I find the spirit of the Lions so incredible. Once in 4 years, opponents from 4 different nations become allies. Putting accents and backgrounds aside, they fight for each other. Encompasses the spirit of rugby absolutely perfectly
The wife and I made the trip to NZ for the final match in Auckland, we also did a three week camper van tour of the southern island. Both were outstanding. Wonderful memories and if you get the chance to go to NZ, do it, especially in winter, so beautiful and an incredibly friendly nation.
The way the lions fought back after the initial regional lackluster performances and then again after the first test defeat was nothing short of heroic. What a series. Great video too btw!
What an incredible video. This was the first Lions tour I got to watch and I can confidently say that I loved every big of it. Good on the Lions for bringing a challenge and I am looking forward to watching the Lions tour against South Africa in 2021 even though New Zealand won't be in it!!!!!!
Sorry for your loss Tim. I.bet your Dad watched it upstairs! Yes,it was....A Great Tour. All the best form us all here from Wales. Many thanks for this video.
Thank you for this video. I love the lions tour. There has been so much criticism, especially at the start, but they got better, became a team, and it has been the best month of rugby in my life
Love the video, captured the mood. Absolutely loved this series, so much wonderful play from all the sides. Respect all around, reminds me why I love this game. I gave up watching football years ago, I hope I never have to with rugby 👍🏻
He's brilliant, an absolute warrior, I knew he would be special from the first time I saw him, I'm Irish but he's one of my favourite players of the pro era.
No way will' the 2017 lions be known as the greatest side to New Zealand. The Lions of 1971 is the best team to come down-under. They won all there Provincial games, an they beat the All Blacks in the 1st test, lost 2nd, won 3rd and drew the last 14-all that's the best team to hit our shores. And from that 71 side' In my opinion, the best Lions team ever' in this modern era is the 1974 Lions vs Springboks which they won that serious 3-1, That Lions team went through South Africa undefeated. The last test was a Draw. The Lions should have won that game but ref disallowed a try in the last minute of the game which the replay clearly show that Fergus Slattery grounded the ball. The 2017 Lions are a good side but not a great side like the '71-Lions' or the 74 team, look at their record it shows that. The 2017 Lions may have Drawn the test serious, but to be honest, they were lucky to draw the 3rd test and they lost games to Super teams.
takiri dixon and they wont be known as the best because fuck all people in the uk give a shit about pre 2000s rugby cause it was almost free to go into stadiums and literally noone took it seriously bit like the english side that won the football world cup. Well done but we dont actually give one
All people in the uk don't give a shit about pre 2000s rugby cause it was almost free. Well they do because those 2 Lions teams were the best that toured NZ, and SA period. So don't spin me that bullshit that Lions fans don't have fond memories of those teams. May be not you, but Lions fans that I talked to still talk about those two sides with fondness. To say they don't give shit is absolute bullshit.
@@takirid unlike some, I respect the history of the lions and you sir are spot on. Willie John McBrides team was the best, by a mile. Great names in that team, JPR and JJ, the Williams boys, Phil Bennett, the genius that was Gareth Edwards, Fran Cotton, and the Captain, Willie John. They were so many others I haven't mentioned, but they are legendary.
Because it is? South Africa world champions at the moment, along with New Zealand have won the Web Ellis 3 times. The only northern team who have won it is England, once. And don’t forget the last game in that tour ended in an appalling reffing blunder. When Pyper changed the penalty the lions fans went nuts, not realising it would result in a series draw. Let’s face it, Ireland no1 leading into a World Cup, doesn’t make it past the quarters, France doesn’t, Scotland doesn’t, Wales the semis. England toppled the All Blacks (who clearly were a spent force as 5 players shouldn’t have been there as they were past their best) and then lost to South Africa. So yeah, the Southern Hemisphere teams are better, sorry.
@@Nineteenseventy2 You mean the same idiots that prepared for the All Blacks for four years and forgot about the fucking Springboks Lmao Its coming home lalalalalalala
lions kit man: okay Wales you'll have the jersey okay England you'll have the shorts okay Scotland you'll have the socks and for Ireland we'll give you two inches of green on the top of the sock
Earth-shak¡ng. This reminded me deeply why ωe |ove rugby. Cuz, even the low chance of a sole victory: can be cracked! 30% odds: 1 win, 15% odds: denying NZ the series.
