I was in standard 5, Junior school, remember being totally blown away and fascinated by these super Rugby players from New Zealand, that's when I became a Life long supporter of the All Blacks, even made a scrap book with all the newspaper articles and photos ❤️
Incredible memories, I was 15 years old, it was the first time we could watch Test matches live from South Africa, all the other games were on the radio, I took in every one. Amazing rivalry with referring which was interesting to say the least. Will never forget Morgan's try, a classic ABs moment. Boks v ABs, still the ultimate for me.
Similar memories for me! I recall delayed B&W TV highlights of the earlier tour by Lochore's ABs in 1970, although I was very young then, but also getting up in the middle of the night as a teenager to watch these matches in '76. Players like Going, Kirkpatrick, Williams were my boyhood heroes. Joe Morgan's try came out of nowhere, and Super Sid's goalkicking was a revelation in this match. The third test was a disaster with the Fawcett blunder leading the Oosthuizen try, and the awful incident involving Peter Whiting's ear. The Ellispark test featured the controversial non penalty try award with the clash of the two Robertsons. It all seems like only yesterday.
@@sakabula2357 You can see the incident in this video of the game czcams.com/video/Az31E_EKEVk/video.html Advance to 1:05:07 and watch as Springbok lock van Heerden (#5) jumps into the ruck and scrapes Whiting's ear off the side of his head. Then the Newlands crowd slow clap the All Blacks for taking too long to get Whiting's ear bandaged. He had his ear sewn back on properly after the match. The ABs didn't have any suitable replacements so he had to continue playing. That's the way it was back in those days. On the 1970 tour Colin Meads played more than 70 minutes of a match against Eastern Transvaal with a broken arm.
Couldn't agree more, the game is so patterned and predictable today, with so many stoppages for TMO interference as we are forced to watch 15 different camera angle slo-mos, scrums being repeatedly reset, penalties being converted into even more scrums, red cards reducing the game to a 15 v 14 non-contest, pedantic rulings, decisions being overturned, super-pumped athletes being benched and replaced merely because they are tired. Except for the aerial pingpong, it is very much like league, players from both sides being fanned out across the field, but with an unlimited tackle count. When a team gets inside their opponent's 22, the defending side inevitably infringes and there's penalty advantages, followed by either driving mauls from lineouts or more scrums, and possible yellow cards and penalty tries as these maneuvers are near impossible to defend against without somehow infringing. And indeed you're right, they call still call them rucks but there is no rucking. JJ Stewart would be turning in his grave. :)
I was there that day,sitting in the commentator’s box with my schoolmate from Wellington College Keith Quinn. Unfortunately a week or so later at Ellis Park a South African ref stole the 4th test from a far superior All Black side. Thank god those days are over RIP Keith Murdoch You were one of New Zealand’s greats
The South African Rugby Union was so desperate to have the all Blacks tour in 1976 that they even offered the NZRFU neutral referees for the Tests. The NZRFU turned the offer down and that was the moment when New Zealanders knew that the All Blacks were never going to win the series. South African referees traditionally had a reputation that made touring teams feel like they were playing sixteen in the opposing teams. Thing balanced out more fairly once the rules were changed to make neutral referees in Tests mandatory for all countries.
@@MarsFKA FYI The Boks were undefeated in Test Series for 55 years in a row home AND away. They won a series in NZ in 1937. If they were impossible to beat in South Africa but could not beat an egg outside of South Africa you may have a point but that is not the case. In 1992 out of all the Five Nations teams only England had beaten them in Europe. Wales even with that Brilliant 1970's team never beaten the Boks until 1999. France had won in South Africa but never in France at that stage. SA had the best record home and away out of all rugby teams in 1992. Use some logic based on real results - not bitter scapegoats and the Boks did not get up to tricks like jumping out of lineouts to win games. Its was all graft and sweat.
Joe Morgan ( Mid Northern club mate of super Sid ) old school player, score a test try, up and straight back to halfway, no high fives, or pointing to the heavens.
@@alanhayward8237 Ir wasnt a short while.When Joe Karam the AB fullback defected to league NZ took years to find a reliable kicker. In that period every one got a shot .
