Lions/HSBC advert.

[Tal]

"....The HSBC YouTube experience launches from the 16th May, with legendary Celtic band the Pogues providing the soundtrack to the film....."

http://www.bandt.com.au/news/advertisin ... in-new-cam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... YdTjHUICVs

[firehazard]

BOD in a naval costume with The Pogues providing the soundtrack. What more could anyone want?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trvj6K6E-lE&list=UUTbuSzdKMgyVRjlr1EWE-gg&index=2

[Yes, BOD is not as it happens the tour captain, but hey.]

[philipchevron]

Colonials - it's a Rugby thing. I think.

[firehazard]

Colonials - it's a Rugby thing. I think.

Yes indeed. Some of us get absurdly excited about such things and fail to offer adequate translations. Apologies.

[philipchevron]

Colonials - it's a Rugby thing. I think.

Yes indeed. Some of us get absurdly excited about such things and fail to offer adequate translations. Apologies.

And BOD is the great Brian O'Driscoll. I was wary about this campaign - I think now it works rather well.

[Low D]

i know nothin' from nothin' with regards to rugby, but this is a great little film!

[Welshie]

Felt rather proud when i told my Wife that the Pogues were singing the soundtrack....take from that coment what you will!
Cheers
Aled

[Fr. McGreer]

Help please. So i've watched it a few times and does the ould fella with peg leg swap the messages? Is he a traitor? What was on the original message if he did swap? What is the significance of '99'? And am i taking this too seriously?

Bloody good though

[firehazard]

Help please. So i've watched it a few times and does the ould fella with peg leg swap the messages? Is he a traitor? What was on the original message if he did swap? What is the significance of '99'? And am i taking this too seriously?

Ah, I've been waiting for someone to ask. I thought on first watching that it might be a bit obscure to people who aren't obsessed with the game.

The ould fella with the peg leg is the great Willie John McBride, legendary Irish rugby player of the 60s and 70s, who was captain of the 1974 Lions tour to South Africa. The South African side was regarded as being particularly aggressive, and the Lions decided before the test series started that they would get their retaliation in first. So at the first hint of brutal play by the South Africans, the call would be "99" - and when they heard that call, it was to be "one in, all in", and it was the signal for all the Lions players to thump the opponent nearest to them. The Lions won the series 3-0, so it appears to have been a successful tactic in its way. But this was in the days before video referees, who'd soon put a stop to that sort of thing nowadays. So it probably won't work on the upcoming tour...

What was on the original message in the advert, I've no idea. I'm not sure we're meant to know. But a lot of the people featured in the ad are former or current Lions rugby players, and it's fun trying to spot the lot if you're into that kind of thing.

[Fr. McGreer]

Help please. So i've watched it a few times and does the ould fella with peg leg swap the messages? Is he a traitor? What was on the original message if he did swap? What is the significance of '99'? And am i taking this too seriously?

Ah, I've been waiting for someone to ask. I thought on first watching that it might be a bit obscure to people who aren't obsessed with the game.

The ould fella with the peg leg is the great Willie John McBride, legendary Irish rugby player of the 60s and 70s, who was captain of the 1974 Lions tour to South Africa. The South African side was regarded as being particularly aggressive, and the Lions decided before the test series started that they would get their retaliation in first. So at the first hint of brutal play by the South Africans, the call would be "99" - and when they heard that call, it was to be "one in, all in", and it was the signal for all the Lions players to thump the opponent nearest to them. The Lions won the series 3-0, so it appears to have been a successful tactic in its way. But this was in the days before video referees, who'd soon put a stop to that sort of thing nowadays. So it probably won't work on the upcoming tour...

What was on the original message in the advert, I've no idea. I'm not sure we're meant to know. But a lot of the people featured in the ad are former or current Lions rugby players, and it's fun trying to spot the lot if you're into that kind of thing.

That's a brilliant story The ad is fantastic.

Thanks FH

[Welshie]

Yep cracking story. In the pre tour meeting Wille John had told the squad what was going to happen and gave the opportunity for "any player who does not feel up to the task to stand up and leave" apparently Bobby Windsor the Welsh hooker stood a up and said at the top of his voice "i'm gonna love this"....
JPR Williams a trained surgeon who played full back and had the furthest to run, couldnt get to the action fast enough...! LOL
Ah the days of amateur rugby!
Cheers
Aled