The reason these are tries "Impossible to forget" is that not just for the skill but because many were hugely significant in very big games. e.g: 1:09 Liam Williams for the Lions vs All Blacks - Lions tours only occur every four years and only every 12 years to NZ. Winning a series in NZ is incredibly rare (they are the most successful team in world sport) and this was a hugely significant moment in the last one when it looked like the Lions were about to lose the series. It's also a superb try in it's own right of course. 3:12 Lomu's try knocked England out of the 1995 Rugby World Cup and made him the biggest star in Rugby History. 3:48 Japan's try in the last seconds of the game against SA in the Rugby World Cup was the biggest upset in Rugby history. Nobody gave them a chance against the Springboks. 4:04 This try by France knocked NZ (the favourites) out of the Rugby World. The whole of NZ went into collective meltdown (rugby is like a religion there) because they believe the ref missed a French forward pass . The rest of the world found the NZ reaction hilarious! Disgustingly there was also a huge spike in domestic violence in NZ after the game. 4:23 The Baabaas (Barbarians) against the ABs. Known as the greastest try ever. At the time there was great debate over which team was the best in the world the All Blacks or the Welsh who had a significant number of players in the Baabaas side. The Barbarians are a scratch team made up of some of the best players in the world. Think Harlem Globetrotters. They have several traditions such as always attacking and always having one uncapped player. 5:47 The Lions against the SA Springboks in 1996. At the time only one side had ever won a series in SA (the 1974 Lions). This Lions team were given no chance by many but Dawson's outragous dummy was a huge moment in the series which the Lions went on to win 2:1 (Thanks lads. I got fantastic odds at the bookies and my winnings covered my next two months rent for a tiny outlay) 8:30 Ireland had never beaten the ABs in a hundred years of trying. They were just about to do so when NZ scored in injury time with the last play of the match. Heart breaking for Ireland. 8:53 SA's wing, Brian Habanna, was regarded by many as the fastest player in world rugby at the time. Until previously unknown player Takudzwa Ngwenya left him for dead. His team? You'll be pleased to know they were the US Eagles. 12:05 If you look at the clock and scoreboard you'll see it's 31- 31. Scotland had been 31 nil down. This try gave them the lead with 5 mins to go in the greatest comeback in rugby history. It was an absolutely mental game with England clawing back a draw in the final seconds. 12:42 Waisale Serevi of Fiji. Regarded by many as the best 7s rugby player. Fiji are an average 15 man rugby side, but are masters at 7s rugby which they play with outrageous flair. 7s is incredibly fast paced, with loads of running and it's absolutely knackering. Games only last 15 mins because that's as long as most people can manage. Hope that's given you some context.

Jonah Lomu. The star that shines twice as bright, burns for half the time.

Gareth Edwards was rugby's first great star of rugby from the 1970s, the Welsh team was unstoppable back then...

The commentator for the Wales V Scotland game with the try for the Welsh No. 10 near the end was my PE Teacher in the 70s/80s. Bill McLaren. Also known as the 'voice of rugby'. There is a documentary on him, well worth a watch but I think it is long so something for your free time (if you ever get any). Bill was famous for his descriptions like "he jumped like a borders salmon in a river". He once pulled me up at rugby training for carrying the ball in one hand. He told me. "Carry the ball in two hands, the Fijians carry the ball in one hand, but they have big hands". most of the time he was just telling me to stop being a big Jessie :) Bill is sadly no longer with us but there is a wonderful Bust Statue of him in our Local park in Hawick (Next to one of Stevie Hislop the TT Racer).

The No. 10 in Red scoring a try near the end was the legendary Welshman Phil Bennett who was the man Dukeing (side stepping as we say) in the early clip playing for the Barbarians against the All Blacks (New Zealand). The resulting try for the Barbarians has been widely regarded as the greatest try ever, personally I've never seen better.

As a brit and an ex-rugby player, your commentary and observations are spot on. I couldn't do the same with American football. Top marks sir.

