Best of RWC 1991
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You'd assume Ireland (not in Dublin) would've been easy enough. So it's a question of if we'd beat England a second time in the tournament
That pool game was turgid until the Jones try. From memory it felt like the AB's were regressing the longer the tournament went
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We probably still had enough firepower up front to match England & Ireland like in the opening game v England. But Campese's try summed up in one play just how slow and dire our backline was.
Can't remember if Jones would have been available for the final.
Ironicallly, I suspect we would have been 2/2 in 1991 if Ireland had made it, perhaps undeservedly, but would always take it...
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@booboo said in Best of RWC 1991:
Part 3 up on the front page.
https://thesilverfern.com/post/522-best-of-rwc-3-1991-upsets/
Unfortunately the videos are missing. Will update and advise.
Part 4 to follow in a couple of days.
Wales v Western Samoa clip is wrong
That's from 1999
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Classic line from the loss to Western Samoa
'Thank God we were only playing the Western part'
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Cheers, I was rushing and the youtube title was wrong. It's a correct video now
For some reason world rugby took down lots of their videos of the old tournaments. Very few highlights compared to a few years ago
For this game I could only find a shitty upload of the full match, no highlights
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@Duluth said in Best of RWC 1991:
Cheers, I was rushing and the youtube title was wrong. It's a correct video now
For some reason world rugby took down lots of their videos of the old tournaments. Very few highlights compared to a few years ago
For this game I could only find a shitty upload of the full match, no highlights
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From a Scottish pov the only dour game was the semi v England at Murrayfield. The Scots had breezed through the home pool games inc Ireland, and scored 17 tries in the process. S tries saw off Western Samoa in the QF, but a dour slugfest v England and that (in)famous Hastings missed pen in front of the posts saw them slip up making the final. It was a bit of revenge for England after the 1990 Grand Slam.
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@MiketheSnow said in Best of RWC 1991:
@Duluth said in Best of RWC 1991:
Cheers, I was rushing and the youtube title was wrong. It's a correct video now
For some reason world rugby took down lots of their videos of the old tournaments. Very few highlights compared to a few years ago
For this game I could only find a shitty upload of the full match, no highlights
Holmesy!!
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My lasting memory is the quarter final between Ireland and the Wallabies. The belief and execution to score at the death had me convinced they would win it.
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@Sitka-Spruce said in Best of RWC 1991:
From a Scottish pov the only dour game was the semi v England at Murrayfield. The Scots had breezed through the home pool games inc Ireland, and scored 17 tries in the process. S tries saw off Western Samoa in the QF, but a dour slugfest v England and that (in)famous Hastings missed pen in front of the posts saw them slip up making the final. It was a bit of revenge for England after the 1990 Grand Slam.
Obviously for an Englishman, Big Gav missing that kick was great, but seeing the poor guy's post match interview was hard going. So much emotion.
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RTE getting inspiration from TSF.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/2023/0706/1393143-the-story-of-the-rugby-world-cup-1991/
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A wee bit before 1991 but just shows how much quicker the game flowed along in those days not to mention how much smaller players were before they became gym bunnies. The game seemed to move along at quicker tempo than it does nowadays, unless you were unlucky enough to be caught with the ball by the 'Ikale Tahi (or slightly after in a few cases) in which case you were individually slowed up rather markedly!
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Webb doesn't even remember scoring that third try
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Yep, checked YouTube vid. Mid 2nd half. Scotland were 6-3 up at break. Webb levelled, Gav missed and Rob Andrew got drop goal late in 2nd half.
