1972 Rugby League World Cup - Great Britain v Australia (Group Match)

My god one of the greatest Australian teams of all time Bob MacCarthey three immortals Bob Fulton the great Graham Langlands and looks like Arthur Beatson and they couldn’t even beat the English team …now that’s hats off and full credit to the great English players in that game which really outperformed the best we could throw at them 🙏 well done lads great to watch very impressive yes Bob Fulton‘s try was a joke pushing the fullback out the way it was a knock on by Tommy Redonikas just before that that was allowed crazy bad refereeing hey thanks for uploading really enjoyed it

The ground was like a cow paddock !!

Fulton, Langlands, McCarthy, Raudonikous. Legends in one team.

Love how every player gets roughed up when they get tackled! The game was physically harder in those days!

eddie warings pronunciation of raudonikis is hilarious!!!!

Steve Nash the number 7 for great Britain. One of my favourite players of all time. Tougher than most forwards What a great champion

Perpignan , I wish I was there , great game, glad the 13 fans got to see I it, love the area , spentv2 years of my life there, viva las pia, no xv , welsh love league hate union

GB had some great players to beat a strong Australian team . Phil Lowe outstanding. Lots of players who played in Australia years later too from GB around the time .

Jim Challinor, the GB coach, was my second cousin. He died just four years after the tournament

,Terry Clawson class act..

Superb. What's gone wrong since those days.

Yet another game where Fulton was unstoppable. He was the most complete player I ever saw.

Remember getting up in the early hours to watch .😮 Loved the commentator. Bob Mc Carthey a field goal?

Gorgeous video.

Big Phil Lowe..Rovers legend !

What a wonderful game, pity it was played in front of such a small crowd. Some of those tries were dodgy and wouldn't have been allowed today but it didn't take away from the contest. Even though Australia lost that was a very good Australian side, I do wish however GB would have kept up that standard but it fell away in the 2nd half of the seventies and Australia dominated for way too long. Thanks for the upload, it was great.

did colour tv get invented 20mins into this match?

lovely job. 💞

You say that secure in the knowledge that Unions position in the UK effectively banned Rugby League from schools, public parks and banned it's own players if they should wish to play RL. RL was outlawed in France through a collaboration between the FRU and the Vichy Govt after RL became dominant! U is secondary to RL in Australia. Just a fact that club RL dominated the UK rugby scene for most of the 20th century yet was not afforded the recognition of this through the Southern dominated press.

Australia had a good team but seemed to lack some strike power in the centres. Soon after this, Steve Rogers entered the Australian team and he helped put an ended Great Britain series or championship victories for the next decade and beyond.