Still the best lions series I've seen, better than 97. The team was immense. You forget how battered they got in the first test. Also that is some Australian team no rookies there. I feel nostalgic just watching it and it still puts the hairs up on the back of my neck. Look at the age of Guscott he hadn't even finished his GCSE;s probably. Thanks for the upload hike6 much appreciated.
The 1989 Lions pack of forwards is probably one of our best ever. The 97 Lions were not very good - in truth they got very very lucky and should have been beaten by 15 points in the second test. They played no rugby at all. The 1993 Lions and 2001 Lions who lost in NZ and Aus were far better sides than the 1997.
xpat73 Agreed, I think in 97 Geech had learned from not playing to your strengths. In 93 the all blacks had no back devision and 4 world class players in the pack, the rest of the side where strong club players nothing more. The decision to take them on up front was daft. The Al Blacks just lapped up the battle. I’m still sore about 2001.
Another unbiased commentary by the australians. What's wrong don't like loosing to a better team. Bloody hell if the gave the lions a compliment think they would shit themselves.
Australia take the lead once in the match. Then Campese ballses it up. Fat Australian commentator ' a mistake was the only way the Lions are going to get back into the game! Back in the game....? Australia were I the lead for about 1 minute. Love it.
Great result made all the better by the Brit hater Campese making a kiddy-type blunder to gift a try to the great lions.Hopefully he will never forget it.
Thanks for uploading. Games like this were far more entertaining than the games on show today and there was far more stars and unique players back then. For me rugby really went downhill from 2000 onwards, there have been glimpses here and there but few and far between
@Lordy6957 Completely agree the scrums are a shambles now. Watched a game between Scotland and Ireland from 1991, there was a knock on, the referee hurried the players over to the spot the scrum was formed fed and over in 11 seconds! Todays games ive seen scrums waste 150+ seconds. The game is slowly turning into a hybrid of league/American football.
Hard to believe only 3 of the Wallaby XV made the World Cup winning XV 2 years later (Campo, Lynagh, Farr-Jones). 4 of the forwards were in the extended squad but didn't make the final team (Miller, Cutler, Hartill, Crowley)
1989 was the first time a 3 match test series was played between the Wallabies and the British Lions. Previously the Lions would occasionally play the Wallabies in a 2 test series before touring NZ. Australian rugby had grown so strong in the 1980s that a separate tour by the Lions to Australia was fully justified. The 2nd and 3rd tests were close affairs but the Lions deserved to win the 3rd and series.
Campo giving the ref a mouthful and throwing the ball towards him at 1hr.10 is interesting given how much old players waffle on about modern players having a go at the ref
Not really. Because in 1989 they were not known as such. They only brought in the Irish part into the title in 1997. Anyway, there were no Irish players in this test line up....just Welsh, Scots and English! lol
how is there pandering towards the REPUBLIC of ireland. Do you not understand that the Irish are not British .So its offensive when you call us british. And how can you speak for 4.5 million people saying we don't respect the Northern Irish.
Watching this to compare the scrums to today's shambles. The front rows just get on with it, no "crouch touch pause" or "crouch touch set" or any of that nonsense! Also, the ball goes in straight! Says everything that this seems poignant when all it was was the rules being observed.
Ive been saying that for years! Im sick watching rugby internationals now where the scrums take 90-150 seconds to form for play to be restarted or either a free kick or penalty to be awarded. The scrums back then formed and were over in like 15 seconds! I think in each rugby international now at least 12 minutes per game is lost with scrums and about half as much with line outs as well, throw in to the mix time wasting with on field injury treatments and rolling on numerous subs the gane has been destroyed!
"Genius" McGeechan did not even pick Rob Andrew for this tour. He picked Chalmers and Paul Dean of Ireland. Andrew only came out when Dean went home early with a knee injury. When the Lions lost the first test with Chalmers playing 10 - Andrew was put in and the rest is history.
How could Campese be penalised for knocking the ball into touch when he caught it! The same way he scored a try in the 1987 world cup pool game against England without being in possession of the ball.
The Aussies can thank themselves lucky that the Welsh and Lions selectors overlooked the talents of the world's best scrum half of that time ie Dai Bishop of Pontypool. We in Wales all knew it regardless of club bias including Robert Jones! The Bish's only crime was playing his club rugby for the unfashionable valley's side of Pontypool as we at Pontypridd know only too well! If you want to get ahead, get yourself down to the cities of Newport, Cardiff and Swansea plus the delapidated but privileged one horse town of Llanelli.
