I’ve asked the bookies for odds on ireland being out by the quarters for every RWC in the next 16 years (until I retire), none of them will take the bet.......
As a South African, this match was painful to watch, but looking back on the match and watching Japan until the 2019 world cup, I’m in love with the Japanese play style.
Imagine that this country offers one of the most amazing masculine and feminine football as well. I'm glad to see them getting better and better at "Western" sports, this is healthy for those collective sports.
I am a Neath boy...Living in Japan. I was at the 2 2013 games,,,,,The Hanazono test had the best atmosphere of any game I have ever seen. I took my young half Japanese son to both of the games. Fast forward to the RWC game against Ireland. We went with several Japanese friends to the Wales v Georgia, Uruguay and the Japanese and ireland game,,,, My son Taiki and I had so much pleasure from that one....Squidge,,,,I am a neath boy through and through but dear God,,,the emotion after that game was incredible!! As always, thank you for your videos.
His World Cup record is amazing though. 2003: Australia in final 2007: South Africa win 2015: Japan the best team to not make it to the knock outs. (more wins than any other non-qualifying team in history) 2019: England in final Like him or not, you can't argue with those facts...
the ultimate underdog that everyone loves, the team that is everyone's favorite after there home team. If you are feeling low and you have too much on your mind, remember how japan achieved to beat south africa and it will help you go on
imagine I live in Brighton and could have got tickets to see this match, but my Dad thought it would just be a blowout and an uninteresting watch, so he bought tickets to Samoa vs USA on the next day. Still haven't talked to him since
That is nothing LOL my misses was waiting in her flat in LEWES To give birth to our First Born! And as I was watching game in BiH I was on a WhatsApp with her! AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY HEAR THE RAAAR OF A CROWD AS THEY WERE GOING MENTAL AT THE PLAYSE 😂!! I think that was a amazing game by Japan. I think it is time you FORGIVE YOUR FATHER!! And move on IM SHORE HE STILL BEATS HIM SELF UP COS OF THAT DECISION!!!
Funny enough i was working in Lewes tha day and dumped the van freshfield just round the corner from their base at brighton collage. Went on the p*** ended up in west street at the Walkabout the whole place was watching and it exploded. Like Mardi Gras afterwards so surprising.
Yeah I will always regret not getting tickets or even watching the game. I am from Brighton and had just moved back from university. I was working at my parents restaurant and didn't event think about tickets. Worst part is I was born in Japan and am part Japanese so have always been a blossoms supporter. Still annoys me that I didn't even think to check the game out
WC 2019, Rassie and Siya have finally made this wound start to heal for me as a Saffa. I can actually sit back and dig into this now where before I would have skipped straight over this one :)
Now that we are champions I can laugh it off. Was traumatizing at the time though I won't lie. I stopped watching the Boks for a while after that loss.
David had a sling, i.e. the most technologically advanced ranged weapon at the time. One crack to the forehead and Goliath was dead as a dodo. Edit: maybe this explains Japan well too, they had amazing preparation. Edit 2: haven't heard many people actually say this about D v G so I'm glad you did.
It's pretty much all from Eddie Jones' autobiography chapters where he outlines his entire coaching history with Japan and their defeat of South Africa (It's a great read). Squidge just puts it into perspective in such a brilliant way (Alongside his other research too!).
Aweome video dude. Japan is everyones second favorate team, there epic to watch and were amazing hosts. i hope you carry on with this topic untill present day
Great video from a bok fan amazing how u put these things together with zero bias a real professional better than most analysts on fox sports or supersport
Not all of them but a couple. I'm thinking he needs to make a book, website, real compilations vid... do something where all these quotes & stills can be seen because I'm not even that old but way too tired of pausing anymore on his level
As a South African this match is always hard to watch/remember - it broke the boks and it took Rassie to fix us. But damn if Eddie Jones didn't do something amazing with Japanese rugby! I'm eagerly awaiting the 2nd video.
Squidge and Two Cents rugby put up a video and I stop work to watch knowing it will be worth the catch up later.. I tried to get tickets for this game and even drove 250 miles to stay in Brighton in case there were returns. Ended up in a bar with a mate and both SA and Japanese supporters watching it unfold. The Saffas rightly confident, and the Japanese supporters happy to be there. The atmosphere during the game rivalled my watching England win in 2003, and that's not something I ever expected to happen. We spent the 24hours after the game in shock, while getting irresponsibly inebriated consoling Saffas and bowing in total respect to any Japanese we came across.
Next week! Damn it... that was really entertaining, enlightening and charming. Thank you as ever, have missed your videos so very much. keep up the amazing work.
