1990 Kangaroo Tour..3rd Test..GB v Australia..

[MartinJames]

Worth remembering two of the forwards from that series who died tragically young. Mike Gregory, who came on as a sub in this game, died from motor neurone disease aged 41 and Roy Powell who started the first test and was a sub in the second died of a heart attack aged only 33. He was still a player / assistant coach at Rochdale.

[oinkooink]

Andy Gregory didn't mind a high shot or 3. Which is a bit strange since he's only 3 foot tall.

[robcourtney]

Cliff Lyons was such an underrated player to say the least.

[robcousins]

That's just a classic Australian RL shirt isn't it? Simple and not decorated like an advertising billboard, just one sponsor. Same as the GB shirt. Bring back collars!

[paulebrey]

crikey what we would give in the future to have a test series like this

[TheDodger]

Thanks for the upload . Missed this one but went old Trafford for 2nd test the weekend or two before, when Aussies won in the last minute.

[luckygibbo]

Credit to you and thanks for this treat. Much appreciated.

[ghengisful]

This series was one of the best ever - all three Tests were belters. The amount of points Mal Meninga scored for Australia in his career is amazing, and he's probably the best centre overall to have ever played for Australia. But his goalkicking....absolutely atrocious. He's the worst goalkicker I've ever seen for any international team of any country. I wonder what his points tally would have been if he'd had the kicking skills of Jonathan Thurston, 🙂

[tuabrowne]

Big Sirro led the assault on the poms, hanley in particular. 💪

[petercomisari]

Back in the days when a team was proud to be sponsored by coal miners. And Inspector Clouseau would try his hand at Rugby League refereeing...

[Baskerville]

My Man of the 1990 Series was Bob Lindner.

Surely Australia could have found a goalkicker up to Test standard... Meninga was woeful.

[matthewhicks]

Daryl Powell and Carl Gibson at centre, surely we had better. Loughlin? A young Newlove? Lydon? Darren Wright? Andy Courier? And Kelin Skerratt, Karl Fairbank and Brendan Hill in the pack?

[fatstorvolay]

Great test series. Easily the best British side I've ever seen. But for Eastwood's kicking in game 2, they would have won the Ashes.

[Holden]

Australia's defence was just about perfect, but poor old Andy Gregory was playing just about a lone hand in this match.

When Garry Schofield went for his intercept, Mal Reilly was coming down to the Lions bench at the time. His assistant Phil Larder in the stand could only watch in horror. Schofield had been told before the game by both Reilly, Larder and his Leeds coach David Ward, and it was apparently re-told to him at half time, to not do his usual thing of racing out of the line for an intercept because unlike British club sides, if it didn't come off the Aussie's had the players to exploit it ... which is exactly what happened. Cliff Lyons drifted across and sent Mal Meninga back inside right where Schofield would have been had he stayed in the line. The Kangaroos defence was near perfect, but that one moment put the game beyond Great Britain's reach in the conditions.

And I don't think Schofield would have scored had he got the ball. Dale Shearer was right with him and no way would Schofield have out-run Rowdy.

[thescarletpimpernel]

Graeme Hughes was the most anti Australian Australian commentator I ever heard. Benny Elias and Steve Roach were capable of the biggest bonehead plays imaginable.

[ZIGSVIDS]

Andy Gregory can't pass left to right.
Meninga is just a weapon.

[tobinsarttrading]

If Meninga had of kicked straight, it would have been embarrassing for gb! 14-0 doesn’t tell the story how the Roos overcame all the dirty play, mysterious refereeing decisions and uncharacteristic ball handling mistakes! No wonder Australia stayed dominant for the next three generations of international league.

[danzigvssartre]

Andy Gregory tried hard, but he just did not have the skills to match Ricky Stuart

[djpg]

If the brits didn't put so much effort into doing the snide shit that they do, they'd probably win more

[oldguyable]

i thnk its the worst referring i've seen, the english off side high tackles, the aussies professional and disciplined.that ellery handley a bit loose