Meeean Azz Its the same as at club/schoolboy level random guys in the gap year going to a country to coach anyone can improve any team out of their zone by combining northern strong run play with southern fast hands play
Ha ha nice a little rose coloured view but enjoyed the tour a fair result even with the controversy at the end. No more French referees for the next tour can't wait.
Its highlights? So the Lions team is comprised of the top players from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, they do a tour every 4 years against New Zealand's regional teams and then the All Blacks (NZ's national team) This year they won but generally they loose to our best and second best regional teams and get absolutely destroyed by the All Blacks. It's okay if you don't understand cause you don't have to :)
If The Lions had been together for another couple of weeks before the tour began, they would have cleaned up 3-0. Also, has anyone else noted just what bad losers New Zealand are?!
Explain "bad losers" I was at the 2nd and and 3rd test, When we lost the second all the All Blacks stayed and congratulated the Lions, after the 3rd test which ended with the wrong call, the All Blacks stayed and congratulated the Lions again. As for your comment of another 2 weeks and you would've won 3-0 rubbish, Lions were outplayed in the 1st test, in the second dumb ass SBW was sent off and you had an extra man for 50 min. In the 3rd a certain french referee got the call wrong and we drew. Want to try again?
@@Nineteenseventy2 'Try again' ? you arrogant prick! I, too, was at the second and third test and there is and never has been any sense of sportsmanship from fans down in the stupid little country at the end of the world - whether rugby, boxing, cricket... the list goes on. New Zealanders are fine when they're winning but boy oh boy, when they're losing, it's always someone else's fault.
They lost to the weakest of the New Zealand super rugby sides (The Blues) and they barely got past a provincial side not to mention another loss to the Highlanders! The nasty French referee gave them the result vs the Crusaders (a match they should've never won)! At the end of the day, the British and Irish lions DIDN'T win the test series against the All Blacks, they drew! And when the rugby world Cup begins in late 2019, another team from the southern hemisphere will win the title as usual. That team will most likely be the All Blacks!
You do realise that the ABs, the best side in the world, couldn't even beat a poorly coached team, with biased and questionable selection, made up of teams nowhere near as good as them. Surely that's a reflection of how poor the ABs were
That's a team of 4 nations (but biased towards Wales, who are poor), where most of the population focus more on other sports over rugby. NZ are supposed to be the best team in the world, they really didn't play like it on this Lions tour. They ought to have smashed the Lions 3-0, 1-1 is an awful result for them
I'm English, and I say we should boycott the Lions in future. The scots, Welsh and Irish hate the English? Fine, leave them to it. Our England players should cease to exhaust themselves for the sake of a bunch of Anglophobes in the "Celtic" countries. Boycott the Lions England fans.
I find the spirit of the Lions so incredible. Once in 4 years, opponents from 4 different nations become allies. Putting accents and backgrounds aside, they fight for each other. Encompasses the spirit of rugby absolutely perfectly
Tim Loves Bacon you talk bollocks pal
What a tour that was!! Just a shame my dad couldn't have hung on for a few more years...jeez he'd have loved it!
Mine too mate, mine too.
@@johnhigson8952 very sorry to hear that
Mine too
Sorry to hear that guys
I feel the same pain mate, 🇬🇧👊🏼
loved this!! Really well put together. The best Lions tour in 40 years of watching rugby.
The wife and I made the trip to NZ for the final match in Auckland, we also did a three week camper van tour of the southern island. Both were outstanding. Wonderful memories and if you get the chance to go to NZ, do it, especially in winter, so beautiful and an incredibly friendly nation.
The way the lions fought back after the initial regional lackluster performances and then again after the first test defeat was nothing short of heroic. What a series. Great video too btw!
What an incredible video. This was the first Lions tour I got to watch and I can confidently say that I loved every big of it. Good on the Lions for bringing a challenge and I am looking forward to watching the Lions tour against South Africa in 2021 even though New Zealand won't be in it!!!!!!
Sorry for your loss Tim. I.bet your Dad watched it upstairs! Yes,it was....A Great Tour. All the best form us all here from Wales. Many thanks for this video.
Guetteba you are the GOAT!! Great video, we want more videos!
