Blacks within reach of rugby heaven
16 Oct 2011
RYAN VREDE watched the All Blacks take a step closer to ending their World Cup misery with a 20-6 victory over Australia at Eden Park.
Surely now. Surely the suffering will end. Surely the team that has so often betrayed the faithfulness of their long-suffering fans, nay, disciples, will claim the one prize they most covet.
France lie in wait in the final. On the evidence of their woeful performance in victory over Wales last night they will not live with this flawed but formidable team and its superlative players – Israel Dagg chief among those.
On current form Dagg is without peer in the game, possessing every technical gift on offer, and, more pertinently, the temperament for the biggest occasions. All those qualities were on show as he crafted their only try, beating three would-be tacklers then defying the laws of physics to offload a pass to Ma’a Nonu while plummeting into touch. Breathtaking is a word too liberally used to describe mediocre feats. It is inadequate for that inspired action.
Dagg was the headline act in a play with a range of compelling sub-plots, none more so than the vendetta against a son of New Zealand’s soil, Quade Cooper. It took 32 minutes for the flyhalf to do something right (a drop-goal), the preceding period being spent chastising himself for errors or peeling himself off the canvas from statement hits.
While Cooper’s star waned, his counterpart Aaron Cruden’s shone brightly. In the context of his Test career – its genesis seeing coach Graham Henry hailing him as the natural successor to Daniel Carter, and its nadir coming when he was unceremoniously dumped shortly thereafter, before being recently recalled – his was a mature effort, particularly in light of the magnitude of the occasion and the quality of the opposition.
But in a game shaped by the principle of cause and effect, Cruden’s ability to rock rested heavily on the shift put in by his roadies in shirts one through eight. Immovable at the gainline on defence and irresistible on attack, the Blacks’ heavies were mighty. Their spirit was encapsulated in the superb performance of Richie McCaw, who excelled despite his foot being held together by hope and some items found in a mechanic’s toolbox. ‘I know he will try to be modest and give credit to the tight five [for laying the platform], but he was just outstanding,’ coach Graham Henry said of McCaw.
Australia boast a player of Dagg’s calibre in openside flank David Pocock, who appears to possess the supernatural gift of omnipresence. But he was rendered a non-factor at the breakdown thanks to the efficiency of the Blacks’ strike runners and cleaners.
It would be remiss not to acknowledge the Wallabies’ unkillable spirit in the face of incessant pressure. It was the outstanding feature of their game against the Springboks last week, and they exhibited that again tonight. To restrict the Blacks to one try is a notable achievement given the hosts’ surfeit of territory and possession. However, they lacked a clinical edge in the 22m, which was decisive to their fortunes.
That they were in touch at half-time – trailing 14-6 – bore testament to their resolve as much as it did the Blacks’ frequent impatience on attack. But they did little more than survive, when reopening the psychological wounds the Blacks sport from previous failures in this tournament required considerably more.
Just after the restart Piri Weepu kicked his third penalty to go with a Cruden drop goal, extending the lead to 11 points. There was a observable change in focus from the Blacks thereafter, with panache giving way to pragmatism on attack and granitic defence being the bedrock of their resistance.
Australia succumbed, albeit not meekly, to a team who have no equal in the game. France are vastly inferior opponents. For the Blacks, ending their suffering will be more a test of exorcising their own demons than it will be about vanquishing Lievremont’s mad mob.
By Ryan Vrede, at Eden Park
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1,170 Comments
16 Oct 2011, 08:03 am
aussies to pip this
16 Oct 2011, 08:12 am
good luck to both teams….
kia kaha Black..
@grant10(grant10)-1: care to explain your reasoning?
16 Oct 2011, 08:13 am
No idea even who I want to win, part of me says AB’s part of me wants the team the beat us to go through
16 Oct 2011, 08:17 am
This is going to be a great game.
16 Oct 2011, 08:19 am
All black nerves? surely both teams recognise that this is really the final, whoever wins today strolls to glory next week, the pretenders on the other of the draw are a joke of a team! this will be the biggest one sided final in rugby world cup history!
16 Oct 2011, 08:21 am
@chch(chch)-4: this and the third place game are the only 2 games left, the final i am afraid to say is going to massively anticlimactic, just like ’99 the last time the frogs made it.
16 Oct 2011, 08:26 am
well i suppose about being a neutral , and i mean a true neutral, i won’t be upset at the end of the game, and that seems like a first for this world cup, unless the refree injustice campaign continues!
16 Oct 2011, 08:26 am
Good luck to both teams, may the ref have a good one too.
16 Oct 2011, 08:26 am
Good luck ABs…
whatever the result…
let’s just hope the better team wins by playing better rugby and the ref is not the topic of discussion afterwards…
16 Oct 2011, 08:28 am
@ufo(ufo)-9: Agreed mate.
This is basically the final IMO.
Whichever team wins this will have the French for breakfast…..
16 Oct 2011, 08:32 am
@ufo(ufo)-9: man i hope you a right!
16 Oct 2011, 08:32 am
S-boy, I hear a lot of stories today about how the Frogs will be no match for the AB next weekend…people should beware not to play the final a week early.
16 Oct 2011, 08:33 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-10: I would not discount the french challenge just yet… getting to the final is the first step… anything can and usually does happen on the day..
16 Oct 2011, 08:33 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-2:
lol no reasoning at all.
@ufo(ufo)-9:
Thanks UFO but we all know the ref well be on topic whatever team loses.
16 Oct 2011, 08:34 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-14: hehehe yeah, I think the ABs are second on his list, only behind you know who
16 Oct 2011, 08:36 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-13: Sure and it is the French after all……..But I don’t see it this time.
Stranger things have happened in the comp so far though I guess….
16 Oct 2011, 08:37 am
History Dragons..
16 Oct 2011, 08:38 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-16: they only need barnes or Rolland to control the final and its advantage France
lol
16 Oct 2011, 08:39 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-14:
Grant has said on here that he hates Kiwis. He is probably just going with his prejudice.
16 Oct 2011, 08:39 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-10:
hey bud… yip… can’t see the french beating either…
@surreyshark4(surreyshark4)-11:
let’s hope…
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-14:
you’re welcome…
so you’re saying both NZ and Aus are bad losers…?
surely if the ref does nothing controversial and not tries are allowed or disallowed by foul play the ref need not become a talking point… unless it’s accepted that both teams are inherently bad losers and will blame the ref no matter how good he is…?
16 Oct 2011, 08:41 am
This can turn out to be a great Oz sporting weekend.
Casey Stoner crowned MotoGP champ already.
Webber can win the Korea GP.
We can get klapped again in the 2nd T20 and of course they can progress to the RWC final here today.
16 Oct 2011, 08:41 am
@chch(chch)-19:
Yeah its a shame really, to be hated by someone of Grant10s stature really cuts deep.
16 Oct 2011, 08:42 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-2: mc caw struggling….no Carter….
Beale will be missed and I would have played O connor at 15 ……
But I feel if Aussies match Kiwis up front they may have the better game breakers….
16 Oct 2011, 08:44 am
Ian Jones losing the plot in the pre-match chat. I have always found him far too tense as a sports host (vanes standing out in neck as he struggles to talk). The guy needs to relax.
The argument on TV was not a good look.
16 Oct 2011, 08:44 am
Yeah. Can you imagine?
16 Oct 2011, 08:44 am
@ufo(ufo)-20:
UFO, come on.
HOw many times had NZ played against another team only for the Keo hounds to rip apart the ref.
As stated, no ref in no matter what game he is refing will be labeled a cheat if some of these guys dont like the outcome. I am glad you are not like that.
16 Oct 2011, 08:44 am
I dont hate Kiwis …..
Sorry if I gave that impression
16 Oct 2011, 08:45 am
@grant10(grant10)-23: your last sentence is the big question, if they CAN match the Ab tight five then anythings possible… I dont expect NZ to be as poor as they were in the first half at Brissy…
16 Oct 2011, 08:46 am
I think this will be the game of the tournament. Unless of course New Zealand win and France bring that special performance they normally have to the final! First sentence was said with meaning 2nd in hope and jest!
16 Oct 2011, 08:46 am
dont write off the French
They have limped into the final and are yet to play there top game
It may come in the final
16 Oct 2011, 08:47 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-28: yes…
exactly right…
It depends on aussies matching in tight 5….
16 Oct 2011, 08:49 am
@grant10(grant10)-27:
Well as i said, if you said that, it still cuts deep
16 Oct 2011, 08:50 am
@grant10(grant10)-31: I do think the game last weekend may be a hindrance to them, and think they may tire late in the game… Aus dont have the depth like Nz and Sa, and these guys have played quite a lot of rugby considering..
as an AB fan I am nervous as hell though..
16 Oct 2011, 08:50 am
I expect the Kiwis to really target Pocock, because its his turnovers that will create the opportunities for the Wallabies. Could be a plan in place like they had for O’Driscoll in the 2005 Lions. Its Henry’s style.
16 Oct 2011, 08:50 am
@HongKongSlong(HongKongSlong)-29: how many finals france been to, this is there 3rd if i am not mistaken, and i don’t remember anything fantastic about the other two, semi’s on the other hand are france at their best!
16 Oct 2011, 08:50 am
@grant10(grant10)-30: I think the French are confused as to which players make up their strongest team.
Against NZ and yesterday the team was very similar, and the performance was dissapointing.
Against England they played well.
I’d pick that team really,
16 Oct 2011, 08:50 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-26:
well… if the fans can’t blame him for any game-changing or game winning/losing blunders that will be good enough…
and BTW… i don’t blame lawrence for the bok loss… we still had our chances to win it… but never took them…
same for wales…. they still had their chances and blew them… could’ve been one of the great world cup wins for them… but they missed how many kicks…? one which would have won the game for them…
16 Oct 2011, 08:50 am
@grant10(grant10)-30:
lol
NOw wouldnt that be great.
French have looked average at best in most of the games they have played but some how scraped through to final.
16 Oct 2011, 08:51 am
Kiwis to win by 15 points.
Easy as taking candy from a child.
Poppa and Huricane, do you need a reason? Or will my word be good enough?
16 Oct 2011, 08:51 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-32: if i did….i apologise
16 Oct 2011, 08:51 am
Warburton gets 3 game ban.
16 Oct 2011, 08:51 am
@HongKongSlong(HongKongSlong)-34: nah, joubert just received his gold watch, it arrived in time thank goodness..
no need for illegal play with 16 on the field? POB to be knighted in the NZ honours list for services to the “spiritual guardians” of rugby
16 Oct 2011, 08:52 am
Can’t understand why Higgenbotham isn’t in the team, let alone the squad? He must have fallen out with Deans somehow?
16 Oct 2011, 08:52 am
can’t believe deans dropped sharpe… again…
16 Oct 2011, 08:52 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-33: may the best team win poppa….and may the ref be totally fair
16 Oct 2011, 08:53 am
Not forgetting the league lesson the Kiwis are getting just this minute
16 Oct 2011, 08:54 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-36: yes….gotta luv them strange french…
16 Oct 2011, 08:54 am
@chch(chch)-24:
What happened?
16 Oct 2011, 08:54 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-42: There may be time for Lievermont, P-Divvy and Deans to be added to the list too!
16 Oct 2011, 08:54 am
@ufo(ufo)-44:
I thought he was injured.
16 Oct 2011, 08:54 am
@HongKongSlong(HongKongSlong)-43: @ufo(ufo)-44: its because Robbie is still on the AB payroll… come on guys, Ive been telling you all for the last couple of years that we have agents everywhere… did none of you take me seriously?
16 Oct 2011, 08:54 am
Come on Wallabies. Lets continue to dish out Rugby lessons to our lesser cousins today
16 Oct 2011, 08:55 am
@grant10(grant10)-30: i wish you were right squire, but on this occasion i think you are wrong, this french team should buy a few lottery tickets, they are the luckiest team alive!
16 Oct 2011, 08:55 am
@ufo(ufo)-44: I don’t get that either. He’d be in my starting team most days.
16 Oct 2011, 08:56 am
Grant
agree completely, lets hope the players decide the result… think both teams know what theyll get with joubert, so should be quite a flowing game imo… Wallaby scrum will be targeted big time..
16 Oct 2011, 08:56 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-51: Was P-Divvy on the payroll? Or was he just encouraged to keep up the hard work!!!
16 Oct 2011, 08:57 am
This is going to be another close low scoring match which will come down to one kick kick or one mistake.
QC has had a very ordinary WC to date but he gets his tail up when ever he sees McCheat. I think he is going to stand on McCheats foot rather early in the game to end that threat, if he does not cause damage then some other convict will target McCheat just like they did to Brussow.
16 Oct 2011, 08:58 am
@HongKongSlong(HongKongSlong)-34:
OH yeah sure, we planed for the O’Driscoll tackle.
lol i can imagine the Bok game plan book.
Right Bakkies, look for the smallest guy on the field and wait tell he has his back turned , while on the ground and head butt him, after that i want Schalk to go for the eyes, we will all wear armbands, and me PDV will say its not Ballet.Thats a win.
16 Oct 2011, 08:59 am
@HongKongSlong(HongKongSlong)-56:
Could have saved a lot of money…
16 Oct 2011, 08:59 am
@Mr Black(Mr Black)-50:
no…. dropped…
deans said doesn’t take sentiment into account… so does care that it would’ve been his 100th cap…
buy sharpe is one of their most consistent guys… and by all accounts a good guy too… and as said above… aus need to get parity in the tight five… so to drop him just doesn’t make sense to me… same with giteau… never really liked him but hell… he should be in the squad if not the run-on team
16 Oct 2011, 09:00 am
I see Eddie Jones has stated he wants Bok top Job….
But feels someone has already been told they are a shoo in…
16 Oct 2011, 09:00 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-51:
hehehe pops…
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-54:
for sure bud…
he’d be my captain…
16 Oct 2011, 09:00 am
@TahRoo(TahRoo)-46:
damn did the world champs lose?
16 Oct 2011, 09:01 am
@HongKongSlong(HongKongSlong)-56: we supplied him with a new canon for his canoe..
There’s no pill for stupid, because people don’t keep South Africans in high regard. They look down on us and think we’re a bunch of hooligans and that there are elephants running in the street. You can see it when referees make decisions … it’s always a kind of biased thing
we did offer elocution lessons, but we couldnt understand his answer
16 Oct 2011, 09:01 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-58:
Carefull Hurri, you post has just gone viral on twitter…
16 Oct 2011, 09:01 am
@ufo(ufo)-60:
sorry… so doesn’t care…
16 Oct 2011, 09:02 am
@RL(RL)-57: don’t worry about McCaw what about Pocheat?
16 Oct 2011, 09:03 am
@ufo(ufo)-60:
Maybe its part of the “Let NZ win the WC conspiracy”
16 Oct 2011, 09:04 am
bloody WP scrum turboed yesterday ……wake up Rassie and AC….
gONE…cj…F Louw…Sadie…Whitehead….Engelbrecht…..
word on the street J Fourie and habana leaving…..
***** teeth….
oops…sorry…wrong thread!
16 Oct 2011, 09:05 am
@RL(RL)-57:
Agree, it will be a close game, not a pakslae like we saw last night.
16 Oct 2011, 09:06 am
@Mr Black(Mr Black)-68:
no wonder tew is bleating about money… they’ve paid EVERYONE to get their hands on that cup…!!
16 Oct 2011, 09:06 am
yip poppa…..kiwis will target the aussie scrum….no doubt…
alexader and the converted kiwi better vasbyt
16 Oct 2011, 09:06 am
@grant10(grant10)-69: Little Birdy tols me that Alberts might be wearing the hoops soon.
16 Oct 2011, 09:06 am
@Mr Black(Mr Black)-68: its “MAKE NZ win the WC conspiracy”..
one wrong word makes all the same
16 Oct 2011, 09:07 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-73: willem alberts?
16 Oct 2011, 09:07 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-65:
lol
16 Oct 2011, 09:08 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-73: I was at game yesterday……blooody scrum was manhandled again….we simply have to fix it or the super 15 will be a pipe dream again
16 Oct 2011, 09:08 am
@ufo(ufo)-71:
Ha ha ha, i nearly ripped myself a new one laughing like the Sharks ripped the Lions a new one last night.
16 Oct 2011, 09:09 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-74:
Sorry buddy, second language and all that.
16 Oct 2011, 09:09 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-65: league WC’s Slarti..
we’ve won two games in the last 16 or 17 in the league versus Aussie, just happened to be the WC final and the 4Nations final.. guess they choked huh Tahroo?
16 Oct 2011, 09:10 am
@grant10(grant10)-75: Is there anyone else?
I’m sure he wasn’t talking about Albert “toks” Van Der Linde making a comeback
16 Oct 2011, 09:10 am
Game should be a cracker. But AB’s don’t stuff it up now. Not in the semis. Otherwise there’ll be no place to hide.
16 Oct 2011, 09:12 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-81:
That would be one of their best buys ever.
16 Oct 2011, 09:12 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-81:
Rassie tried to sign him when he was still at the Lions, long before the Sharks were interested. He ended up signing Duane instead, a season later.
16 Oct 2011, 09:12 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-73:
wow….!!
16 Oct 2011, 09:14 am
@I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-82:
If that happened can we join in on the cheating,corruption and matching fixing claims
16 Oct 2011, 09:14 am
There’s little difference between winning and losing, except you feel better after winning..
rugby is going to be so much poorer for the lack of this mans insights..
16 Oct 2011, 09:14 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-73:
I’ll get Sharkslover to shoot that little birdie you’re talking to.
16 Oct 2011, 09:14 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-81: interesting! Not sure where he would slot in…..maybe as a 4 lock?
Vermeulen ….Schalk and a fetcher [Kitshoff]?
But depth so key….so what a pleasure if he does come across….
Kolisi getting better and better and I am a Nizaam Carr fan as well….watch that kid become a star going forward!
16 Oct 2011, 09:15 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-86:
16 Oct 2011, 09:15 am
would rather wp / stormers got SOME BLOODY PROPS!
16 Oct 2011, 09:16 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-86:
There is nothing like a good conspiricy theory.
16 Oct 2011, 09:17 am
@Mr Black(Mr Black)-92:
But if we win, lets just this conversation between me and you ok
16 Oct 2011, 09:18 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-86:
No mate. You’re in good hands. You’ve got a saffa ref.
16 Oct 2011, 09:18 am
Ok, good luck All Blacks, i’m off to watch the game at friends house.
AB by 15.
Don’t get a heart attack AB fans, it’s only a game.
16 Oct 2011, 09:19 am
ANYWAY…..Enjoy gents…..I am , from a neutral perspective, looking forward to 2 class teams doing there thing out there….
I have no allegiances at all so what a relaxing pleasure to pour a good cup of coffee and relax …..
cheers
till later
outta here
16 Oct 2011, 09:19 am
@grant10(grant10)-77: Yes. It looked bad on occasion. Having said that, the Loosehead prop from the Pumas is a very good scrummager. He’s just been signed by the Blue Bulls.
I wish we could Identify talent like that and actually sign them.
@ufo(ufo)-85: @Mr Black(Mr Black)-83: Yeah. Don’t take it to the bank yet though.
I think since we couldn’t get Ratel we turned our attention to Alberts.
Problem is that it doesn’t solve our fetcher issue.
Pieter Louw is a great fetcher, but if you have Duanne, Schalk and Willem as your first choices you aren’t going to get much game time.
Koster, kolis, Louw, etc will be rotation players at best, which is probably the way it should be……
I’d still put my money behind a really good loosehead. Kitshoff is still very young, Malherbe too.
No one else it up to it in the WP setup.
16 Oct 2011, 09:19 am
This is gong to be a epic game.
Hope the ref calls it fair and straight down the middle so that rugby can be the winner at the end.
16 Oct 2011, 09:19 am
@grant10(grant10)-89:
I’m with you about where he’d fit in. We need some genuine openside depth, rather than another 7 or 8, with Schalk changing roles recently.
Yes, props are in short supply.
16 Oct 2011, 09:19 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-87: indeed, Divvy will be missed, a week ago this time he said to some commentator this classic line, when asked why Plod is starting ahead of Bissy.
“If John was in your country he would be your number 1 number 2 too”
Poor guy looked smashed after that Divvy moered him with that line.
16 Oct 2011, 09:20 am
@I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-94:
hallelujah
Hang on, hope we havnt got a South African TMO, they take the law into their own hands.