I remeber watching that game live for no other reason than it being on between two games I wanted to see. I didn't actually start paying attentin until 20 minutes before the end and it was nail biting stuff once I realized what was happening
I was in Cardiff in 2004 when Wales beat (an admittedly understrength) Japan 98-0. They've certainly come a long way since then. They're a great team to watch. Unfortunately I missed the game in 2015 as I was moving house on that day. When my friend sent me a text to say that Japan had won, I thought he was just taking the piss!
It is the only Springbok loss I can bear reminiscing. Most of the times. In hindsight, the devastating yet honourable loss against Japan's supreme bravery in 2015 made the Bokke's successful RWC 2019 campaign more than epic. Beating Japan in the QF and Eddie Jones (and England as a bonus) in the final.
I went to this game, and I remember speaking to a South African dad with his kid on the train, which was his first South Africa game. We all said to them, that it should be an easy win for them. I still wonder how disappointed they were at the end of the game
I remember people saying it was going to be 100+ win for us. I countered with the facts that our line up for the particular match was very ad hoc, with the Eddie Jones factor, Jerome Garces factors too boot and the fact Japan was winning tier 1 nations that year (albeit at home to a Wales B team). I remember a poster telling me to put my money where my mouth was as the odds were 100/1. I should've just done it. But I countered that I certainly did not expect Japan to win but a 20 point margin was more reasonable than a 100. Missed opportunity there..
1:13 Buster Douglas v. Mike Tyson was 42/1 and some places wouldn't even take bets on Tyson. Japan to beat SA... 80/1. Incredible pay day for some brave soul!
The Boks were a mess leading up to this game, still favored to win but were not in a good space. I hope you talk about this. But as a South African I can't be mad at this video or the actual match. We needed it to spark what was needed to ultimately lose a close one to NZ
Correction. That Springbok side was not at all well coached. We had a coach who was trying to recreate a game plan from his past, with a team from the SA Rugby past and who was not even capable of getting his own players to adhere to the plan. After the game, several veterans including Victor Matfield, Schalk Burger and Bismarck du Plessis were mentioned as refusing to follow the game plan and thereby costing us the game. The selections were odd with a severely emaciated Jean de Villiers fresh back from injury and clearly unfit, taking over from Damian de Allende who was in the form of his life yet did not even make the bench. Kolisi was originally put on the bench as cover for flank, but when Willem Alberts was withdrawn at the 11th hour, Kolisi stayed on the bench and Pieter-Steph du Toit leapfrogged him from 'not playing' straight into the starting lineup, in a role he was not familiar with. At the time, PSDT was not a flanker but a second rower and it is interesting to note that two years after this, Coetzee was defending the fact that he (Coetzee) was selecting PSDT out of position at flank. It was not until Rassie arrived that PSDT became effective in that role. It was a tough time for SA Rugby, due to get worse when Meyer was replaced by Coetzee, and would only improve when Rassie was finally given the reins.
If you wanted to get really technical about it, Zimbabwe only qualified for one World Cup, as the participating nations in the inaugural edition were invited.
According to Malcolm Gladwell, David was always gonna beat Goliath... it's gets distorted because of the size issue. But David had a long distance weapon kinda like a sniper rifle of the time and Goliath depended on close combat. David only got close after the killer blow to cut off Goliaths head! David was always gonna win that fight! (I just realized you mentioned Gladwell Later in the video I originally wrote this comment when you first mentioned D v G).
If refs commanded the game like its supposed to be more teams would have to play the Japanese style as opposed to the new Exeter off your feet at the ruck style. God bless the underdog
Thanks @squidge - brought back memories of a fantastic day for all of us!! Shameless plug time: Anyone in London wanting to play rugby the Japanese way, hit us up! ljrfc.co.uk or ljrfcenquiries@gmail.com
This game turned me from a casual rugby viewer to a proper fan starting my proper love of the sport
'Or playing Ireland in a match with the label Quarter Final' - god, it hurts that this is so true
Right in the feels....
I'm Irish but I did giggle
i couldn't see the game that morning, but did it cross the back of my mind that japan were in a better place than ireland pre-match? ..ye
I’ve asked the bookies for odds on ireland being out by the quarters for every RWC in the next 16 years (until I retire), none of them will take the bet.......
As a South African, this match was painful to watch, but looking back on the match and watching Japan until the 2019 world cup, I’m in love with the Japanese play style.
Sam here, I was pulling my hair out in 2015 but they fully deserved that win
Same. I admire the Blossoms greatly.
Hope they never beat us again though. Unless they beat everyone of course. That would be something, Brave Blossoms, world champions.
I'm the same when they beat Ireland.
