I hate when commentators say shit like that “Nobody wants to witness these type of scenes”
Yes they fuckin do.
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tjhat’s nothing compared to this, albeit only a meaningless friendly game
Paddy Johns sorted put Teichmann good an proper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hekw9Q0b_eI
Trevor Brennan’s introduction at 2mins is epic
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This is World Cup memories mickee, but that was a splendid one. Here’s big Trev sorting out Toutai Kefu
Again, non-World Cup, but a good one. Frano meets his match. I’d love to have pintys with Frano.
You hear similar shit in the Intl Rules horseshit. No one tunes in for anything else
That was in Dunedin.
That doyen of rugby commentators the great Stephen Jones has been highly critical over the years of the quality of cuisine in New Zealand. He reserves particular opprobrium for a local delicacy, pumpkin soup.
Can’t find a video of it but the 1999 game against Australia was outstanding in that when Ireland came out for the second half they simply decided to kill the time waiting for their opponents to return by getting around in a circle and gaining an aul singsong. Great memories.
During my ill-fated sojourn in Sydney last year, I stayed a block away from this stadium, the Concord Oval, and made a point of visiting it to see where this try was scored and where the great Mick Doyle coached Ireland for the final time. What a memory.
that’s astonishingly good TV
Real rugby people* used to watch Rugby after Dark on a sunday night where you had high quality analysis and discssion from the likes of Mick Doyle and Edmund Van Esbeck…
(* i refer to those who attended MSL games between Highfeld and Sundays well in the late 80’s and those who are staunch Wanderers and Landowne members , not the event junkies who packed out Tom Clifford Park and disgraced themselves in 1992 when Young Munster won the All Ireland League and guffawed when Popey got the line) ,
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O’Gara choking in 2007.
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Young Munster actually won the AIL in 1993, mickee, and it was at Lansdowne Road they clinched it in the cliffhanging final match of the season against St. Mary’s, shown deferred and in full on Sports Stadium. I made a point of not going to it as I knew the event junkies would be all over it.
Severo Koroduadua dropping the ball in the 1987 quarter final with the line at his mercy at a time in the game when Fiji were in the ascendency and looked like they could sensationally beat France.
The world cup when the Irish lost that big game is a personal favourite memory of mine.
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The performance of Namibia against a powerhouse nation like Ireland back in 07 proves how global the game of rugby truly is
who won it in 92 then? was it Cork Con down in Dooradoyle?
That was 1991.
Garryowen won it in 1992.
Augustin 
Who is hosting this thing??? And what’s the opening game?
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Ouch. Actually, not ouch.
Perhaps the “rugby family” could do something for this poor, unfortunate chap? Nah.
Just 1 minute into the Rugby World Cup match between Ivory Coast and Tonga in Rustenburg in June 1995, Ivorian winger Max Brito tracks back to catch a kick from Nafe Tufui he then gets tackled by Inoke Afeaki and then several Tongan forwards pile into the ruck and Brito suffered broken vertebrae and was left paralysed below the neck.
In a 2007 interview with Le Monde he said “It is now 12 years since I have been in this state. I have come to the end of my tether… If one day I fall seriously ill, and if I have the strength and courage to take my own life, then I will do it…This bloody handicap - it’s my curse. It kills me and I will never accept it. I can’t live with it and it’s going to be with me for the rest of my life.”