16 Oct 2011, 09:21 am
All Blacks by 11 or more
16 Oct 2011, 09:22 am
@RL(RL)-100:
16 Oct 2011, 09:22 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-101:
Well, someone has to.
16 Oct 2011, 09:24 am
got to run, half hour to get home in time for kickoff…
16 Oct 2011, 09:24 am
@TahRoo(TahRoo)-52: Continue to dish out lessons…your maths is typical ozzie addition…….youve won two out of the last 13………….duh!!!!
AB’s by 20+
16 Oct 2011, 09:26 am
I’ve been thinking about that red card and wondering, because of the impact a red can have, whether they could have an automatic yellow and use the 10 minutes for a judicial ref to watch replays before deciding whether it deserved to be converted to a red.
16 Oct 2011, 09:26 am
@David(David)-99: for sure…..no use having 6 or 7 great loosies that are being turboed all bloody day…
a wp curse it seems…..
Kitshoff will come through…..but we not a factor unless we sort out our scrumming….
Lions will have us for breakfast next weekend if we go back like we did yesterday.
okay….coffee….rusks and a small rugby game
cheers
16 Oct 2011, 09:26 am
grant… sure… a couple of quality props will be great…
but the biggest problem for me is at lock…
when we got shunted by the crusaders in the s15 semi… everybody did the obvious and blamed the props… what everyone neglects is that both andries beaker and elstadt… had injuries that required season ending surgery after the comp… which may not see them ready for this coming s15…
bekker was carrying three serious injuries… shoulder, ankle and (i think) hip…
so neither could push effectively in the scrums… no prop in the world can hold up an opposition pack if the locks are not shoving…
most of last season our scrum held it’s own… and only suffered once bekker began carrying his injuries…
yesterday we had fondse who’s been very underwhelming and lobberts a loosie retread… due to steenkamp being pulled last minute…
while we all acknowledge our flyhalf options are severely affected by injury… we need to do the same with our locks…
but no doubt… a few good props will be great…
but we need to look at thing sin perspective…
16 Oct 2011, 09:27 am
@RL(RL)-100: dont get me started…
16 Oct 2011, 09:27 am
coincidentally… our line out also went to pieces late in the season…
16 Oct 2011, 09:29 am
Just heard the Deans pre match interview…I’m more convincing at 3am in the morning, p issed, telling the last chance sheila shes beautiful
16 Oct 2011, 09:29 am
Do the Waltzing Matildas have it in them for another huge effort, and another one after that, should they win this one? I have grave doubts.
The effort in their last win was an energy sapping, and worse still, a mentally demanding and draining one which few teams could have effected wrt the very heavy season they have endured – strike one.
In less than 90 days the Aussies’ REDs contingent peaked for the S15. The whole Aussie squad peaked for the victorious TNs and again for the first KO effort just last w-end against the ‘Boks. Can thhey therefore be expected to prak a 4th and possibly a 5th time in such a short period and in one season? The science says you can only PEAK a few (not 4 or 5) times a season and would thus suggest NO – strike two.
This YOUNG Aussie outfit thus lacking the required RWC experience so important for victory, plus their murderous press who seem to have it in for Deans putting much unwanted pressure on the young team also have to count against a likely win – strike three.
I could go on and on, but even with more negative factors I cannot eradicate the fact that the ABs have never beaten the Wallabies yet at a RWC where they have played each other.
There are then, as revealed, reasons for and against for all opponemts but in the final analysis only time unfolds for us the final result of the eventual winner.
This game, any other time, would be a mouth-watering affair but in a RWC it is bound to be tight and tough and uncompromising and possibly boring because it is a win and you are still in KO situation.
Despite my preferring the type of game the Waltzing Matildas(and ABs) play I firmly believe the spirit of the fighting people of Christchurch will prevail and the New Zealand ABs will stand tall at the end and carry their nation to VICTORY.
I am a KO five for five
But are you still alive?
As I do the funky jive!
Does 5/5 become six for six and later seven for seven? Only the ABs carry that hope for me now.
16 Oct 2011, 09:29 am
Great crowd shot just on of South African supporters wearing Springbok jerseys but with All Black/New Zealand painted faces.
16 Oct 2011, 09:29 am
@ David 107: great idea!
Man, I am soooooo nervous!
16 Oct 2011, 09:30 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-97:
yeah bud… was also at the game…
and brok got injured early on… compounding the problem
16 Oct 2011, 09:30 am
@ufo(ufo)-109: yes….need another quality lock as well….for sure…..
Alberts would be an effective 4 …..so bring him on….
It starts with a effective set piece…..and unless wp / stormers get this sorted we will continue to be the bloody bridesmaid….
I like the look of Pat Cilliers….
16 Oct 2011, 09:31 am
@ET.(ET.)-113: I bet you haven’t been this nervous about a semi since you watched brokeback mountain?
16 Oct 2011, 09:32 am
okay…now really outta here
16 Oct 2011, 09:32 am
@ufo(ufo)-109:
I was thinking the same about our locks. Most people blamed our props in the 3rd B&IL game for the problems, but forget that Simon Shaw was locking their scrum for the first time and made a massive difference.
16 Oct 2011, 09:32 am
@ chch, yep, was great to see that saffa wearing black! I hope we smash the aussies, they don’t deserve to get to the final
16 Oct 2011, 09:33 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-2:
Surely after all your experience here, you do not expect many S. Africans to be reasonable and furnish any reasoning for emotional claims?
16 Oct 2011, 09:33 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-48:
He got into a big argument with Stuart Barnes about how much better the NZ tight 5 are. Quite embarrassing really.
16 Oct 2011, 09:33 am
@grant10(grant10)-117:
yeah… agree…
and as stormersboy said that puma’s loosehead is a monster…
great buy for the bulls… in their set up his careers gonna go into overdrive…
16 Oct 2011, 09:35 am
The ABs must wipe the floor with the housebreaking, thieving Aussies
16 Oct 2011, 09:36 am
Nervous excitement….
or
Nervous anxiety…
Hmmm
ABs have everything to lose.
Wobblies have nothing to lose.
16 Oct 2011, 09:37 am
Farking sneaky tricksey Aussies, they steal games and they want steal the precious!
16 Oct 2011, 09:37 am
Ian Jones is off on one again
16 Oct 2011, 09:38 am
@David(David)-120:
exactly david… it’s the obvious but maybe less informed thing to always blame the props… but locks and loose-forwards play a integral part in it too… just see the difference schalk make when he packs behind whichever prop…
but the stormers pack WAS good for most of the s15… even bulls fans were talking about our ‘light’ five being sorted out… so much so that there were calls for proudfoot to help the boks out…?? but sadly the demise of our scrum and lineout both coincided with bekker’s injuries…
16 Oct 2011, 09:38 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-126:
Anxiety,all the pressure are on the kiwis.
They will go into the game scared to make mistakes.
16 Oct 2011, 09:39 am
@corporal punishment(corporal punishment)-121: I think the saffas wearing AB colors and the faces says it all about the most respected rivalry in the world !!
16 Oct 2011, 09:40 am
anyway… time for the semi…
Go All Blacks…!!!
16 Oct 2011, 09:41 am
Hopefully the ref will have no undue impact on the result
16 Oct 2011, 09:41 am
@ufo(ufo)-129: I don’t think Bekker is a particularly good srcummaging lock. Elstadt as a “real” 7 either.
But they are the 2 best in all other aspects that we have.
Cover there would be great, and Willem will certainly bring that.
16 Oct 2011, 09:42 am
Extraball looking for kiwi friends again.
Careful pops, careful!
16 Oct 2011, 09:42 am
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-130: It means everything to the Kiwis and the ABs…
Do they Care too much…
It means nothing really to the Aussies and the Wobblies…
They care nothing…Just another game.
16 Oct 2011, 09:42 am
Will it by any chance be the General Weepu and Corporal Cruden dominated show?
Who knows history is very strange at times.
Do you realise when the WC was last played in N.Z. in 1987, that the four semi-finalist in 2011 were exactly the same as in ’87?
More stunningly, do you recall that in that ’87 semi-final of ABs against Wales that Wales on that occassion had a forward, lock H. Richards, sent off?
Do you all recall that the N. Z. ABs won that ’87 version of thhe RWC?
Omens, omens, omens. They can be found at the best of times and at a dime a dozen.
16 Oct 2011, 09:43 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-134:
exactly bud…
hell… would be great to get alberts…
16 Oct 2011, 09:43 am
Isn’t there a stormers thread elsewhere
16 Oct 2011, 09:45 am
Come On Saffas shout from the rooftops…
.@ET.(ET.)-137: yes and it will end the same
16 Oct 2011, 09:45 am
We should win this even without Carter. I dearly hope we do…. The boys deserve it after their results over the last 4 years
Go black!!!
16 Oct 2011, 09:45 am
Omens have no place in science.
16 Oct 2011, 09:46 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-136:
I would not say the Aussies don’t care at all.
It is just a obsession with the kiwi’s,some may say unhealthy.
If the kiwi’s lose I just hope that the womanfolk don’t get beat up too badly.
16 Oct 2011, 09:46 am
@Dawn(Dawn)-139: No Dawn, here only the real teams matter
16 Oct 2011, 09:46 am
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-143: LOL!!!
16 Oct 2011, 09:47 am
@Dawn(Dawn)-139:
Relax please.
16 Oct 2011, 09:48 am
@Richie_7(Richie_7)-145:
Woman being beaten up is not a laughing matter.
16 Oct 2011, 09:48 am
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-143: Eish, thats fighting talk
16 Oct 2011, 09:48 am
Of course richie. That’s why I’m chasing them off.
16 Oct 2011, 09:49 am
Shurrup stalker
Stop telling me to relax
16 Oct 2011, 09:50 am
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-147: It is if you see some of them; you should be hoping the husbands don’t get taken out
16 Oct 2011, 09:51 am
Kuktalk reigns here again
16 Oct 2011, 09:51 am
Fark it has been a long wait for this game! Longest week since the Aussies pinched the game from the bokkes.
I feel for cruden
Only his second start for the ab’s. Hope he gets a few kicks away nicely early in the match, to settle his nerves and build confidence.
Go black, Kia kaha!!!!
16 Oct 2011, 09:52 am
cmon boys!
16 Oct 2011, 09:53 am
@corporal punishment(corporal punishment)-153: Big pressure for the young man…
16 Oct 2011, 09:53 am
@HongKongSlong(HongKongSlong)-118:
I am never nervous and never watch rubbish on the screens emanating from Hollywood.
16 Oct 2011, 09:53 am
@Dawn(Dawn)-152:
The more you try and be a gatekeeper the more diverse we will make the topics we discuss here.
Simple.
16 Oct 2011, 09:54 am
Outta here, Kia kaha to the ab’s and all the ab believers on here. See you on the other side!!!!!
16 Oct 2011, 09:54 am
Good luck boys…
May the best team win the match…
And may the ref be invisible.
16 Oct 2011, 09:54 am
Which haka today?
16 Oct 2011, 09:56 am
Why does the IRB protect their favourites and prevent any other team from walking right up to their faces when they do the haka?
Simple,the haka is just about show and they want good camera shots.
the kiwis have sold their haka to the IRB…
16 Oct 2011, 09:56 am
good luck to both sides…may rugby union be enhanced after this match.
16 Oct 2011, 09:56 am
@Dawn(Dawn)-160: kapo o pango for sure Dawn
16 Oct 2011, 09:56 am
Got AB’s by 12.
16 Oct 2011, 09:57 am
@Dawn(Dawn)-160: @Dawn(Dawn)-160: kapa o pango!
16 Oct 2011, 09:57 am
Like ET, after last weeks game, the S15 and 3N, I just can’t see the Aussies reaching the same mental levels again.
16 Oct 2011, 09:57 am
Go The Blacks!!
16 Oct 2011, 09:57 am
Deaf singing is just odd
16 Oct 2011, 09:57 am
the chick singing the nz anthem looks like a emo raccon with all the dark make-up around her eyes.
16 Oct 2011, 09:58 am
marvelly is quite marvelous to look at
16 Oct 2011, 09:58 am
Am a capesader today.
16 Oct 2011, 10:00 am
Check Mr Fixit!
16 Oct 2011, 10:00 am
I must admit I have an enormous respect for 2 small islands that consistently manage to produce the quality of rugby that the ABs play.
16 Oct 2011, 10:01 am
Nice “jazz hands” in the middle of the haka there.
16 Oct 2011, 10:01 am
Awesome Haka.
Go Aussie!
16 Oct 2011, 10:01 am
Oh no not THAT song again
16 Oct 2011, 10:03 am
morning all. Good kick Quade
16 Oct 2011, 10:03 am
poor start cooper
16 Oct 2011, 10:04 am
Bob the Builder has nothing on Piri
16 Oct 2011, 10:04 am
Oh dear, QC.
16 Oct 2011, 10:07 am
Oops, good follow up ABs
16 Oct 2011, 10:07 am
Wallaby defence is incredible
16 Oct 2011, 10:07 am
Aussie inexperience fro O’Connor – #1
16 Oct 2011, 10:08 am
Dagg legend
16 Oct 2011, 10:08 am
Dagg sends in Nonu — 5 points!
16 Oct 2011, 10:09 am
1st blood to ABs
16 Oct 2011, 10:09 am
Trytime!
16 Oct 2011, 10:09 am
2/3 years ago, I said that Dagg would be the next AB 15 and most Kiwis here laughed at me.
16 Oct 2011, 10:09 am
good try.
16 Oct 2011, 10:09 am
Great finish. Brilliant Dagg. It’s all AB’s first few minutes.
16 Oct 2011, 10:09 am
good start boys, aussies weakness on the fringe..
16 Oct 2011, 10:09 am
Fark.
Aussies are in a daze
16 Oct 2011, 10:09 am
Try Blacks.
Ozzmob hardly ever been out of their 22.
16 Oct 2011, 10:09 am
Good try, that man Dagg. Would have thought they should have checked Dagg’s foot before the pass though
16 Oct 2011, 10:09 am
Dagg magic?
16 Oct 2011, 10:10 am
Lower Hutt rocks!
16 Oct 2011, 10:11 am
Morning guys and girls , any site where one can watch live ?
16 Oct 2011, 10:11 am
@Robzim(Robzim)-192:
Mentally drained?
16 Oct 2011, 10:12 am
Pocock getting the “hair ruffle”
LOL
16 Oct 2011, 10:12 am
@Dawn(Dawn)-196:
Pfftt
Have you been there?
16 Oct 2011, 10:12 am
The 1st penalty against Aus that was missing in the QF
16 Oct 2011, 10:12 am
Joubert gets pocock!
16 Oct 2011, 10:12 am
joubert not taking that kak…
16 Oct 2011, 10:13 am
thats my SA refs are so much better than NZ refs!!! you see Bryce you po3s!
16 Oct 2011, 10:13 am
@Andre_WP(Andre_WP)-197: My place. But you have to put up with 2 young boys playing with each otherand running in and out of the TV room.
16 Oct 2011, 10:13 am
NZ looking great without banggat Mills! – the nZ quota!
16 Oct 2011, 10:14 am
Trouble for Aussies, there’s a ref playing
16 Oct 2011, 10:14 am
Pocock punished, like he should’ve been last week, f uck you Bryce!
16 Oct 2011, 10:14 am
2nd penalty against Pocock that wasn’t forthcoming in the QF
16 Oct 2011, 10:14 am
To think that Sonny Bill is not on the field yet and Carter on the injured.
16 Oct 2011, 10:14 am
Craig doing what Bryce should’ve done last week.
16 Oct 2011, 10:15 am
Again!
16 Oct 2011, 10:15 am
All Blacks playing to win , no need for bonus points.
16 Oct 2011, 10:15 am
Cruden magic now.
16 Oct 2011, 10:15 am
Penalty against Pocock. Hmmm don’t understand it last week that was allowed. Very odd! Oh another pocock penalty. He must be so confused last week he got MOTM for doing that
16 Oct 2011, 10:15 am
Anyone know of an easy access free live stream link?
16 Oct 2011, 10:15 am
pocock pinged again
16 Oct 2011, 10:15 am
Cruden prepared to back himself. The kid isn’t scared or overawed.
16 Oct 2011, 10:15 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-209: @umad(umad)-208:
snap
16 Oct 2011, 10:15 am
Do you chaps now see how rigged last weeks game was. **** this.
16 Oct 2011, 10:15 am
AB’s get a second penalty off Pocock’s infringing and Weepu slots it to stretch it out to 8-0… Cruden is excellent in decision-making!
16 Oct 2011, 10:15 am
@Peter Mkata(Peter Mkata)-210:
Great display by ABs thusfar?
16 Oct 2011, 10:16 am
@I am a stormer(I am a stormer)-219: I am nearly crying with frustration
16 Oct 2011, 10:17 am
Oh my lower hutt what a game!
16 Oct 2011, 10:17 am
cynical from mccaw
16 Oct 2011, 10:18 am
Ioane busts 4 feeble tackles and nearly scores — McCaw pinged in the ruck and James O’Connor slots it to make it 8-3
16 Oct 2011, 10:18 am
Lovely stuff.
16 Oct 2011, 10:18 am
Wobblies messed that up after Digbys brilliance.
16 Oct 2011, 10:18 am
This is magical rugby. Are the DONKEYS(Springboks) watching? This is how rugby should be played. Ball in hand at high pace. Oh it is BEAUTIFUL.
16 Oct 2011, 10:18 am
Joubert is a good ref, nailing Pockock for cheating … and McCheat is getting the same treatment.
16 Oct 2011, 10:19 am
Good game though
16 Oct 2011, 10:19 am
joubert got both sevens in check
16 Oct 2011, 10:20 am
Tackler save the commentary we all watching
16 Oct 2011, 10:20 am
@Peter Mkata(Peter Mkata)-229: Fuckyouverymuch. Last weeks game was rigged clearly, when you see the sudden penalties been given at the breakdown.
16 Oct 2011, 10:20 am
Butterfingers Cooper. Having a mare.
16 Oct 2011, 10:21 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-223:
Me as well. After a bit of thought about why we didn’t play the ref as well, I realised that the Aussies didn’t have any ball to illegally slow down.
16 Oct 2011, 10:21 am
No live stream link?
Come on guys, dying here!
16 Oct 2011, 10:21 am
franks chows kepu..
16 Oct 2011, 10:21 am
@Dawn(Dawn)-233:
Are you on the rag?
ffs
16 Oct 2011, 10:21 am
Who dares interfere with Lower Hutt’s prettiest face.
16 Oct 2011, 10:22 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-234: And penalties at scrum time which were not forthcoming against the Boks… A setup. Clearly the Boks of last week would have been a better opponent against the ABs than the Wallabies.
It should make you think.
16 Oct 2011, 10:22 am
ABs leaving too many points behind
16 Oct 2011, 10:22 am
piri is going to rue those points
16 Oct 2011, 10:22 am
AB get a penalty for Oz (Kefu) collapsing the scrum when buckled by Owen Franks. Weepu misses, making it 1/4. Will Cruden take the kicks?
16 Oct 2011, 10:24 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-234:
When are you going to stop crying.
You are like a little girl, really.
Just enjoy the game, you can do farkall about what happened in the past- its all over.
16 Oct 2011, 10:25 am
Good drop goal by ABs
16 Oct 2011, 10:25 am
Cruden slots a droppie! 11-3
16 Oct 2011, 10:25 am
Cruden drop!
16 Oct 2011, 10:25 am
AB’s using dropkicks in the WC.
Where did they learn that?
16 Oct 2011, 10:25 am
@Robzim(Robzim)-245: Nothing like speaking the truth.
16 Oct 2011, 10:25 am
Cool Hand Cruden I dubbed him last week.
16 Oct 2011, 10:26 am
Good drop kick Cruden, some serious hits going in. Jane getting himself involved very well
16 Oct 2011, 10:26 am
This NZ team will be unbeatable with : Bismark, Matfield, Brussow, Burger, Hougaard, J Fourie & Lambie in their team ….
16 Oct 2011, 10:27 am
We know tackler. We know.
Why you so hysterical.
16 Oct 2011, 10:27 am
16 Oct 2011, 10:28 am
Its like watching the Boks the AB’s are playing that well. Drop kicks too!
