Great welsh team, but they could not beat the All Blacks during the seventies 1972 NZ 19-16, 1974 the unofficial test 12-3, 1978 13-12. But full credit to Llanelli on that win in 1972, about equal to Northland beating Wales in 1988

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rugby is unwatchable now compared to this style of play. The game will never be a great spectacle unless world rugby learns from this example of playing.

Rugby at its best now just a bunch of monsters mauling up the field

This was rugby at its best.... and I am English. Scrums were fast and even with no feeding, hookers hooked and didn't throw in at line outs. There were not 34 phases of play with forwards gaining 6 inches a go. It was, as you can tell, Fiji sevens all the time. The Welsh had THE team but all 5 nations at that time played rugby much the same. If you caught France on a good day you could say goodbye to the grand slam. Something bad happened as a result of professional rugby. It's a shame. Almost as much a shame as Britian has forgotten that Assoaciation Football is actually called soccer. Listen to the audio. I am not going senile remembering that, as a someone from Yorkshire, you had to separate a rugby ball from a soccer ball.

71 years and counting for Wales last win against the all blacks .One if the longest losing streaks in all sport .

Anyone else here for some proper Rugby...? Not just Wales' hayday but Rugby's in general. What a shitshow it has become.

An interesting point here about the first Welsh fifteen chosen to play England. I think it was at Blackheath. Wales only had 13 players and needed two, so asked if anyone in the crowd had played and could turn out. Two lads did so. The captain on that day was not chosen for the next Welsh game, but one of the two lads who turned out on spec was chosen to play for Wales in the following international!

what a tradedgy for the english! the voice of bill Mclaren is still dearly missed

does anyone have a ling for the doc this is taken from, many thx

RIP JPR, Barry, Phil and All of the other Welsh greats lost, love and respect you changed the game forever!! ❤❤❤

11:28 I’m A Scot, but, like so many, it was those Welsh teams which inspired my love of the game. Props playing 80 mins in deep mud with pouring rain, and the sheer brilliance of the backs. I miss the days of player’s finding space rather than contact, which can be just as boring as Rugby League for me. So sad to see Barry John go so soon after his colleagues.

Legends all, what an absolutely fantastic era, and with Bill McLaren too. Sadly today Barry John passed.

Yes that team would bring rwc l remember watching Wales as kid at grumpa s House.

If the Springboks had toured Britain in 1978 Wales v South Africa would have been the unofficial World Championship with the Springboks having beaten the All Blacks in 1976

I just hate it, when the Western Mail, , refer to the current Wales Rugby players, as Legends of the game. None of them could play to the same level or standard as Gareth, Barry, JPR, Phil, Mervyn, Derek, JJ, and Gerald and the rest of the 70s team They are the Legends of the game, and im proud to say, i can remember those exciting times at the Arms Park, where every visiting nation, even the mighty All Blacks were for the taking. When did Wales last beat the All Blacks, or come anywhere near close to beating them. ? I rest my case.

In memory of John Peter Rhys Williams, known as JPR to the rugby world. A brilliant player and competitor, and a rock of a man, who sadly left us in 2024.

Let's get the outside half factory going again 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 greatest team ever in rugby when they played you knew it was going to be special 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

England had a Golden era in the 90s but of course that is not celebrated. 3 Grand slams.

And the marvelous voice of Cliff Morgan.. Another amazing player..

Absolutely magnificent. They don’t play rugby like that anymore.

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0:17 😂

Victorian Era?

Looks like Brown is in for a jolly good rogering after the match.

The precursor to the Super league and the NRL.

I'm and Englishman but I hear the names in that team called out and I get tingles. What a team that was, incredible.

I’m an Englishman but I loved watching the Welsh team play in the 1970s. One of our only exciting players was Dai Duckham. Fast forward to the current day and I’m watching England going out results in the WC. Don’t they realise sport is meant to be entertainment. I’d rather watch paint dry.

I never begrudged them their wins against England because they were such a good side bit I was always a bit miffed when disguised as London Welsh they cleaned up at the Middlesex Sevens !!!

back in my day kids would practice archery instead of wasting away playing football

JJ never got enough credit. Pure speed and a great finisher.

A kiwi coaching Wales now, again, hows that going boyo

Wales has great players then

That infamous non- awarded try by Bob Deans in 1905 does not mean the ABs would have won that game. It could have been a 3-3 all draw if the conversion had missed. The ABs have won games controversially. The most recent being against the Wallabies last year when the ref awarded a scrum to them because the Aussie flyhalf was taking too long to kick the ball out and then scored the winning try.

Flashman!

I'm English but it was the Welsh teams of the 70's and the voice of Bill McLaren that got me into rugby.

That Ref must’ve been sweating by the end of the game.

Also very rarely done then and in the modern game

Just look at when Edwards made the break against Scotland from the back of the scrum ,he changed hands with the ball that can't be taught and very difficult while on a break

I was there

What a fabulous piece of rugby by JPR there. He breaks away and he's got the legs but he can see he's likely to be tackled so he turns in and thereby takes the defence with him , only then does he offload to Edwards, instinctively knowing someone will be there and he's leaving them clear. The thing about Wales at that time wasn't only that they had a lot of players with exceptional talent but they had half a dozen players with exceptional vision and awareness on the pitch. JPR was one of them and that was also an amazing example of really great team play. I'm lucky to have been a young player growing up at that time having the privilege to watch that marvellous Welsh team play.

Ah proper rugby instead of hybrid rugby league crap we have now

I love the comment "with the advent of coaching"

JPR should've given the ball to Denzil, in that game in Paris, and not to Gareth!!!

Why can't they play like that now?

Paul Rouse along with other historians would dispute the start of soccer in Ireland. Watch his history of sport on otb or listen as a podcast

"Things were getting more difficult for Wales now. With the advent of coaching, other teams were starting to catch up." That's just amazing. The amateur game. What a time to be alive (and playing).

A truly great era for Welsh rugby, with so many greats playing at the same time, but the downside was when these greats retired from international rugby, they all seemed to retire at the same time. a great shame. but a remarkable team that put the rest of the rugby playing world to shame.

Pompous ares

The recently departed John Dawes said, rugby then was all about putting players into space, rugby now is all about looking for contact. How right he was, rugby was wonderful when it was spontaneous.