The Moment
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1987 - Michael Jones, best player in the world scoring the first RWC try. Blanco’s try v France.
1991 - Michael Jones again scoring the first try. Campese playing Keepy-Uppy during the Haka, then playing the game of his life. Lynaghs try to break Irish hearts.
1995 - Lomu. Nuff said.
1999 - Janni de Beer. Five(5) bloody drop goals. That’s 5. Bloody 5.
2003 - Mortlick’s intercept. Wilkinson droppie to win the thing.
2007 - Sheridan monstering Matt Pudding in the scrums and then in the handbags afterwards. Not so much a moment but England’s abysmal pool game v SA and the making the final.
2011 - The “Leave it to Beaver” moment. Tuilagi going swimming. Johnson’s presser after the dwarf throwing.
2015 - Seeing England throwing the most easily defendable line out and knowing we would lose v Wales and likely get dumped out of our own tournament
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1997 Kirwan tackling Ieuran Evans on the other wing to deny him a try in the semis with the game already easily won. Same game. Buck's punch on the Welshman who was sent off anyway. That team was seriously ruthless.
1991 Campo's pass to Horan.
1995 Mehrts slicing a drop goal late in regular time.
1999 The look in Wilson and Randall's eyes in the Second Half against France, like rabbits in the headlights.
2003 Spencer throwing it to Mortlock.
2007 The smug, self-satisfied look on Wayne Barnes' arrogant face whenever he made a decision against the All Blacks during that evening in Cardiff.
2011 Watching that clock past 80:00 after it took what seemed like hours to get there. Being World Champions again after so fucking long and so much hurt.
2015 Beauden Barrett sprinting past Pocock to score the final try. The first away win and in so much style.
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1995 - Zinny looking at Carling and shrugging after slotting a 40m drop-kick
2007 - Pain. (I was at the Millenium Stadium for that game).
2011 - The AB's win a penalty. The much-maligned Duck comes on, the weight of a nation on his shoulders. His first words are to McCaw: "just give me the fucking ball". You just knew then we were going to win.
2015 - Semi v SA. Nonu bamboozling 3 Saffas with body and ball-handling alone to send BB in to secure the win. Nigel Owens taking the time to bend down and commiserate with Oz players when the Final was over.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in The Moment:
All I remember was Brad Thorn taking the lineout to seal it.
Did we ever find out who made this call? Thorn might have been shortest AB in that lineout. Maybe they thought he had the safest hands??
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87 - kirwan shattering the corner flag
91 - campo / Horan try in the corner
95 - Wilson spewing
99 - Lomu bulldozing from 50 out
03 - Wilkinson drop goal
07 - Luke McAllister droppie attempt which missed by miles
11 - dusatoir try in the final .... THAT feeling again
15 - japan victory over japies
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@MajorRage said in The Moment:
87 - kirwan shattering the corner flag
91 - campo / Horan try in the corner
95 - Wilson spewing
99 - Lomu bulldozing from 50 out
03 - Wilkinson drop goal
07 - Luke McAllister droppie attempt which missed by miles
11 - dusatoir try in the final .... THAT feeling again
15 - japan victory over japies
2015 - Yep. Stand out moment. Almost. Almost got me over the pain of getting dumped out.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in The Moment:
2011 Piri attempting to pass the ball with the tip of his boot. That’s when the pacing back-and-forth & chain-smoking started
I blame Izzy Dagg for blowing the overlap immediately prior ...
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@booboo said in The Moment:
@Salacious-Crumb said in The Moment:
2011 Piri attempting to pass the ball with the tip of his boot. That’s when the pacing back-and-forth & chain-smoking started
I blame Izzy Dagg for blowing the overlap immediately prior ...
this!! fucking this!!!
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1987 - JK try v Italy
1991 - dont have any defining memory of this one
1995 - Jonah
1999 - being at Twickers fo rthis game, and with the benefit of hindsight, seeing how relaxed and almost blase pretty much the entire team bar Jonah was in warm ups.
2003 - that disallowed try, cost us the RWC
especially watching with my best mate who had won an all expenses trip to watch the final....
2007 - seeing Mealamu comforting DC in tears in the stands.
2011 - the look of sheer relief at the final whistle
2015 - I know most dont like his commentary (inc me) but listening to the sheer joy as BFA had chipped through for Beaudy to chase summed it up for me -
87 - Two of JKs tries, obviously the length of the field, but i remember his one in the final as well
91 - Aussies breaking Irish hearts
95 - To be honest, i know it's supposed to be Lomu Oh! oh! but for me it's the stunned, silent moment after the final whistle. disbelief
99 - Coming home after watching it live, Dad about to watch the replay, and me trying to play it cool about the result. Failing.
03 - Wilkinson off balance droppie. What a player
07 - The moment i realised, late in the game, that we just weren't going to win it no matter what we did. Also arriving to watch the final at the Eiffel Tower and seeing the size of the crowd
11 - Sitting at i think England v Scotland at Eden Park when news came through about Carter. The sinking feeling that we were about to get fucked by the rugby gods again. The final whistle at the Park, loudest crowd ever.
15 - Carter's droppie. Fuck i love you Dan. -
Just to do some slightly different ones
07 - in the local pub watching that game, at half time every one else in the pub feeling confident. I was not, said we've lost the ref and we should be doing better/more points, the choke is on. I was right, and by then end just walked out of the pub like 'meh, another choke' - this was first RWC back in NZ after many years of choke abuse living in the UK - so I was pretty inured to it all!