16 Oct 2011, 10:28 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-234:
What does that have to do with last week apparent robbing. How do you associate it with attractive rugby?
Careful of foul language. It is uncalled for. Ufuna ukoluswa?
16 Oct 2011, 10:28 am
@Robzim(Robzim)-245:
He is that!
Helen(HindraG). That’s her/he/it!
16 Oct 2011, 10:28 am
Corey is hutt’s best looking citizen.
Hard drinking too.
16 Oct 2011, 10:28 am
Any tackle on Cooper must be the tackle of the tournament.
16 Oct 2011, 10:29 am
The last score before the half ends is going to be crucial.
16 Oct 2011, 10:30 am
NZ look like they’ll win this by 20+
16 Oct 2011, 10:30 am
Its all got to Cooper. Like it did last week against the Boks who should actually be playing here this week if not for some convenient rigging
16 Oct 2011, 10:30 am
Pococks first legal steal in 2 weeks give him MOTM
16 Oct 2011, 10:30 am
Peter Mkata – thank the minister of sport for our donkeys – Habana!!! – Hougaard (magical) could’ve played – unfortunately we have to play quotas dude
16 Oct 2011, 10:30 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-250:
I hope you have noticed that Tim Noakes has denied accusing anyone of match fixing or any claims that the Springboks’ quarterfinal match against Australia officiated by Bryce Lawrence was either ‘fixed’ or “bent” as has been reported.
Anyway, lets just watch this game.
16 Oct 2011, 10:30 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-262: counting chickens already?
16 Oct 2011, 10:31 am
Shame poor quade is genuine gevok.
16 Oct 2011, 10:31 am
Filthy islanders are attacking convict eyes.
16 Oct 2011, 10:31 am
@Peter Mkata(Peter Mkata)-257: Mhlathi wakho. You call my team Donkeys then definitely.
16 Oct 2011, 10:32 am
and there Houtpiel goes and knocks on !!!
16 Oct 2011, 10:32 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-263: Boks weren’t good enough to survive a QF
16 Oct 2011, 10:33 am
@Robzim(Robzim)-266: Yes. A first defence against any libel. Clever from Noakes. But he doesn’t deny his basis.
16 Oct 2011, 10:33 am
@RL(RL)-269:
It was Pocock’s finger that went in Kepu’s eye by accident.
16 Oct 2011, 10:33 am
@Tackler 20+ is expected when the ref uses the whistle. You’ve 5 penalties already that your Kiwi crook would never have given if the AB’s were wearing green
16 Oct 2011, 10:33 am
@Peter Mkata(Peter Mkata)-257: enjoy the rugby your team is playing and quit running down the boks…
australia are in this match not having played any running rugby last week
16 Oct 2011, 10:33 am
Ref is consistent
16 Oct 2011, 10:33 am
AB’s errors are going to give the Aussies the confidence to get back into this game.
16 Oct 2011, 10:34 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-272: Definitely not good enough against rigging, plainly.
16 Oct 2011, 10:34 am
Good kick genia
16 Oct 2011, 10:34 am
As long as tackler doesn’t start blathering in French I’m happy to let him blow his load.
Haven’t seem him this excited in years.
16 Oct 2011, 10:37 am
Good running rugby this lol …
16 Oct 2011, 10:37 am
thiis going to help coopers confidence a lot.
16 Oct 2011, 10:37 am
I agree, I saw Bryce tell Danie to take the man out in the air. And he told Lambie to run ahead of de Villiers.
Conspiracy!
16 Oct 2011, 10:37 am
The fact that they took a drop kick instead of going for the try should give NZ a great deal of confidence in their defence.
16 Oct 2011, 10:38 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-270:
Would the Donkeys played better and attractive rugby if they were not supposedly robbed. IDIOT.
Tell your team(donkeys) to get rid of skop and jag rugby then we will respect them as they were when Gerber and the likes were playing. Then the good name of Springboks will be respected.
16 Oct 2011, 10:38 am
Anyone noticed Richie in this game yet?
16 Oct 2011, 10:39 am
missed kicks may come back to haunt us..
16 Oct 2011, 10:39 am
Pat McCabe looks like a boxer who went 12 rounds after every game
16 Oct 2011, 10:41 am
@Peter Mkata(Peter Mkata)-286: Twat. They played well enough to win last week. And would have won with any other ref, other than a bent Kiwi.
Its showing this week. The “donkeys” would have been far superior in this game against the ABs.
Dumbfuk
16 Oct 2011, 10:41 am
Blood everywhere!
16 Oct 2011, 10:42 am
LOL Horwill getting the “slow clap” from the AB’s for that error.
16 Oct 2011, 10:42 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-276: Am I rubbing you up the wall as well Xhego? Hahaha!!
16 Oct 2011, 10:44 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-290: “would have” is a massive assumption
16 Oct 2011, 10:44 am
great game so far…
16 Oct 2011, 10:45 am
@Richie_7(Richie_7)-294: “Would have”, maybe, but “RIGGED” not so massive.
At all.
16 Oct 2011, 10:45 am
Somebody save corey’s nose
16 Oct 2011, 10:46 am
It’s like watching last weeks the game between SA and Aus with a ref who hasn’t been bought and paid for.
16 Oct 2011, 10:46 am
Australasia IS SPARTAAA!!!!!
16 Oct 2011, 10:47 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-299:
16 Oct 2011, 10:47 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-296: prove it
16 Oct 2011, 10:47 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-296: of course, but it shouldnt worry you, dont you go for France anyway?
16 Oct 2011, 10:47 am
Joubert is giving Bryce and the world a lesson in fair and honest reffing. Its becoming more obvious the longer the game is played.
Funny thing is, he’s not even the best Saffa ref. The best is Mark Lawrence, left behind in SA.
Why? Maybe too honest for Paddy.
16 Oct 2011, 10:48 am
@Peter Mkata(Peter Mkata)-293: not at all, just tryin to make sure u don’t make ur name gat
16 Oct 2011, 10:48 am
aussies looking tired… last weeks game may take its toll towards the end..
16 Oct 2011, 10:50 am
I hope NZ win! But i also hope someone moers that eye gauger Kieran Read dik!
16 Oct 2011, 10:50 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-303: LOL Mark Lawrence. Yeah, I’m not so sure a few Currie Cup sides would agree with your assessment or labelling of “best ref”.
16 Oct 2011, 10:50 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-302:
And no hint of any cough, cough…chokes yet. 
Yup, you chaps have dominated, like the Boks last week, and you deserve your lead…
16 Oct 2011, 10:50 am
well, none can doubt the ruck is actually being reffed this week.
and pockock is then just like a bunny caught in the headlights.
only pire weepu can lose this for the kiwis.
going forward, I really can’t see this ozzie side being any different from anything else in the past. Great backs, fokol at 1-5. They’ll obviously be well drilled and coached but an equally well drilled and coached side with better calibre forwards will take them every time.
16 Oct 2011, 10:50 am
@Richie_7(Richie_7)-294:
Let dreamers continue their fanciful stuff. They continue sticking their head in the sand, there are no tablets for fixing STUPIDITY. They refuse to admit that the donkeys are playing denauser rugby. Well in a free country they are entitled to their opinion I guess. Now the All Blacks are going to be crowned world champs playing beautiful rugby. What an advertisement for rugby internationally.
Compare this to last final. OMG
16 Oct 2011, 10:51 am
@Richie_7(Richie_7)-307: I can almost guarantee you 99% of Saffa rugby fans will tell you Mark Lawrence is the best Saffa ref.
16 Oct 2011, 10:52 am
Bob the builder need spirit level for kicks
16 Oct 2011, 10:52 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-308: Haha…wont happen mate…as I said at them beginning we may have to give the Chokers Tag to a new team after tonite…Aussie,Aussie,Aussie, oi ,oi,oi
16 Oct 2011, 10:52 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-308: long way to go yet, Aussie score first in the second half and the ABs may start doubting themselves…
my worry is the points we havent taken..
16 Oct 2011, 10:53 am
@Peter Mkata(Peter Mkata)-310: The last final was of the Rugby World Cup.
This final will be of the Refs World Cup…
or
The Rigged World Cup…
16 Oct 2011, 10:53 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-311: well maybe somebody can twist Keo’s arm to have a poll and prove your 99%
16 Oct 2011, 10:53 am
@captain fantail(captain fantail)-313: LOL. Schweet.
16 Oct 2011, 10:53 am
Denauser rugby?
16 Oct 2011, 10:55 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-315:
Are you ever going to grow up?
Your been stuck on the same thing for days.
Really boring and childish.
16 Oct 2011, 10:55 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-314: Yeah, mate. Piri piri has left some points off the board. But your D is looking awesome.
Wallabies had to take a droppie due to there been no way through.
More of the same in the 2nd half and you’re on you way to meet Les Bleus.
16 Oct 2011, 10:55 am
the only person i feel sorry for is Pokock
he’s being penalized for the same things he was rewarded for last week
other than that Joubert may have just earned himself the final
16 Oct 2011, 10:55 am
@Peter Mkata(Peter Mkata)-310:
troll alert
16 Oct 2011, 10:56 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-319: Middle finger to you.
16 Oct 2011, 10:56 am
This is still a long way from over.
OZ still look as though they can break away at anytime
First 10 mins in 2nd half will be very important
16 Oct 2011, 10:56 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-319: Can you imagine how kid’s are raised with a parent like this? Taught that if you don’t win, the rest doesn’t matter
16 Oct 2011, 10:57 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-323:
lol
16 Oct 2011, 10:57 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-315: wait until we getBernard Lapassats position, we will host the 2015 POB (changed in honour of a true legend) World cup in NZ, again
seriously, Aussies defensive effort last week coupled with the number of tackles this half is a benefit for us… but they are still within striking distance (shouldnt be), so I think I may need another packet of smokes…
16 Oct 2011, 10:57 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-305:
There is no way that the Aussies willrepeat last week performance at today’s pace, But good advertisement for rugby. Was afraid it was gonna be your typical knockout phase game. As they say best form of defence is attack.
There is a team that had 70+ % control last week and they could not get a let try. Embarrassing stuff.
16 Oct 2011, 10:57 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-319: I tell you why… If you have a cnt telling you your team are Donkeys after last weeks game and comparative ref competence or even honesty, then what would you do?
16 Oct 2011, 10:58 am
Denauser rugby?
16 Oct 2011, 10:58 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-327: Suck those sticks. Am halfway through my first box already.
16 Oct 2011, 10:59 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-329: Relax Heaven’s – it’s game and naturally people will try get their boot in while you’re down. I cannot honestly think that anybody thinks Australia deserved to win last week’s game
16 Oct 2011, 11:01 am
Thats it. Weepu has kicked the ABs through. Too much for the Wobblies now.
16 Oct 2011, 11:02 am
@Richie_7(Richie_7)-332: Yes. You are right.
16 Oct 2011, 11:04 am
AB defence too good.
16 Oct 2011, 11:04 am
great defense…
16 Oct 2011, 11:05 am
I’m defending Corey’s nose
16 Oct 2011, 11:07 am
Aussies are plyed good rugby.
16 Oct 2011, 11:07 am
playing I meant
16 Oct 2011, 11:08 am
Super Cooper, lol
16 Oct 2011, 11:09 am
No chance the Aussies will crack this defence and score over 11 points that they need.
16 Oct 2011, 11:09 am
@Peter Mkata(Peter Mkata)-338: Aussies are struggling to get over the advantage line..
16 Oct 2011, 11:09 am
They not plyed such good rugby.
Good rugby mean no mistakes and attack and defense.
16 Oct 2011, 11:09 am
Quade Cooper is to the Kiwi rugby fans what Kevin Pieterson is to the SA cricket fans.
16 Oct 2011, 11:11 am
Tighter game than I expected, but good play by ABs now, taking it up in the forwards
16 Oct 2011, 11:11 am
@Robzim(Robzim)-344: a plant?
16 Oct 2011, 11:11 am
Yay. Cricket later too.
Brill.
16 Oct 2011, 11:11 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-342:
Playing better than first halh. Still they will not win today. Time for SBW to be unleashed on them. Cannot wait for the magic.
16 Oct 2011, 11:14 am
AB defence is smashmouth.
16 Oct 2011, 11:15 am
Stupid knock ons
16 Oct 2011, 11:15 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-311:
You probably never watched the Bulls Vs Tahs this year, or England vs Wales in 2011 and England Vs the Wallabies in 2010?
That guy is on the taking!
16 Oct 2011, 11:16 am
@Peter Mkata(Peter Mkata)-348: big kick this one
16 Oct 2011, 11:18 am
Worst in the Wallabies’ line up:
8, 9, 10 and 11
All are not Australian by birth!
16 Oct 2011, 11:19 am
sheesh Boks would’ve killed this NZ team! they have no kicker! lucky in the 2 twice they’ve won the RWX, they’ve never faced the Boks
16 Oct 2011, 11:20 am
Ai dagg. What you trying.
16 Oct 2011, 11:20 am
Silly play by the ABs I think, should have kept the ball
16 Oct 2011, 11:20 am
Dagg has a boot like a mule. Nearly as big as Frans Steyn
16 Oct 2011, 11:21 am
Richie, wow !
16 Oct 2011, 11:22 am
Gee, the All Blacks are playing. Ding dong battle.
16 Oct 2011, 11:23 am
Kaino is immense… has really been fantastic all game..
16 Oct 2011, 11:23 am
Whoa who’s the new aussie surfer dude
16 Oct 2011, 11:24 am
@Mills_is_kak(p0ppa69)-354: Yeah yeah
16 Oct 2011, 11:24 am
Final nail in the coffin time.
16 Oct 2011, 11:24 am
correct call Joubert
16 Oct 2011, 11:25 am
@Dawn(Dawn)-361: huh? The guy who looks like Cher’s daughter before or after the *** op?
16 Oct 2011, 11:26 am
Wow Mealamu played like Bismarck today!!!
16 Oct 2011, 11:27 am
Barnes should have started the game. He was needed to counter the ABs kicking game.
16 Oct 2011, 11:27 am
But messy, ABs should put them away now, don’t want to keep Aussies in with a sniff
16 Oct 2011, 11:28 am
No reechie the one who looks like surfer dude
16 Oct 2011, 11:28 am
I reckon both these sides have put in more kick and chase balls than the Boks did in the entire tournament.
16 Oct 2011, 11:29 am
nonu & smith are very quiet.
16 Oct 2011, 11:30 am
I thought it were the ABs who rotated the scrum illegaly?
16 Oct 2011, 11:30 am
@Dawn(Dawn)-369: ok, post-op boy
16 Oct 2011, 11:30 am
@David lol, yeah I also thought the Aussies and ABs where supposed to make the RWC into a try feast? More tries in the 2007 semi final thus far …
16 Oct 2011, 11:31 am
need to land that killer punch!
16 Oct 2011, 11:31 am
@danuk(danuk)-374: Yeah, but look at the 2007 opposition
16 Oct 2011, 11:31 am
BRUTAL STUFF
16 Oct 2011, 11:31 am
a lot of blood in this game.
16 Oct 2011, 11:31 am
The Wallabies don’t deserve to be in this Semi.
The only side who would have made a game of this would have been the Boks.
How convenient they are not playing today.
16 Oct 2011, 11:32 am
Brutal game.
Bloodfest
16 Oct 2011, 11:32 am
Piri get his chance back to steer the ship to the final.
16 Oct 2011, 11:32 am
AB’s have done less than the Boks and are winning easy. Imagine if the Boks were given a fair crack. Ref made the difference last week. Aussies struggling when the ref blows the breakdown
16 Oct 2011, 11:33 am
Oz scrum sucks
Basics.
16 Oct 2011, 11:33 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-379: do you think they are watching from their lounge rooms?
16 Oct 2011, 11:34 am
Allez Le Blues!
16 Oct 2011, 11:34 am
big scrum
16 Oct 2011, 11:34 am
The donkeys could not do that last week
16 Oct 2011, 11:34 am
@JEZ(DEE DAH)-382: Ausies will claim after the game Joubert was trying to prove a point and call fro an investigation
16 Oct 2011, 11:35 am
So lovely to see the Wallabies squirming – the little worms. If they ever thought they were going to win the Cup they were very very sadly mistaken. Effing robbers.
16 Oct 2011, 11:35 am
@David(David)-370:
It’s the sub standard of both the FHs and the scrummies on both sides that makes attacking rugby impracticle
16 Oct 2011, 11:35 am
Well done AB’s.
Deserve to win this. Totally dominant.
With a decent ref it shows.
Boks were totally dominant last week.
16 Oct 2011, 11:35 am
Ahhh, can finally un clench.
16 Oct 2011, 11:35 am
Mkata stop with the donkeys already
16 Oct 2011, 11:36 am
sbw…
16 Oct 2011, 11:36 am
See you, Frogs, next week. We’ll smash you even with 14 men.
16 Oct 2011, 11:36 am
If a ref like Joubert was reffing last week the Boks would have had an even bigger scoreline advantage than the ABs today.
16 Oct 2011, 11:36 am
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-389:
Yeah, they were just as sadly mistaken as the boks were.
16 Oct 2011, 11:36 am
@Peter Mkata(Peter Mkata)-387:
More tries in last cups semis, there are a lot of donkeys on display in this match
16 Oct 2011, 11:37 am
@Richie_7(Richie_7)-376: True, but so you are saying that running rugby is great, but that sometimes, in RWCs running rugby does not happen when games are tight?
Also, seems to me that ABs are taking points on offer, just like the Boks did in 2007. I think it’s right approach, but was not popular …
16 Oct 2011, 11:37 am
So its the ultimate showdown? This kind of feels engineered. The ultimate grudge match New Zeland vs France. Very odd that the finalist is the top of their pool and the other finalist is the 2nd in the same pool who got clobbered by the other team. Echoes of 2007? England vs Springboks? Kinda weird. Thats why I thought it might have been an SA vs Wales final. Not that we clobbered them but same scenario.
16 Oct 2011, 11:37 am
Lol corey MOM!
16 Oct 2011, 11:37 am
That is it !
The final is ABs versus France.
And I am in the KOs six for six
All you can do is pick up sticks.
16 Oct 2011, 11:37 am
@Robzim(Robzim)-397: go f0k yerself.
16 Oct 2011, 11:38 am
@heboric(heboric)-398: Says the guy who’s team couldn’t score a try last week.
16 Oct 2011, 11:39 am
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-403:
Great response. Classy too.Well done.
16 Oct 2011, 11:39 am
France are DEADMEAT.
16 Oct 2011, 11:40 am
Card sbw!
16 Oct 2011, 11:40 am
twist in the tail
16 Oct 2011, 11:40 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-396:
And NZ’s world cup would be coming to an end.
16 Oct 2011, 11:40 am
So much for SBWs magic.
16 Oct 2011, 11:40 am
Joubert has been superb today no aussies can complain
16 Oct 2011, 11:40 am
SBW – what a waste of an All Black jersey.
16 Oct 2011, 11:41 am
What next!
16 Oct 2011, 11:41 am
@Robzim(Robzim)-405: yeah f0k you too.
16 Oct 2011, 11:42 am
Nils only comes out when game is safe
16 Oct 2011, 11:42 am
Joubert has shown what being a good clean fair ref is all about.
16 Oct 2011, 11:42 am
@David(David)-410:
SBW’s magic?
16 Oct 2011, 11:42 am
@Richie_7(Richie_7)-404: It’s called a referee … helps to control the breakdown and gives penalties for illegal play … fortunately for you guys you had a good one one the field tonight …
16 Oct 2011, 11:43 am
Cheers Aussie Plonkers, Great reffing from Joubert.
16 Oct 2011, 11:43 am
Uphu Mthakathi( Mpundulu) xa kunje??
16 Oct 2011, 11:43 am
The Aussies are flat and lethargic. They have been sapped physically and mentalyy drained. They have peaked once too many times.
NO TNs WINNER has EVER WON a RWC of the SAME YEAR!
16 Oct 2011, 11:44 am
Justice for last week – bloody wank3rs. Bye pretenders.
16 Oct 2011, 11:44 am
Well done craig
Well done nosejob lower hutt Corey!
16 Oct 2011, 11:45 am
Well done Kiwi bloggers – well deserved win -if you lose it from here you only have yourselves to blame.
16 Oct 2011, 11:45 am
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-414:
Keyboard warrior from a slum?