As an Englishman who watches NFL it amazes me that there are not more backward passes in matches (ignorning desperation last play of the game stuff). It might be my imagination but i think there has been a slight increase in behind the line stuff with flea flickers, option plays, and half back passes in recent seasons; but as far as backward passes ahead of the line of scrimmage, all I can think of is Randy Moss over his head on a Hail Mary and the Dolphins - Chargers play off ~40 years ago - and both those were at the end of the first half.

It's worth watching the England Scotland Six Nations game from 2019. Possibly one of the greatest rugby internationals ever.

A lot of context is missing for these tries that make them so memorable, for instance if you look at the score and the time remaining on the clock you'll see a lot of them are the final passages of play that snatch their team a victory. The Japanese try against South Africa they had to keep the ball in play for like six minutes into over-time without conceding a penalty or losing possession before earning the win despite being 33-1 outsiders, or the Scotland try between the posts in the 76th minute to put them in the lead 36-31 despite being 31-0 down just before half-time.

Amazing rugby of the highest calibre. The power , speed and agility from such big men is astounding. Love watching some of the vintage footage. Never been a huge rugby fan but I will be watching a lot more.

The 3rd try by Carlos Spencer is the most audacious try I've seen, imagine an NFL game between conference rivals and the away team are leading by 1 with 30 sec on the clock, its 4th and long and they are on their own 1 yard line. These guys pulled some hook n ladder stuff for a laugh, ran it 99 and instead of crossing for a TD the guy ran parallel all the way along the 1 yard line sideline to sideline to taunt the home fans before crossing as it hit zero on the clock. Cold blooded.

for having trained with an amateur rugby team in perpignan (south of france), I can assure you that these guys are no joke, they're really strong !

Rugby is like poetry in motion. The Welsh team of the 1970s was full of poets.

Organised, beautiful extreme violence with a crazy bouncing egg shaped ball. It's, mad, it's bad, it's fans are brilliant and it's just so human. I am not even a rugby person but these things I know. Great video. Thanks Mr E.B.

Every country has their own style of Rugby. It sometimes changes over the years but mostly teams keep their own distinctive playing style: England: Physical + great spot kicks. Wales: Explosive Ireland: Brute force France: Flair + superbe passing Scotland: intricate + always competing at the breakdown.

I am a Kiwi and I had meet Jona Lomu a few times before he passed away and the guy was BIG 6'4 and 125+kgs you wouldn't want to be in his way when he gets moving a Superstar of Rugby indde.

I remember watching the Phil Bennett try as a kid and it's still my favourite, though Gareth Edwards' try for the Barbarians is arguably the best of all time.

The Barbarians try at 04:23 is regarded as the greatest of all time....

It's not a Welsh rugby team unless there's at least 4 guys with the surname 'Jones' in it.

The most interesting thing for me about rugby is how different the sport is played when comparing Southern Hemisphere teams like all blacks, Australia and South Africa compared with Northern hemisphere teams such as England, France, Ireland. The Southern Hemisphere game is a lot more fluid and based more on offloads and is more a "shake and bake" as you referred to it as. Whereas the northern hemisphere teams tend to have more of a grinding teams down approach with a greater focus on breakdowns and securing ball. Many British School's go on tour Southern Hemisphere including mine and experiencing the difference in style is unreal.

When you come over to England you should book some tickets to watch Bath play at the Rec. Plus Bath is a lovely city with its Roman baths and the Bath Abbey

The Scotland try against England when the scores were 31-31, that game was one of, if not thee, greatest rugby matches ever played. England absolutely hammered Scotland in the first half and went into halftime with a 31-7 lead. There was an argument between the Scotland Fly Half Finn Russell and the coach Gregor Townsend at halftime about Gregors tactics not working. Anyway, Finn orchestrated Scotlands second half strategy according to his own ideas and unbelievably Scotland ran in try after try after try and hammered England in the second half to take a 38-31 lead (that try you saw in the video). But the drama wasn't over yet. In the dying moments, England scored another try to level the match with a final score of 38-38. Unbelievable stuff and one of thee great games in rugby history was witnessed. Both sides won a half each by the exact same scoreline of 31-7.