It was nuts back then, the further back you go the more rediculous it was, like no pads on the posts, no advertising signs the players run off into the crowd after scoring, people sitting down on the sidline lol 30:000 spectators and 1 cop on each side of the feild
I note Keith Quinn mentioning AB captain Andy Leslie playing his 8th test. Leslie was in his 3rd season here, having debuted against the Wallabies in 1974 and playing in every AB test since. If this was in the modern era, with teams playing 13-14 tests per year, Leslie in his third season and having played every match he was up for would be in about his 32nd test. How times have changed.
These 10 Tests including this series Australia (A) 3 Tests 1974 Ireland (A) 1974, Scotland (H) 1975 (The All Blacks only played 1 Test match in 1975), 1976 Ireland (H) South Africa (A) 4 Tests
O wow. What memories. I watched this at 15 and can clearly remember Morgan's try (of course) and Eveleigh playing like a man possessed even though he'd replaced Stewart whom I adored. We should have at least drawn that series. The refereeing was to fault but NZ turned down neutral refs! Interesting to see wingers throwing the ball into the lineout. And Going kicking for goals?? We picked Mains as a specialist fullback and he didn't play any tests. He wasn't a great fullback, sure, but he was the only goal-kicker.
The year I was born, these teams would get blitzed by a club side these days they give possession away so readily, that's nuts, southland once held possession of the ball for 20 minutes to run the clock down because they were ahead by 2 points vs counties for the ranfurly Shield, Auckland would hold possession of the ball for as long as possible and run it up , look how long the held the sheild from 1985 till 1994
@@antstry77 No way?? Was this Free State Stadium mainly seated or standing room only? I remember it from the early 90s with the athletics track, but the stands seemed much smaller than what I can see here
@@mdjcsmith it was mainly seating room, from what I remember during my visits in the 80's and early 90's. You are right, it was the same one with the athletics track which made way for the new Free State Stadium built for the 1995 RWC. I think they might have used additional temporary stands for the tests vs NZ in 1976 and the Lions in 1980, but don't hold me to that!😉
Joe Morgan played out of his skin in this game. Beegee, Super Sid and Pole Whiting were right up there too. What a shame the home refs ruined this series. It should have at least been drawn.
i was there, pretty tame and nowhere near as good as today's GAME, used to wrestle with Billy Bush on the Whakatane wharf 1964 Brian Williams could foot it today, Kirky, Going Robertson, Murgon, Whiting
29 countries boycotted the Montreal Olympics because this tour by the ABs was given the green light. Why did NZ rugby continue to appease apartheid South Africa? A shameful part of our history.
What's more shameful is that the racist policies in SA are worse today. SA is the only country in the world that has policies that protect the majority against the minority. Over 100 000 whites murdered by blacks since 1994, and the world says nothing. The world fought against segregation back then, but i guess murdering people today is ok.
People forget that rugby ruined the Olympics that year. Because of this tour by NZ to SA African countries boycotted the Montreal games. No neutral refs at the time meant that it was very difficult to win away so the Boks won.NZ benefitted in a twist of fate because John Walker of NZ won the 1500 gold because the world record holder Filbert Bayi of Tanzania was unable to compete.
And from all account, they (Montreal in particular and Canada) were really filthy at NZ, to the point if you were a Kiwi at those games it was better to say you were were a Aussie
Same racist scenario back in 1976, in South Africa 🧐 no players of colour, aah wasn't Bryan Williams their no 11 Samoan? He was brilliant and so fast awesome 👍
@@ruthcarter1360 Same here..even though I'm from Wellington he was as big a hero as he was to all my AK friends...huge thighs...speed.. devastating sidestep and Elvis 68 Comeback Special looks and sideburns!
Super Sid
Enjoyable channel..lots of rugby from the good old days.
More test rugby from the 70s/80s please!!
When rugby was rugby!
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I was in standard 5, Junior school, remember being totally blown away and fascinated by these super Rugby players from New Zealand, that's when I became a Life long supporter of the All Blacks, even made a scrap book with all the newspaper articles and photos ❤️
The straw coloured fields, along with the mystique of the Boks...blew my mind, sad that this magic has been lost.
