3 crazy minutes for Fijian rugby
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ม.ค. 2015
- Trailing South Africa 20-6 and are down to 14 men with centre Seru Rabeni in the sin bin, Fiji look like falling to a large defeat during the Rugby World Cup quarter final in October 2007 at the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille.
However from out of nowhere Fiji launch an extraordinary attacking wave urged on by the crowd and in 3 minutes score 2 converted tries to level the scores after an hour's play. First wing Vilimoni Delasau chipped ahead to score a 50 metre individual effort. Then right from the restart fly half Seremaia Bai, full back Norman Ligairi, scrum half Moses Rauluni surge downfield with breaks and wing Sireli Bobo has enough momentum to finish.
Fly half Nicky Little who was badly injured at the end of the previous match against Wales and is serving as a pitchside pundit can barely gets any words out of his mouth afterwards. - กีฬา
As a sbok supporter that day i was nearly dead bec off heartattack and fg was brilliant, all credit to fg👌
me too mate haha
Love the Fijian style of rugby, greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 💚
Absolutely true, agreed 100%
I love yours mate to Ireland and the plays lovely to watch magic rugby
@@kalusicirikiwai7053 thank you 🙏
We're proud of the lads and management of our seniors and under 20s.
Tough draw in the world cup but sure they'll take it one game at a time.
Best of luck to Fiji, looking forward to seeing them play 👏👏
How can anyone dislike Fijian rugby?
Flying Fijians
I was in the stadium with my dad that day... arguably one of the craziest games I attended to :)
Wow...im Fijian.
How was the atmosphere in the stands..Must have great
New Zealand and Fiji are always top of my list for breathtaking rugby 🏉 😀
Agreed
Always Fiji , and sometimes France
What a heart touching tries from Fiji which gives so much happiness for my country. I love my country. Fiji Fiji Fiji..
True words.
I was there that day, having bought tickets in anticipation of watching Wales play SA, not Fiji. (I also went to the Wales Fiji game the week before, which was an equally magnificent game of rugby). When Fiji scored these two tries, we genuinely thought that they could win. Fair play then to South Africa for closing the game out really well, and keeping this extraordinary Fijian team at arms length for the last twenty minutes. Very easy to speculate now, but I wonder how far Fiji might have gone in the tournament if they’d picked Rupeni Caucaunibuca in their squad...
These 3 minutes are so crazy that they’re over 6 minutes long
😂😂😂
😅
I guess it's three mins of play
Three minutes of play. The clock stopped after each try while the play was reviewed.
Clock stops mate when try scored
I have played VII aside and V aside with Fijians.
Man when the ball is given, you run for your life till Kingdom come.
The most gutsy Fijian team ever in Rugby history
RIP LOMU
@@stevethea5250 Lomu was Tongan, not Fijian lol
for real, the 2019 Team was the most stacked but the players didnt care for shit about playing
They didn’t win what makes it gutsy. Back in the days Fiji team use to best big teams
So true....😍
Man, Fiji style rugby is so great to watch. It's so sad that their game has changed to a "normal" rugby style
Well they kinda had to cos their Fijian style of rugby,while very entertaining,it was also limiting.
BULAH FIJIANS! LOVE FROM PALAU🇵🇼
I was there - what a match. The SA fans - unlike the Aussies - were friendly and we had a good beer and laugh with them after the match.
Australians are worst
They are worst of all
The worst you can get😂
@@kunalnagarkoti4409 not until you deal with new Zealanders. . The ole passive aggressive folk. .
Mate you don’t know the Australians they’re the best of the bunch and accept everyone especially the islanders
The Ref is like "take your time on the replay, I need a breather".
Leigh Foulkes nope the ref is like...I don't wanna award this try cause this team the reason why my home country ain't playing in this match....typical referee being biased as always.. can't expect much since they're always so threatened by Fiji..I mean come on did anyone watch the 2015 world cup???
....hahahahahahaha.....
Hahahahaha
@@vilitativasuca4208 what's ref country
@@vilitativasuca4208 its not the ref its the tmo
like nicky little said, this is fiji style.. they always run with the ball from anywhere on the field. now theyre adopting the overseas style of play like kicking the ball away one too many times.. cmon fiji stick to your way of playing.. support from Ireland.. BOOLAH!!
wow nicky little teaches me rugby
so true
Isa Radiriki he said Bula with Gaelic accent
Isa Radriki BOCI 😂
Marcus indeed
what a game from the Flying Fijians always an entertainment to the crowd
This is the best and balanced fiji team to any world cup....they put their body on the line everytime they play at this world cup....vinaka boys and hope for the best
I love the Fijians, so entertaining 👍👍
Thanks
This popped-up on my TH-cam suggestions List, and as a rugby lover, I watched it.