The guy in the red shirt who juked the chap out of his shoes towards the end, is the same guy in the striped shirt who was the Barry Saunders look alike early on. Phil Bennett, definitely my hero growing up when I was plying rugby. There used to be film of a try he scored against the Japanese where it looked like he just danced through their entire team, but I can't find it anywhere on-line.

Ah man, I was in Cape Town, South Africa when the Japanese beat the Bokke. My aunt was devastated. No one in SA could believe what happened.

Love the fact that you are watching the tries and not just the tackle compilations - mostly illegal. The USA Eagles could be right up there if they took the game seriously, much like your women's soccer team. NZ have been consistently the best team in the world with a population of between 5 and 6 million. Wales where I am from just won the six nations with a population of just 3.5 million - England 57 million and France 60 million plus. I had the great privilege of seeing Jonah Lomu play for Cardiff after his kidney problems and before his untimely death. Glad you are getting into rugby, tis a great sport. Great stuff! Love from Wales.

That back wards pass through the legs at 10:46 is something else 😆

There's got to be a personal judgement element to something like this, but as an Englishman and England fan as long as I can remember, the Phillippe St. Andre 1991 try for France at Twickenham against England remains one of the most stunning displays of teamwork I have ever seen.

If you enjoyed all the sidestepping, take a look at Shane Williams. The legendary Welsh player was famously told at school that he was too small to play rugby. Trained as a gymnast and 100 m sprinter, he could run rings around the opposition.

What most US sports viewers don't realise is - these players play for 80 minutes. Taking hits with no pads, running the whole field - there is no stop and start.... to a certain extent. They play and play and play. Watch a really good footy game here and they are exhausted at the end.

I was at the rugby world cup in 1999 and it was the last time i got to see jonah lomu. What a player...he just used to go through people....one of the biggest cheers from the crowd in the whole match was when chris patterson (scotlands kicker) somehow managed to bring the big man down all by himself...that just shows how often that happened...usually youd see 4 guys hanging off lomu and hes still plowing forward like a steam train 😂

Jona Lomu was an absolute legend.

You really should watch "rugby's hardest tackles". While you are watching it, remember there is no padding like your "football". lol.

You commented on Jonah Lomu. I remember watching him play club rugby before he was famous, where I was standing on the sidelines and he was running passed me only a few feet away. Such impressive speed from such a big man from so close was phenomenal

You may not want to do a reaction vid, but it's worth taking a watch at Japan's greatest moments in the last 2 rugby world cups. One of the tries in this vid was "The Brighton Miracle", when Japan (a tier 2 rugby nation) bravely went for the win at the last and got it, instead of taking an easy draw against South Africa (a tier 1 rugby nation). This, I can assure you, was a mighty shock. Japan had (out of nowhere) vanquished a far superior side. And it was no fluke, for the next world cup in 2019 they did something similar again. Twice. 2015 Brighton Miracle: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qdV6i6mb3927hn0.html 2019 Japan Ireland: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fM59ftCXqtOxinU.html and the icing on the cake: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m8BxY6SfuMrGcn0.html They ran into South Africa in the quarter finals, who were extremely motivated to not lose again to Japan, and won by doing fair imitations of 30 ton bulldozers. But by then Japan had cemented a reputation for fast flowing, creative and exciting rugby who will beat any side if there's but a moment's inattention. *Impact in Japan* To give you an idea of the impact this made in Japan, before the Brighton Miracle, rugby was, if known at all, something that people generally thought maybe got played at universities. Afterwards, I started seeing cardboard cutouts of the star players in supermarkets, advertising coffee, etc. The 2019 world cup was in Japan, and by then the entire nation was delirious with rugby, fueled by their success in the tournament. The captain, Leach, already had a statue somewhere, before the 2019 tournament started! But there was more to it than that. The Japan Scotland game I linked above took place the day after a bad typhoon, caused a lot of damage, flooding. One of the teams, finding that their day's match was off because of the typhoon, picked up shovels and brooms and started helping the locals clear the mud away, and this was spotted and covered by a Japanese news channel. The impact of this wasn't reported much outside of Japan, but It's hard to overstate the impact of that spontaneous act of kindness in how many Japanese saw rugby, and saw foreigners in general. This, coupled by the huge number of visitors who came, the near total lack of trouble, the spirit of the whole thing, really has put rugby very much to the fore in the country, with serious questions about emphasizing it in schools, etc. *The REALLY Wanted to Beat Scotland* Also not reported outside of Japan, because the news crews were understandably hiding from the typhoon like everyone else, was what happened inside the stadium the night before and morning of the Japan Scotland game. I only know about this because of family contacts out there in the area, and even in Japan it wasn't reported much because it was "normal". After that typhoon that pitch was under water and about 2 inches of mud, with a game due that afternoon. Before the typhoon the stadium management and staff, and a large number of locals had gone to the stadium to sit it out there. After the wind and rain died off, in the wee small hours, they started removing the water, and cleaned and dried the pitch. By hand. With towels. On their hands and knees. Every square foot of it. Oh, and clean everything else as well (walkways, etc). Without that, the game would have been off - you can't play rugby on ground that's too soft - it's dangerous (suffocation). That's how much they wanted their team to play and beat Scotland. Which they did!

