RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

 
IF nothing else, this week has shown the extraordinary effect of secret tapes and recordings or unsuspected footage when they come to light. If you know what I mean.
Which got me wondering what are the historical rugby events where you wish we could somehow magic up a camera or microphone and parachute it down through the decades.
For starters I give you the disallowed Bob Deans ‘try’ for New Zealand in 1905. Even as a history buff I sometimes tire of the endless debate over this but of course the reason the controversy rages is that there is no footage. Ne...