I watched jones play and he was one of the best scrum halves in the world at the time, dai bishop was competitive and was a good kicker, but jones was a much better passer than bishop, quicker at the base, more creative and was a very good box kicker, Jones even won Wales player of the World Cup and Southern Hemisphere player of the World Cup shows how good of a player jones as a 9
Probably the best Lions pack ever: Young, Moore, Sole, Dooley, Ackford, Teague, Calder, Richards. Norster was actually dropped after the 1st test debacle - and he was seen as the best 2nd row in Britain and Ireland at that time. Winterbottom did not tour as he was injured....and Phil Matthews of Ireland was not picked for the tour which was a travesty. A victim of McGeechan's Scottish bias.
Norster was injured, if I remember correctly. I don't think Dooley ever won a lineout against him, but Dooley's particular "skills" (translate that as thuggery) were better suited to those internationals.As you can imagine, I'm not a fan of that man Dooley and Ackford was a far better sort of person and a fine player. My dislike of Dooley is most definitely not anti-english sentiment. He always seemed to me psychologically unsuited to police work and rugby. Also Finlay Calder was an excellent choice as flanker on that tour and I don't think bias came into it.
No Norster was dropped. The first test was awful. If I remember correctly from Brian Moore's book, McGeechan said "Wade you are in because you are big." Hardly a ringing endorsement. lol. Still they won 2 tests with Dooley.
It’s not the British Lions dude,it’s the British and Irish Lions,there are also Irish players on the team dudes! Ireland is a totally different country from Britain. Amen.
@Michaud Law LLC - Boston Personal Injury Attorney no dude,Ireland was always a different country to Britain,hence the British and Irish Lions dude. Amen.
@Michaud Law LLC - Boston Personal Injury Attorney no it wasn’t dude,Ireland is a totally different country from Britain,you’re a dinosaur dude stuck in the ‘Empire’ era,doesn’t exist anymore dude. Amen.
@Michaud Law LLC - Boston Personal Injury Attorney no dude,you’re trying to be a little clever clogs but you failed miserably dude. Ireland is a totally different country from Britain,which funnily enough isn’t a ‘real’ country,its artificial really to come to think of it dude. Amen.
@Michaud Law LLC - Boston Personal Injury Attorney Ireland is a totally different country to Britain dude,you’re just playing silly beggars dude,you just said it Ireland in rugby matters has it’s own team,totally separate from Britain,hence why it’s called the British and Irish Lions dude. Amen.
Ireland should never have joined the Lions - it has destroyed the national identity and spirit of the team. We're now in the farcical situation of having no anthem before kick off, when we used to have "God Save the Queen".
I notice that Dooley gives Cutler a couple of rib tickles at line-out times before all hell breaks loose. Good on you Sir!
Still the best lions series I've seen, better than 97. The team was immense. You forget how battered they got in the first test. Also that is some Australian team no rookies there. I feel nostalgic just watching it and it still puts the hairs up on the back of my neck. Look at the age of Guscott he hadn't even finished his GCSE;s probably. Thanks for the upload hike6 much appreciated.
The 1989 Lions pack of forwards is probably one of our best ever. The 97 Lions were not very good - in truth they got very very lucky and should have been beaten by 15 points in the second test. They played no rugby at all. The 1993 Lions and 2001 Lions who lost in NZ and Aus were far better sides than the 1997.
xpat73 Agreed, I think in 97 Geech had learned from not playing to your strengths. In 93 the all blacks had no back devision and 4 world class players in the pack, the rest of the side where strong club players nothing more. The decision to take them on up front was daft. The Al Blacks just lapped up the battle. I’m still sore about 2001.
Listening to the Aussie commentators saying this wasn't a very strong Lions side? Who should have played if that's true to make it even stronger?
Great to see proper line outs and competition in the ruck. Dooley and Ackford were v special - great shifts by 2 big fellas
Unwatchable
I seen this game live on TV 30 years ago. It was early in the morning over in Wales. Good old days.
The first British Lions test series to be shown live on UK TV and the only one broadcast live by the BBC.
Womens sport is all the BBC budget will stretch to these days 😞
Great footage of a classic but by crikey the two Aussie commentators can't half whinge.
Agree. The original one eyed cyclops Ozzie commentators.
Campo played well ,that pass to his own player at his goal line was classic ...
The Lions I remember. Great game Hastings !
Another unbiased commentary by the australians. What's wrong don't like loosing to a better team. Bloody hell if the gave the lions a compliment think they would shit themselves.
Australia take the lead once in the match. Then Campese ballses it up.
Fat Australian commentator ' a mistake was the only way the Lions are going to get back into the game!
Back in the game....? Australia were I the lead for about 1 minute.
Love it.