3:48 Very much sure this is the match that changed everything for Japan.

Ordinarily I'm usually glued to the Six Nations - especially the Ireland games, but this year I haven't watched one. Despite (presumably) the TV companies feeding in the sound of a crowd, I just didn't feel the atmosphere was there. It must be hard for the teams to play in an empty stadium. Loving your appreciation of rugby. Some games can be a little dull - especially when they play "kicking ping-pong" but when they play with ball in hand and the crowd's cheering them on it's the pinnacle of contact sport. I certainly wish I was as fit and athletic as some of those guys who are bigger and heavier than me!

When watching the older clips, bear in mind rugby union was amateur until 1995.

Nice to hear you mention the 6 Nations tournament. Here in Wales we let England win it about once a decade...but not this year! 4:24 - One of many great tries by the Welsh side from the 70's, with Phil Bennett shaking and baking as he always did!

Worth watching the Gareth Edwards try (starting at 4.22) again without pausing. A real thing of beauty. He was playing for the "Barbarians" - a scratch side drawn from several nations, who'd probably had very little time to practise together - against New Zealand, the strongest team in world rugby. One of the great moments in sport.

15:00 The "absolute chaos" try is France at their best. The French have a reputation for occasionally, when their backs are against the wall, attacking and moving the ball around in a way that (when the luck is on their side) makes them virtually unstoppable. Nobody gave France much chance in the '99 World Cup Semi Final against the tournament favourites New Zealand. The French were well behind at one point as expected, but "that" France kicked in, and they came back to blow the All Blacks away - the winning try is in the video. The stunner at 8:15 was also the French against the All Blacks at a game in New Zealand. It is known as "the try from the end of the world" by rugby fans. I am an Englishman, but I have to admit that France & Fiji at their best play the most thrilling rugby. It is a multi-generational thing, just sort of ingrained into the mindset of how they see the game & play it. With the French it is down to how they pass & kick, with the Fijians, it is more about how they run and offload, but with both it is about having the mindset to take risks and attack from their own line. Watch the '99 semi final match, it is on KZfaq - the greatest comeback win in an intentional game that I've ever seen.

The try that starts at 4.30 is regarded as one of the best ever tries in the history of Rugby Union .It has featured in Top 3 tries since 1973. It still makes the hair on the back of my neck curl.

When Jonah ran at people, the sensible ones got out of the way.

Really nice content and a true gentleman it seems :) Keep up the good work, nice to see your reactions to my favorite sport!

Ome great tries, Garath Edwards try of the century in the Barberians V New Zealand ... Brilliant. Nice to hear you mention Barry Saunders, My first trip from the UK to the States was a business trip to Detroit, I've been a Lions fan since then (1975). I think Saunders would have made a great rugby player. Thanks for another great video.