What a simply fabulous display of all that is good about heads-up rugby.
Then it dawned on me..
I know why what happened next, proved so easy to predict.
I was there ....
A lucky SOB - I agree !
i remember watching this game and when fiji tied the game at 20 20 everyone in the house went nuts!!! hahahaha
Being 1 man and 14 points down then just casually scoring 2 beautiful tries like it's nothing might just be the most 2007 Fiji thing possible
The best world Cup to date. Fiji was my team of the tournament, had a lot of unknowns in their squad roster. But they put their hand-up and showed the rugby world what they are capable of doing. Samoa did this in 2011, just goes to show what these Pacific Island nations can do with the right preparation.
+Bruce Tree Unfortunately the system is built to stop any progression ever happening with the island teams, Australia and NZ literally hours apart on travel but never seem to play each other. It's all money
+Farah Fawcett Are you referring to how the teams are set in the pools or just in general rugby?
+Morgan Johnson General rugby as a whole
Samoa did it in '91 too!!
Bruce Tree difference eds
2021 and still coming back to this
That's the rugby I want to watch, not a scrum fest or boring maul after maul.
Fiji is the future of Rugby League & Union!
I was there ! It was amazing ! Everybody support fidji on the game !
I got fended off by api naevo once they did a switch play and he fended me off from like two meters away
Excellent Will Greenwood commentary
Good for the Fijians as they know how to play entertaining rugby as they did then
Never, EVER count Fiji out. There’s no one better at running rugby.
no Fiji Team have beaten the outstanding performance of the 2007 rugby world cup Fiji Team from then till now still no team have reached the quarter final like the way they did... this is Fijian rugby at its best
What d'you think now, considering the sevens?
I second you Alistair.. Totally agree with you, no Fiji team has ever beaten the 2007 world Cup team
Alistair Thompson they're good, but not very good...
1987 team reached quarterfinals also
@@utikonabunobuno3537 no rugby
Fiji RUgby Union should show this to the boys before they leave for England!
Commentator: that was absolutely manufactured from nothing..
*that's what you call natural flair mate*
Man it's Will Greenwood RWC winner with England, he knows his business.
Poetry. I love watching the springboks on the back foot . Pretty to watch
still remember when this game was played...a lot of energy flowed around those watching the game at home....
This was the best Fiji team to date.. The one that is coming is better. Pool of death indeed
8 minutes of that 3 minutes is Nigel Owens checking TMO
I’m still trying to work out if that’s really Nigel Owens.
Anyway Fiji had some seriously underrated players like Delasau and Bai
Nigel Owens? Where? Nah.
Wasn't Nigel Owens the video referee?
@@paulbradford8240 Yes. Alan Lewis was the referee we were seeing.
1:16 Fijian Princess 😘😍🇫🇯
Once Fiji are on in the mood and on a roll they can be devastating with sublime pace power and skill
I still get goosebumps every time I watch this....
Great stuff FIGI
Well it's a great shame and a disgrace on New Zealand and Australia and also the wider Rugby World, that Samoa, Tonga and FIGI and others don't get a fair deal, or a better deal, or a better or more equal share of the spoils, and that has to change
all that happened while begin a man down...
Delasau was an awesome winger in this tournament
DavSav93 The thing about Delasau is he didn’t really shine at club level but in Internationals he always went up a few notches
The best Fiji 15s team
Fijians big hearts shine thru in their love for life and rugby 😁😁👍👍👍👍👍👍
I wish I could be in the stadium this day.
Fiji - Best Rugby Team in the World! Go Fiji!🏃♀️👏👏👏🏃♂️
I watched this game in a big tent on a rugby ground. 5 villagers all cramped in to watch.
When the 1st try got scored, all the young men , we ran around the rugby ground. We came back just to time the conversion. Than the second try. I got bitten by a dog during the whole commosion. I didnt care, it didnt hurt. I was so pumped in adrenaline. Good luck to the Fiji team 2023. I know they can do the same or even better.
Fiji should've told the guy off the field not to come back on.
Live commonwealth games 7 aside rugby
Hahahaha
And Fiji bombed 2 tries after this!
Hope n glory...FOR FIJI..EVER FIJI...
Watching from year 2023..Fiji is through to the quarters
Nicky Little in tears is what I love about this game
This is what rugby is!
tractoriste53 , that’s what sevens is.