Johny sexton is the goat
Thank you for this video. I love the lions tour. There has been so much criticism, especially at the start, but they got better, became a team, and it has been the best month of rugby in my life
Brilliant music selection and clips to boot. It encapsulates the drama perfectly and beautifully. Well done, RugbyVidsOfficial.
This is an absolute sick edit
This is one of the best sports videos I have ever seen!!!! Amazing work. Love Rugby!!!!
just when you think this channel is dead....bam! a reminder of how amazing your videos are.
theenglishbornable thanks! Really busy with work now. Just spending time for videos on big events 😉
Will you be covering the Rugby Championship and the 6 Nations?
Not really sure... I would like but I don't know if I'll have energy to spend on it... Maybe End of Year Tour.
Agreed. we all have a life too at the end of the day.
RugbyVidsOfficial absolutely cracking video got me missing the tour already 💪🏼👊🏼💯 keep on doing what your doing
a NICE BIT OF WORK ! THANK YOU.
incredible choice of music, two of my favourite songs
Liam Williams that guy is 'Amazing' .
great video. .love it. .What a tour from the Lions
Amazing video! Great tour.
Great to see you back with a new video dude
i get chills every time i see players from all the 4 nations celebrating with eachother quite nice tbf
Great stuff, loved the music choices and the attention also given to the success of the NZ club sides.
Brilliant video!
every time i watch this i get chills
Amazing vid!
Awesome vid mate, what a tour! deffo going to South Africa.
kabe ayofe If the British and Irish lions play the way they did against the mighty All Blacks then south africa is gonna be a piece of cake!
@@user-tl2cs6wv8b it's funny how things shape up, in a short space of time.. i'd have been the first to say 2021 could be easy money
Covid2020. I'm going to ruin everything, Covid2021 Hold my beer.
Love the video, captured the mood. Absolutely loved this series, so much wonderful play from all the sides. Respect all around, reminds me why I love this game. I gave up watching football years ago, I hope I never have to with rugby 👍🏻
this series made me hate rugby!
this series made a great many back home, remember why we love the great wild tours so much!
One thing I love about the Lions is the fact that All 4 nations come together as one and the negative history isn't even relevant!
Couldn't of said it better myself mate
I'm English, and I say fuck the Lions.
Leave the Scots, Welsh and Irish to it.
Awesome vid mate.
great video
That tour was great
Best 3 weeks of my life!
2017 was the best year for all rugby.
Guetteba great video!
Nothing brings our islands together like the Lions, goes to show what we can achieve together, will always we a lions fan.
Back again after the squad announcement
Lions, lions, LIONS 🦁
Just shows you how beautiful the sport really is!
Lit editing bro
gran video! emotivo como el juego mismo! gracias!
This video is a love letter to rugby...
Goose bumps
good video
What a team🔥🔥
For me Liam Williams is a fabulus player
He's brilliant, an absolute warrior, I knew he would be special from the first time I saw him, I'm Irish but he's one of my favourite players of the pro era.
Miss this lol
What happened to your six Nations video ?
EMOTIONNNNNNNN
Where is the highlights tour video that lasten around 47 minutes. That one seems to be gone
'Highlights 2017' starts with a speech from 2013.....
alan B good point 😉
Lions are timeless ;)
alan B best speech
Was a good speech except for the part when he said "British lions"
Isn't amazing what a New Zealand coach can do with Northern players. When Clive Woodward ( A world cup winning coach ) couldn't in 2005.
I think History will show this Lions side as the greatest.
No way will' the 2017 lions be known as the greatest side to New Zealand. The Lions of 1971 is the best team to come down-under. They won all there Provincial games, an they beat the All Blacks in the 1st test, lost 2nd, won 3rd and drew the last 14-all that's the best team to hit our shores. And from that 71 side' In my opinion, the best Lions team ever' in this modern era is the 1974 Lions vs Springboks which they won that serious 3-1, That Lions team went through South Africa undefeated. The last test was a Draw. The Lions should have won that game but ref disallowed a try in the last minute of the game which the replay clearly show that Fergus Slattery grounded the ball. The 2017 Lions are a good side but not a great side like the '71-Lions' or the 74 team, look at their record it shows that. The 2017 Lions may have Drawn the test serious, but to be honest, they were lucky to draw the 3rd test and they lost games to Super teams.
takiri dixon and they wont be known as the best because fuck all people in the uk give a shit about pre 2000s rugby cause it was almost free to go into stadiums and literally noone took it seriously bit like the english side that won the football world cup. Well done but we dont actually give one
All people in the uk don't give a shit about pre 2000s rugby cause it was almost free. Well they do because those 2 Lions teams were the best that toured NZ, and SA period. So don't spin me that bullshit that Lions fans don't have fond memories of those teams. May be not you, but Lions fans that I talked to still talk about those two sides with fondness. To say they don't give shit is absolute bullshit.
