i agree

Pity the Springboks couldn't (until the 3rd Test). Also, I wouldn't consider Northern Transvaal a "small province" - nor would most Blou Bulle fans of the time... Plus, you're obviously not aware of the time a single club team from Wales beat the All Blacks. Now, that's an achievement!

Oh just for you ( Another accomplishment of Western Province, which no South African team has ever been able to match, is the double victories over the All Blacks the first being (10-3) played on 15 August 1928 and again (12-11) on 16 July 1976, while several countries have never been able to beat the All Black team, Province managed it twice hee hee!!) NOT 1 BUT TWICE.

@@johnsmithwinkwink1704 What do you mean "another accomplishment"? The video is about the Blou Bulle (Northern Transvaal) but then you switch to Western Province - those are different Provinces so they are different achievements, but all three are certainly praiseworthy. However, I would still contend that a single club (Llanelli, in 1972) beating a national team of the stature of the All Blacks is still at least as good, if not better than, Provincial teams achieving the same feat. After all, a Province has a far bigger pool of potential players to pick from than a single club... Llanelli's feat is unlikely to be repeated as national teams don't generally play club teams anymore during tours (plus the structure of the game has changed enormously since professionalism came in - to the detriment of individual clubs).

absolutely brilliant

Yea Gusscott had fire in his belly ya can see it in his eyes

Incredible player, defensively he wasn’t great but he could do everything else to genius level and just made it look effortless. A three time lion and I think one of only 5 lions to have won more than one series.

Including a drop-goal in the second test at Kings Park...

I don’t know about despondent. I was there too and I came from that game thinking it would be a 3-0 walk over. These were mostly second string teams shorn of Boks. Boks scored 9 tries to 3 but because they had no kicker, it was always frustrating uphill.

@@mahlanguism Maybe it was just the guys I worked with. They did seem to swing between the 'boks being the best thing since sliced bread (24th June 1995 onwards) to them being crap when they lost (repeatedly) to the All Blacks in 1996...

Good spot!

absolutely

Different laws, different refereeing...

Only you’ve got Teichman on record saying their defence in the final 25 minutes of the second test was the most water tight he ever played against.

@@oliverhunter9495 That's passion! Or it was in 1997. My point was they're didn't do much training in D. As far as I know. Clive Woodward brought that into rugby.

@@wrightyy Probably passion and a superb group of players doing their job. History has not been kind to Woodward, he was an incredible innovator for his time.

With a few tweaks for injury and form, this was basically the team that beat the Boks two weeks in a row, too.

@@wrightyy A bok team with Carel "clean cv" du Plessis as coach.Same as playing against a blind team and hence the boks lost.

@@markbrown-sb2zm I am afraid my knowledge of this tour is exclusively based in the documentary (which even as a South African, if you like sport, it's great. Enough time and two series win have passed you won't hate watching the Lions win). I have a fairly decent knowledge of all th games and the lions squads etc. But as for the politics at the time of SA rugby, I don't know. I do know they lost a series to the ABs the previous year. And the lions coaches stayed with the ABs in preparation.

@@wrightyy nope,I love the lions series.Good hard,gritty,close games.I do wish the journalism would improve because we spectators only hear of Rog refusing drinks after gzmes,not enough of Jason Leonard coming to the bok changeroom to swap jerseys with a bok greenhorn.

it doesnt quite work that way lol