11- Self proclaimed Public Enemy #1 Quade kicking off the game, out on the full. I was 100% confident we'd win that game and probably the RWC then! Weird how your mind works
15- Being almost unable to find a pub in Exeter that had the RWC on, fucking appalling
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2003, still have a vivid memory of George Gregan telling the ABs “four more years” and wanting to punch him in the face.
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87 - I was in UK and so only saw the Final on TV in the early hours. Kirks try
91 - I watched all the tournament up to QF in UK then got on a plane to come back to NZ after 13 years via Hong Kong and Sydney. I arrived in Oz the day of semi and went to a party with a mate to watch it. Wished earth would swallow me up. Fucking Aussies. Can't trust a Paddy. Lynaghs quick tap
95 - hubris. Never did drink the bubbly. Mehrtens missed droppie
99 - Lomu shaking hands with every Frenchman while the rest of the team scurried off down the tunnel. Play a specialist Centre Pt 1
03 - Fucking Spencer Play a specialist Centre Pt 2 Double dose of hubris after the 50 point victories earlier in the year
07 - Aussie got beat in the QF hahahahahahahaha - oops. hubris again
11 - Fearful of that bitch hubris. sitting in stands telling everyone we were doomed. The groan from the crowd when St Stephen came on in that ridiculous jersey. 4 more years ringing around Eden Park in the semi
15 - Not hubris again!!!!!! Thankfully not Dan refusing to lose and just taking control culminating the droppie -
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95': Marc Ellis stealing the show....oh wait I mean Lomu
99' Still pretty young just remember us shitting the bed in the second half
03': The intercept and 4 more years (I love smack talk so love that from GG)
07': Having Uni exams and sleeping in with a plan to watch the 1/4's on replay. Didn't end up ever watching it (heard the match was cancelled) as my flatmate who loved code and wouldn't say boo to anyone punched the wall and then his misses walked in and he told her to fuck off (she knew something was up and backed out the door).
11' Quades kick on the full and super Dagg to Nonu. Also I remember that if Canada had of beaten Japan (they drew) Canada would have made the Semi's over France....
15: Me oh my yes boy.
18': Making my mate on his bucks party wear an aussie kit with facepaint and corkstring hat with a sign saying 4 more years with GG on it to an AB's vs France game in Dunedin. -
From a NZ perspective (positive and negative moments):
1987 – A combo of JKs long range try against Italy and MJ bursting on to the scene as the best rugby player in the world. If not for Hobbs concussion he may have been a bit part player in the competition.
1991 – JK breaking the line at will against the Aussies and not having the support inside (MJ) or outside (Kipper).
1995 – Jonah.
1999 – Jonah going crazy against the French, Cullen utterly wasted at centre and Wilson being constantly out of position. Commuting home from the game in silence, walking into a police man and just stepping back and walking around him, and then going straight to bed in the early evening. I did not cope very well with losing back then.
2003 – Mitchell sending out JC to front the media after the Aussie match – domeheaded prick. Pack playing like pussies.
2007 – McAlister carving up in attack, DC injured but Evans comes on and he’s in form and starts cutting them to pieces – it’s all good. Bin and injury. Ah fuck. They’ll set for a droppie at some stage, right? There’s a leadership group that will organise it, she’ll be right. Ah fuck.
2011 – Kaino picks up Digby as he’s about to cross the line. Great play by the best player in the world in 2011.
2015 – The emotion from Carter, he clearly wanted a win (where he was on the field in the final), I think he even got told to calm his farm by the ref at one stage.From a non NZ perspective (moments I remember):
1987 – David Codey getting sent off against Wales and then being made Oz captain a few months later for the Bledisloe.
1991 – Gordon Hamilton running in a try for Ireland against the Wobblies with minutes left on the clock. Ireland were likeable back then too. But then they bottle it and Lynagh orchestrates a final try for the Wallabies.
1995 – Bennazi is in for a try in the wet. Wait, he’s not? Hmmm.
1999 – De Beers 5 drop goals, Larkham’s drop goal in the semi final against the Boks (a 49 point match with no tries scored).
2003 – Four more years. It was cutting but Gregan actually seems like a top bloke.
2007 – That was a huge forward pass by France, it’ll be called back for sure right? Ah fuck.
2011 – France being France. Throw downs with the coach, a loss to Tonga and then rock up to the final and almost pull off a win.
2015 – Woohoo!!! Japan! A Hawkes Bay boy scores the winning try too! -
1987 - Richard Simba (sic?) doing a flip as he scored a try.
1991 - Campese back pass to Horan
1995 - Lomus tries against England
1999 - The look of shell shock on the Ab's faces.
2003 - Jonny drop kick.
2007 - Barnes look of shell shock and crippling lack of confidence to blow a whistle.
2011 - Thinking beaver had missed that kick wide.. only to be bewildered when the flags went up. Weird camera angles.
2015 - SBW break and offload to Nonu to create a large lead. -
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in The Moment:
1987 - Richard Simba (sic?) doing a flip as he scored a try.
Tsimba - did a kinda-forward roll and popped his shoulder.
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@Nepia said in The Moment:
@dogmeat I don’t remember a groan from the crowd when Donald came out. In my section everyone was giving him a supportive cheer.
There was an audible cheer in the TV coverage. I cheered in the pub ....
I personally became more confident as soon as I saw Donald about to come on, Weepu having a goalkicking mare and all that .... and a hunch that some direct running and big defence were all we were going to squeeze out of this armwrestle of a match. Although my mate beside me went into despair as soon as he saw Donald coming on, and started muttering about "we're fucked, it's over ...etc". I berated him, like our attitude 800km away would have some impact on the match at the other end of the island ...... After about 5 minutes he apologised for his moment of weakness and then got behind the boys again.
