This game turned me from a casual rugby viewer to a proper fan starting my proper love of the sport

'Or playing Ireland in a match with the label Quarter Final' - god, it hurts that this is so true

As a South African, this match was painful to watch, but looking back on the match and watching Japan until the 2019 world cup, I’m in love with the Japanese play style.

10:14 I love the 19-84 joke 😂😂😂😂😂

Eddie Jones is a guy who is somehow hard to like and impossible to hate.

I wonder if Eddie Jones thinks it’s rugby

There’s something wrong with this video, I was actually able to read a sentence without pausing.

imagine I live in Brighton and could have got tickets to see this match, but my Dad thought it would just be a blowout and an uninteresting watch, so he bought tickets to Samoa vs USA on the next day. Still haven't talked to him since

I didn't realise how much I was supposed to love Fumi Tanaka before this video but he's iconic

As an Irish fan I have develop a fear of quarters and now I can’t ever go to America

the ultimate underdog that everyone loves, the team that is everyone's favorite after there home team. If you are feeling low and you have too much on your mind, remember how japan achieved to beat south africa and it will help you go on

I am a Neath boy...Living in Japan. I was at the 2 2013 games,,,,,The Hanazono test had the best atmosphere of any game I have ever seen. I took my young half Japanese son to both of the games. Fast forward to the RWC game against Ireland. We went with several Japanese friends to the Wales v Georgia, Uruguay and the Japanese and ireland game,,,, My son Taiki and I had so much pleasure from that one....Squidge,,,,I am a neath boy through and through but dear God,,,the emotion after that game was incredible!! As always, thank you for your videos.

David had a sling, i.e. the most technologically advanced ranged weapon at the time. One crack to the forehead and Goliath was dead as a dodo. Edit: maybe this explains Japan well too, they had amazing preparation. Edit 2: haven't heard many people actually say this about D v G so I'm glad you did.

This is the first time I've liked a vid before watching, and boy that is a decision I did NOT regret

That game was amazing! It was so touching to see the Japanese team and fans tear up 😍

As a South African, this crushed me BUT damn...it was beautiful to watch! Loved it!

I see a new Squidge vid, I drop everything and watch it...

20:52 Explains why we keep seeing Ben Youngs in the England team under Jones.

One of my biggest regrets: turning down a ticket to watch Japan v South Africa in my home town of Brighton as I thought it was would be a whitewash

This was an extremely well researched, fantastic video mate. Really enjoyed it

You know it's pretty nice for this video to come out this morning and not yesterday evening, this makes it your birthday present to me.

I'm still not over this...

WC 2019, Rassie and Siya have finally made this wound start to heal for me as a Saffa. I can actually sit back and dig into this now where before I would have skipped straight over this one :)

That bit with Eddy talking about rugby made the word rugby sound funny

Aweome video dude. Japan is everyones second favorate team, there epic to watch and were amazing hosts. i hope you carry on with this topic untill present day

Loved this video mate, but think I'll have to skip part 2 😅

John Kirwan's foundation work as the coach prior to Jones was also really important.

Can't wait for part 2, great vid as always, thank you Squidge!

You mean ''rugby is a game of communication mate.'' Great video.

Fantastic stuff, cheers bro!

One match as South African that brought me close to tears. Your commentary is hilariously interesting

Great stuff Squidge, great to hear from you again.

Can't wait for part 2 omfg

Ahh i was missing these videos! 😍

Wonderful insight once again, love watching your videos.

phenomenal analysis mate. Thanks!

Love everything you post. Just love the passion and your encylopedic knowledge! Keep up the great work.

Can't wait for episode 2!

Bloody brill dude, well done.

Next week! Damn it... that was really entertaining, enlightening and charming. Thank you as ever, have missed your videos so very much. keep up the amazing work.

As a South African this match still gives me PTSD. I can vividly remember the place, exact table and beer I was sipping when we lost this match.

Excellent. Nothing better than a wake up call to make you reinvent yourself!

I'm absolutely in love with this coverage of that match and every time I watch 'Brighton Miracle' footage I get goosebumps

as a springbok fan i cried. as a rugby fan i cheered.

Bloody great video, thanks

Top video. Your video style matches Japan's playing style really well.

This is your best video yet

Wow I actually saw you on the documentary, chasing the sun. Excellent stuff my guy

What a video Keep up the good work

Im dying for this next part squidge

Spot on. No apologies needed for cultural stereotyping. Have yourself a Battenberg cake break before getting onto Part II.

Great video from a bok fan amazing how u put these things together with zero bias a real professional better than most analysts on fox sports or supersport

So good, thanks squidge

Squidge this is brilliant

Oh my god, I am so excited!

SO GOOD!

I remember watching this match and oh my it was an entertaining to watch

I am south african and it hurts to watch but I can't not love a squidge video

Squidge, if that is your real name! Amazing video!!!!!

23 min video and it's only the first part! 🤤

As a South African this match is always hard to watch/remember - it broke the boks and it took Rassie to fix us. But damn if Eddie Jones didn't do something amazing with Japanese rugby! I'm eagerly awaiting the 2nd video.

Part 2???? I've been counting down the days since last week Thursday.... ahhhhh

Good stuff, looking forward to P2. Also looking forward to Japan v Scotland - skipping that one is tantamount to trolling!...