16 Oct 2011, 11:45 am
@danuk(danuk)-418: And 4 years ago we didn’t. What’s your point? It’s been a week now; don’t you think it’s time you dried your tears and man up?
16 Oct 2011, 11:45 am
Awww Quadey looks like hes about to start crying.
16 Oct 2011, 11:46 am
16 Oct 2011, 11:46 am
Pocock nowhere tonight, I wonder why. As for Keo’s statement about the “best halfback pairing” in the world. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
16 Oct 2011, 11:46 am
Quade! Where’s my laptop?
16 Oct 2011, 11:47 am
ADVANCE AUSFAILURES ******
16 Oct 2011, 11:47 am
Well done AB’s.
Australia were never in the game.
16 Oct 2011, 11:47 am
Mthakathi donsa ucingo. amawonkemphisholo niphumelela. Fucksake.
16 Oct 2011, 11:47 am
Well done AB’s
Outmuscled the Aussies today.
16 Oct 2011, 11:47 am
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-424:
Don’t blame the bloggers
16 Oct 2011, 11:47 am
@Robzim(Robzim)-425: man if you want to make lame comments expect a decisive answer. Boks should have won last week and theyre the only team that had a good chance of beating the All Blacks – attacking ails an all. I havent seen a super try fest today and that would have been exactly the way the Boks would have played.
16 Oct 2011, 11:47 am
HAHAHAHAHHAHA
NOTHING COULD MAKE ME HAPPIER, HORWILL’S CRYING FACE
HAHAHAHHHAHAHAHHAHHAHA
16 Oct 2011, 11:47 am
GOOD RUGBY ADVERTISEMENT IN ALL RESPECTS. I AM HAPPY. There was no way that the Aussies could play out of their skin on two consecutive weekends.
Now for bring up frogs. They will not withstand this TSUNAMI.
16 Oct 2011, 11:48 am
Well done AB, great game and great refereeing. France hasn’t had a decent game in the WC thus far, lets hope that changes next week
16 Oct 2011, 11:48 am
Well done blacks
Basics done right
16 Oct 2011, 11:48 am
Well done ABs.
Fully dominant.
Great defence.
You win fair and square. Thats how it should be.
16 Oct 2011, 11:48 am
Somebody give Joubert a Bells. First play off game not tainted by diabolical reffing!
16 Oct 2011, 11:48 am
@MG(MG)-429: Yeah interesting Pocock was all over the place last week and nowhere today – very suspicious. Thanks Bryce.
16 Oct 2011, 11:49 am
@JEZ(DEE DAH)-442: amen to that
16 Oct 2011, 11:49 am
People, I have tears in my eyes. Only sad thing is the last time we played the Boks, they beat us! So if we win next week, the Boks are the real world champs, which leaves a sour taste in the mounth! But thats the last thing i’m worried about at the moment! Kia Ora!!
16 Oct 2011, 11:49 am
@umad(umad)-439: oh shut up.
16 Oct 2011, 11:49 am
only one try…where’s the try fest?
16 Oct 2011, 11:50 am
Well done Boks
Fully dominant.
Great defence.
You didn’t win fair and square. That’s how it shouldn’t be.
16 Oct 2011, 11:50 am
Where did Andrew Hore get his circa 1946 scrumcap from???
The Bennie Osler Memorial Foundation or something similar
16 Oct 2011, 11:50 am
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-436: So where were your tries last week? Or the week before? The Boks gameplan is all around their penalties – kick and chase rugby and feed off the oppositions mistakes.
The day would come when you had a ref like Lawrence or the other team was disciplined – the Boks needed to have a plan B and know how to score tries.
16 Oct 2011, 11:51 am
@MG(MG)-429:
C’mon, Pocock had a great game, just didn’t have the same freedom Bryce allowed him.
16 Oct 2011, 11:51 am
2007 All Blacks got 1 bad call (forward pass) and cried for weeks on end, we got screwed at all the break-downs last week. Give it time, we’ll get over it. We will stand up, dust ourselves off again and head forwards again.
16 Oct 2011, 11:51 am
@Richie_7(p0ppa69)-445: Congrats man – you guys deserve it this year anyways. All Blacks well played and finally you have your ace loose trio combo in action.
16 Oct 2011, 11:51 am
What a boring, completely one-sided semi final.
Can’t help feeling SA – who deserved to be there more than Aus – would have dished up a better contest.
Oh well.
Well, it was pre-ordained that NZ would make the final, the refs have played their part in that… two of the better teams in Wales and SA had already been unceremoniously swept out of NZ’s path.
France, who lost to Mighty Tonga, await the RWC 2011 champions.
Australia, well tried. But you should never have been in the semi anyway. Good luck in 2015.
Viva les Bleus.
16 Oct 2011, 11:51 am
@Bod(bod)-449: LMAO!!!
16 Oct 2011, 11:51 am
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-436:
But that is how it goes in sport- it is not always the best team on the day that wins- take the boks/wales game for example.
Should have’s, would have’s, etc do not count- it’s all theoretical.
Most unlucky team in the tournament is Wales imo.
16 Oct 2011, 11:51 am
Congratulations All Blacks, no team would have beaten you tonight … no team will stop you from getting Bill.
16 Oct 2011, 11:51 am
great victory all blacks….showed the one-dimensional boks how to beat these convicts.
16 Oct 2011, 11:52 am
What a contrast between Joubert, Rolland and Lawrence…
What a fark up.
16 Oct 2011, 11:52 am
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-453: that’s the nick thief.
16 Oct 2011, 11:53 am
@Richie_7(p0ppa69)-445:
OMG, I never laughed liked that for a long time.
16 Oct 2011, 11:53 am
AB vs France Final…
Pre-ordained…?
or
Engineered…?
16 Oct 2011, 11:53 am
@Richie_7(Richie_7)-426: Jeez dude, you guys are still bitching about 1995 and 2007 so give me a farking break
Man up?
You are the idiot saying last week we could not win it. Well if we had a referee like Joubert we would have, because the penalty count would have been substantially higher for us, and Morne is a pretty good kicker.
I know, I know, this requires your little brain to correlate stuff, so I won’t bother any further …
The ABs won fairly and squarely, I’m perfectly happy with that. Good luck to them and hope they go all they way
16 Oct 2011, 11:53 am
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-454: ffs grow up!!!the boks contributed to their own down-fall.
16 Oct 2011, 11:53 am
@MG(MG)-452:
We had 75% possesion and only received 2 penalties the whole game, zero in 2nd half. Not crying over just 1 call.
16 Oct 2011, 11:53 am
@MG(MG)-452:
What All Black cried for weeks?
16 Oct 2011, 11:53 am
Wales against Australia for 3rd place should be a cracker.
And then the FINAL with not an arrogant ‘boer’ in sight.
Rugby Union is back in balance. It has been written in the STARS.
16 Oct 2011, 11:54 am
There’s a fake Richie_7 around.
Troll.
16 Oct 2011, 11:55 am
@mvk(mvk)-458:
By scoring one try?
16 Oct 2011, 11:55 am
@ET.(ET.)-467: It was written, commanded and engineered by Paddy.
After all is said and done…
16 Oct 2011, 11:55 am
Well, when NZ win the RWC it will have one benefit to SA…
South Africans will learn that the RWC is not the ‘be all and end all’, the one trump card we can hold over NZ.
Now, we need to focus on winning EVERY game.
Losing the 3N annually cannot be excused by “building for the RWC”.
16 Oct 2011, 11:55 am
@Robzim(Robzim)-456:
Tell that to Romania
16 Oct 2011, 11:55 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-462: engineered of course, we have agents every ware
16 Oct 2011, 11:56 am
Dagg Man of the Match?
or
Mealamu?
16 Oct 2011, 11:56 am
-462:
Bloodied m’aginal muffins will make you vomit like that, you sick puppy.
16 Oct 2011, 11:56 am
SBW won’t stay in Rugby Union for long.
16 Oct 2011, 11:56 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-473: Who’s your MoM?
16 Oct 2011, 11:57 am
NO COREY INTERVIEW!!!!!!!
16 Oct 2011, 11:57 am
If a chamion boxer loses a fight against someone – then that someone is the new champ! The Boks beat us in PE! so they stay World Champs! Oh we can never beat you Boks! Your always 1 up!
16 Oct 2011, 11:57 am
@ET.(ET.)-475: “Bloodied m’aginal muffin”…. Your Mum?
16 Oct 2011, 11:57 am
motm was Corey Jane
16 Oct 2011, 11:58 am
@Richie_7(Richie_7)-450: difficult this connecting the dots stuff …
16 Oct 2011, 11:58 am
Jane was MoM !
16 Oct 2011, 11:58 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-470: its SIR Paddy soon
16 Oct 2011, 11:58 am
@Dawn(Dawn)-478: Corey your new Fancy? What happened with Sunny?
16 Oct 2011, 11:59 am
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-471:
Actually not winning the Tri-Nations will make a World Cup victory a bit incomplete for us IMO.
16 Oct 2011, 11:59 am
Thank god Robbie Deans was unsuccessful in his attempt to stick the knife in the back of NZ rugby.
16 Oct 2011, 11:59 am
Well, if any NH team can compete for 60 mins against NZ it is France. I reckon they will compete for a bit, then NZ will run away with it.
They can start engraving Bill now!
16 Oct 2011, 11:59 am
Corey is MOM
16 Oct 2011, 11:59 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-484: I’m sure it is.
16 Oct 2011, 11:59 am
Sonny Bill is Tarzan & Corey is Jane …. Jane better not choke on tarzan’s woodcock next weekend!!!
16 Oct 2011, 11:59 am
@MG(MG)-452: Actually, Barnes had much the same issues around the breakdown in 2007 as Bryce L did in 2011. He let the French infringe at the breakdown for a whole half without issuing a single penalty. I reckon that Bryce must have come on Keo and read how wonderful Barnes performance was in the 2007 1/4. That was probably the inspiration for his performance in this years 1/4.
Bottom line is that they were both totally inept reffing performances that decided the games, and it is only those who are the losing side of them that really feel the pain. I feel sorry for the SA fans to see them lose like that, but thinking about how many posters on here ridiculed the NZ fans for criticizing Barnes, it is hard to feel too sorry.
16 Oct 2011, 11:59 am
@Richie_7(p0ppa69)-479: lol
16 Oct 2011, 12:00 pm
kaino was immense, as always
16 Oct 2011, 12:00 pm
Well done to the All Blacks – a fully deserved win!
My only comment for the final is that at least Bryce CANNOT be the ref. Although, if he is then the conspiracy theorists will be coming all over themselves
I do hope we get a decent ref or it is going to be reduced to a morass of writhing bodies with all hands on the ball – a bit like dropping the soap in the communal shower at the *** Rights Convention…
16 Oct 2011, 12:00 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-470:
Still enjoying the nourishing and humid and warm centre of the cow-dung pat or are you now in the blood-soaked muffin?
Corey Jane is MoM.
16 Oct 2011, 12:00 pm
What a great performance from the ab’s. Logically I couldn’t see the Aussie getting into that game, but sneaky feckers can steal a game.
Pity piri didn’t kick a few more points in the first half, we would have been able to open up in attack a bit more
16 Oct 2011, 12:00 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-477: Kaino or Mccaw for me… cant split them…
16 Oct 2011, 12:00 pm
Hahaha do you see what happens to that curly head mother f-ucker Pocock against a fair ref? He tried his putting his hands in the ruck and raking it back trick only to be penalized every time. Thanks Wallabies for ruining what would have been an epic semi, thanks for wasting everyone’s time you pieces of sh-it.
With a fair ref the Bok scoreline would have been similar to this games.
16 Oct 2011, 12:00 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-456: Well yes and no – that was clearly a dangerous tackle and according to the IRB rules its a red wether he was driven into the ground or not. Now perhaps the ruling was a bit strict but the player did come down on his kneck. its a 50/50. If we´d have lost to Wales we would probably have faced New Zealand in the finals now. Perhaps wouldnt have been a bad thing. Cant say Wales were robbed in that 1st game either. They had plenty opportunities to take it from us and they didnt convert them. It wasnt a total reffing stuff up. Either way I think the Boks played magnificently against the Wallabies (barring the attacking display and losing the ball in contact on attack also cost them) but try or no try we were in the lead with 10 to go. We should ahve been further in the lead by then. But yep bygones are bygones. Just glad to see the Wallabies havent made it to the final because they did not deserve the win.
16 Oct 2011, 12:01 pm
*** = G a y
16 Oct 2011, 12:01 pm
SBW need to calm the feck down.
16 Oct 2011, 12:01 pm
chch, Don’t you remember the death threats against Barnes, or even the Wikipedia profile that was changed. There was turmoil over there. There was a documentry about the All Blacks in the build up to this RWC. In it, the fans were crying like babies after the match against France. Anyway, I love the fact that the All Blacks have to face France in the Final. The All Blacks are favourates, at home, they can not lose, OR CAN THEY?
16 Oct 2011, 12:01 pm
all blacks would have smashed boks on tonights performance!rugby union needs an all black or french victory to restore faith in the wc.england and sa won’t be missed.
16 Oct 2011, 12:02 pm
@Richie_7(p0ppa69)-483: Dagg was great as well though, good positional play and kicking. Thought Richie looked good as well
16 Oct 2011, 12:03 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-498: Kaino was brutal. McCaw was shaded I reckon. But only IMO.
16 Oct 2011, 12:03 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-480:
Sorry how can the not living be bloodied?
It is ALL yours and only yours(and Helen(HindraG)
16 Oct 2011, 12:03 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-471: well said
16 Oct 2011, 12:04 pm
McCaw??? OMG i only heard his name once ! very quiet game!
16 Oct 2011, 12:04 pm
@mvk(mvk)-504: You have to be kidding? A French victory good for the game? Check your medication
16 Oct 2011, 12:04 pm
Graham henry also does some helium?
16 Oct 2011, 12:04 pm
@Kobus Kitty(Kobus Kitty)-499: Not Wobblies fault that they benefitted from Bryce and Paddy.
16 Oct 2011, 12:04 pm
@MG(MG)-503:
Are you going to answer the question?
No. Because your statement was a lie. Just some bollocks you made up. Troll
16 Oct 2011, 12:04 pm
@danuk(danuk)-505: Big question marks over his foot
16 Oct 2011, 12:05 pm
Aaaaaw corey is cute
16 Oct 2011, 12:05 pm
Wonder who will ref the Final.
My money is on Wayne Barnes.
Nothing like overcompensation
16 Oct 2011, 12:05 pm
@Richie_7(p0ppa69)-509: The tackle on Genia and two crucial turnovers. Not many loosies stood out, but I thought that tackle on Genia was excellent
16 Oct 2011, 12:05 pm
So happy for the AB’s! Just so sad the Welsh were hard done by. Going to be an easy final in my opinion. The Welsh would have been a great contender.
16 Oct 2011, 12:05 pm
It has been a long time since NZ were last in a final.
1995.
Can’t see them losing this one.
How many points do you chaps reckon the ABs will win by next weekend?
20? 30? 40?
16 Oct 2011, 12:06 pm
….AND THE NEW CHOKERS ARE…..WAIT FOR IT………WANNABEES!!!!1
16 Oct 2011, 12:06 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-471: Great Post.
SO SAY WE ALL!!!
16 Oct 2011, 12:07 pm
Congratulations All Blacks. Competent reffing neutralised the Wallabies’ “strengths”, and rewarded the AB’s for being a far superior team. Not a great game though. It’s bizarre that the All Blacks have perennially been the best team between World Cups and played the best rugby and now they’re (hopefully) going to win it without actually putting together a brilliant performance. So forgive a Bok fan for thinking this semi would have been massively improved by being between the AB’s and the Boks.
16 Oct 2011, 12:07 pm
Lower hutt rocks
16 Oct 2011, 12:07 pm
@Richie_7(Richie_7)-514: I suppose so, think this might have been his “final” though. Would be **** if neither he nor DC can play in the final, so hope for ABs sake his foot will hold out
16 Oct 2011, 12:07 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-506: no dramas, hard not to give it to a forward, also thought Franks could have been a contender tonight..
16 Oct 2011, 12:07 pm
@chch(chch)-513:
Well done with your team mate. Nothing gives me more please to see the best side in the world winning. Winning becomes a habit and it is your time.
16 Oct 2011, 12:07 pm
I am really sorry that the AB’s are not facing either SA or (a full strength) Wales in the final – I reckon either of those games would have been absolute crackers. I just don’t think France have the mental strength and attacking prowess to make a decent game of it whereas Wales (at full strength) have been a revelation at the tournament and would have garnered a massive following as underdogs.
16 Oct 2011, 12:08 pm
chch, please refer to my post at 503. Please just stick to the chat/thread, I did not call you names, nor will I. Well done to the All Blacks, great game from them.
16 Oct 2011, 12:08 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-525: Thorne was also a Titan.
16 Oct 2011, 12:09 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-525:
Sorry to hear about your personal loss mate! Great that your team made it. I am really happy for them and their supporters.
16 Oct 2011, 12:09 pm
thanks to all for your congrats, we know your pain…
16 Oct 2011, 12:09 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-498:
My vote goes to McCaw… still the best in the business. All in all an excellent team effort.
16 Oct 2011, 12:09 pm
@captain fantail(captain fantail)-520: don’t bea prick now.wallabies were destroyed over two weeks with the big difference that a far superior and intelligent outfit(all blacks) took them out superbly.
16 Oct 2011, 12:10 pm
The All Blacks in New Zealand are 20 points better than its closest challengers. Just hope they do not think tonight was their final as the bloody French are likely to have ONE good game this World Cup.
16 Oct 2011, 12:11 pm
The Frogs have left the reservation … they are a team without a coach … the inmates are in full control of that team.
There is no way the Frogs will pitch up next week, no way.
Chokers are overwhelming favourites to take Bill.
16 Oct 2011, 12:11 pm
@Fern is not a stud,he is merely no19(Fern)-143:
Well fern, i think an apology is in order.
A$$hole
16 Oct 2011, 12:11 pm
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-500:
Yeah well, James Hook’s “hooked” kicks certainly contributed to the “demise” of Wales.
Ashwin Willemse just said he reckons the AB’s have today lost the world cup ?
And the French coach has “kakked out” his team because they went partying against his wishes – called them “spoiled brats”
Reverse psychology?
Lets see next week- maybe the the team who does not “deserve it” (France) will take it?
Anyway, I am off to the beach- lovely day here in Cape Town.
Cheers.
16 Oct 2011, 12:11 pm
Robbie Deans
lost RWC semi in 03′ coaching AB’s by Oz now
lost RWC semi in 11′ coaching Oz by AB’s
he needs to get a lucky rabbits foot (unlucky for the rabbit itself though).
16 Oct 2011, 12:11 pm
congratulations to the CHEATERS
16 Oct 2011, 12:11 pm
@Bill Reyts(Gumboots)-530: cheers boet… they played really well tonight, I hope they can replicate that intensity next week,,,
16 Oct 2011, 12:12 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-519: I t@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-519: ink the Frenchknow they have already lost..the shti that is going on in that team vs management is unbelievable.
16 Oct 2011, 12:12 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-540:
They will too and fully deserve the title if they just stick to the basics.
16 Oct 2011, 12:13 pm
congratulations also to BRYCE; his efforts are proving invaluable
16 Oct 2011, 12:13 pm
@Thucydides(Thucydides)-532: for a man with a sore foot he was everywhere
16 Oct 2011, 12:14 pm
The coach and French players are at war already. Not boding well for the final. It is organised chaos I guess. What do we expect from the Frogs.
16 Oct 2011, 12:14 pm
Sic him Hurricane!!
Make him grovel!
16 Oct 2011, 12:14 pm
@danuk(danuk)-524: It had better! McCaw has to lift the cup. It would be a massive injustice for him to retire without a WC medal.
16 Oct 2011, 12:15 pm
the kiwis will be overwhelming favourites next sunday but france can still turn out to a boon for the nz rope industry.keep it real all black supporters.
16 Oct 2011, 12:16 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-546:
16 Oct 2011, 12:17 pm
It was a great pity it wasnt a bok ab semi. I am a proud kiwi, but I have to say I thought Bryce was a disgrace – of Wayne barnes proportions.
Sadly, the two best teams in world rugby, regularly get refs who are emotionally weak and favour the underdog. Thank god the ab’s had a good ref tonite.