Imagine that this country offers one of the most amazing masculine and feminine football as well.
I'm glad to see them getting better and better at "Western" sports, this is healthy for those collective sports.
I am a Neath boy...Living in Japan. I was at the 2 2013 games,,,,,The Hanazono test had the best atmosphere of any game I have ever seen. I took my young half Japanese son to both of the games. Fast forward to the RWC game against Ireland. We went with several Japanese friends to the Wales v Georgia, Uruguay and the Japanese and ireland game,,,, My son Taiki and I had so much pleasure from that one....Squidge,,,,I am a neath boy through and through but dear God,,,the emotion after that game was incredible!! As always, thank you for your videos.
Eddie Jones is a guy who is somehow hard to like and impossible to hate.
His World Cup record is amazing though.
2003: Australia in final
2007: South Africa win
2015: Japan the best team to not make it to the knock outs. (more wins than any other non-qualifying team in history)
2019: England in final
Like him or not, you can't argue with those facts...
I didn't realise how much I was supposed to love Fumi Tanaka before this video but he's iconic
10:14 I love the 19-84 joke 😂😂😂😂😂
It's exactly 12 points more on both sides than the actual score
20:52 Explains why we keep seeing Ben Youngs in the England team under Jones.
I thought the exact same thing.
As in he's not good enough but he got in at the beginning so he's staying in?
Jones may change tacks after reading a book in which Gladwell would have tested the 10,000 hour premise against the sunk-costs fallacy.
the ultimate underdog that everyone loves, the team that is everyone's favorite after there home team. If you are feeling low and you have too much on your mind, remember how japan achieved to beat south africa and it will help you go on
As a South African, this crushed me BUT damn...it was beautiful to watch! Loved it!
That game was amazing! It was so touching to see the Japanese team and fans tear up 😍
This is the first time I've liked a vid before watching, and boy that is a decision I did NOT regret
imagine I live in Brighton and could have got tickets to see this match, but my Dad thought it would just be a blowout and an uninteresting watch, so he bought tickets to Samoa vs USA on the next day. Still haven't talked to him since
Wow.....did he get it so wrong
That is nothing LOL my misses was waiting in her flat in LEWES To give birth to our First Born! And as I was watching game in BiH I was on a WhatsApp with her!
AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY HEAR THE RAAAR OF A CROWD AS THEY WERE GOING MENTAL AT THE PLAYSE 😂!!
I think that was a amazing game by Japan.
I think it is time you FORGIVE YOUR FATHER!!
And move on
IM SHORE HE STILL BEATS HIM SELF UP COS OF THAT DECISION!!!
My dad applied for both game, luckily we got this one
Funny enough i was working in Lewes tha day and dumped the van freshfield just round the corner from their base at brighton collage. Went on the p*** ended up in west street at the Walkabout the whole place was watching and it exploded.
Like Mardi Gras afterwards so surprising.
Yeah I will always regret not getting tickets or even watching the game. I am from Brighton and had just moved back from university. I was working at my parents restaurant and didn't event think about tickets. Worst part is I was born in Japan and am part Japanese so have always been a blossoms supporter. Still annoys me that I didn't even think to check the game out
You know it's pretty nice for this video to come out this morning and not yesterday evening, this makes it your birthday present to me.
Happy Birthday!!! Hope you’re having a wonderful day, and you’re spot on, I made it entirely for you
@@SquidgeRugby I knew I could count on you to make my day even better.
WC 2019, Rassie and Siya have finally made this wound start to heal for me as a Saffa. I can actually sit back and dig into this now where before I would have skipped straight over this one :)
Now that we are champions I can laugh it off. Was traumatizing at the time though I won't lie. I stopped watching the Boks for a while after that loss.
Agreed. I’m also stoked that they beat Ireland so we can all now say, “Ja. You see. Not so easy hey?”
David had a sling, i.e. the most technologically advanced ranged weapon at the time. One crack to the forehead and Goliath was dead as a dodo. Edit: maybe this explains Japan well too, they had amazing preparation. Edit 2: haven't heard many people actually say this about D v G so I'm glad you did.
I wonder if Eddie Jones thinks it’s rugby
I see a new Squidge vid, I drop everything and watch it...
You and me both
@@DrHworthy Me too!!
@@DrHworthy ah, I see you're a man of culture as well
Your not alone
Facts
This was an extremely well researched, fantastic video mate. Really enjoyed it
It's pretty much all from Eddie Jones' autobiography chapters where he outlines his entire coaching history with Japan and their defeat of South Africa (It's a great read). Squidge just puts it into perspective in such a brilliant way (Alongside his other research too!).