I'm from New Zealand. We have a south African teacher and so when they won we all came to school in kimonos and flying Japanese flags. She cried

Excellent.

You tease - left me on tenterhooks!

Squidge and Two Cents rugby put up a video and I stop work to watch knowing it will be worth the catch up later.. I tried to get tickets for this game and even drove 250 miles to stay in Brighton in case there were returns. Ended up in a bar with a mate and both SA and Japanese supporters watching it unfold. The Saffas rightly confident, and the Japanese supporters happy to be there. The atmosphere during the game rivalled my watching England win in 2003, and that's not something I ever expected to happen. We spent the 24hours after the game in shock, while getting irresponsibly inebriated consoling Saffas and bowing in total respect to any Japanese we came across.

Bravo!

It is the only Springbok loss I can bear reminiscing. Most of the times. In hindsight, the devastating yet honourable loss against Japan's supreme bravery in 2015 made the Bokke's successful RWC 2019 campaign more than epic. Beating Japan in the QF and Eddie Jones (and England as a bonus) in the final.

I remeber watching that game live for no other reason than it being on between two games I wanted to see. I didn't actually start paying attentin until 20 minutes before the end and it was nail biting stuff once I realized what was happening

Brilliant

Best rugby analyst in the world

Please review the Bledisloe cup ;)

Not clicked on a vid quicker

I went to this game, and I remember speaking to a South African dad with his kid on the train, which was his first South Africa game. We all said to them, that it should be an easy win for them. I still wonder how disappointed they were at the end of the game

I remember people saying it was going to be 100+ win for us. I countered with the facts that our line up for the particular match was very ad hoc, with the Eddie Jones factor, Jerome Garces factors too boot and the fact Japan was winning tier 1 nations that year (albeit at home to a Wales B team). I remember a poster telling me to put my money where my mouth was as the odds were 100/1. I should've just done it. But I countered that I certainly did not expect Japan to win but a 20 point margin was more reasonable than a 100. Missed opportunity there..

I was in Cardiff in 2004 when Wales beat (an admittedly understrength) Japan 98-0. They've certainly come a long way since then. They're a great team to watch. Unfortunately I missed the game in 2015 as I was moving house on that day. When my friend sent me a text to say that Japan had won, I thought he was just taking the piss!

Nice:)

SUPER VID

Quality

A Dombrandt-vs-Wasps speed of first laugh "actual footage" 😂😂😂

If you wanted to get really technical about it, Zimbabwe only qualified for one World Cup, as the participating nations in the inaugural edition were invited.

The Boks were a mess leading up to this game, still favored to win but were not in a good space. I hope you talk about this. But as a South African I can't be mad at this video or the actual match. We needed it to spark what was needed to ultimately lose a close one to NZ

I have literally spent the past 2 hours refreshing your channel waiting for part 2 I have a problem please help

Thanks @squidge - brought back memories of a fantastic day for all of us!! Shameless plug time: Anyone in London wanting to play rugby the Japanese way, hit us up! ljrfc.co.uk or ljrfcenquiries@gmail.com

If refs commanded the game like its supposed to be more teams would have to play the Japanese style as opposed to the new Exeter off your feet at the ruck style. God bless the underdog

According to Malcolm Gladwell, David was always gonna beat Goliath... it's gets distorted because of the size issue. But David had a long distance weapon kinda like a sniper rifle of the time and Goliath depended on close combat. David only got close after the killer blow to cut off Goliaths head! David was always gonna win that fight! (I just realized you mentioned Gladwell Later in the video I originally wrote this comment when you first mentioned D v G).

Correction. That Springbok side was not at all well coached. We had a coach who was trying to recreate a game plan from his past, with a team from the SA Rugby past and who was not even capable of getting his own players to adhere to the plan. After the game, several veterans including Victor Matfield, Schalk Burger and Bismarck du Plessis were mentioned as refusing to follow the game plan and thereby costing us the game. The selections were odd with a severely emaciated Jean de Villiers fresh back from injury and clearly unfit, taking over from Damian de Allende who was in the form of his life yet did not even make the bench. Kolisi was originally put on the bench as cover for flank, but when Willem Alberts was withdrawn at the 11th hour, Kolisi stayed on the bench and Pieter-Steph du Toit leapfrogged him from 'not playing' straight into the starting lineup, in a role he was not familiar with. At the time, PSDT was not a flanker but a second rower and it is interesting to note that two years after this, Coetzee was defending the fact that he (Coetzee) was selecting PSDT out of position at flank. It was not until Rassie arrived that PSDT became effective in that role. It was a tough time for SA Rugby, due to get worse when Meyer was replaced by Coetzee, and would only improve when Rassie was finally given the reins.

Squidge Rugby, are going to make a review on Chasing the Sun?

The Beast still to Scale mate! LMAO!!

4:01 what about the 2003 loss to England in the pool stages

1:13 Buster Douglas v. Mike Tyson was 42/1 and some places wouldn't even take bets on Tyson. Japan to beat SA... 80/1. Incredible pay day for some brave soul!

looks a lot like Randwick style of playing

Anyone know how to watch the Chasing the Sun documentary from the UK?

at the time of this game 3 japanese players have been plying their trade with Super rugby clubs

Please write this as a movie script.

So Japan vs Scotland next?

4:28 "well coached" - Ermmmm, no. I still love watching this game, the Japanese are the best winners to lose to.

Yay

Fumiaki Tanaka that is all