It turns out the man who will lead the Wallabies in a mid-week Bledisloe later this year was also in attendance at the last one in 1994, which ended pretty famously.
There were, at last count, about 150,000 people who say they were at the old 40,000-seat SFS on the night George Gregan made THAT tackle on Jeff Wilson to win the 1994 Bledisloe Cup.
“Dominion Breweries shouted four or five pubs, a couple of us, for a few days and they looked after us and it involved the midweek Test there,” Rennie said. “We sat down right in the front at the corner here, not too far from the try line. I didn’t think it would be great seats but as it turned out Jason Little scored after about 16 or 17 seconds down this end, and all the action was down this way.”George Gregan making THAT tackle on Jeff Wilson in 1994.
The Wallabies-Boks’ Test was confirmed as the second event at the new Allianz Stadium on Thursday. TheThat would have meant a clash with the Shute Shield decider, however, and talks were held between RA and the Sydney Rugby Union about moving the club grand final day to Sunday.
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