Incredible memories, I was 15 years old, it was the first time we could watch Test matches live from South Africa, all the other games were on the radio, I took in every one. Amazing rivalry with referring which was interesting to say the least. Will never forget Morgan's try, a classic ABs moment. Boks v ABs, still the ultimate for me.
Similar memories for me! I recall delayed B&W TV highlights of the earlier tour by Lochore's ABs in 1970, although I was very young then, but also getting up in the middle of the night as a teenager to watch these matches in '76. Players like Going, Kirkpatrick, Williams were my boyhood heroes. Joe Morgan's try came out of nowhere, and Super Sid's goalkicking was a revelation in this match. The third test was a disaster with the Fawcett blunder leading the Oosthuizen try, and the awful incident involving Peter Whiting's ear. The Ellispark test featured the controversial non penalty try award with the clash of the two Robertsons. It all seems like only yesterday.
@@david10101961 ok..that's way before my time...what happened to the guys ear?Peter Whiting
@@sakabula2357 You can see the incident in this video of the game czcams.com/video/Az31E_EKEVk/video.html
Advance to 1:05:07 and watch as Springbok lock van Heerden (#5) jumps into the ruck and scrapes Whiting's ear off the side of his head. Then the Newlands crowd slow clap the All Blacks for taking too long to get Whiting's ear bandaged. He had his ear sewn back on properly after the match. The ABs didn't have any suitable replacements so he had to continue playing. That's the way it was back in those days. On the 1970 tour Colin Meads played more than 70 minutes of a match against Eastern Transvaal with a broken arm.
@@david10101961 Thank you..yes Rugga was another game back then..I've also heard of a guy who lost a testicle but I think that was more recent.
The boks will always be our old foe it was bloody hard to beat them on home soil.
You NZ fans always só diplomatic. Love you guys!
this was a time when rugby wasn't the watered down game of league it is today, no soccer antics those days, BRING BACK RUCKING !!
Couldn't agree more, the game is so patterned and predictable today, with so many stoppages for TMO interference as we are forced to watch 15 different camera angle slo-mos, scrums being repeatedly reset, penalties being converted into even more scrums, red cards reducing the game to a 15 v 14 non-contest, pedantic rulings, decisions being overturned, super-pumped athletes being benched and replaced merely because they are tired. Except for the aerial pingpong, it is very much like league, players from both sides being fanned out across the field, but with an unlimited tackle count. When a team gets inside their opponent's 22, the defending side inevitably infringes and there's penalty advantages, followed by either driving mauls from lineouts or more scrums, and possible yellow cards and penalty tries as these maneuvers are near impossible to defend against without somehow infringing. And indeed you're right, they call still call them rucks but there is no rucking. JJ Stewart would be turning in his grave. :)
LOVE IT!!!
I was there that day,sitting in the commentator’s box with my schoolmate from Wellington College Keith Quinn.
Unfortunately a week or so later at Ellis Park a South African ref stole the 4th test from a far superior All Black side.
Thank god those days are over
RIP Keith Murdoch You were one of New Zealand’s greats
The South African Rugby Union was so desperate to have the all Blacks tour in 1976 that they even offered the NZRFU neutral referees for the Tests. The NZRFU turned the offer down and that was the moment when New Zealanders knew that the All Blacks were never going to win the series. South African referees traditionally had a reputation that made touring teams feel like they were playing sixteen in the opposing teams. Thing balanced out more fairly once the rules were changed to make neutral referees in Tests mandatory for all countries.
@@MarsFKA FYI The Boks were undefeated in Test Series for 55 years in a row home AND away. They won a series in NZ in 1937. If they were impossible to beat in South Africa but could not beat an egg outside of South Africa you may have a point but that is not the case. In 1992 out of all the Five Nations teams only England had beaten them in Europe. Wales even with that Brilliant 1970's team never beaten the Boks until 1999. France had won in South Africa but never in France at that stage. SA had the best record home and away out of all rugby teams in 1992. Use some logic based on real results - not bitter scapegoats and the Boks did not get up to tricks like jumping out of lineouts to win games. Its was all graft and sweat.