16 Oct 2011, 12:17 pm
@Bill Reyts(Gumboots)-542: yeah but its the French
16 Oct 2011, 12:17 pm
@mvk(mvk)-548:
Right on.
ABs still have a game to go.If we think the hardest part is done,think again.
France have looked average all tournament, it only takes one of those French games that will change it.
16 Oct 2011, 12:18 pm
Outta here. Enjoy the cricket later today…
16 Oct 2011, 12:18 pm
Dont underestimate Les Bleus.
They will make more of a game of it than the Wallabies did.
They have been written off and vilified, even by their own press.
They are a Paradox.
They play for Pride more than the WC itself.
You have been warned.
16 Oct 2011, 12:19 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-551:
Believe you me it will be easy. The Welsh would have been a much more difficult proposition. A pity the ref saw red…
Cheers and enjoy the moment.
16 Oct 2011, 12:19 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-546:
Dawn i dont know about you but to have jokes about beating women seems a bit low.
Its like me calling every South African a racist, Fern needs to be put in the corner once in a while for being stupid.
16 Oct 2011, 12:19 pm
Man of the match was Corey Jane.
An O for awesome game.
Australia brave in defeat, in a game worthy of a final.
16 Oct 2011, 12:20 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-554: if any team know about how the French can lift for a game, look no further than the ABs
16 Oct 2011, 12:20 pm
if the kiwis win on sunday they will need to win the next one in 2015 as well otherwise they will be accused of only winning at home.if not,it might be the start of another 24 year cycle.
16 Oct 2011, 12:21 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-554:
HG, we have been warned from not getting out of the pool play to losing Carter we might as well leave etc. We are not going to take the French lightly at all.
16 Oct 2011, 12:21 pm
@frunobulax(frunobulax)-547: Indeed, I’d say I’d hope they can get an extra one for DC, as he was a big part of them getting here …
But first next week, with the French being as messy as they are, jeez it would be the worst example for rugby if they won, especially given yesterday
16 Oct 2011, 12:21 pm
@mvk(mvk)-533: They choked on the their biggest day…..and they have handed out that tag quite liberally and now they can wear it around their necks for the next four years……so yeah they’re the chokers.
16 Oct 2011, 12:22 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-556: @cane(cane)-557: @poppa69(poppa69)-558:
Allow me to be the first to congratulate you on winning Bill, for the second time.
16 Oct 2011, 12:22 pm
@Bill Reyts(Gumboots)-555: yep, Wales did well but couldnt win it most when it mattered, as they proved against SA.. no celebration here, jobs not finished
16 Oct 2011, 12:23 pm
Call me a sore loser but watching Joubert’s display compare to that prick Bryce makes me sick. How good was Pocock today? Last week he was a “superstar” because of old Brycie today he was a limp **** because Joubert did his job.
Anyways congrats AB’s you are going to murder those Frogs and I will put BIG money on that. McCaw… a bloody machine.
16 Oct 2011, 12:24 pm
on the basis of form over the last few years _ ok if not longer – the ABs deserve the RWC. it’s just a pity it was won at an illegitamte competition. I have lost faith in officiating, we have lowered ourselves to cricket standards. looking back at ‘ the game’ there is no way it was poor reffering. the outcome was predetermined and for all of you who say say grapes…up your farking kilt. you don’t ref a soccer game and not allow corners. well done ABs I hope you win it. shot
16 Oct 2011, 12:24 pm
Keo was on a National Television program tonight (60 Minutes).
Telling us Chokers that Australia were going to kick our arsses.
8)
16 Oct 2011, 12:25 pm
@Richie_7(Richie_7)-404: Its not the point what happened last week, If the same type of game that was played today is played by the Boks it would be called boring, go figure…
16 Oct 2011, 12:25 pm
Well done NZ. You deserve this.
That’s 2 all amoungst us Southern hemisphere teams…..
16 Oct 2011, 12:25 pm
@RL(RL)-563:
Well did you say a second time??
Thank you anyway but still its far from over
16 Oct 2011, 12:25 pm
Hurri fern should be completely ignored with extreme prejudice
16 Oct 2011, 12:25 pm
Anyway, good game. Well done ABs. Adios
16 Oct 2011, 12:26 pm
@mvk(mvk)-559:
16 Oct 2011, 12:26 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-537: well in all honesty who is the most deserving team to take it next week? The French have looked like amateurs the entire tournament. if they take it next week it will really make a mockery of the World Cup in my opinion.
16 Oct 2011, 12:26 pm
Bryce. Player of the tournament.
16 Oct 2011, 12:26 pm
ET and Heavens Game
I wonder how many South Africans have read this article by John Robie in the sports section of the Joburg based Saturday Star newspaper. I am going tomwatch the Samoa/Springbok match again. I wonder what the Samoan player that was in trouble for speaking out against the referee wwillsay or feel? Would be nice if this article was available in Samoa/New Zealand.
Mus t apologize in advance the article is long but VERY interesting.
“I have looked at the game again and have changed my mind. This is painful as it is an admission of being initially wrong and maybe even a bit pig-headed.
Sorry. It is also an apology to those who called foul right from the start.
The bottom line is that a top rugby world cup referee deliberately and collously set out to influence the result of a vital game to ensure that one of the sides – the one he favoured- was victorious.
This is monstrouds and equally as serious is the strong evidence that at least one assistant referee , or linesman, was involved in the conspiracy.
Clearly the strategy was to referee as normal at the start of the game and only start illegally interfering as the crowd and television audience settled down and if it was necessary.
At the start of the game his side went ahead and that was fair enough. Indeed, you got the feeling that it was just going to be one of those days when one team turns up and the other does not. That often happens in sport and quite why, nobody knows.
However, after going behind early, suddenly the boys started to hit their atraps. They started to string the phases together and it was clear from the statistics that pressure was mounting.
In rugby it is not much possession as position that counts as top sides invariably turn territorial advantage and pressure into points either via tries or inevitable penalties.
In this game, it was clear that the man in the middle subtly and repeatedly denied the side its fair chance to score. He did by selectively applying the laws and indeed the interpretation of them.
As the losing captain complained, as is his right, you could see in the referee’s face that he was biased. He seemed to enjoy taunting the helpless leader while quietly tolerating the efforts of the other skipper – his skipper.
It was clear as a day.
The trouble is that , as an experienced referee, he knew that rugb y retains enough of the old amateur ethos to go out of his way to protect the official in the middle even calling him the sole judge of the fact.
How can he be allowed to get away with it when the spectators , well known for their encyclopaedic knowledge and appreciation of the laws and sporting support of all the teams – not just their own – could clearly see he was cheating.
To be fair to all, there is only one course of action open to the International Rugby Board. The world cup should be interrupted and the game replayed.
You see,Nigel Owens clearly cheated Samoa against the Springboks in order for Wales to qualify out of the group.
Thankfully, al lSouth Africans could see this and agree unanimously that to sacrifice the illegal victory is in the interest of the great game of rugby.
What a load of rubbish.
We beat Samoa , albeit with difficulty, and they are just bad losers.Sour grapes is a terrible thing, isn’t it? Especially when it applies to others.
We lost to Australia because we sat still for four years and din’t develop a game that could chase a match from a losing position.
At least we went down fighting courageously, but losing Brussow gave Australia amajor boost as the referee, in keeping with others in the quaterfinals,clearly had decided to favour advantageas much as possible over pedantic and finicky interpretation.
Isn’t that what we calle d for for years?
Congratulations to Australia for a gutsy and ugly victory.
Shame on South Africans who cannot put objectivityahead of the narrow, one eyed, tribal victim mentality.”
16 Oct 2011, 12:26 pm
Well played All Blacks…
Totally dominated the game from whistle to whistle…
Enjoy the win all the AB supporters: Cane, Hurricane, Poppa, NZinChina, Nils, Rosoneri, Mpundulu, Captain Fantail and all the rest of you…
on the Threshold of a Dream…
i sincerely hope it comes true for you…!!
Cheers
16 Oct 2011, 12:26 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-569:
Not yet Stormerboy.
not yet.
16 Oct 2011, 12:27 pm
@cane(cane)-567: he picked them on purpose, his curse struck then bad.
16 Oct 2011, 12:28 pm
@cane(cane)-567:
Keos prediction record is as lousy as it’s loud.
16 Oct 2011, 12:28 pm
@ufo(ufo)-577:
Thank you for your good wishes UFO.
16 Oct 2011, 12:30 pm
@cane(cane)-567: what a joke – the man and his whole blog is a joke
If it wasnt for us he wouldnt have a business. The lameness of the articles on here is really beyond all comprehension. You could give a ****** with dementia a pen and he could write a Keo article.
16 Oct 2011, 12:30 pm
@Peter Mkata(Peter Mkata)-576: stop whinging, they lost cause of clown coaches and has-been players, end of.
16 Oct 2011, 12:30 pm
m o n k e y is a banned word? Oh please. How very pc.
16 Oct 2011, 12:32 pm
If Craig was ref last week we would have played against the ABs
But he was not. Bryce was and was determined to eliminate the Boks; because of that NZ will congratulate themselves next week and enjoy and bask in the victory
They have brought the game into disrepute and made it a mockery
It would be justice if France – really with a 20% chance to win – can pull it off
I just cannot congratulate thieves; today’s outcome was fair because the ref was fair – we cannot forget that
We cannot forget that
You have to love the radiance on a thief’s face when he knows he’s pull off something special
16 Oct 2011, 12:32 pm
@RL(RL)-579: @David(David)-580:
I think Keo will be enjoying this WC.
He is getting published in a National Sunday paper and now gets himself on TV.
The Ego will be getting a good boost.
8)
16 Oct 2011, 12:32 pm
@ufo(ufo)-577:
Thanks UFO, always a true Gentlemen
16 Oct 2011, 12:33 pm
@mudrockshark(mudrockshark)-575:
Sharkievarkie 583 applies to you too … you Plod arse kisser.
This is a thread to show appreciation to our kiwi enemies who will secure Bill from Frog hands … next week.
16 Oct 2011, 12:33 pm
very gracious of you guys, but no kiwi wants to put the cart before the horse… fox are now showing a replay, bewdiful
16 Oct 2011, 12:33 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-571:
HI Dawn
Good advice, will try that sometime
16 Oct 2011, 12:34 pm
15 Le Detonateur vs Dagg… ABs
14. Clerc vs Kahui…Fra
13. Rougerie vs Smith…ABs
12. Mermoz vs Nonu… Evens
11. Palisson vs Jane… ABs
10. Padda vs Skateboarder…Evens
9. Yack vs Warthog… Evens
8. Harry vs Read… Fra
7. Dusautoir vs McCaw…Evens on account of Club foot
6. Bonnaire vs Kaino… ABs
5. Nallet vs Whitelock…Fra
4. Pape vs Thorne… ABs
3. Mas vs Woodcock… Evens
2. Servat vs Kevvy… Fra
1 Franks vs Poux… Evens
Ref: ABs
Choke factor: Fra x 2
Crowd: ABs
7 vs 6, the ABs squeak home
16 Oct 2011, 12:34 pm
@RL(RL)-583:
What? Whinging about what?
16 Oct 2011, 12:34 pm
Pocock got his just deserts today and helped his team to defeat.
Unfortunately for them the ref had a clue. Pity the Kiwi refs don’t.
16 Oct 2011, 12:34 pm
@cane(cane)-578: If there’s any justice in the world you guys will take it.
And all the nonsense aside, you have been the best side in the comp this time around, and so deserve the victory.
16 Oct 2011, 12:34 pm
There you have it. The best World Cup victory money can buy. The final contested by two of the most bland and ordinary sides in the competition. Todays game was woefully poor.
16 Oct 2011, 12:35 pm
@cane(cane)-586:
16 Oct 2011, 12:35 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-594: New Zealand have offered nothing in this competition. It’s been very dire stuff.
16 Oct 2011, 12:35 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-558: hope they take it next week for you mum mate. They did you proud tonight. Praise the lord the convicts didnt win. They were outplayed like they were last week.
16 Oct 2011, 12:35 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-591:
lol
Club foot
16 Oct 2011, 12:35 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-585:
Are you originally from the former Rhodesia?
16 Oct 2011, 12:36 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-558: @Hurricane(Hurricane)-560: Thats the spirit.
16 Oct 2011, 12:36 pm
@Sheriff(The Lawman)-585:
At least you were not poisioned.
Get off your fat arsse and earn your salary. Find Suzie.
Bring the whorre to justice.
Here is a tip. Start your investigation in Germiston!
8)
16 Oct 2011, 12:37 pm
@Alucard(Alucard)-595:
Just for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmE3_hlfHEs
16 Oct 2011, 12:37 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-585:
Yep…that’s all I could think about as the Aussies were pressurised EXACTLY as they were last week by a superior group of forwards.
It should have been the Boks in that game. The All Blacks got off easy today.
16 Oct 2011, 12:37 pm
Yes we need to move onto next week, France against ABs as in 1987
But I will remind the cheaters here daily that your way is not the right way
You have to earn it fair and square – and you have not done so, you have not done so, you have not done so
16 Oct 2011, 12:37 pm
@ufo(ufo)-577: lol, can never bring myself to congratulate the Fake kiwis.
If NZ lose they will be French supporters for a while, no doubt.
16 Oct 2011, 12:38 pm
@Alucard(Alucard)-597: yes awful isnt it? England should have won rather – theyre much more dynamic – or maybe Papua New Guineau?
16 Oct 2011, 12:38 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-585: Very true. But it comes down to money. They made sure that they had it their way off the field. The artificiality of this tournament has meant that the title will be contested by two of the most average sides in the competition. Only Wales were a quality side in the SF. Very poor form. But that’s the way rugby is going. I saw New Zealand’s illegal breakdown tactics on show yet again today. Very disappoiting. Rugby is the loser in 2011.
16 Oct 2011, 12:38 pm
@Alucard(Alucard)-597: But they’ve done all that was asked of them. Won every game and never looked like losing any of them. That’s what it takes sometimes.
We cannot say the same. We could have easily lost to both Wales and Samoa.
NZ were never actually going to lose against Argentina over 80 minutes.
16 Oct 2011, 12:39 pm
The fair contest
The fair contest
The fair contest
16 Oct 2011, 12:39 pm
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-607: Why not? New Zealand have been no better.
16 Oct 2011, 12:39 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-591:
In the Tight Five you have France ahead by one (1),
I think not HG.
I think not.
8)
16 Oct 2011, 12:39 pm
@Peter Mkata(Peter Mkata)-592: exactly, there is nothing to whinge about.
16 Oct 2011, 12:41 pm
The part that amazes me is how good these guys are at congratulating themselves
Ted so self-absorbed – he did not even say anything about the Wallabies
France’s chances are slim but it may just be the upset of the century to date; wouldnt that be something special
16 Oct 2011, 12:41 pm
@cane(cane)-612: And it is true…
16 Oct 2011, 12:41 pm
@Alucard(Alucard)-611: man you are making a fool of yourself now. Who has been more dynamic in your opinion? If you ask me its been a dire World Cup from a form perspective – many of the top tier nations were woeful – England, France, Scotland. From a reffing eprspective and from a game perspective – there havent been great matchups too often and not that many fantastic games to watch.
16 Oct 2011, 12:42 pm
@cane(cane)-602: the whhore was so guilt ridden that she move to NZ with her son Tackler, in an effort to make things right … it is true.
16 Oct 2011, 12:42 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-605:
Oh thats right, or forgot about you.
see link for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzIcXZPtc18
16 Oct 2011, 12:42 pm
@cane(cane)-612: Pape ahead of Thorn, to I’d have France ahead in the pack by 2. Though McCaw has a significant influence over refs, so that in itself is vital to their cause.
16 Oct 2011, 12:42 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-599: that one got me too lol
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-598: cheers mate, know how hard it is, kiwis felt the same in 07..
16 Oct 2011, 12:43 pm
@cane(cane)-602: too funny Cane..
16 Oct 2011, 12:44 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-605: Barnes is going to blow the final … excuse the pun
16 Oct 2011, 12:44 pm
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-616: Everything I state is absolutely correct. The only fools are those that typically arse-creep New Zealand.
16 Oct 2011, 12:45 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-594:
The Wales/France Semi showed how a bit of bad luck can destroy a dream.
16 Oct 2011, 12:45 pm
@RL(RL)-617:
8)
16 Oct 2011, 12:45 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-620: Ahh well all done and dusted – lookign forward to us building a new team, hopefully with a new coach – we have some fantastic young talent coming through and in a way its great that that era of Bok rugby has now come to a close. The times have changed and I´m looking forward to what the future brings.
Would have been nice to have a Kiwi Sa final – even if we lost we would have had a great game and could have felt proud to go down in a fair match in a final with the our best rivals. Cest la vie. Good luck for next week and do it for the South!
16 Oct 2011, 12:46 pm
Cane or hurricane please escort me to lower hutt
16 Oct 2011, 12:46 pm
@Alucard(Alucard)-623: You have not answered my question oh holy oracle. You got the card part of your name right.
16 Oct 2011, 12:47 pm
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-626: A fair game? Not many of those between the sides. Not many of those in general.
16 Oct 2011, 12:47 pm
@Alucard(Alucard)-623:
Man you really need to log out, take a deep breathe and log back in.
16 Oct 2011, 12:47 pm
@Alucard(Alucard)-611: you only have to beat those that are in front of you, dont you? seems thats what the ABs have done so far..
16 Oct 2011, 12:48 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-627:
16 Oct 2011, 12:49 pm
Physiologically impossible for a poisoned human to play at maximum intensity rugby against a powerful opponent (who I assume were not poisoned) for 110 minutes. I am assuming the ABs in the 1995 final were human. Stop all this BS. Vomiting is not proof of poisoning. I have seen players coching from nerves alone…..The alternative view can only point to The Abs having been super human, celestial beings and poisoned, playing mere mortals, the feeble Boks.
16 Oct 2011, 12:49 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-631:
Well Poppa, we have been told this for about 4 years now.
Thats all you need to do to win.
16 Oct 2011, 12:50 pm
@Slumtown(Slumtown)-626: cheers bro, and yeah, thats always the dream final..
16 Oct 2011, 12:50 pm
@itsamyth(itsamyth)-633:
Impossible??
Ok suppose you would know Mr Noakes
16 Oct 2011, 12:51 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-627: escort? you may only get lucky with male escorts but let me assure you …. you stand a zero chance with those two guys ………… unless you wear a dollie suit
16 Oct 2011, 12:51 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-627:
You still owe me $17 for that camp site in my back yard.
8)
16 Oct 2011, 12:54 pm
4 things were abundantly clear in todays game.
1. Pocock was correctly penalised for illegal play
2. Richie McWhore is was allowed to play illegally as he has his entire career
3. A referee finally had the plums to penalise the Al Qaeda operative Sally Jill for illegal tackling, he should be banned for the final but then him playing probably gives the French more of a chance as he is so overrated and decidedly ordinary
4. The better of two rather ordinary teams won today.
What a shame that there were several hundreds of empty seats in a stadium for a semi final of a world cup in which the host nation were playing. In fact the 2011 wc will be remembered for poor refereeing, half empty stadiums and off the field antics such a contrast to the wonderful successful shows put on by the French in 07, Aussie in 03 Welsh in 99 and SA in 95 but if the IRB gets their wish and the ball sacks go on to win the thing they will feel the damage to the games reputation will have been worth it I suppose.
Vive le France
16 Oct 2011, 12:55 pm
Mrs Punishment was most pleased with the performance of the lower hutt warrior tonight… not so impressed with SBW however.
Also not impressed with the amount of tape and padding on Kaino’s upper body – how is Mrs Punishment to admire his pectoralis majoris????
16 Oct 2011, 12:57 pm
@itsamyth(itsamyth)-633:
Your second theory is about spot on………………………….
…..The alternative view can only point to The Abs having been super human, celestial beings and poisoned, playing mere mortals, the feeble Boks.
I could not have put it better myself.
Hey, you Okes even got Dirty Harry to immortalise your wholesome win.
Talk about irony.
8)
16 Oct 2011, 12:57 pm
what’s with all the AB haters on this site tonight? The Ab’s played a great game. Brutal in the forwards, accurate throughout the whole team (very few mistakes), and scored a try where the World Cup Holders had been unable to last week.
No reason to hate, be happy the sneaky aussies are out of the comp.
