pack 2003 were scary, but they didn't have the longevity. All Blacks 2011-2015 won two world cups as well, but their scrum was not as much of a weapon as Kitshoff and Malherbe. The only scrum that is as strong as our first team scrum is our bomb squad.
He was a hurdles athlete at university and ran a 10.4 second 100 meter. According to Bryan Habana, they were neck and neck in the speed trials. One "problem" with him was that while he was fast, he didn't have that blistering change of pace that guys like Habana, Mapimpi and Kolbe has, which kinds of put him out of contention for winger. But his sheer V8 power was used to devastating effect as number 8. Also, one of the nicest human beings you could ever meet.
One of the best scrums in springbok rugby history. I would like to see Os du Randt theiras a prop. Bakkies Botha and Victor Mattfield was for me the best combination in their position in world rugby.
Met school in real life when he was watching his some play hockey and that man was massive and to say he was massive he was massive I was around 180 cm when I was 12 and he just towered over me
This. And Heinrich Brussow on the bench, who for one year was the best openside in the world and stole every mfing ball from the ruck. Damn. Don't think I'd change much from this, except the double world cup winning back row, as the back row, Bakkies and Etzebeth can coin toss for the start and Ox on the bench if John Smit needed a lie-down. Also. Best SA kit ever.
Now the scrum is 15-strong, with Rassie's innovations ... and the only nation in the world with !at least! 2 international packs are the Boks ... scary indeed!
@@jacquesblomerus5166 Thats a great point with the new boys having better technique, as a front rower myself id agree with you. If i wanted to base my playing style off of either it would be the 2023 pack not saying the old boys arent good because they were insane!
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See what happens in that match vs the Lions... th-cam.com/video/NJEIoLr_NGw/w-d-xo.html
Thought this was so epic to announce the teams during the 09 Lions tour although it took about 20 minutes every game haha
Yeah haha, I think it's great made me laugh
As a Kiwi I can say that is a nice forward pack.
Besides Smit, great speaker in front of the camera, his only skill.
@@LeonKotze70 Oh keep quiet🤫 Jon Smit is an absolute legend of Springbok rugby.
Incredible pack. Speaks to how good the All Blacks we're to rarely lose to a team with that pack
Nice? Interesting use of "nice"
@@marcusd9192pierre spies was deadly what a player
These guys are fu*king legends.
Anyone with a first name of Bismarck is 100% death dealer
Bakkies alone just has a formidable Aura. Would have made a great villain in a film
Eben is just Bakkies 2.0 though
So glad these boys are still around and at home✌🇿🇦
It should be noted that the first row all play in Sharks and the second row in Bulls, the chemistry they must have when playing together all year is very strong
Last man was like the last boss
This was the 2nd test between the British and Irish Lions & South Africa back in 2009. It is still labelled to this day as the most physical game of rugby in the modern era. That South African forward pack was brutal.
jacques fourie popped off
I remember that 2nd game, ronan o gara came on as a sub in the second half and got marmalized
@@Graham-vi9he we Irish still haven't forgiven him for that.
What about O'Driscoll hid on Danie Rossouw
@@garyodriscoll7988 Yes indeed, a knockout tackle from a centre on a forward, remember it well! Springboks my team but Ireland a very close 2nd! Brian is an absolute legend!🇿🇦 🇮🇪
@@garyodriscoll7988illegal, but still a brutal hit no doubt 😂
As a kiwi I would say that is the highest quality of a forward pack I've ever seen
2015 ABs would smoke them mate ..
@@tafatapaleao4588 doubt it.
@@tafatapaleao4588agreed
@@tafatapaleao4588 2015 ABs couldn't smoke the 2015 Springboks🤡😂
@@tafatapaleao4588really? Yet they were dominated in the scrums by the sa team that lost to Japan
Crouch , Pause , Jesus Christ .
😂😂😂This cracked me😂😂😂
😅
POES funny!
😂😂😂😂
Legend has it their knitting club was a great success at the time, Bakkies whispered Keats poetry unlike anybody while Shalk served tofu asTendai played the flute...
Yes, yes it is. Every single player was a Spartan. Respect.
My favourite forward pack of all time, favourite second row of all time and favourite back row of all time with Danie Russouw and Francois louw off the bench I miss these days 😢
Malherbe and Kitsie would wreck them.
