Barbarian FC

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Barbarians
Maillot du Barbarian Football Club.jpg
Full name British Barbarians FC
Nickname (s) Baa-baas
Founded April 9, 1890
Stadion Tour team
Places depending on the host
Trainer AustraliaAustralia Eddie Jones John Mitchell Warren Gatland
New ZealandNew Zealand
New ZealandNew Zealand
Homepage barbarianfc.co.uk
league Selection team
Away

The Barbarian Football Club , commonly referred to as Barbarians or by the nickname Baa-Baas , is a rugby union team from Great Britain , where the players, who are mostly under contract with another team, are selected and invited for one or more matches become. The Barbarians traditionally play in black with white horizontal stripes, but the players wear the socks of their respective "home team".

Conditions for an invitation are the skills of the player and his exemplary behavior on and off the field. A calling is considered a great honor and is not tied to race, color, or belief. For each game, a player is selected who has not yet played an international match for his country. Every invited player becomes a member of the club.

The club values ​​an open, attractive style of play with a lot of running and passing play in contrast to the traditional game of the four Home Nations , which was more striker-oriented.

history

The original Baa-Baas

The founding of the club goes back to William Percy Carpmael. He had the idea of ​​introducing tours with players from different clubs in the off-game time. In his day, the game simply stopped in early March and the players paused until the following season. A group of players, mostly from Blackheath , traveled north under his leadership as Southern Nomads . On April 9, 1890, the founding of the Barbarian Football Club was decided in the Leuchters Restaurant in Bradford - already with the same concept as today. WJ Carey, former Bishop of Bloemfontein and founding member, contributed the motto:

Rugby Football is a game for gentlemen in all classes, but for no bad sportsman in any class
(Rugby football is a game for men of honor of all classes, but not for a bad sportsman of any class)

On December 27, 1890, the Barbarians defeated Hartlepool Rovers 9-4 in their first game. The concept of the club lasted and certain traditions were established. For example, the Esplanade Hotel in Penarth became a kind of club accommodation on the Easter tours in Wales .

After World War II , in 1948, the Barbarians were asked to field an opposing team for the touring Australian team. Thus the tradition of started Final Challenge ( last challenge ) - the last game of a tour to Britain and Ireland from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Since rugby became professionalized in the mid-1990s, many have felt the club was an anachronism. However, there is still a lively game operation.

In 2000 the Barbarians played in the renovated Eilenriedestadion in Hanover against the German national rugby team (47-19).

That game, that try ...

The Final Challenge Match of the Barbarians against the All Blacks from New Zealand at Arms Park in Cardiff in 1973 is considered one of the best rugby games of all time. Both teams played attractive attack rugby, and it was in such a situation that the famous " Trial of the Century" fell through the Barbarians scrum Gareth Edwards .

Commentator Cliff Morgan described it as follows:

" Kirkpatrick to Williams. This is great stuff. Phil Bennett covering, chased by Alistair Scown. Brilliant! Oh that's brilliant! John Williams , Pullin, John Dawes . Great dummy! David, Tom David, the half-way line. Brilliant by Quinnell. This is Gareth Edwards. A dramatic start. What a score! "

Gareth Edwards later said of this game:

“The game against the All Blacks is one that I will never forget and none of us players will ever be allowed to forget it. It's a game that will live with me forever. "
"People often only remember the first four minutes of the game because of the attempt, but they forget the amount of good rugby that was played afterwards that the All Blacks played a large part in."
"After the success of the 1971 Lions Tour, which caught the imagination of the entire country, it was an opportunity to bring many of this team back together."

The All Blacks lost the game 23-11 (according to today's counting method 27-13) after further attempts by Fergus Slattery , John Bevan, JPR Williams for the Barbarians - of which Phil Bennett increased two - with two counter attempts by Grant Batty that were not increased . Bennett and Joe Karam for New Zealand were each successful once with a penalty kick.

Regular games

Some Barbarians games take place at regular intervals:

  • Boxing Day Fixture versus Leicester Tigers
  • Mobbs Memorial Match - game named after Edgar Mobbs for all victims of the First World War (since 1921)
  • Final Challenge - the last tour match in the British Isles for Australia, New Zealand and South Africa since 1948. Since the long rugby tours have practically disappeared after professionalization, there is less and less time for this game and it is rarely played.

Outside of these fixed commitments, the Barbarians mainly play against other national teams from the British Isles and from other areas.

New Zealand Barbarians

The New Zealand Barbarians are a New Zealand club with the same concept as Barbarian FC, which is why they are also known as "Little Baa-Baas". They wear red jerseys with the club's symbol, the white “gamboling lamb” (“jumping lamb”).

Web links

Commons : Barbarian FC  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ^ Bryn Palmer: The try of the century. In: BBC Sport Online. January 26, 2003, accessed April 11, 2014 .
  2. ↑ BBC Scrum V Online: BaaBaas - New Zealand 1973 (English)