Joe Morgan ( Mid Northern club mate of super Sid ) old school player, score a test try, up and straight back to halfway, no high fives, or pointing to the heavens.
Damn that Joe Morgan tri is one of the best ive seen ❤ That pole Axe tackle he just did is to much❤
Wow! This first test zI ever saw. Joe Morgan scored his try right in front of us. 50 years ago!
Going goes, Going's going, Going's STILL going. He was certainly a goer.
nah it was going going GONE
Old AB rugby .. hard and fierce .. love it.
I never knew Sid Going was a kicker.
I saw Bruce Robertson play his last rep game for Counties in 1982. It was a shield challenge against Canterbury.
For a short while we didn't have a recognized kicker and even Bryan Williams shared some of the kicks.
@@alanhayward8237 Ir wasnt a short while.When Joe Karam the AB fullback defected to league NZ took years to find a reliable kicker. In that period every one got a shot .
It’s amazing how different the play look’s compare to today’s game.
It was nuts back then, the further back you go the more rediculous it was, like no pads on the posts, no advertising signs the players run off into the crowd after scoring, people sitting down on the sidline lol 30:000 spectators and 1 cop on each side of the feild
@@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4 according to us Kiwis lifting in the lineout was technically illegal, hence our moaning about that 1976 series!
I note Keith Quinn mentioning AB captain Andy Leslie playing his 8th test. Leslie was in his 3rd season here, having debuted against the Wallabies in 1974 and playing in every AB test since. If this was in the modern era, with teams playing 13-14 tests per year, Leslie in his third season and having played every match he was up for would be in about his 32nd test. How times have changed.
These 10 Tests including this series Australia (A) 3 Tests 1974 Ireland (A) 1974, Scotland (H) 1975 (The All Blacks only played 1 Test match in 1975), 1976 Ireland (H) South Africa (A) 4 Tests
Yes, imagine the modern All Blacks playing one home test per year, as they did in 1975 and 1976 and no home tests at all in 1974.
2023 and it's still the greatest rival in Rugby 🏉..........
Horah 👍👍👍 we need more of these
O wow. What memories. I watched this at 15 and can clearly remember Morgan's try (of course) and Eveleigh playing like a man possessed even though he'd replaced Stewart whom I adored. We should have at least drawn that series. The refereeing was to fault but NZ turned down neutral refs! Interesting to see wingers throwing the ball into the lineout. And Going kicking for goals?? We picked Mains as a specialist fullback and he didn't play any tests. He wasn't a great fullback, sure, but he was the only goal-kicker.
Weren't they such perfect conditions! Watching it on TV in NZ.
BG is the difference in my opinion his defence is destroying the South Africans. They can't get any momentum BG is the Man on this Day ❤
Wow the pitch is basically a dust bowl.
71,000 spectators - a BIG ground. But the goal posts only look big enough for a kiddies game!
RIP Sid Going
All my people that were hard asf could've made a real allblack team back then true story
The year I was born, these teams would get blitzed by a club side these days they give possession away so readily, that's nuts, southland once held possession of the ball for 20 minutes to run the clock down because they were ahead by 2 points vs counties for the ranfurly Shield, Auckland would hold possession of the ball for as long as possible and run it up , look how long the held the sheild from 1985 till 1994
I don't believe today's players could handle this type of rugby? They're way too soft.
If you look hard enough you can see a few blades of grass, that ground looks as hard as rock!
Coach JJ Stewart left out 2nd test heroes Doug Bruce and Kevin Eveleigh for the 3rd test which they lost.
Interesting to see an absence of violence by either side.
Damn how good was that ABs number 6 tackle. True AB rugby it's the blind side where the fu*k are you 😡😊 Its cool 😎 there he is 😊👍
Was Colin Meads playing?
No, retired in 1971
Rugby was really fierce, and the refereeing was very poor, it was like Lions and Tigers tearing at each other
Really let the field harden up for them. Dusty concrete lol
It says Bloemfontein, but do you know which stadium this is? Over 70,000!
Of course, the old Free State Stadium. The new stadium was built in its place in the mid-1990 for the RWC hosted in SA.