Frans Malherbe might be the best tighthead prop in the history of the game.
imagine you look up and see this lineup running towards you😅
I would have walk off the pitch, get on my car, drive home and have a braai
The more I watch this I'm get hyped up.
that pack was absolutely brutal, especially individually, but they didn't have the brutal replacements group we've got now , so i would say our pack now together with the bomb squad is better
Each time Bakkies got the ball, just know, no one gangsta when he has the ball 💀
Sheesh. That was a cracking set up.
Bring back this type of team announcement.
Legends, they will never be forgotten
Our greatest rivals. South Africa produces some gigantic men.
@balrajtakhar3622 it's called pap and genes you dummy
@@balrajtakhar3622 Nah! The food we eat plus gym
@@balrajtakhar3622Holland produces the biggest white boy genetics. South Africa's DNA is a lot of Dutch colonialism. Looks it up yourself. Big farm white boys..
@@HemiJB91Nah Dutch DNA is a myth. Afrikaners probably around 30% of Netherlands descent. German, French, Scandinavian and British as well as other minorities are prevalent too. Their names are also in main non Dutch.
The Afrikaans language that they speak was derived from Dutch.
@@HemiJB91exactly. Tallest country in the world the Dutch. Being (way) above 1.90 meters as a guy is the most normal thing in the world there.
As a kiwi I can confirm yes this is a scary scary forward pack
The Tendai mtwarira PROP gives me chills
Reason they call him The Beast🔥
@@shelr8204The actual reason they call him the Beast is because he was the heaviest baby ever born in Zimbabwe. So he’s been the Beast since day 1, which is crazy.
@@jameswyatt4443 😳 Oh shit. Interesting!
Pierre Spies, still my favourite No.8 of all time.
I think that the current tight five of the Boks is the best tight five of any team, ever.
Yup. Who else are you going to put in there in that discussion?
England pack 2003 were scary, but they didn't have the longevity. All Blacks 2011-2015 won two world cups as well, but their scrum was not as much of a weapon as Kitshoff and Malherbe.
The only scrum that is as strong as our first team scrum is our bomb squad.
Pack weight: error
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Pierre spies will always be my favorite player. Big and fast
He was a hurdles athlete at university and ran a 10.4 second 100 meter. According to Bryan Habana, they were neck and neck in the speed trials.
One "problem" with him was that while he was fast, he didn't have that blistering change of pace that guys like Habana, Mapimpi and Kolbe has, which kinds of put him out of contention for winger. But his sheer V8 power was used to devastating effect as number 8.
Also, one of the nicest human beings you could ever meet.
Probably the best pack of forwards ever. What a team. Many of them were also part of the World Cup winning team of 2007.
Postman Pat. Back row.
That was one hell of a pack in 2009 especially that second row almost unplayable
As a kiwi I would be sliced in half and scooped out with a teaspoon.
😂 as a kiwi I would be peeled down and eaten raw
Felt like it was just yesterday
From an Australian this pack is freakin scary.
Bakkies was a very scary man 😂🔥
I’d argue the current starting pack is even more formidable
yeah i also agree, this starting pack was mean but we didn't have such a big group of so many great replacements back then
As an All Black fan....the SA Scrum in general haunts me 😂
Even eben not there ouch what a scrum ouch what a bench 😂
Probably one of the best forward pack
All respect to this pack, it is intense, but Os du Randt is the finest prop I've seen from SA. He was a beast, best prop in the game for a few years
The Beast was better.
Lol, bismark sounds like a school laiti
Imagine if etzabeth was in that scrum💀 everyone would be dead💀💀💀💀💀💀
We need these lineup reveals for all Internationals
I’m English and even I will admit that Frances scrum is good
If your referring to the French Hugo heritage this comment is hilarious haha.
Now thats a forward pack
This pack won a world cup. They are to be revered and feared. So what the hell do they fear.?
Turns out Henry Tuilangi charging from 40m back.
Comfortably the scariest scrum of all time
One of the best scrums in springbok rugby history. I would like to see Os du Randt theiras a prop. Bakkies Botha and Victor Mattfield was for me the best combination in their position in world rugby.