Great result made all the better by the Brit hater Campese making a kiddy-type blunder to gift a try to the great lions.Hopefully he will never forget it.
@@curleyteeth No never, he was still bitter about it in 2001, and even now in 2025
Thanks for uploading. Games like this were far more entertaining than the games on show today and there was far more stars and unique players back then. For me rugby really went downhill from 2000 onwards, there have been glimpses here and there but few and far between
Banning of rucking has destroyed the game. Also look how quick the scrums are, they take an age now.
@Lordy6957 Completely agree the scrums are a shambles now. Watched a game between Scotland and Ireland from 1991, there was a knock on, the referee hurried the players over to the spot the scrum was formed fed and over in 11 seconds! Todays games ive seen scrums waste 150+ seconds. The game is slowly turning into a hybrid of league/American football.
Interesting.....if an Aussie does it, it's skilful, but if a Lion does it it's "a fortuitous bounce".....Never thought of rugby that way.
Hard to believe only 3 of the Wallaby XV made the World Cup winning XV 2 years later (Campo, Lynagh, Farr-Jones). 4 of the forwards were in the extended squad but didn't make the final team (Miller, Cutler, Hartill, Crowley)
Seen them play against Western Samoa in the world cup of 91 down Pontypool park.
The Aussies weren't mugs. Their legends were out in force, too. A great game. Lots of nice sorting outs, proper scrums and proper line outs.
1989 was the first time a 3 match test series was played between the Wallabies and the British Lions. Previously the Lions would occasionally play the Wallabies in a 2 test series before touring NZ. Australian rugby had grown so strong in the 1980s that a separate tour by the Lions to Australia was fully justified. The 2nd and 3rd tests were close affairs but the Lions deserved to win the 3rd and series.
Campo giving the ref a mouthful and throwing the ball towards him at 1hr.10 is interesting given how much old players waffle on about modern players having a go at the ref
@57.30 is still the second half of the 3rd test....the 2-3 minutes before that is indeed the first test, don't know how they ended up here.
classic Mike Teague...tackle on ballboy...legend...and Scotland players involved in full...changed days!
@@chrisandrews8073 no smartarse kid was having the match ball. Imagine the uproar these days if a player did that!!
What a strange broadcast. Coming in at 9 all at half time and suddenly it's 15:6 to Australia at the restart.
That was a hard watch. Lots of heart and effort, but overall poor skills from both sides.
Lineouts half the time turn into scrums, knock on every few passes. All these epic games from the past were mostly unwatchable
I love the Tradition of Rugby👍🏻
Nth better than beating the Aussies in Australia. 2016 was glorious.
Jones rattled the shit out of Farr Jones
Rob Andrew kicked ball after ball.
Proper line outs with no lifting allowed.
Not really. Because in 1989 they were not known as such. They only brought in the Irish part into the title in 1997. Anyway, there were no Irish players in this test line up....just Welsh, Scots and English! lol
They weren't called the British and Irish Lions in 1989.....
xpat73 Too much pandering to Southern Ireland, especially annoying given they don't respect Northern Ireland.
how is there pandering towards the REPUBLIC of ireland. Do you not understand that the Irish are not British .So its offensive when you call us british. And how can you speak for 4.5 million people saying we don't respect the Northern Irish.
Thanks Campo!
1;14;48 Finley Calder knocks Greg Martin on his Arse.
Watching this to compare the scrums to today's shambles. The front rows just get on with it, no "crouch touch pause" or "crouch touch set" or any of that nonsense! Also, the ball goes in straight! Says everything that this seems poignant when all it was was the rules being observed.
Ive been saying that for years! Im sick watching rugby internationals now where the scrums take 90-150 seconds to form for play to be restarted or either a free kick or penalty to be awarded. The scrums back then formed and were over in like 15 seconds! I think in each rugby international now at least 12 minutes per game is lost with scrums and about half as much with line outs as well, throw in to the mix time wasting with on field injury treatments and rolling on numerous subs the gane has been destroyed!
One problem! The first half is this 3rd test...then at 57:25 it the second half....of the first test!!!
i love australian commentators - it's always someone else's fault
"Genius" McGeechan did not even pick Rob Andrew for this tour. He picked Chalmers and Paul Dean of Ireland. Andrew only came out when Dean went home early with a knee injury. When the Lions lost the first test with Chalmers playing 10 - Andrew was put in and the rest is history.
xpat73 nonsense
@@frankmckane5275 what's nonsense? Everything I posted is factually correct. Andrew was not picked for the tour's original party.
@@xpat73 classic lions tour selection, the 3rd choice does the job. Nothing wrong with original selections
The Mighty British Lions...