The Lions may not come as close to winning in the New Zealand for the rest of the 21st century.
@@takirid unlike some, I respect the history of the lions and you sir are spot on. Willie John McBrides team was the best, by a mile. Great names in that team, JPR and JJ, the Williams boys, Phil Bennett, the genius that was Gareth Edwards, Fran Cotton, and the Captain, Willie John. They were so many others I haven't mentioned, but they are legendary.
British lions teams is it
And irish
Wait 🎶
Is it just me or does any else not like these camera angles? haha
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Thought it was supposed to be a highlights reel?
3:07 to 3:27 absolutely quality! what memories to treasure, in the den of the all blacks!
also 4:17 an amazing piece of skill by barrett
niceee what a tour ! no need for salty kiwis it was clearly a great effort from the lions
4:02 goosebumps
Nearly brings a tear to the eye, pure passion and heart
do we have like just british lions
What song is that
The first song is Holocene by Bon Iver, second is Lux Aeterna by Clint Mansell, and the third one is Wait by M83
Isn't it great that the English players can forget that they have been historically bullied by the other nations that make up the Lions team
is that owen farrell talking at the beginning ? I don't know it sounds like him
Andy Farrell, his Dad.
How can people say Southern Hemisphere rugby is better than Northern when we have to split the UK into multiple teams just to keep it fair?
Because it is? South Africa world champions at the moment, along with New Zealand have won the Web Ellis 3 times. The only northern team who have won it is England, once. And don’t forget the last game in that tour ended in an appalling reffing blunder. When Pyper changed the penalty the lions fans went nuts, not realising it would result in a series draw.
Let’s face it, Ireland no1 leading into a World Cup, doesn’t make it past the quarters, France doesn’t, Scotland doesn’t, Wales the semis. England toppled the All Blacks (who clearly were a spent force as 5 players shouldn’t have been there as they were past their best) and then lost to South Africa. So yeah, the Southern Hemisphere teams are better, sorry.
*cough *cough World *cough Cup
Saint dope, that the best you have? World Cup England squad, cough cough.....
@@Nineteenseventy2 You mean the same idiots that prepared for the All Blacks for four years and forgot about the fucking Springboks Lmao Its coming home lalalalalalala
@@badshifu sorry, cant make sense of that. You mean that SA have won the world cup? If so yes I agree. If not my All Blacks go the boks!
Love the the lions Scottish and British
Is that Sean Edwards at the start.
@BW1994: No,it's Andy Farrell.
7.03+ music by?
M83 - Wait
What’s the name of the song at like 10 mins
Wait by m83
Nice vid! Who's speaking at 00:14 please?
Alex0749 Andy Farrell
Thanks
What team is on the 8:44???
I think it is the Crusaders in their away strip.
Music. ?
intro music is Bon Iver , Holocene, Canadian hipster band,very awesome band
3:50 song?
Gian Bianculli requiem for a dream
Wales needs dif management
song of this video pls ?
m83 wait
song no. 2 is "Clint Mansell ~ Lux Aeterna". 'wait' is no. 3 and no. 1 is by indie-folk legend Bon Iver.
lions kit man:
okay Wales you'll have the jersey
okay England you'll have the shorts
okay Scotland you'll have the socks
and for Ireland we'll give you two inches of green on the top of the sock
@Unincognito I'm pretty sure the old like really old jerseys used to be that
Earth-shak¡ng. This reminded me deeply why ωe |ove rugby. Cuz, even the low chance of a sole victory: can be cracked!
30% odds: 1 win,
15% odds: denying NZ the series.
0.47 wtf why did he say British lions? Its not the 1910s.
Glad you stuck with the commentary from the NZ coverage as opposed to Harrison and Barnes whk are durely ghe worst commentators in any sport.