Spies! 🔥
They had a mad back line tooo
One of the most epic matches ever
Pierre Spies has to be one of my all time favorite players. The dictionary meaning of Solid
Monster forward pack
The stuff of nightmares for any opposition team 😢
Legendary forward pack!
As I also a Kiwi Id have to say this forward pack would smash all teams in the world today!
This pack would be red carded today 😅
@@HemiJB91 it would because rugby has gone soft yet rugby league carries on as normal
@DivinaeMisericordiae77 trust me alot of sports has gotten soft just like the world itself. Can't be straight up with someone than it's harassment.
@@HemiJB91 yeah very true mate. It almost seems as tho we need wars to toughen us up and humble us again
These old graphics were so cool then. Terrible now 😂
Number 4 sounds like Noel Deyzel
Bakkies Botha has a deep voice.
Could you believe he was a fly half in high school lol his dirty as they come
Miss this team. Fkn beasts
What a monster pack
I have to say. Quite intimidating
Most physical game of rugby I have ever watched live.
Holy s**t thats an utterly frightening group!!! 😮😮😮😮
Bakkies.....🤕🇿🇦😯
Met school in real life when he was watching his some play hockey and that man was massive and to say he was massive he was massive I was around 180 cm when I was 12 and he just towered over me
I thought this was a key and peele sketch at first
Beast made me love rugby. He didn't give me a choice.
Hanzi, "Tendai Mtawriri, prop". Boyz 😄
I miss this Era of South African rugby
Spies was as fast as a centre
Legends. Absolute legends
The Classic between the best Rugby teams all times
All Blacks vs Springboks
maybe on this 2023RWC Boks are taking lead 4-3 becoming N°1
Bakkies Botha is so scary but he was a weopen
By the powers of GreySkull 😮
Go the Bokke
Much love from NZ
Botha the head smasher
That's enough for any opposition forward to crap himself.
That’s a team of hard tough men.
Golden age of springboks 2007-2013
2009, we were unplayable
Deadly
As an All Blacks supporter i concur you dont mess with that forward pack 😢
These are literally Gods... All of them
The beat goes hard
Wat is it
This. And Heinrich Brussow on the bench, who for one year was the best openside in the world and stole every mfing ball from the ruck. Damn.
Don't think I'd change much from this, except the double world cup winning back row, as the back row, Bakkies and Etzebeth can coin toss for the start and Ox on the bench if John Smit needed a lie-down.
Also. Best SA kit ever.
I remember burger from rugby 08
That scrum got destroyed with Jon Smit at prop.
Agree! Great captain and hooker, but not scary and not a tighthead
You're right, Gethin Jenkins and Adam Jones tore them apart in the second test
..and won the series 2/1🇿🇦 anyway.
@@RugbyManual Correct and how many more times the boks tore them apart in the scrums 😂
@@moinpatel9164 they didn’t with Jenkins and Jones in the front row🤷♂️
only schalk and pier spies
That foward pack would give you nightmares
Now the scrum is 15-strong, with Rassie's innovations ... and the only nation in the world with !at least! 2 international packs are the Boks ... scary indeed!
All legends
As a kiwi, I can say that’s a f+*%%n nightmare
its funny coz you see all these giant men and you think its over and then Pierre Spies shows up
Damn that scary
They look like they are spawning right out the fiery abyss of hell.
They were incredible
Why dont they do introductions like this anymore?
Their pack today is probably even better😭
Nah this pack is golden
Don’t think so…..
@loganwilliams Agreed. I grew up idolising these guys, so they are legends in my eyes. But I think the current Boks pack is unrivalled.
@@Leo_Kruger Ireland fairly rivalled them last week. Going for 60 yard no hope kicks instead of facing them down.
One of the scariest in one team would be interesting to see a dream team
8 lookin like jack reacher
2023 SA forward pack or these legends, who would you guys pick?
I'll go for the 2023 boys. Raw power, the old team is unrivalled. The new team has much more focus and technique though. What about your choice?
@@jacquesblomerus5166 Thats a great point with the new boys having better technique, as a front rower myself id agree with you. If i wanted to base my playing style off of either it would be the 2023 pack not saying the old boys arent good because they were insane!
Just casually the 2 best players in the scrum come from the bulls