@@overexpose_me sounds like a great read, might check that out. Thanks man
One match as South African that brought me close to tears. Your commentary is hilariously interesting
Aweome video dude. Japan is everyones second favorate team, there epic to watch and were amazing hosts. i hope you carry on with this topic untill present day
I'm absolutely in love with this coverage of that match and every time I watch 'Brighton Miracle' footage I get goosebumps
As an Irish fan I have develop a fear of quarters and now I can’t ever go to America
😂😂😂
Ya, you'll encounter a helluva lot over there: half of halves, pounders, chicken, mile...
Excellent. Nothing better than a wake up call to make you reinvent yourself!
John Kirwan's foundation work as the coach prior to Jones was also really important.
Spot on. No apologies needed for cultural stereotyping. Have yourself a Battenberg cake break before getting onto Part II.
As a South African this match still gives me PTSD. I can vividly remember the place, exact table and beer I was sipping when we lost this match.
You mean ''rugby is a game of communication mate.'' Great video.
Great video from a bok fan amazing how u put these things together with zero bias a real professional better than most analysts on fox sports or supersport
Can't wait for part 2 omfg
Top video. Your video style matches Japan's playing style really well.
This is your best video yet
Loved this video mate, but think I'll have to skip part 2 😅
There’s something wrong with this video, I was actually able to read a sentence without pausing.
What was that sentence?
He's trained you to read faster
Not all of them but a couple. I'm thinking he needs to make a book, website, real compilations vid... do something where all these quotes & stills can be seen because I'm not even that old but way too tired of pausing anymore on his level
As a South African this match is always hard to watch/remember - it broke the boks and it took Rassie to fix us. But damn if Eddie Jones didn't do something amazing with Japanese rugby! I'm eagerly awaiting the 2nd video.
Can't wait for part 2, great vid as always, thank you Squidge!
That bit with Eddy talking about rugby made the word rugby sound funny
Wow I actually saw you on the documentary, chasing the sun. Excellent stuff my guy
as a springbok fan i cried. as a rugby fan i cheered.
Squidge and Two Cents rugby put up a video and I stop work to watch knowing it will be worth the catch up later..
I tried to get tickets for this game and even drove 250 miles to stay in Brighton in case there were returns. Ended up in a bar with a mate and both SA and Japanese supporters watching it unfold. The Saffas rightly confident, and the Japanese supporters happy to be there. The atmosphere during the game rivalled my watching England win in 2003, and that's not something I ever expected to happen. We spent the 24hours after the game in shock, while getting irresponsibly inebriated consoling Saffas and bowing in total respect to any Japanese we came across.
I'm still not over this...
Great stuff Squidge, great to hear from you again.
Next week! Damn it... that was really entertaining, enlightening and charming. Thank you as ever, have missed your videos so very much.
keep up the amazing work.
I'm from New Zealand. We have a south African teacher and so when they won we all came to school in kimonos and flying Japanese flags. She cried
Wonderful insight once again, love watching your videos.
Fantastic stuff, cheers bro!
Can't wait for episode 2!
Bloody great video, thanks
Bloody brill dude, well done.
One of my biggest regrets: turning down a ticket to watch Japan v South Africa in my home town of Brighton as I thought it was would be a whitewash
Almost every great game ever, let alone miracles, in any sport, is the the weaker &/ away team going on to overcome that obstacle
Love everything you post. Just love the passion and your encylopedic knowledge! Keep up the great work.
I remember watching this match and oh my it was an entertaining to watch
I’m South African, so it wasn’t as exciting for me, but looking back from the match to the 2019 world cup, I’m in love with the Japanese play style.
Ahh i was missing these videos! 😍
Im dying for this next part squidge
phenomenal analysis mate. Thanks!
Good stuff, looking forward to P2. Also looking forward to Japan v Scotland - skipping that one is tantamount to trolling!...
Squidge this is brilliant
What a video
Keep up the good work
Part 2???? I've been counting down the days since last week Thursday.... ahhhhh
I remeber watching that game live for no other reason than it being on between two games I wanted to see. I didn't actually start paying attentin until 20 minutes before the end and it was nail biting stuff once I realized what was happening
You tease - left me on tenterhooks!
I am south african and it hurts to watch but I can't not love a squidge video
Best rugby analyst in the world
SO GOOD!
So good, thanks squidge
Squidge, if that is your real name! Amazing video!!!!!
I was in Cardiff in 2004 when Wales beat (an admittedly understrength) Japan 98-0. They've certainly come a long way since then. They're a great team to watch. Unfortunately I missed the game in 2015 as I was moving house on that day. When my friend sent me a text to say that Japan had won, I thought he was just taking the piss!