It's good to see our Kiwi, Aussie Coaches are teaching Northern Hemisphere how to finally play and compete in rugby.
What Aussie coaches?
like2surf ENGLAND
Oh yeah haha.
Meeean Azz Its the same as at club/schoolboy level random guys in the gap year going to a country to coach anyone can improve any team out of their zone by combining northern strong run play with southern fast hands play
Jesus Christ rugby what a gsme
Sexton probably won it for us in the last game
Brian Lordan You know he played with a broken wrist and cracked rips
Brian Lordan or something like that
Brian Lordan a draw is not a win in NZ anyway. Great tour enjoyed and UK should be proud great rugby played all round.
A4kkahu A4k UK and Ireland *
They drew the last match
Ofc Owen cant seem to master the art of tackling legally 09:05
dogs
Not a highlight if we’re seeing the lions play really shit and missing tackles😂
Matt Wake um nope pretty sure that wouldnt be a "high"light
TheCalcurAmungUs Probably a highlight for the lions would be them score a try not concede one
Ha ha nice a little rose coloured view but enjoyed the tour a fair result even with the controversy at the end. No more French referees for the next tour can't wait.
A4kkahu A4k every single country thinks the French refs hate them- I dont reckon they hate you lot your just criminal us
Every Country is right!
Poite in particular is utterly incompetent.
All over the place, literally. Makes utterly no sense.
Its highlights?
So the Lions team is comprised of the top players from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, they do a tour every 4 years against New Zealand's regional teams and then the All Blacks (NZ's national team)
This year they won but generally they loose to our best and second best regional teams and get absolutely destroyed by the All Blacks.
It's okay if you don't understand cause you don't have to :)
@@Arirezz The Lions didn't win, the series was a draw.
Hate videos like this. Just put the raw clip in the highlights instead of all of these cinematic cuts
George North is the most over-rated player of all time
Worst ABs Lions squad in half a century.
If The Lions had been together for another couple of weeks before the tour began, they would have cleaned up 3-0. Also, has anyone else noted just what bad losers New Zealand are?!
Explain "bad losers" I was at the 2nd and and 3rd test, When we lost the second all the All Blacks stayed and congratulated the Lions, after the 3rd test which ended with the wrong call, the All Blacks stayed and congratulated the Lions again. As for your comment of another 2 weeks and you would've won 3-0 rubbish, Lions were outplayed in the 1st test, in the second dumb ass SBW was sent off and you had an extra man for 50 min. In the 3rd a certain french referee got the call wrong and we drew. Want to try again?
@@Nineteenseventy2
'Try again' ?
you arrogant prick!
I, too, was at the second and third test and there is and never has been any sense of sportsmanship from fans down in the stupid little country at the end of the world - whether rugby, boxing, cricket... the list goes on.
New Zealanders are fine when they're winning but boy oh boy, when they're losing, it's always someone else's fault.
New Zealand robbed by inept French referees.
This was the worst Lions Tour ive seen going back to '74
They lost to the weakest of the New Zealand super rugby sides (The Blues) and they barely got past a provincial side not to mention another loss to the Highlanders! The nasty French referee gave them the result vs the Crusaders (a match they should've never won)! At the end of the day, the British and Irish lions DIDN'T win the test series against the All Blacks, they drew! And when the rugby world Cup begins in late 2019, another team from the southern hemisphere will win the title as usual. That team will most likely be the All Blacks!
Benny D would you like some chips with your salt mate?
You do realise that the ABs, the best side in the world, couldn't even beat a poorly coached team, with biased and questionable selection, made up of teams nowhere near as good as them. Surely that's a reflection of how poor the ABs were
Saoirse del Tufo more like *4 Nations* couldn't beat *1* Nation.
That's a team of 4 nations (but biased towards Wales, who are poor), where most of the population focus more on other sports over rugby. NZ are supposed to be the best team in the world, they really didn't play like it on this Lions tour. They ought to have smashed the Lions 3-0, 1-1 is an awful result for them
Saoirse del Tufo *Great* Coaching from a *Kiwi* W.Gatland 👍😉
I'm English, and I say we should boycott the Lions in future.
The scots, Welsh and Irish hate the English? Fine, leave them to it. Our England players should cease to exhaust themselves for the sake of a bunch of Anglophobes in the "Celtic" countries.
Boycott the Lions England fans.