16 Oct 2011, 12:57 pm
Please somebody show me actual footage of AB players retching on the sidelines in 1995. I was at the game and the AB’s were right in front of me. Never saw a thing and I’ve never seen footage of it since.
16 Oct 2011, 12:58 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-639:
Umm only two QFs in 2007 were full stadiums,and only one SF was full.
But carry on
16 Oct 2011, 12:59 pm
In true Wifebeating fashion the ball sack supporters claimed we couldn’t count the 07 world cup victory as we didn’t beat the ball sacks to win it, so if we were to use their sick misogynistic logic if the ball sacks win this the wifebeaters can’t really claim victory as they did not beat the Springboks. However we all know that logic is flawed and inaccurate and should they be successful the IRB will be the true winners of the WC.
16 Oct 2011, 13:00 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-639: still hurting huh? dont worry, it will abate, in about 4 years time
16 Oct 2011, 13:00 pm
SA were the only team that would have taken AB’s out and they all knew it.. Bryce the f’ng Shmyce was sent into the breach to quell the insurrection
And so the script was written and played out to its pre ordained determination and conclusion.
Same as 1987 the exact same semi finals were played out and exact same outcomes ensued for NZ to face Les Bleus in the final.
Only team that could stem the AB tide were Springboks and both AB’s and IRB knew it that why they conspired to obliterate the threat at earliest convenience and so they did. Now their road to self styled glory is so much more proliferate and so much less of an encumbrance.
Boks played into the conspirators hands by refusing to play their strongest team. Had Bok powerhouse of brainless commissary seen the required condition needed to disrupt the in house agreement by those scheming back street coordinators of conspired outcomes, they would have ditched their has been hangers on and played their true vanguard of bust a gut winners.
Instead they allowed the conspirators their moment of grandeur to undermine the contenders of ultimate glory. They played their pitiful prima donna circus of Smit, Spies, and FdP to start and there exactly is where they lost the plot to overturn the conspirators curse.
Had they have played, Bismark, Alberts and Hougaard from the beginning was good night nurse, and no way in hell that the conspiracy could see out the light of day.
And thus it came to pass. AB’s gain the right of way on the back of a pre ordained circus conspired in the back street promoters offices where sentiment is rife for the long white cloud to eventually heave a huge sigh of relief and praise the rugby gods for deliverance from the clutches of the hordes of imposition from out of the southern corner of Africa.
That’s how its been designed and how it plays out to fulfilled preordained prophecies
16 Oct 2011, 13:00 pm
@bluealligator(The Loser)-639:
Hey Bluey……….
ra de fhukking ra.
The SOUR post of a loser.
Go suck a lemon.
16 Oct 2011, 13:02 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-645:
What’s this wiffy beaters stuff…………………………………
Was Percy playing today?
16 Oct 2011, 13:02 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-644: You are so unbelievably inaccurate but hey that would still be two QF’S and one SF more than you wifebeaters have been able to manage in far smaller stadia. Oops did I just carry on there Inane?
16 Oct 2011, 13:02 pm
The great whine continues…to my fellow long time NZ KEO bloggers yesssssssssssssssssssssss
16 Oct 2011, 13:02 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-639: I cannot imagine going through life a bitter little man like you
16 Oct 2011, 13:03 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-646: Not hurting at all Poepol just stating the facts but then the truth hurts doesn’t it wifebeater.
16 Oct 2011, 13:04 pm
Today was a victory for rugby. The Aussies were stuffed after being completely smashed last week. The refereeing was outstanding from a ref with integrity…at last. The players know the laws, the refs SHOULD know the laws and they were applied brilliantly by Craig Joubert today. Not a single contentious issue to discuss . The players, and the players only, decided the outcome of that game, the fake semi-final. This should be celebrated by every rugby lover after the farce that has been the officiating in this WC. If the ref is doing his job correctly and with integrity, the dominant team wins DESPITE one or two errors of their own. That is why I am so heart-broken for the Boks. What happend to them was wrong and needs investigating. No, I and many others will not just get ovet it. It WAS an injustice and needs to be scrutinised. Our beautiful game deserves it otherwise people like me will simply start losing interest in this great game. Well done NZ and good luck in the final.
16 Oct 2011, 13:04 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-650:
on your bike loser, you’ve been eliminated
16 Oct 2011, 13:06 pm
@cane(cane)-649: Tut tut inane, did your wife smack back this morning petal
16 Oct 2011, 13:06 pm
@cane(cane)-648: Come on cane be fair, most his post is over the top, but be honest there were a lot of people on here saying exactly that. The whole “Boks were lucky” c r a p
16 Oct 2011, 13:07 pm
@JEZ(DEE DAH)-643:
Its actually around somewhere. I remember Wilson spewing up in front of the camera.
I saw the game on TV, you miss alot at the game itself
16 Oct 2011, 13:07 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-647: Get a freakin’ life old timer -we’re sick of hearing your twisted truths and repetitive posts. There was no script, there was no conspiracy; every WC there are potentially bad refereeing decisions that push one nation out of the running. But this whinging for the past week is starting to sound like the Samoan centre who thinks the ref blew poorly in the game against the Boks – a game he feels they deserve to have one.
He got a 6 month suspended sentence for his opinion
16 Oct 2011, 13:07 pm
@heboric(heboric)-657: Hypocrisy is strong here
16 Oct 2011, 13:07 pm
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-655: If you don’t like it wifebeater blog on a site for misogynists,
16 Oct 2011, 13:07 pm
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-651: yesssssssssss! I mourned for WEEKS after the farking sneakies knocked us out in 1991…. ditto 2003….. sooo fitting that the great Richie dealt to them this time around. I am sooooooooo haaaappppppy!
16 Oct 2011, 13:09 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-661: blue, you upset because the Boks never made the semi’s, or because the Bulls didn’t either?
16 Oct 2011, 13:09 pm
Congrats to the Ab’s and particularly Paddy O’ B. Your job is done my wee son, come home to mama.
But how ordinary were these teams! I skim sham poo the snotvreter’s whines about F du Preez and M Steyn and think; how would he have squealed about wee poo? He was one to whine about the very Hougaard he’s now punting. He wanted some WP newbie. Bigot bru or tik eaten the memory card in your little pip.
One thing both teams were was well-drilled. SA couldn’t penetrate the Oz defence and the AB’s did really well to score the lone try of the match. Then how many pointless up-and-unders were there. All the NZ’ders who sneered about the Boks in 2007 and 2009, where are you now?
16 Oct 2011, 13:09 pm
@JEZ(DEE DAH)-643:
Try this:
No actual footage of the vomiting, but interviews of Fitzpatrick, Rush and Bunce.
http://youtu.be/D5iQBLgndTU
16 Oct 2011, 13:10 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-653: hehehe you must be a bulls fan… all class
16 Oct 2011, 13:11 pm
As I have posted earlier, it is a terrible shame the boks and the Ab’s didn’t meet in the semi tonight. but hey, the result would have been the same. Franks, Kaino, Read, McCaw, Nonu, Smith, Dagg would have been too good for the Boks.
As Mrs Punishment always says, better to bow out gracefully than overstay your welcome…
16 Oct 2011, 13:11 pm
Aah getting a rise from the wifebeaters is as easy as pinching candy from a baby, that was fun, Inane, Poepol and NZinrectum are now all hopping off to do something of value if not quite as enjoyable!!!
16 Oct 2011, 13:11 pm
@husky(husky)-664:
If you didn’t enjoy that Test Match Husky.
To bad.
Your loss.
16 Oct 2011, 13:12 pm
@husky(husky)-664: Gearing up for a final
16 Oct 2011, 13:12 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-650:
Ok
stade de france holds 81338 people.
Boks vs Argentina was played there in the Semi Finals
Attendance to that game was 77055, thats 4000 empty seats
The actual final in 2007 Bok vs Englad at the same stadium and attendance was 80430, thats about 1000 seats short.
So to be frank, your an idiot,spouting of rubbish that you have no clue about, do us a favour and piss off fool
16 Oct 2011, 13:13 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-668:
Hey Bluey.
LOSER.
8)
16 Oct 2011, 13:14 pm
@husky(husky)-664: I was disappointed by the AB’s resorting to a territory and up and under game. I thought they could have pressed for another try. BUT the kicking game was working for them – Cooper was wilting under the pressure, the tactic was yielding points, so I can’t moan too much. I bought home the bacon (as Mrs Punishment likes to say)
16 Oct 2011, 13:14 pm
The consensus in NZ is clear: we cannot win this thing without stealing our way to the top
Sad, sad, sad.
16 Oct 2011, 13:14 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-668: Bluester, have another brandy. You’ll still be ugly, but your wife and kids will look a helluva lot better
16 Oct 2011, 13:15 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-668: a rise lmao.. I think you’re the one getting a rise because you think you got a rise…
16 Oct 2011, 13:16 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-674: its all right sheriff, dry your eyes son…
16 Oct 2011, 13:17 pm
One of the biggest punishments is to have to listen to Tony Johnson and Ian Smith in commentary.
Justin Marshall must be careful – he may end up where Murray Mexted is right now; the environment is becoming increasingly hostile to honest commentators
If you take a step back you will realise just how pathetic this actually is
The blessing will not be forthcoming
16 Oct 2011, 13:17 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-674: man up Sheriff!
16 Oct 2011, 13:17 pm
@Cane
So no actual footage or evidence just 3 players whinging? Seems a bit heavy on circumstantial evidence and hearsay if you ask me. I hear it time and again from Kiwi’s that the AB’s were puking up on the side of the pitch yet not one camera picked it up. Pull the other one!
16 Oct 2011, 13:17 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-668:
You dont get a rise for being found out to be a bullshitter and a lier.
You have made a fool of yourself
16 Oct 2011, 13:18 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-671: Inane, face facts this tournament has been a farce with bad refereeing and off the field antics providing more news than the rugby. There were probably 4000 empty seats today and that was for a home semi whereas Boks vs Argie were both away teams so really you are an idiot who is pissed off because his wife smacked back so why don’t you piss off and go on a ball sack website werfetter.
Most definitely not a bulls supporter but thanks for asking wifebeaters
16 Oct 2011, 13:18 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-678: Sadly in the eyes of Bok supporters, anything not won by the Boks is either rigged, bent, or bought. After all, it’s the Boks God given right to win WC’s……………..even if they don’t win anything between WC’s
16 Oct 2011, 13:19 pm
You have been warned
Stealing will benefit you in the short run but in the end, when it matters most it will be disaster
16 Oct 2011, 13:19 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-674:
Big girls don’t cry
Big girls don’t cry
Big girls don’t cry-yi-yi (they don’t cry)
Big girls don’t cry (who said they don’t cry?)
16 Oct 2011, 13:19 pm
@JEZ(DEE DAH)-680: I have to agree, the puking and sh*tting were most likely linked to heavy boozing rather than poisoning
16 Oct 2011, 13:20 pm
@Richie_7(Richie_7)-683: Is that what you say to your wife when she complains about another black eye?
16 Oct 2011, 13:20 pm
one-way traffic, had the kiwis by 20 against oz and 30 against frogs, who they already beaten in the pool. the only contender that could have taken the ABs arrived home earlier this week cos they did not select their best squad.
Deans must come coach the Boks (a team with a decent pack) and let McKenzie coach the Wallabies. What the Boks need is to add cleanout skill, dybnamism and refinement to an already muscular pack – the wobblies need something completely different.
16 Oct 2011, 13:21 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-682:
This is what you said
“You are so unbelievably inaccurate ”
Now who is the idiot, oh boy you are just to easy.
16 Oct 2011, 13:23 pm
@Richie_7(Richie_7)-683:
Not so, but why do NZ always turn to a SA ref when they want fairness and justice
Bryce had no right to handle that game, he was sent there with very specific instructions
That is why: even though you are stealing it and have it in your hands – you do not deserve it
I assure you: if you had won it fair and square I would be the 1st on this blog to congratulate you and will sing your praises
A thief eventough he has the possession in his hands, does not deserve it
16 Oct 2011, 13:23 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-687: No, I’m not from Pretoria
16 Oct 2011, 13:24 pm
@heboric(heboric)-657:
They were lucky Hebe.
The best Teams they faced were Argentina and England.
Argentina: Have never in the history of recorded rugby ever beaten SA or NZ. EVER>
England: This was the worst English Team in the history of English Rugby. From 2004 to 2006 England won 3 from 15 games against Tier 1 Countries.
However ……………………………………luck is part of the game. Ask any Frenchman.
16 Oct 2011, 13:24 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-690: And when other teams are cheated out of WC’s and the Boks go on to win it? Then all is fair and life is good?
16 Oct 2011, 13:24 pm
@JEZ(DEE DAH)-680:
Get the game. It has said that they caught Jeff Wilson actually being sick, but anyway who cares. Why are you so intent to find out about something that happened 16 years ago.
Looks like we will get the RWC 2011 rip off from the South African fans for about 16 years, oh boy.
16 Oct 2011, 13:25 pm
Well done Kiwis and welcome to the elite 2X winner club:-) Handed us our backsides once again. Will be an absolute mountain for the wallabies to get up for next week’s game against Wales after the pounding they’ve taken the last two games. I’m glad Dingo Deans will have another two years to make a statement come the 2013 Lions tour – he was ill served with critical injuries for this RWC. That said, I’m also kinda glad his contract doesn’t run much past that too.
16 Oct 2011, 13:25 pm
@Sheriff(Lawman)-674:
Loser.
16 Oct 2011, 13:25 pm
@bluealligator(bluealligator)-682:
If the Kiwis are wife beaters, the Aussies convicts you guys have to be the racists?
16 Oct 2011, 13:25 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-690: Sheriff, let me ask you this: between 2007 and now what have the Boks done for you to think they would have won this world cup?
16 Oct 2011, 13:26 pm
@cane(cane)-665: that is not vomiting, it is clear choking, no doubt about it.
16 Oct 2011, 13:27 pm
Bloody hell, can’t some of the **** coming out here. For my fellow boks supporters still carrying on about how we where cheated from beating the ABs.
Horseshite. We got knocked out in the QFs, partially due to bad refereeing, but also due to our teams own limitations. We’ve not been the no.1 team up to the RWC, no.3 actually and we’ve not been playing very well for 2 years. Whether we could have beaten the ABs in Auckland, if we had gone through is a big if, given the fact that we not beaten the ABs since before we came back to international rugby in 1994.
If you seriously want to claim that we where better then let’s beat both Australia and the ABs next year in their backyard, and then in 2013, 2014 and 2015 again.
16 Oct 2011, 13:27 pm
@Fatflanker(Fatflanker)-695:
Not yet fatso..
not yet.
Frogs not exactly Our good Luck Charms.
16 Oct 2011, 13:28 pm
@Richie_7(Richie_7)-693:
Are you suggesting that SA had a hand in getting NZ out of the previous WC?
In this case, NZ specifically ensured that Boks are out
If Bryce did what is expected of him Boks would have been there today, and prolly on their way to yet another final
No pack f forward can match the Boks
For it to be fair Craig Joubert should have eliminated the ABs today; and boy then you would have seen something
These chokers and cheaters would have added another dimenion – that of moaners
NZ you have done well in hosting the RWC but you do not deserve to win it; that’s for sure
16 Oct 2011, 13:28 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-690:
Bullshit
You would never praise anything but yourself.
Where were you in 2007?
Did you find your victory hollow due to the nature that ABs went out?
I cant remember you saying, oh nevermind Kiwis, you tried and you didnt get the rub of the green etc.
What we got was shut up and stop ya moaning, you were not good enough.
Sheriff, you team was not good enough now be quite
16 Oct 2011, 13:29 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-703:
Quite = Quiet
16 Oct 2011, 13:29 pm
@RL(RL)-699:
We still may have one last choke in us RL.
8)
But WTF. It’s only a game right!
16 Oct 2011, 13:30 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-702: Sheriff, if no pack can match the Boks, when last have you won a Trinations or Grand Slam?
16 Oct 2011, 13:30 pm
@cane(cane)-692: They played whats in front – ill use that line. Its not their fault the other teams were pathetic. Why didnt the ABs and Wallabies win their games. So if the ABs win, then can people use the lucky and non-deserving line as well?
16 Oct 2011, 13:30 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-690: nonsense, Bryce has been inconsistent in the RWC. He gave loads of penalties between England and the Argies and then did the same for the Aussie/Ireland game.
He also did not blow up our infringements, so how was he biased against us. He was just **** and should not be refereeing QFs if he is inconsistent in his rulings.
16 Oct 2011, 13:31 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-702:
Why dont we desrve to win it?
we beat all that was put in front of us at the moment. I believe SA,last again in the 3 nations was going to beat us.
But we will never find out as the Boks were not good enough to win. Chances there but SA robbed themselves
16 Oct 2011, 13:32 pm
@Kobus Kitty(Kobus Kitty)-499: That’s right tough guy, you tell that Pocock. You are either 12 years old or a club-footed dwarf – either way you have a serious personality disorder and need help.
16 Oct 2011, 13:32 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-709:
“last again in the 3 nations was NOT going to beat us.
Thats better
16 Oct 2011, 13:33 pm
Well done ABs. A dominant and convincing performance today. Just too strong for the gallant Wallabies. The team is showing great momentum and Cruden handled the occasion with great conviction and style. As the only remaining Southern Hemisphere side I hope you do the business next week.
16 Oct 2011, 13:33 pm
@stormer in a teacup(stormer in a teacup)-712:
Thanks Stormer
16 Oct 2011, 13:34 pm
@Sheriff(Lawman)-702:
Hey Lawman, you Okes lost to OZ because, your Team had the penetration of a flaccid limp ****.
End of.
76% and how many tries …………………………………………Zilch, zero, nada, sweet phukk all, none, naught, poner en el cero.
16 Oct 2011, 13:35 pm
76% possession that should read.
16 Oct 2011, 13:35 pm
Don’t be so touchy boys! I was fortunate enough to have been work on the door at Balalaika pub (now village walk)in 1992 and the AB’s were staying at the hotel. On their last night they asked us to close the piano bar and the drinking only finished in the wee hours. I have held AB players as they puked – no names- what goes on tour stays on tour. My theory on 1995 is that after the demolishion of England a few of the boys broke curfew on Friday night and had a few bevvies because it was gonna be an easy game.
Fast forward to this world cup and Craig Joubert today proved that referee’s make all the difference the aussies did nothing different today but as I predicted during the week they would be blown off the park.
The only conclusion is that Joubert and Lawrence are not using the same lawbook.
16 Oct 2011, 13:36 pm
australia are pap, no ways they should have been there, except for pocock who is out this world good.
16 Oct 2011, 13:37 pm
@heboric(heboric)-707:
True Hebe.
True.
And South Africa 2007 is etched on Bill for eternity.
Nothing else matters.
16 Oct 2011, 13:39 pm
Guys you ahve done well to host the tournament; not too many scandals unless these are sealed off
But you do not deserve to win the RWC; that’s for sure
We will forever remember the fraudulent ways of Bryce Lawrence; nothing has changed – you guys still fear the Boks the most
We would have pulverised little Richie today, that’s for sure
16 Oct 2011, 13:39 pm
Les Bleus put Trin Duc at 10 and Padda at 9 and they will have the measure…
Bill will be sailing down the Seine.
16 Oct 2011, 13:39 pm
Hahaaa the Cup will be ours in 7 days time! Wahoo, too good for Ozie! Is anyone going to get near us in this world cup? I dont think so. NZ are way too good, thanks for coming everyone, well take all your dollars and keep the cup here!
The All Blacks are the greatest team in the world! In 7 days time it will be official, but right now we all know that we are!
Your Saffa game will have to adapt if you want to be a great side again, i dont think you would have got close to us tonight either
16 Oct 2011, 13:40 pm
@cab(cab)-717:
Australia were still in the game with 15 minutes to play. Their defence was excellent.
They will win the next WC in Japan.
They are the Youngest side at this years WC.
Australians should be proud of their effort today.
16 Oct 2011, 13:40 pm
thing is no-one has taken the ABs close yet, put pressure on and watch what happens.
They are 30 points better than the frogs, we’ve seen it in the pool games when the pressure is off, but if the frogs somehow manage to keep it close, the kiwis can wig out easy as, cruden is ripe for a flutter – goddamnit the Boks would have put them to the sword without carter i am convinced of it.