It is the only Springbok loss I can bear reminiscing. Most of the times.
In hindsight, the devastating yet honourable loss against Japan's supreme bravery in 2015 made the Bokke's successful RWC 2019 campaign more than epic. Beating Japan in the QF and Eddie Jones (and England as a bonus) in the final.
23 min video and it's only the first part! 🤤
Oh my god, I am so excited!
I went to this game, and I remember speaking to a South African dad with his kid on the train, which was his first South Africa game. We all said to them, that it should be an easy win for them. I still wonder how disappointed they were at the end of the game
Not clicked on a vid quicker
I remember people saying it was going to be 100+ win for us. I countered with the facts that our line up for the particular match was very ad hoc, with the Eddie Jones factor, Jerome Garces factors too boot and the fact Japan was winning tier 1 nations that year (albeit at home to a Wales B team).
I remember a poster telling me to put my money where my mouth was as the odds were 100/1. I should've just done it. But I countered that I certainly did not expect Japan to win but a 20 point margin was more reasonable than a 100. Missed opportunity there..
Excellent.
1:13 Buster Douglas v. Mike Tyson was 42/1 and some places wouldn't even take bets on Tyson. Japan to beat SA... 80/1. Incredible pay day for some brave soul!
4:28 "well coached" - Ermmmm, no.
I still love watching this game, the Japanese are the best winners to lose to.
The Boks were a mess leading up to this game, still favored to win but were not in a good space. I hope you talk about this.
But as a South African I can't be mad at this video or the actual match. We needed it to spark what was needed to ultimately lose a close one to NZ
Correction. That Springbok side was not at all well coached. We had a coach who was trying to recreate a game plan from his past, with a team from the SA Rugby past and who was not even capable of getting his own players to adhere to the plan. After the game, several veterans including Victor Matfield, Schalk Burger and Bismarck du Plessis were mentioned as refusing to follow the game plan and thereby costing us the game.
The selections were odd with a severely emaciated Jean de Villiers fresh back from injury and clearly unfit, taking over from Damian de Allende who was in the form of his life yet did not even make the bench. Kolisi was originally put on the bench as cover for flank, but when Willem Alberts was withdrawn at the 11th hour, Kolisi stayed on the bench and Pieter-Steph du Toit leapfrogged him from 'not playing' straight into the starting lineup, in a role he was not familiar with. At the time, PSDT was not a flanker but a second rower and it is interesting to note that two years after this, Coetzee was defending the fact that he (Coetzee) was selecting PSDT out of position at flank. It was not until Rassie arrived that PSDT became effective in that role.
It was a tough time for SA Rugby, due to get worse when Meyer was replaced by Coetzee, and would only improve when Rassie was finally given the reins.
If you wanted to get really technical about it, Zimbabwe only qualified for one World Cup, as the participating nations in the inaugural edition were invited.
Please review the Bledisloe cup ;)
4:01 what about the 2003 loss to England in the pool stages
A Dombrandt-vs-Wasps speed of first laugh
"actual footage"
😂😂😂
1984 😂😂😂
Bravo!
According to Malcolm Gladwell, David was always gonna beat Goliath... it's gets distorted because of the size issue. But David had a long distance weapon kinda like a sniper rifle of the time and Goliath depended on close combat. David only got close after the killer blow to cut off Goliaths head! David was always gonna win that fight! (I just realized you mentioned Gladwell Later in the video I originally wrote this comment when you first mentioned D v G).
If refs commanded the game like its supposed to be more teams would have to play the Japanese style as opposed to the new Exeter off your feet at the ruck style. God bless the underdog
SA were heavily off their game, Japan were heavily on their game. Japan scored more points than SA, so they won. Analysis complete.
Thanks Ken, see you next video.
@@SquidgeRugby good to see you in the straight and narrow. Best way.
I think this shows how the current England players are letting down Eddie Jones, and not Eddie Jones letting down the England players.
Brilliant
Quality
SUPER VID
The Beast still to Scale mate! LMAO!!
at the time of this game 3 japanese players have been plying their trade with Super rugby clubs
Nice:)
Anyone know how to watch the Chasing the Sun documentary from the UK?
I have literally spent the past 2 hours refreshing your channel waiting for part 2 I have a problem please help
Thanks @squidge - brought back memories of a fantastic day for all of us!! Shameless plug time: Anyone in London wanting to play rugby the Japanese way, hit us up! ljrfc.co.uk or ljrfcenquiries@gmail.com
Squidge Rugby, are going to make a review on Chasing the Sun?
Please write this as a movie script.
looks a lot like Randwick style of playing
Now, they have to beat New-Zealand and England.