Crazy that South Africa will eventually win the 2007 RWC.
Imagine if Rawaqa scored that try
After that Rawaqa nearly scored a try, they went to the video ref but he was just held up. I think if fiji scored that they would have won the game
***** true
It was the turning point. I just wished Rawaqa had changed his ball carrying hand.
That linesman has some serious pace hahaha
omg the tmos were awfull in that match the amount of time it took them
you say that but look at Nigel Owens now
Everybody loves the plucky underdogs sticking it to one of the best in rugby :)
Play 7's in a 15's match - that's Fiji, that's how it's done!!
Wow rugby is truly an amazing sport here in the USA we have ice hockey and American football but this, this is just amazing it is a combination of soccer (futbol) and American football it is amazing
American Football actually derives from Rugby
16 years later Fiji score 14 points in a couple minutes against England in the RWC Quarterfinal to tie the game.
What as brilliantly crazy World Cup that was!
fiji does that with whats available after players are lured by clubs and other nations and with a little choice of players, what if these island nations who feed players all over the world were like new zealand, rugby is played with power and pace and the islanders are born with it
This was the most 6minutes 52 seconds feeling 3minutes of my life
They said the first try was manufactured from nothing, but you can see at 0:35 they had a two man overlap. No wonder Montgomery was arguing with Fourie after the try, they had a man advantage yet somehow Fiji created a two man overlap. Montgomery had to come up which left them exposed with no fullback, which is why Delasau chipped ahead knowing there was no one back there. So not really as flukish as it first seemed. It was smart rugby.
hahaha I love this commentator. Talking like a proper rugby fan!
RIP Filimoni Delasau...
incredible try
I’m from Fiji aye
The referee looks like Jeremy from river monsters
Basically 2 sevens teams 😂
Hahaha yeah true wait who won that world cup though? Wait it was Africa lmao yeah sevens Team ay
I don't know where your from but I'm pretty sure that every rugby country has a sevens team
The joke was fiji were down to 14 men and the South African captain said after it's like they had two sevens teams when they had 14 men
He's a bit slow
Jacks Johnson yeah..true....the commentator even said that....
Fan-taki o Burger...sa jinaaaa!!!
Nice discription
South Africa won that match and the world cup 🎉
Best team ever
Great rugby. Shoulda shown the end...
1:00 My man is using Binoculars 😂😮
Did that small guy handed of Schalk Burger?
Deon Van der Westhuizen I think Burger is use to tackling much bigger players he couldn’t adjust in time lol
Isa Seru Rabeni..RIP
How many times does the tmo need to check. Slowed down Fijian momentum
That weekend three world champion sides nearly got dumped
You arent a true rugby fan if Fiji aren't your second team
Mine Is first....
Or Japan
If the fiji team was still like this...
Great!
Back when rugby was good to watch
👑🔥 SEVENs KiiNGZ 🔥👑
♧FIJI♧
Mother, why i'm not fijian ?
No one:
French public: heeeeeeee
Great Fiji comeback to quickly erase a 14-point lead. Unfortunately, they ended up losing by 17.
only fiji can do this
Team tactic. Give it to Delasau
We don’t play structured rugby
We play Fiji Style 🤗
Wow
I was there in the bakihg hot sun, alas, I was behind the posts at the other end, so we had an awful view, we were all going mad though, as England were still alive and very much kicking despite being humiliated by the Boks in the group stage, and we could sense a shock exit before the South African front row took charge to close the game out.
Best moment of the weekend, was when England had dealt with Australia, despite us all thinking we had no chance, as we walked back from the stadium, there was a pre printed banner saying 'England World Cup Champions,' and they had written in black felt tip the word 'still' between England and World.
Second bext moment was watching France despatch the might All Blacks on TV.
How the hell England got to the final is beyond me, and then they very nearly won it.
I thawt this "3" minutes was going to include the nearly Fijian try when their winger was stopped by a great tackle by the SA wing JP Petersen. Over the line.
I think that would have made it 25-20 to Fiji with a difficult conversion from the touchline.There were about 18 min left. Hoo knows what would happened.
Stressful period for SA supporters back home.
The 2007 world cup commentators sounds like 5 guys watching the game on their couch
The best Fijian Rugby side that played in the World Cup.I think that Fiji could have won that game if Rabeni would have not drop the ball and if Ifereimi Rawaqa feet were still in the field of play.
P
Oh, Nigel Owens was the TMO? Explains why decision took so long. He had to check his name had been said on TV
that was Fiji's game...they should have won...