I enjoyed myself on that one too, i forgot how good Christian Cullen was you could probably find a 1 hour long video of his trys alone in his career, i wish his knee never got injured. I forgot how crafty France you to play that ball. good stuff.

Rugby probably the most skillful game when you've talent on the field 1 to 15 a awesome fan game

That swerve and move as you called it is called a side step. i love your videos.

Great reactions! Wicked beard dude!

the try where you talked about how much you like the passing was called the try from the end of the world where France beat NZ at Eden Park in 1994, which is the last time NZ lost a game at Eden Park.

The siren can go but the game is not over till the ball goes dead.

One day you'll have to treat yourself to a game at Twickenham when fans are allowed back in for the international games. The atmosphere is incredible.

When I played rugby, mate I never touched the ball in open play. We had the rule; forwards and backs. If a forward hit a back it was game over, if a forward came against a back it was game over.

What a great compilation 👍

Sadly, John Dawes, who was mentioned in the commentary for the Barbarians try, passed away this week....

The British and Irish lions (a team picked from Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland) are touring South Africa (current world champions) in June, watch it if you can, it’s going to be epic.

I knew Jonah Lomu would be in there. That guy was a BEAST.

Some of the tries you need the context about when they were scored. The Japan try against South Africa was just amazing. It gave them a win that nobody predicted.

I'm glad you watched the 6 Nations Rugby this year. When it brings a sittuation where Scotland beating France meant Wales won the Champioinship, you know certain tries count more than others.

Glad you're enjoying, I always played full Union but for some of the greatest skill mixed with pace and power try and catch some of the Rugby 7's, particularly Fiji, its sensational. One try in this video featured Serevi knew of the all-time greats.

EB Rugby 👍 glad you enjoyed these some truly great try’s there. The Baa, Baas, is one of the greatest ever, in my view. Rugby really is a great game. A day out to Twickenham (headquarters) in London for any game is a life experience, Richmond Green or Twickenham by eel pie island for a few “sherbets” (beers) before the match and after, into London for the evening a meal, usually a curry in Brick Lane then pubs, catch the last train out of Liverpool Street station to Colchester. Full day leaving home at 8.00. Theres us that used to play rugby and ours sons who played too. It’s just a fantastic sporting and social life. A game for Gentlemen that’s played by thugs, hence Thug-by. Check out the 97 lions and John Bentleys (Bentos) try here on you tube; it should be well up in the top 32.

Try getting a look at the legend that was Gareth Edwards. I'm Scottish he was Welsh , but he remains my second favorite player next to big Lomu.

I'm Welsh, it's our national sport.

The "fakeout" at 6:02 is called 'selling a dummy'

USAplay England at Twickenham, London on 4th July and Canada play at the same ground on 10th July. Twickenham is one of the world's greatest ruggby grounds and England's home ground.

Brilliant tries! Very exciting!

Hopefully you can get to watch the last game Scotland v France and the importance of either winning, very good game

I can't wait to get back on the terrace and watch some super league. I'm missing my half time pie and mash ....great video Alan👏👏🍺🍺🍺

if you notice NO padding as well

Have a look at an Australian called David campese, he was awesome. The barbarians try against New Zealand in 1973 is known as the greatest try ever

All of those tries were made when Rugby was a running game. Gee I wish we could go back to them days instead of the boring up the middle stuff we get today.

Forget the 6 nations, watch the 4 nations, southern hemisphere rugby, starting in august through to october. New Zealand vs south africa, 2 best sides in the world. 6 world cup titles between those 2 countries alone. 6 nations only has 1 world cup title

I remember watching the funnel of Jonah lomu with my mum so emotional we were sitting there with our number 11 New Zealand all black tops on crying like babies

These blokes are huge, and they run like 100 metre sprinters whilst dodging and diving. The small ones are 220-30. The big ones are 6'4"+ and 280. And they're Men. A lot of the NFL are kids. These guys are hard bastards that you wouldn't want to be in a situation with. Might be bias, but it's a much tougher, faster game than American football.

