Best England v Australia Match

[Moses]

The British Independant has a great story showcasing what they judge to be the top 10 Cook Cup matches.

Surprisingly for a British paper they've picked a good mix of games that were won by both teams.

 

[RugbyReg]

Not the best match, but I voted 98. I was there, it was fun. Poor XXXX push up men were destroyed. A radio promotion in which they would do a push up for every Wallaby point scored. So we score our first converted try, they do 7. Ou next, they do 14. They were doing star jumps at the end.

Significant also for being Bernie's first game at 10 and for setting us on the path for 99 after a shocking 97.

 

[Biffo]

I enjoyed Sydney in 1963 and 1991 more than most of those listed.

 

[Scarfman]

2003.

Was there.

Can't talk about it. Gutted with a very blunt and rusty knife.

 

[Biffo]

2003.

Was there.

Can't talk about it. Gutted with a very blunt and rusty knife.

Not very good at cleaning out, Scarfie

 

[Ash]

Not the best match, but I voted 98. I was there, it was fun. Poor XXXX push up men were destroyed. A radio promotion in which they would do a push up for every Wallaby point scored. So we score our first converted try, they do 7. Ou next, they do 14. They were doing star jumps at the end.

Significant also for being Bernie's first game at 10 and for setting us on the path for 99 after a shocking 97.

I still remember Bray's quote: "And sanity prevails for the push up boys!". I thought they moved onto situps pretty early on, actually. I'm sure they had some form in that, having "performed" in other high scoring games at Ballymore?

One reason I look at that 98 game fondly was the starting Australian lineup - I still regard that as one of the best Australian teams that ever took the field. Many many world class players or who would develop into one...compare that to now, and it's a little sad.

 

[Ash]

Oh, and how about that awarded no-try after the siren off a cross field kick? He dropped that ball. Admitted it later, too. Cost us the game. We also had one or two? players in the bin at the as well, I think.

Props to anyone who can remember the name of the English winger and the game I am referring to.

 

[Biffo]

Oh, and how about that awarded no-try after the siren off a cross field kick? He dropped that ball. Admitted it later, too. Cost us the game. We also had one or two? players in the bin at the as well, I think.

Props to anyone who can remember the name of the English winger and the game I am referring to.

Dan Luger, Twickenham, November 2000?

 

[Ash]

Dan Luger, Twickenham, November 2000?

Yeah, that was too easy. It was awarded by a video ref too. Bleh.

 

[Biffo]

Dan Luger, Twickenham, November 2000?

Yeah, that was too easy. It was awarded by a video ref too. Bleh.

A mate of mine commented later about the Wallabies: "they were robbed but they deserved to be robbed". apt.

 

[Scotty]

Had to vote for 2003. Watched it in a pub in Leeds, we were the only 4 Aussies in the place (hadn't found the Aussie pubs yet), but we were looked after by the locals (except for the few bandwagon jumping league/football fans in the place).

 

[fatprop]

The best rugby I think I have ever seen England play was Melbourne 2003, they were just devastating power all night.

2003 in Sydney was just epic as well, but 1991 for me. Middle of the night cheering them home. :thumb

 

[Pfitzy]

Dan Luger, Twickenham, November 2000?

Yeah, that was too easy. It was awarded by a video ref too. Bleh.

Controversy arose after that match when it was revealed that the TMO asked for another angle (the ones from behind strongly favouring Luger) and the OB director said there wasn't one, which was preposterous given the number of cameras tracking the ball. The other angle showed Luger lose it.

 

[Biffo]

Dan Luger, Twickenham, November 2000?

Yeah, that was too easy. It was awarded by a video ref too. Bleh.

Controversy arose after that match when it was revealed that the TMO asked for another angle (the ones from behind strongly favouring Luger) and the OB director said there wasn't one, which was preposterous given the number of cameras tracking the ball. The other angle showed Luger lose it.

As we have seen several times from a few angles.

John O'Neill (that devil incarnate, don'cha know) wrote to the RFU (ERFU to the rest of us) a couple of times to ask for the video taken from in front of Luger. Never got a reply. Surprise, surprise.

Yes, O'Neill WAS making mischief - he had already seen the video he was requesting. Well done, that man.

 

[cyclopath]

I also vote Sydney 1991 (I know it aint on the list) - I was there and loved it. A clinical demolition.
RWC final 2003 is close - watched it in a pub in Melbourne with an English mate - I had a great night (apart from the result) and he suffered due to the weight of expectation and never really relaxed enough to enjoy the victory, but what a contest, and for me the best RWC final for theatre and atmosphere. Even if the wrong team won.

 

[Biffo]

I also vote Sydney 1991 (I know it aint on the list) - I was there and loved it. A clinical demolition.

Rob Andrew later wrote something to the effect of ... "at the end of the game, we thought we had played some of our best rugby ever and we looked up at the scoreboard and saw we had lost 40-15".

 

[Lindommer]

I also vote Sydney 1991 (I know it ain't on the list) - I was there and loved it. A clinical demolition.

Rob Andrew later wrote something to the effect of..."at the end of the game, we thought we had played some of our best rugby ever and we looked up at the scoreboard and saw we had lost 40-15".

The best game I ever saw us play against the Pomlandians. A mate very kindly organised for Her Majesty and I to enjoy corporate seats at the SFS on the eastern side, front row of the top deck and right on half way. And then he gave me the same tickets for the ABs match a few weeks later, the one when Willie O buried Michael Jones at every breakdown and Rob Edgerton snatched the pill out of John Kirwan's fingertips to score that marvellous try under the posts.

Rugby doesn't come much better. What's happened to Oz rugby?:'( :'( :'(

 

[cyclopath]

I also vote Sydney 1991 (I know it ain't on the list) - I was there and loved it. A clinical demolition.

Rob Andrew later wrote something to the effect of..."at the end of the game, we thought we had played some of our best rugby ever and we looked up at the scoreboard and saw we had lost 40-15".

The best game I ever saw us play against the Pomlandians. A mate very kindly organised for Her Majesty and I to enjoy corporate seats at the SFS on the eastern side, front row of the top deck and right on half way. And then he gave me the same tickets for the ABs match a few weeks later, the one when Willy O buried Michael Jones at every breakdown and Rob Edgerton snatched the pill out of John Kirwan's fingertips to score that marvellous try under the posts.

Rugby doesn't come much better. What's happened to Oz rugby?:'( :'( :'(

I was opposite you for both, Lindo. On the 50m mark against the Poms (don't ask how, still have no idea how I got there) and not far away against the Blicks. May not have noticed me, I had hair then!! :lmao:

 

[Biffo]

Ain't it grand that we have some old codgers on this board whose memories, fading and distorted though they be, go back way before 2003?

First really big game I saw was Wallabies v poms at the Sydney Sports Ground on a horrible wet winter day in 1963. Attendance of 7,000. That was the poms' first-ever appearance in Australia.

 

[Lindommer]

The Sports Ground? MMmmm? Well, I wasn't there, Biffo, you say you were. In those days the Tahs played visiting teams at the Sports Ground and Australia played tests at the SCG.

You sure?