16 Oct 2011, 13:40 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-719: only unbeaten side so far lawman, howd your team do?
16 Oct 2011, 13:41 pm
I may be hearing that ever so faint sound…
Les Bleus vs ABs in the Rigged World Cup Final.
Cough…cough.
16 Oct 2011, 13:41 pm
@cane(cane)-722:
Ozzie always give it 100%, but the ABs pack were all over them, think it was like 83% AB possession in the 1st half, the score was flattering. Well done to your team.
16 Oct 2011, 13:42 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-719:
So does the Boks fear the ABs the most as well??
16 Oct 2011, 13:43 pm
I will choke with laughter if the Awesome ABs let this one go against the Fickle French…
The embarrassment…
16 Oct 2011, 13:44 pm
@cane(cane)-714: actually if you want to compare that sexually, we had plenty of penetration, thus the field possession, just couldn’t come …
By the way, how many penalties against the Aussies for ruck infringements tonight again? Those little things count as well …
16 Oct 2011, 13:46 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-728:
Why is it embarrasing to lose a Final?
Whats embarrasing is losing a QF,blaming Pocock for staeling all SA ball illegally but the posession favoured the Boks at 76% to Ozzies 24%.
Somehow it does not add up.
16 Oct 2011, 13:46 pm
@NZMaori(NZMaori)-721: Happy much? Lol, yes, glad for you guys. Now just seal the deal next week!
Does Dan Carter get a medal now that he has withdrawn? Surely they must give him one as well?
16 Oct 2011, 13:47 pm
Some say its all in the Stars…
Its destiny…
Same semi-finalists as in 87
Same finalists…
Same result…?
One thing is for sure, I know 100%, absolutely without doubt…
The French know how to spoil a party
Thoroughly undeserved, they spoilt Wales’s…
Thoroughly undeserved, they spoil NZ’s…?
Dont bet your house against this one.
Bookies must be fcked up nervous.
16 Oct 2011, 13:48 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-724:
Bryce ensured that we be removed; your leaders could not risk it to let a neutral and fair ref officiate the game
Pretty much what I have come to expect from this self-absorbed rugby setup
Guys, you are actually an embarrassment
Your leaders are morally bankrupt
16 Oct 2011, 13:48 pm
Sheriff. Get a grip mate. The ABs have won all their games this tournament. If they beat the French they will have beaten every opponent to take the field with them, just as every other World Cup champ has done. End of story.
16 Oct 2011, 13:48 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-730: No embarrassment at all for losing that QF…
The comparison between Bryce and Joubert says it all…
The Boks were never, ever going to be allowed to win it.
16 Oct 2011, 13:49 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-727: Why are you asking him though? Seriously, might as well try and have a reasonable conversation with a Bulls supporter at Loftus after 4 hours of drinking Klippies and Coke
16 Oct 2011, 13:51 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-735:
HG, you have lost to Ozzie 6 out of 7 times.
You had your chance to change it with so much position but you honetly didnt have the players or game plan. Move on dude
16 Oct 2011, 13:52 pm
13/2 France win.
1/7 ABs win.
Yup, Bookies are farked.
16 Oct 2011, 13:52 pm
Here’s another compliment:
I thought you did a fine job with the national anthems of the various countries
I know in the past you would always deny the Boks the opportunity to at least sing the anthem with proper sound
So well done there
Even today’s anthem were done very well
But you do not deserve to win the World Cup; forever you will be in my mind a bunch of desperate folk trying to fake/cheat their way to stardom
Pocock met with fairness today and was a nil
When will Bryce meet with fairness?
Maybe the French can do us a massive favour; my thoughts and empathy are with them; hope they cut you to pieces
16 Oct 2011, 13:52 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-730: Counts for little things called penalties, when on attack, like for example the game today … 2 infringements and 2 penalties later for ABs …
Anyway, the Aussies would have had the same complaints if the situation was reversed, they had all the ball, Brussow slowed it down all the time and they lost …
16 Oct 2011, 13:53 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-733:
So now we are the embarrassment?
Your doing a really good job of trying to claim that one
16 Oct 2011, 13:53 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-737: There is no way a team could have lost with such supremacy unless…
Crookery
Rigging.
So no embarrassment at all.
16 Oct 2011, 13:54 pm
Could someone please arrange one last test match between the Boks (with Bismarck and Bakkies) and ABs (with and McCaw)?
We have still not seen a heavy weight clash between these two teams fielding their very best.
16 Oct 2011, 13:55 pm
French have lost twice in this RWC including a loss to tonga and were’nt too flash past japan either, its already a mockery they are in the final.
16 Oct 2011, 13:55 pm
@danuk(danuk)-740:
yep but i am sure if the Ozzies had 76% of possesion, they would have crossed the line a few more times.
16 Oct 2011, 13:58 pm
@cab(cab)-743: Thought we had that opportunity the last few years in a competition called the Trinations.
Every team had opportunity to field their best squad and compete for a trophy, so we cannot complain.
If we think we are that good then we should prove that in next years 4 nations
16 Oct 2011, 13:58 pm
France make a mockery of this World Cup by being in the Final.
Like Aus made a mockery by being in the Semi.
Yup this World Cup is a mockery.
The Rigged World Cup 2011.
And there you have it.
16 Oct 2011, 13:59 pm
@cab(cab)-743: yeah we have, Hamilton 2009, all the big names there Carter, McCaw, Frans Steyn, Bismarck etc. NZ beaten at home.
Today was a mismatch. Australia having had their forwards taken apart by Ireland and SA, suffered the same fate v NZ.
16 Oct 2011, 14:01 pm
New verb to the English language: to BRYCE someone
Means to cheat, treat unfairly, act with dishonesty
16 Oct 2011, 14:01 pm
@danuk(danuk)-746:
nowhere in the last 2 years have SA fielded their best side vs Nz, and vice versa NZ did not field their best side three years ago in 2009 or the last match of the 3N which they lost to the Boks 8 weeks ago. Boks are out, ABs should win this RWC, which they deserve – I still maintain the Boks best can beat the ABs best in NZ.
16 Oct 2011, 14:01 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-748:
LOL – i stand corrected
16 Oct 2011, 14:02 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-748:
hahaha, yeah Stephen Doanld was our best # 12 in 2009.
Yawn, not that match BH
16 Oct 2011, 14:03 pm
@cab(cab)-751:
not so fast Cab. The best Centre in the world was Smith, he was missing from the ABs
16 Oct 2011, 14:03 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-749: A new stereotype for a Kiwi…
No longer anything sheep needed…
Just an “honest brycie” will do…
As in:
“Howzit Cane, you’re a real honest brycie, aren’t you?”
Says it all really.
16 Oct 2011, 14:03 pm
If the AB’s lose next week it will be the biggest choke in the history of sport. I have always said that if the Boks don’t win I’d like to see the AB’s win it. There is quite simply no more deserving side in the history of the game and its about time we get a Sir Richie McCaw I mean FFS he has won everything else. After Tindalls behaviour it wouldn’t surprise me if the Queen gave him a grand daughter too.
16 Oct 2011, 14:05 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-745: Possibly. We are saying the same, i.e. that if we had quick ball we believed we would have done the same. Also if they where penalised we would have scored more through penalties, like the ABs did tonight.
Are you saying we cannot score tries at all? I would wager that we probably had similar possession and territory stats against Fiji, so why did we manage to score tries there?
So explain that to me, incapable for scoring tries vs. scoring tries from one game to the next?
I suppose Aussie defence right? So how would the ABs breakdown defenses? I assume multiphase quick ball right an then use backs to exploit gaps, mismatches and overlaps?
So if the ball is slowed down and defenses are able to set again, then you have to score tries from effectively 1st of 2nd phase possession.
In that case you are right, we do not have enough talent to score consistently against the top teams in the world during the 1st or 2nd phases.
16 Oct 2011, 14:06 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-753: lol you had Nonu at 13, hardly a step down, that’s as close to full-strength as we saw those two sides and NZ lost – at home.
16 Oct 2011, 14:07 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-753:
hahahah…u a funny man hurricane, to be the best centre in the world u need at least some natural pace. i think pdivvie is faster thru the gap than smith.
16 Oct 2011, 14:08 pm
this RWC win will be hollow for me! He never played the Boks and last time we played them, they kicked our buts! Boks the real world champs then! damn you Boks! Always 1 up!
16 Oct 2011, 14:09 pm
@cab(cab)-750: possibly, however we need to earn that right as well, not just say we could have IF we had gone through to the semis.
We’ve not played well, regardless of who the “best players” are, over the last 2 years.
I also think we have great potential in players, however our national side needs to make better use of these players and we should prove that consistently over the next 4 years.
16 Oct 2011, 14:09 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-748: When was the last time you beat us at Eden Park? 1937 big hit. The boks were never going to win the tournament, simply not good enuf, poorly coached, worng tactics. Game has changed since 2009, SA havnt.
Oh and arnt you an English supporter from memory? they are great at this cup wernt they, struggled past argy and scotland and lost to france! Haahaaaaa good job Bit Hit,
16 Oct 2011, 14:10 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-719:
“But you do not deserve to win the RWC; that’s for sure. We will forever remember the fraudulent ways of Bryce Lawrence; nothing has changed – you guys still fear the Boks the most.”
Speak for yourself. I’m South African but I certainly won’t remember it that way. If NZ wins the cup, they’ll have deserved it just as much as SA deserved it last time around. As “we” used to say when it suited us: you can only beat what’s in front of you.
As for the idea that “you guys still fear the Boks the most”: by and large, NZ has had the Boks’ number since re-admission. (Come to think of it, Australia has also had the better of most recent encounters, with or without Bryce.) Instead of trying to explain the record away by conjuring a vast conspiracy, how’s this for a simple answer: generally, they’ve simply played better rugby than the Boks.
In short: looks at the scoreboard, and leave the whingeing to the poms.
16 Oct 2011, 14:10 pm
ja well
the keewee
dipsh!ts
organised
themselves
a final
maybe
the truth
will come out
some day
16 Oct 2011, 14:11 pm
@NZMaori(NZMaori)-761: Dont be such an “honest Brycie” with such rubbish.
16 Oct 2011, 14:11 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-757:
Spinn it all you like but it was not our best team. Donald at 12 should have shown you this but carry on.
@cab(cab)-758:
lol, you think pace is all you need to be the best centre.
Again, BH is talking rubbish, with Donald at 12 that is not NZs best.
I am a kiwi, he isnt. Nowt that should be enough
16 Oct 2011, 14:12 pm
I think if Bismarck du Plessis had been picked 2 weeks ago, we would have beaten the Wallabies, not just either, but by 10 points. And the game against NZ would have been the game of the tournament and been an exceptionally close afair.
16 Oct 2011, 14:12 pm
To all the sad sacks intent on pissing on other peoples’ parade, get some class,get over your disappintment and remember the powerful words of Rudyard Kipling’s poem …’ if you can Meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same’. Be a man my son.
16 Oct 2011, 14:12 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-754:
Watch out, you might get BRYCEd
16 Oct 2011, 14:12 pm
@Richie_7(p0ppa69)-759: Lol, ok we get the point. You do know that the AB supporters said the same exact thing after the last RWC …
Anyway, ABs will (hopefully) deservedly win the RWC and then we can hopefully give you guys a bit of competition next year, RWC champsion and all …
16 Oct 2011, 14:13 pm
@danuk(danuk)-769: champions …
16 Oct 2011, 14:13 pm
@cab(cab)-766: You’re talking absolute rubbish… Dont be a farken “honest Brycie” now, twat.
16 Oct 2011, 14:14 pm
@NZMaori(NZMaori)-761: England were far more entertaining off the pitch then New Zealand have been on it.
16 Oct 2011, 14:14 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-768: Hellsteeth, I don’t want to be BRYCE’d thats for sure…
Farken no Brycecream for me, no thank you very much.
16 Oct 2011, 14:15 pm
@Thucydides(Thucydides)-762: Yip, agreed, ABs will be more than worthy champions and I’m sure will be VERY happy to get the choking tag off .
16 Oct 2011, 14:16 pm
@danuk(danuk)-760:
no you are quite right, i’m not taking anything away from NZ they can only play who are in front of them and if our lot are stupid enough to think they going to buck the entire history of union by winning despite not selecting their best, well we then deserved to lose as we did, lesson learned the hard way.
I dont blame the referee, I blame ourselves, I blame the Boks for their selfishness. This is as good, if not better better, than any Bok team talent-wise since readmission and was good enough to knock over anyone anywhere but by fielded their 2nd best, they got knocked the fk out. the lesson was there against wales and they ignored it, now its too late and we left to wonder.
16 Oct 2011, 14:16 pm
Boks would have fckd these Blacks up 6 Love.. No f’ng question about it.. all the dumb fcks had to do was park off Smit, Spies and FdP and play Bismark, Alberts and Hougaard.. and Bryce the f’ng Schmyce or NOT.. we would have creamed Both the wannabees and the AB’s twice in a row unfluttered
Boks played into the f’ng hands of destiny and P’OB’s underhand scheming..
They plaid their weaker team.. dumb fck idiots.. Burger coughed it TWICE.. FdP spilled it ON the LINE… Spies went wrong way down the blind side … and Bryce cleaned up the breakdown handing it ALL to Pocock every time without a stitch of correction..
How come Pocock corld NOT steal any ball today.. simple as… the pied piper had changed his penny whistle…thats how..
Had Boks played Bismark, Alberts and Hougaard.. with Aplon off bench .. rest assured we’d have hammered AB’s in the semi’s today after taking care of Wannabees last weekend..
Smit, should have schmyced.. and Boks were raring to take this g’ddam thing THRICE..!!!
Simple f’ng deductions .. not even a meager doubt .. without Smit Boks were 90% home and dry.. instead they CARRIED the cancerous conundrum all the way OUT the competition..
Stupid DUMB FCKS.!!!
16 Oct 2011, 14:17 pm
@HongKongSlong(HongKongSlong)-772:
Well at least NZ are still on the pitch so i dont really have a problem
16 Oct 2011, 14:17 pm
@danuk(danuk)-774: maybe, oneday, by some miracle, the proteas can do the same
16 Oct 2011, 14:18 pm
@Sheriff(Sheriff)-768:
I scream…
You scream…
Paddy screams…
For Brycecream.
16 Oct 2011, 14:18 pm
@cab(cab)-766: have to say I disagree cab, BDP and Alberts had their opportunity to change the game but even they couldn’t overturn Lawrence’s reffing of the breakdown. SA were sacrificed for the financial future of Oz/NZ rugby, they were the team who could’ve really spoiled the love-in so Lawrence snuffed them out.
16 Oct 2011, 14:18 pm
What a load of asbolute Bryceshit.
16 Oct 2011, 14:19 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-776:
hmm so what happened in the last two Tri nations.
You honestly do not know how your team would have played this week.
If they played their best and the we played our best you woulds have been going home anyway.
Of course thats my opinion.
16 Oct 2011, 14:19 pm
Correction:
What a load of absolute Bryceshit.
16 Oct 2011, 14:19 pm
Please stop Bryceshitting us.
16 Oct 2011, 14:19 pm
@cab(cab)-766: Thats the truth.. and whoever think different are STILL dumb fck deluded by pathetic hero besmirched arsecreeping delusions..
Smit stood between Boks and a WC defense and that is the pitiful unadulterated truth whichever way the hero worshipers wanna try sell themselves ANOTHER f’ng stupendous dummy…
16 Oct 2011, 14:20 pm
And Skop takes his show on the road.
16 Oct 2011, 14:21 pm
That Mexican Tijuana ****** hooker has the biggest, hairiest, loosest, smelliest bryce you have ever seen.
16 Oct 2011, 14:21 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-780:
shut up man, your just feeding them
16 Oct 2011, 14:22 pm
I smell a bryce (sorry, mr rat, you have been usurped)
16 Oct 2011, 14:23 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-776: dude you seriously need some help, passion is good but your carrying on like a religious extremist … get some medication and counselling
16 Oct 2011, 14:23 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-776:
lol – old ou doosie has gone off on one.
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-780:
fair comment, but i’ve always had a differtent take on these things, which is that rugby imo is alot about momentum and you give away alot of that if you dont start with your best, and the results in 2009 would support that when the boks would outblitiz the other sides for the first 60 or so, and slow down in the last 20, by which stage the game was won, since then we’ve not got that going again except for the 3N match againstt NZ 8 weeks ago when bismarck and alberts started and that momentum was again there and it was all over by 60min (tho against a weaker NZ team).
16 Oct 2011, 14:23 pm
I will come and farken bryce you up six love.
16 Oct 2011, 14:25 pm
Don’t worry kiwi fans. According to Skop we won a lucky packet world cup last time and you are about to do the same. Maybe one day the real champs will be the actual champs
16 Oct 2011, 14:25 pm
this
is an even
more
embarrassing
rwc than
1987
16 Oct 2011, 14:25 pm
Bryce you!
Actually Bryce all of you!
I will come and kick all of your Paddies and bryceadilly all of you from a dizzy height.
16 Oct 2011, 14:26 pm
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-794:
how do you know, you wernt invited.
16 Oct 2011, 14:26 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-782:
AT LEAST it would have been a FAIR reflection as to who is indeed the best team in the world..
Now you or we will never know.. due to 2 obviation’s
1. Another ref last week and we’d have met you today
and
2. Had we played our BEST from beginning.. we’d have met you today..
And THEN we’d have known who really deserves to blow out the candle on the victory cake…
We did it to ourselves as much as allowing the orchestrating powers that be to ruin the true run at the final party…
16 Oct 2011, 14:27 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-796:
invited
being the
operative
word
16 Oct 2011, 14:28 pm
Skopskiet talks the biggest amount of repetitive Bryce you will ever be unfortunate to read…
What a farken hairy Bryce.
16 Oct 2011, 14:30 pm
Cab and Skop are probably the two of the most unpatriotic, disloyal Bryces you probably will ever meet as Bok supporters…
16 Oct 2011, 14:31 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-797:
Agree Skop with most of that.
But RWC seems to be not made for the best 2 teams in the world to meet, it rarely happens.
That is the downfall but i am sure its the same in Football as well.
Even if we win this RWC as i have been saying since i have been posting on Keo, its not the most important thing to me. Winning all games, all tournaments and all trophys.
Its a package, winning the RWC is just a journey to the next game/tournament.
I think to much has been put into winning the RWC and world rugby has suffered.
16 Oct 2011, 14:32 pm
What a bunch of bryces…
This Rigged World Cup has been a bryceup of note and you still cant see the wood from the trees…
All have their heads up their collective Bryceholes
16 Oct 2011, 14:33 pm
Ignore the pathetic whining of the lonely ‘heavens game’ and sheriff who live their social lives through this forum. Maybe one day they will actually find some friends in real life to watch a game with.
We were unlucky in the semi given we played above ourselves, but the AB’s deserved this win and ground it out in our style.
16 Oct 2011, 14:33 pm
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-798:
And deservedly not invited as well.
Or do you think you should have been at the first RWC?
16 Oct 2011, 14:34 pm
@Dex(Dex)-803: Bryce you you farken ugly bryceface.
16 Oct 2011, 14:34 pm
@cab(cab)-791: SA didn’t pick their best players, that much is clear but I’d question whether they could’ve overcome what was allowed to happen at the breakdown. Schalk was doing everything he could to get Pocock off but he was locked to the ruck like a honey-badger’s jaws, imo only the ref could’ve got him off and he refused to blow his whistle.
What’s done is done though, perhaps it will be a catalyst for SA to revamp their approach to rugby between World Cups as I’m hoping it is for England.
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-788:
Anyway hurricane, well done to your team today. They should win the World Cup, they have won all their games and you can only beat who is put in front of you. I won’t lie and say I won’t be backing France though, if they win the entertainment factor on here over the next 4 years will be through the roof.
Again congrats to the NZ fans on their first WC final since 1995. Later guiz.
16 Oct 2011, 14:35 pm
@Dex(Dex)-803:
lol
I have never seen so much childish rants and moans from anyone on this site.
But HG has gone off on a tangent and thinks himself as funny and Sheriff has lost the plot.
16 Oct 2011, 14:35 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-801:
there was
something
seriously wrong
in the way
the keewees
got there
in the
end
you lot
are not
sportsmen
you are
cheats
i hope
the truth will
come out
someday
16 Oct 2011, 14:36 pm
@Dex(Dex)-803: Get you brycedup head out of your brycehole and open your eyes.