At 8.52 minutes, that's the U.S rugby team, the Eagles, scoring a great try against the Springboks. I've always said that if the US ever took rugby seriously, they would be a great team, there's definitely the facilities and the athletes, just not the financial interest, yet. 🏉

Watch Buck Shelford Tough Bastard. Kiwi rugby legend.

For a bit of context for one of those, i'd suggest watching around the japan vs south africa try. It's not as flashy in this compliation but its probably one of the greatest mometns in rugby history. Took place during the world cup in england, had pretty much every rugby fan in then UK and ireland cheering them on as south africa are on of the best in the world and japan was prior to that, one of the little teams that you expect to blow out in round one. They werent going through to the next round anyway but they put the work in, kept pace with south africa throughout and then when it went into overtime, they could have just kicked it over and taken a historic draw but kept pushing for the win and got it. Bookies odds on japan winning before the game were 80-1.

Excellent reaction sah!

3:40 Jonah Lomu RIP dude.

Good stuff buddy. Love from UK. 🇬🇧✌🇺🇸

Japan's try against South Africa is one of my favourite moments in rugby (only behind the 2003 WC final)

The Beard loves rugby

Good to see Rugby how it's played and not just concentrating on the big hits. As this Video shows there is a lot more to the game And the skils involved. ,

4:23 - This try here for the Barbarians against New Zealand is considered to be perhaps the greatest try in the history of the game.

3 of my all time faves were in there. Although i love watching Northern Hemisphere rugby (I live there) i absolutely love watching the passing and handling of Fiji and Samoa. There was one try in that video from a Rugby Sevens competition, which if youve never seen it is all action. Seven men on a full sized pitch, is just pure electric to watch, Give it a try! No pun intended!

Rugby hits till I collapse is worth a watch. The tackles may not be legal but it shows how violent some of the tackles can be

There are so many outstanding past and present rugby players to talk about and watch. You should try and watch the current Rugby 7's world series, each tournament is held in a Commonwealth country and also the USA who have been doing extremely well pre-covid lockdown, they have some ex-NFL players that are equal in quality to other rugby nations. Fiji is always the dream team to watch.

You might want to have a look at Womens Rugby too as the Womens Six Nations tournament starts on Saturday 3rd April and there is also a World Cup for them in September this year. There is also a tour in South Africa this summer for theMens British & Irish Lions, June into August. Basically there is stuff going on pretty much all the time, (www.world.rugby/tournaments/calendar) the question is whether you can find somewhere to watch it.

Jonah Lomu was the man. RIP. The Barbarians try - wow!

Great to see new rugby fans. Suggest you react to the most exciting 3 minutes of rugby.

And just think...the *lateral pass* is allowed in US football...and something they never use.

Great tries....would've liked to have seen Bryan Habana"s two scintillating long range breakout tries versus Australia who, had been piling on phase after phase of attacks beforehand.

I was in Auckland for the 2nd Try got to be honest cant remember if it was the 1st or 3rd Lions Test match, was drunk for all 3, great trip down under!

Be great to see southern hemisphere v northern hemisphere play each other, the best of the best from each. Southern would clean up NZ Aus and South Africa unstoppable.

Have you watched the Women's Rugby comps yet? NZ's Black Ferns v Englands Roses are always stunning. Or any Black Ferns 7s matches. That 2007 NZ v France RWC match still grates. Nothing spoils any sport more than bad officials.

You seem to enjoy the sport. You should start following your local USMLR teams. It's a sport gaining pace in US

Have a look at a try called Wide to West. Last play of the ball, final hooter has gone. Ball is in play. I guarantee you’ll be hooked. Check out some rugby super league bests also.

Also i remember watch the japan vs SA game and being on the edge of my seat for 85 mins untill they pulled that out of the bag! And if this video were made after 2019 then we'd surely see some great additions from the 2019 world cup in Japan aswell!

Remember in rugby the ball can only be passed backwards !

Phil Bennett was The Master of side step.

One or two of these make you wonder why the grass wasn't bursting into flames in the wake of the burst of speed