The old Ellis Park could host almost 100k! Some estimate there were that many present in 1955 for the 1st Test between SA and the B&I Lions.
@@antstry77 No way?? Was this Free State Stadium mainly seated or standing room only? I remember it from the early 90s with the athletics track, but the stands seemed much smaller than what I can see here
@@mdjcsmith it was mainly seating room, from what I remember during my visits in the 80's and early 90's. You are right, it was the same one with the athletics track which made way for the new Free State Stadium built for the 1995 RWC. I think they might have used additional temporary stands for the tests vs NZ in 1976 and the Lions in 1980, but don't hold me to that!😉
@@antstry77 thanks mate. I wonder if there's any old photos of those bumper crowds somewhere.
Did they water the pitch in 70s
South African winters are freezing cold and dry, no rain, ground becomes concrete.
I saw the Boks play a LOT better in Australia 5 years earlier
Total panic from the NZ Coach.Wouldn;t play the only fullback and goal kicker and lost the series. Don't worry about Fozzie,this tour was a disaster
Joe Morgan played out of his skin in this game. Beegee, Super Sid and Pole Whiting were right up there too. What a shame the home refs ruined this series. It should have at least been drawn.
Those were mens.
No stupid red cards.
No line and maul, you only need talent and strategy!
You cant seen that today.
When I played school boy rugby you never celebrated a try.
This contest resulted in a boycott of the 1976 Montreal Olympics by African Nations.
Nobody missed them.
union was just as scrappy back then, as it is now.
The All Blacks often were represented by farmers, lawyers and teachers.
Same with SA those days..few policemen and SADF members as well
So was everybody else.
And nobody got sponsored or payed.
@@johnsmith-ht3sy Got a couple of beers after the game at most..good times
i was there, pretty tame and nowhere near as good as today's GAME, used to wrestle with Billy Bush on the Whakatane wharf 1964 Brian Williams could foot it today, Kirky, Going Robertson, Murgon, Whiting
was daar nie water in 1976 nie? Die gras se nee… ek wil nie op daai pitch getackle word nie… se moer…
Tipiese wintersdag in Bloem...
29 countries boycotted the Montreal Olympics because this tour by the ABs was given the green light.
Why did NZ rugby continue to appease apartheid South Africa?
A shameful part of our history.
Agreed, it wasn't just NZ, the Lions were there in 1980, shameful all around
What's more shameful is that the racist policies in SA are worse today. SA is the only country in the world that has policies that protect the majority against the minority. Over 100 000 whites murdered by blacks since 1994, and the world says nothing. The world fought against segregation back then, but i guess murdering people today is ok.
People forget that rugby ruined the Olympics that year. Because of this tour by NZ to SA African countries boycotted the Montreal games. No neutral refs at the time meant that it was very difficult to win away so the Boks won.NZ benefitted in a twist of fate because John Walker of NZ won the 1500 gold because the world record holder Filbert Bayi of Tanzania was unable to compete.
How you remember something so old
@@simpslayer7839 The seventies is something we would call in living memory
And from all account, they (Montreal in particular and Canada) were really filthy at NZ, to the point if you were a Kiwi at those games it was better to say you were were a Aussie
"Non neutral referees meant it was difficult to win away" goes for Boks too....
@@simpslayer7839 I remember the event and the time pretty clearly. I also researched an article on OAU boycott the Montreal Olympics
Rugged as!
They didn't want Maoris to enter there country back then how racist
Same racist scenario back in 1976, in South Africa 🧐 no players of colour, aah wasn't Bryan Williams their no 11 Samoan? He was brilliant and so fast awesome 👍
The 1960 tour was last racially selected All Blacks team to Africa.. obviously BG Williams in 1970 and again in 76 plus Sid Going and Billy Bush
Thanks 👍 yeah Bryan Williams 😍 was my ultimate hero
@@ruthcarter1360 Same here..even though I'm from Wellington he was as big a hero as he was to all my AK friends...huge thighs...speed.. devastating sidestep and Elvis 68 Comeback Special looks and sideburns!
He was fantastic role model and built as solid as a rock 💖, no 11 Jersey forever 💜
Racist playing racist, f u nz for letting this happen