It is clear to me that the Australians were more aware of this than the Boks were and sent Vickerman in to do a “Bakkies” on Brussouw. It worked for them and we were the ones left with eggs on our faces.

I do not think that Lawrence was biased. He doesn’t come across in the same way as Dickerson, Walsh, Rolland, Clancy, Honiss and O’Brien do. He is just clueless to the breakdown laws. The Australians, as per their convict DNA, are smarter buggers than us. And we end up looking like a bunch of dumb japies again.

But, Boks should have put the game away – Steyn missed kicks, Lambie missed a drop, De Villiers threw a foward pass – in all – the Boks easily threw away 16 points.

I do think it was bad that Steyn was so selfish. With Frans Steyn out he tried to take glory by taking those two kicks that we all know is out of his reach. Lambie should have taking those two (he can’t kick the same distance as Frans, but he can kick further than Morné), and probably would have hit one of them.

But it is the end of an era… now what happens now with the returning boks? Currie Cup?

The breakdown reffing was bad, but the boks should have adapted and done the same. They didn’t.

Point is, could have gone either way. We lost… end of story. At least it is against Aus and not Ireland.

Fortunately it was only a penalty, and with 8 minutes on the clock there was still plenty of time for SA to come back, except Aus had their noses in front and that was enough to give them a bit more energy to hold out.

One eyed biased sore losers are accusing the ref of cheating and incompetence but dear me, that penalty was the act of a total knucklehead.

All SA had to do was hold their disipline, but they didn’t have the nous to realise it.

Aus were holding on for dear life and that was all. There was no way in the world they were going to score any other way than from a penalty. They just didn’t have it in them.

Australia played to his interpretations much better… FACT.

But it was also Bryce Lawrence job to implement the breakdown laws correctly, and he did a poor job, which swung the game in favor of the Australians, who were able to offset our huge territorial advantage because of it.

I really don’t know what to think, except that Lawrence should retire from test rugby – and Super rugby after what happened with Sharks vs Crusaders.

Chur. I’m not really too bothered who wins anymore, but if I’m honest with myself I’d say I want anyone but the All Blacks to win. 4 years of gloating won’t go down well with me.

If Australia win it, I’d be very happy for them. Robbie Deans really is one hell of a coach.

Definitely not worried. There is a lot of talent… if we just use it correctly.

I’d have liked to have won this World Cup, but at the same time I’m confident we will now get a very good coach. Hoskins has a lot more brains then that fool Brian van Rooyen, so he’ll realise only the best can take us forward.

For now I’m cheering for the underdogs, Wales, but I’m really just hoping for an entertaining final 4 games.

It’s easy to sit on your couch and find fault, then tell everyone to F off if they point out where you went wrong.

Fourie du Preez for example. I keep hearing he was slow… I played a bit of scrumhalf, and it’s not as simple as getting to the ball and moving it on as quick as possible. That’s how turn-overs happen. You need to make decisions from the base, and hold the ball until the receivers are in a position to make use of the ball. du Preez’s tactical kicking was also excellent.

His sniping isn’t what it used to be. Genia has overtaken him as a running scrumhalf… but Fourie du Preez was definitely the right choice for this game.

Francois Hougaard is a terrific player, but a poor scrumhalf. I’m calling it now – Ruan Pienaar will be the Boks starting scrumhalf in 2012.

We’ll be back. South Africa has far too much rugby talent to be losing in a quarter-final. They definitely shouldn’t be satisfied… but if a talented coach is given the head coaching job – I’d prefer Brendan Venter, or Rassie Erasmus if it’s a management role similar to Martin Johnson – and he keeps the guys together and replaces the departing players and dead wood (just Pierre Spies) we’ll win more often then not.

Our goal has to be recovering from this Head-to-Head record against the All Blacks:

Wins: 34
Losses: 46
Draws: 3

It’d take a hell of a long time considering we’ll only be playing each other twice a year, but that has to be the goal.