Campese - how we laughed
How could Campese be penalised for knocking the ball into touch when he caught it!
The same way he scored a try in the 1987 world cup pool game against England without being in possession of the ball.
"You don't wear the green and gold jersey to pull out that sort of Mickey Mouse rugby" LOL very angry commentator.
You can really see how unnatural passing was to Rob Andrew on this tour.
He was hard wired to kick every time. I pity his three quarters.
1:43min the ball boy gets taken out! 🤪
Btw, it REALLY should be 'British and Irish Lions' in the title.
No
At the time it was the British lions not British and Irish tho
Bedzy lfc - they lost the second test... it was against SA in 1974 that they were unbeaten...
yes..sorry i saw that after i posted!
You haven't got the whole of this tour on download have you???
The Aussies can thank themselves lucky that the Welsh and Lions selectors overlooked the talents of the world's best scrum half of that time ie Dai Bishop of Pontypool. We in Wales all knew it regardless of club bias including Robert Jones! The Bish's only crime was playing his club rugby for the unfashionable valley's side of Pontypool as we at Pontypridd know only too well! If you want to get ahead, get yourself down to the cities of Newport, Cardiff and Swansea plus the delapidated but privileged one horse town of Llanelli.
I watched jones play and he was one of the best scrum halves in the world at the time, dai bishop was competitive and was a good kicker, but jones was a much better passer than bishop, quicker at the base, more creative and was a very good box kicker, Jones even won Wales player of the World Cup and Southern Hemisphere player of the World Cup shows how good of a player jones as a 9
Probably the best Lions pack ever: Young, Moore, Sole, Dooley, Ackford, Teague, Calder, Richards. Norster was actually dropped after the 1st test debacle - and he was seen as the best 2nd row in Britain and Ireland at that time. Winterbottom did not tour as he was injured....and Phil Matthews of Ireland was not picked for the tour which was a travesty. A victim of McGeechan's Scottish bias.
Norster was injured, if I remember correctly. I don't think Dooley ever won a lineout against him, but Dooley's particular "skills" (translate that as thuggery) were better suited to those internationals.As you can imagine, I'm not a fan of that man Dooley and Ackford was a far better sort of person and a fine player. My dislike of Dooley is most definitely not anti-english sentiment. He always seemed to me psychologically unsuited to police work and rugby. Also Finlay Calder was an excellent choice as flanker on that tour and I don't think bias came into it.
No Norster was dropped. The first test was awful. If I remember correctly from Brian Moore's book, McGeechan said "Wade you are in because you are big." Hardly a ringing endorsement. lol. Still they won 2 tests with Dooley.
the great campese ha ha ha
Not so much blood this time.
Teague tackled a ball boy to get the ball!
Fantastically biased commentary lol
I have never ever heard such Comentaters comentating that their Team are so good and the Lions are not,what a load of BS 😂😂😂
is it me or england's 6 juste tackled a freaking kid @1:43:00 ???? and also, what happened to the rabbit?
Ieuan always looked so peed off whenever he scored
sorry u didnt win MATE
cool
25 stitches to nil...
Poor creature.
if you here to watch rugby, skip the first 11 minutes, it's a pile on sensationalist bollocks
It’s not the British Lions dude,it’s the British and Irish Lions,there are also Irish players on the team dudes! Ireland is a totally different country from Britain. Amen.
@Michaud Law LLC - Boston Personal Injury Attorney no dude,Ireland was always a different country to Britain,hence the British and Irish Lions dude. Amen.
@Michaud Law LLC - Boston Personal Injury Attorney no it wasn’t dude,Ireland is a totally different country from Britain,you’re a dinosaur dude stuck in the ‘Empire’ era,doesn’t exist anymore dude. Amen.
@Michaud Law LLC - Boston Personal Injury Attorney no dude,you’re trying to be a little clever clogs but you failed miserably dude. Ireland is a totally different country from Britain,which funnily enough isn’t a ‘real’ country,its artificial really to come to think of it dude. Amen.
@Michaud Law LLC - Boston Personal Injury Attorney Ireland is a totally different country to Britain dude,you’re just playing silly beggars dude,you just said it Ireland in rugby matters has it’s own team,totally separate from Britain,hence why it’s called the British and Irish Lions dude. Amen.
Best lions series you've seen? You are obviously British you don't have many winning series to choose from.
How the Lions smartly fucked the rules. Glad their crap has been exposed.
Ireland should never have joined the Lions - it has destroyed the
national identity and spirit of the team. We're now in the farcical
situation of having no anthem before kick off, when we used to have "God
Save the Queen".
isnt that engladshire's anthem
Too much kicking by Andrew ..