16 Oct 2011, 14:36 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-807: You’re a real honest brycie aren’t you.
16 Oct 2011, 14:36 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-804:
we won it
in 1986
16 Oct 2011, 14:37 pm
Dex. Ignore HG. he should be a lot happier considering the bryces are hosting a currie cup semi in Durbs next week.
16 Oct 2011, 14:38 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-806:
lol i knew it, you love feeding them dont you.
Anyway BH thanks but your last line …… oh dont worry about it
16 Oct 2011, 14:38 pm
Yes a bit of a unbalanced tournament I feel as well.
16 Oct 2011, 14:39 pm
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-808: The truth will come out some day and consequently Rugby’s reputation will be as Brycedup as Cricket
16 Oct 2011, 14:39 pm
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-811:
You won nothing but against a washed up old timers cavalier team, yawn.
I have posted the cavaliers teams and the 1987 AB team so many times on here. Only 7 players from the 30 ABs 1987 side was there. You never beat the 1987 ABs. So bye
16 Oct 2011, 14:39 pm
@stormer in a teacup(stormer in a teacup)-812:
Farken Brycehole.
16 Oct 2011, 14:40 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-806:
yes maybe u are right, the b/d was a disaster but dont forget bismarck also contributes an inordinate amount there and wouldve made a big difference especially with brussow going off so early too. Boks always get much quicker ball when bismarck starts, he ramps up the dynamism double, bustling agression – alberts by far the form go-forward player, yet they persist with spies who offers very little in these tight affaris? You are rights, its all over both SA and England’s campaigns turned out to be really anti-climaxes and could be some revolutionary changes as a result of the fallout. Not quite sure why england kept picking matt stevens, even tho Sheridan was a massive loss?
BH is right tho, congrats to the ABs you are the best team at this tournament and deserve to win it.
16 Oct 2011, 14:40 pm
Am out of here
16 Oct 2011, 14:40 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-810:
sorry what was that, all i got was
sob sob sob sob sob sob aren’t you?
16 Oct 2011, 14:41 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-800:
Nope we KNOW we would have won had your dumb fck cancerous clown got the FCK out the way.. while unpatriotic fcks like you were willing and compensating to CARRY your f’ng cancerous conundrum in your pathetic commiserate COMPROMISE .. and that is HOW we LOST.. due to your pathetic desire to carry ineffective passengers instead of playing the absolute BEST in ALL circumstances…
Thats how Boks lost.. by playing Smit over Bismark.. and carrying the likes of Spies and FdP as second best options where the best were playing cameo roles off the f’ng bench.. That’s how Boks were fckd out the quarters.. and that is WHY you deserve to Cry like the dumb fck LOSER you are..!!!
You and the rest of the piffle arse Smittybumkin loser chorus singing your cheap songs of hero worship commiserating compromising songs of past glories…
16 Oct 2011, 14:42 pm
GO FRANCEE!!!
16 Oct 2011, 14:43 pm
frogss have a strangee habit of going againstt the tide of expectation
16 Oct 2011, 14:43 pm
Phew, professional whingers at work again.
16 Oct 2011, 14:43 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-816:
you don’t
like it
that you
didn’t
won a
proper
world cup
back in ’87
do you
well
you’re not
gonna win
a proper one
now
keewees
can only win
by being keewees
i mean
cheaters
16 Oct 2011, 14:44 pm
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-825:
didn’t WIN
16 Oct 2011, 14:46 pm
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-825:
I really dont take you to seriously, you are harmless. Your like the class clown or village idiot.
Keo needs one and you have taken on that job and really have a full grasp of it. Gold star for you.
Looks out though, i think HG is after your job
16 Oct 2011, 14:47 pm
@greatest13gerber(greatest13gerber)-823:
Is that why you are backing them?
16 Oct 2011, 14:48 pm
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-826:
thats right you didnt
16 Oct 2011, 14:49 pm
yes…
16 Oct 2011, 14:50 pm
@greatest13gerber(greatest13gerber)-830:
lol yeah ok then
16 Oct 2011, 14:50 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-827:
never mind
what you
take me
for
you guys
have cheated
yourselves
into a final
well done
this wc
will be worth
as much
as the 1987
one
16 Oct 2011, 14:52 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-801:
Its a Russian Roulette type setup.. that is how these knockout competitions tend to unfold.. I wasn’t that happy at winning the last one playing the 6th and 7th rank teams in the semi’s and final…
Now you are meeting a French team that got taken in the pools by 13th rank Tonga…
Just imagine AB’s LOSE to France.. then it will put this WC shindig into REAL perspective…
That is how they are designed.. and strange results through a moment of a catalytic decision or consequence to a poor call by a ref or poor decision by a player.. determines the entire conclusion.
So I agree.. I’m not a great fan of this 4 year WC showdown as determining the be all and end all of rugby supremacy.. I’d far prefer Boks to develop a consistent winning culture throughout ALL the competitions and battles … this WC madness to my mind has actually ruined the overall desire to actually BE the BEST consistently in favor of a fluke through negotiating 5 weeks in a knock out competition..
16 Oct 2011, 14:52 pm
keewees
are useless
inbreds
and that
is a
fact
16 Oct 2011, 14:54 pm
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-832:
Were you crying when you wrote this.
But ty, and yes it will be worth as much as the 1987 RWC, cos isnt it the same cup?
Maybe if you take into count that gold has risen per ounce so actually this one could be worth more, maybe.
16 Oct 2011, 14:56 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-833:
Right on the button skop.
16 Oct 2011, 14:57 pm
@greatest13gerber(greatest13gerber)-830:
Lol, are u atill not embracing the country that gave u a new life and ticket out of Despatch?
U OK otherwise?
16 Oct 2011, 14:58 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-835:
convince
your self
if you
can
16 Oct 2011, 14:58 pm
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-838:
Ok??
16 Oct 2011, 14:59 pm
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-832:
ha ha f uck off loser, your now ranked 8th in the world and you still can’t keep your big cake hole shut
16 Oct 2011, 14:59 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-837:
lol
16 Oct 2011, 15:03 pm
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-834:
No man, c’Mon now, you might not like the fact that they are the world’s top rugby nation but they offfer more.
They also “produced” Edmunt Hillary, the Finn brothers and the incredibly sexy Rachel Hunter- give them some credit.
16 Oct 2011, 15:08 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-842:
i agree
with rachel
and some of
the rest
but they are
still
the biggest
cheats
in the
rugby union
world
they can never
get away
from it
they
will have to
live by
it
they cheated
themselves into
finals 2011
maybe they’ll
even be
world champs
16 Oct 2011, 15:11 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-841:
He is old school die hard type
But once “won over” he will probably die for NZ.
It will take a while though
16 Oct 2011, 15:11 pm
Danny WHO ?
16 Oct 2011, 15:12 pm
Captain FANTASTIC !
16 Oct 2011, 15:12 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-844:
lol
Good to know.
16 Oct 2011, 15:13 pm
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-843:
and tears keep rolling
16 Oct 2011, 15:16 pm
Well done All Blacks. As an all black supporter I still say he best thing for us and our team is to get over this stigma and over ourselves. I believe Wales taught all us southern hemisphere teams and supporters to shut up and talk on the field.
16 Oct 2011, 15:17 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-848:
and rolling
the cheats
are in the
final
together with
the worst
french team
in years
yes
the tears
are rolling
16 Oct 2011, 15:19 pm
I also still believe that even if we win the world cup. Something has to be done about the format. How did England get to last rwc final and how do the France get there this time?
16 Oct 2011, 15:19 pm
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-843:
keep whining mate its very entertaining
16 Oct 2011, 15:31 pm
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-852:
just
pointing out
the obvious
don’t hate
me
16 Oct 2011, 15:35 pm
This World Cup – and more particularly SA’s early exit – has been a blessing in disguise:
If France win it – it will expose the RWC as a bit of a flukey-fluke-farce, hardly the kind of tournament to play 2nd string teams in the 3N for, or excuse poor annual results as “building for the RWC.” France have already been beaten by NZ (they played a 2nd string team in that pool game – enough of a disgrace to the tournament) and lost to lowly Tonga.
If NZ win – then *poof* up in smoke goes the ONLY trump card SA has had over NZ since 1995. For far too long South African fans have been willing to sweep annual poor results under the carpet of “judge me at the RWC.”
The RWC is not the big kahuna prize we think it is.
We should always aim to win it. But never at the expense of any other game or tournament.
Boks must play to win EVERY game. Thankfully, this RWC will hopefully go a long way to getting things back on track.
[First thing to do - the new coach must only be given a 2 year contract with performance targets and a renewable performance clause]
16 Oct 2011, 15:41 pm
I just spoke to my mate Bakkies. He’s still in shock from his withdrawal from RWC due tohis injury. But he tells me he’s in awe of the Blacks demolishing the Wannabes. Those up and unders the Boks were planning upon the Blacks (if they got to play em, would have all been defused my the brilliance of Cory Jane. The Boks plans of kick and wait for the opposition to make mistakes ie. turnover ball, would not have got us the RWC! Bakkies hasn’t given up hope of 4 more years!
16 Oct 2011, 15:47 pm
Where is that “Vindicated” poster?
He/she is keeping pretty quiet, unlike last weekend…
16 Oct 2011, 15:55 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-856: where is bryce_in_oz? when the irish klapped them he disappeared for 2 weeks.
16 Oct 2011, 15:59 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-857: I think bryce_in_oz is really Bryce Lawrence… He has been boning up on his laws to get his “favourite” team into the finals but, thankfully, the AB’s rectified that travesty!
16 Oct 2011, 16:00 pm
What’s sad is that the Aussies were woeful and the All Blacks ordinary…yet people think both teams played well.
Think about it…both teams were so shite on attack that the Kiwis had to employ boring up and unders (read Currie Cup) to penetrate the Aussie line.
The fooking Aussies fluked their way into a semi they clearly did not deserve and were underprepared for. The Boks sunk themselves with their crappy gameplan against a pretty below par team and would have thumped this All Black team without doubt.
This RWC will go down as the most controversial in living memory. What a sham. The final will be a battle of the less than ordinary.
16 Oct 2011, 16:03 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-805:
Lol!!!!!!!! That’s brycing priceless.
16 Oct 2011, 16:07 pm
@stormer in a teacup(stormer in a teacup)-767:
Bryce off Mother Theresa.
16 Oct 2011, 16:14 pm
For those who are old enough to remember the old Jik advert :
Bryce lets the tackler hold
Bryce lets the hands in rucks
Look, no 3 points in sight
When you use Bryce!
16 Oct 2011, 16:26 pm
Some SA bloggers are rude.
Embraboer!
16 Oct 2011, 16:37 pm
Johan Botha looks like a sight screen.
16 Oct 2011, 16:38 pm
Coppertone or what?
16 Oct 2011, 16:45 pm
I know weve covered these topics extensively but again on watching the rapeplay
the Ozzie try was clearly a SA penalty with Pocock coming in from the side and hoofing the ball loose. I mean there are so many incidents in the game its clearly an injustice. Wales lost more or less fair and square. Warburton got a 3 week ban so i´d say in retrospect that red card was more or less abiding by the laws. But we got raped. The missed high tackles, the missed off the ball incidents, the free range allowed to Pocock, the dodgy try, the marginal forward pass (contentious but could have easily been let go by another ref). Its just too much in one game to not be able to say the ref robbed us. We played so well and I believe we would have given the All Blacks a huge run for their money today had we played them instead of the imposters. There was a 14 point margin today between the winning and losing teams when the game was reffed correctly. I reckon had our game been reffed correctly you can -7 for that contentious try add at least one penalty for SA of 3 points and maybe even -3 for that lame lineout penalty. I reckon we could easily have won that game by 12 points if the game had been reffed correctly indicating just how much we would have had a more even contest today. SA nZ packs pretty even with us maybe having a slight ascendancy. NZ backs better than SA backs but with Morne´s kicking that would have been a pretty level contest too. How many kicks did the All Blacks miss today? Jeez hate rehashing the issue but watching those twerps play today just got the blood boiling again.
16 Oct 2011, 16:51 pm
Oh fark, leading edge and there goes Biff just as it looked as if he settled down.
16 Oct 2011, 17:04 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-867:
I can’t take this too seriously, looking at our lineup. It looks like Gary is using it as an opportunity to get a look at what he’s got at his disposal.
16 Oct 2011, 17:05 pm
@David(David)-868:
Seems like it- Botha at 5 specifically although he is doing quite well at moment
16 Oct 2011, 17:08 pm
Crazy “tonk” by Dave Millar- this is not provincial cricket.
16 Oct 2011, 17:10 pm
Never use the word ‘cheat’ anymore, ever
Just replace it with this handy synonym ‘ BRYCE’
So if the cashier gives you too little change, tell your mate – hey I nearly got bryced there man
Bryce has immortalised himself, the cheat
16 Oct 2011, 17:15 pm
Jissus in the rugby last week, even though we played better, the Aussies just seemed more “pumped up” for it – high fiving after a good scrum, etc.
Same thing seems to be happening in the cricket – the Aussies just seem SO much more pumped up than our sorry bunch of cricketers who always seem to be overwhelmed by the occasion.
Someone needs to light some firecrackers up ar*es.
16 Oct 2011, 17:15 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-870:
And gone is Bakkies’ ‘neefie’?
And just like that the newest national disaster (1/3) I told you about Friday stares you in the face. Unless Morkel can be a god.
How about my six for six in the rugby KOs?
16 Oct 2011, 17:18 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-872:
I think it was Thorne and the ABs who high fived, not the Aussies.
16 Oct 2011, 17:20 pm
@David(David)-868:
Who else is there really from those you regard as ‘stars ‘ outside of Abe and Steyn in this particular format?
And where is the new talent relative to the Aussie new boys?
16 Oct 2011, 17:22 pm
@ET.(ET.)-873:
Yeah, it’s probably Morne or nothing now.
If it was not for my slow start it would have been 6/6 for me as well but lets leave that before I become another whinger – we have enough of them here already.
16 Oct 2011, 17:24 pm
The red headed Theron is taking the fight to the Aussies now.
16 Oct 2011, 17:26 pm
tim noakes still banging on about referees on Masterplan NZ, plus he’s wearing an All Black jersey
16 Oct 2011, 17:28 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-876:
Very gracious of you and I was about to make a general statement soon about too many ungracious S. Africans and the way it pains me.
Why is Smith in this format and still too scratchy and out of form?
16 Oct 2011, 17:28 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-877:
And he is not known to be an all-rounder.
16 Oct 2011, 17:31 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-877:
Maybe these two boys can still do it for the team?
16 Oct 2011, 17:31 pm
@David(David)-874: nah, talking about last week. Aussies were “psyched”.
16 Oct 2011, 17:32 pm
@ET.(ET.)-880:
Parnell is also joining in now.
Things can change in a flash in this format of the game especially.
16 Oct 2011, 17:33 pm
@ET.(ET.)-881:
Seems like it.
Parnell is having a gem
16 Oct 2011, 17:34 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-884:
Both boys from the E. Cape. Good for them and that depressed area.
16 Oct 2011, 17:36 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-884:
Now why can they do it and the ‘stars’ cannot?
All about attitude and less of big-headedness.
16 Oct 2011, 17:37 pm
The crowd and those watching on tv will be ecstatic.
16 Oct 2011, 17:39 pm
This is the game as Hussey cannot stem the tide.
16 Oct 2011, 17:39 pm
@ET.(ET.)-886:
Yip, fat boy Kallis and prima donna Butcher should stay far away from the 20 overs team.
16 Oct 2011, 17:39 pm
thank fark we got a win….lekker man!
16 Oct 2011, 17:40 pm
Good gees SA, good gees.
Carry this momentum through.
16 Oct 2011, 17:40 pm
First win for Gary as coach.
16 Oct 2011, 17:42 pm
Look at the strike rate of the boy from Bloemendal, 264 and compare that to Smith the ‘star’ and the experience.
16 Oct 2011, 17:46 pm
@ET.(ET.)-875:
Do you mean Abe Morkel or AB d.v?
16 Oct 2011, 17:48 pm
only 2 tries in the 2 semi-finals when some were ‘happy’ the teams that play ‘running’ rugby were supposed to show us a festival…
16 Oct 2011, 17:49 pm
@David(David)-894:
The new capt., Abe De. V.
16 Oct 2011, 17:50 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-895: good point.
However with a France v NZ final, expect a handful of tries.
16 Oct 2011, 17:51 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-895:
Just goes to show that the up and unders or kick and chase, are the best alternative to break down the really solid defences and keep the ball in the opponents half.
16 Oct 2011, 17:52 pm
Only an utter fool can distort and thus anticipate “festival” rugby in the KO stages of a RWC none of the semi-finalists have won for a long time or never at all.
16 Oct 2011, 17:53 pm
@David(David)-898:
ABs kicked well though for territorial position.
16 Oct 2011, 17:58 pm
@ET.(ET.)-900:
I agree. I was just commenting that with defences as solid as they are nowadays, it’s become far more difficult to penetrate them, other than by pieces of pure magic, like Daggs, or a serious defensive error by one player.
Keeping a team pinned in their own half with tactical kicks, obviously puts them under more pressure to try and break out, which leads to mistakes.
16 Oct 2011, 18:01 pm
If ever a joint Man of the Match award needed to be made it was in this particular case.
Without Parnell’s 29no at strike rate 264 and his bowling the Proteas would not have won this game.
Stupid, stupid and stupid again.
16 Oct 2011, 18:02 pm
What I found interesting though, is how the Aussie forwards tried to bully their way over when they were on the ABs line. A few years ago, Gregan would be picking out forwards standing a bit off the ruck, running at different angles until they found a weak point.
16 Oct 2011, 18:03 pm
Well done to the kiwis, they played out of their skin, the aussies disappointed, i expected a lot more out of them. Really thought the kiwis would choke and the aussies just beat them.
As for the reffing, absolutely outstanding.
Its actually very sad about how our game was reffed, am still angry, but the Kiwi and Aussie players cannot be blamed for that.
I spit on you twew!!!!! bryce lawrence.
16 Oct 2011, 18:06 pm
@David(David)-901:
Even the magic is subjected to over-caution and safety first tactics and strategy and that is why the RWC in this format cannot be appreciated by me.
I prefer mostly the top 8-10 teams in 2 sections and each play each other over an extented period and not in one country. The two sections give you semi-finalists or maybe
just finalist for the trophy match.
16 Oct 2011, 18:07 pm
John mitchell looks like action movie star
16 Oct 2011, 18:08 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-904:
The last person here who wanted to spit on other people was the blogger G13 Gerber. He wanted to spit on WP (Stormer) supporters.
You are surely not as hardcore as him?
16 Oct 2011, 18:09 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-906:
True, like a Stevan Segal without hair.
16 Oct 2011, 18:12 pm
Was thinking more Van Damme!
Segal is suddenly portly!
16 Oct 2011, 18:12 pm
John mitchell looks like a po3s when the Boks return! same with the Lions – farking big mouths! shocking how kak the std of rugby is without the boks
16 Oct 2011, 18:12 pm
@ET.(ET.)-905:
The main problem with that would be travelling costs and time off work for the fans. At the moment, the pools are basically 2 tournaments in one, where the tier 2 and 3 nations are fighting for 3rd place to prequalify for the next RWC.
16 Oct 2011, 18:14 pm
Our kiwi bloggers all asleep?
Lekker slaap!
16 Oct 2011, 18:16 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-909:
Lol, but van Damme is about 5 feet 4 inches tall while John and Steven are both over 6 feet 3.
But I get your point
16 Oct 2011, 18:18 pm
I have loved every minute of this world cup I don’t care who says what.
Even bryce had his moment of fame!
16 Oct 2011, 18:19 pm
Kiwi bloggers not asleep… nZ won! They are WITH Sheep!!!
16 Oct 2011, 18:20 pm
Shut up troll
16 Oct 2011, 18:23 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-914:
Same here, but let’s spare a moment for the sour one’s- prozac sales will be booming on our shores (and even ashore for HG etc..)
16 Oct 2011, 18:25 pm
Modder Prwan Emmer – watch your words … LMAO!
16 Oct 2011, 18:27 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-907: lol, when it comes to that reffing display i am, it just wasnt kosher, i this was an experienced ref, i am still astounded. This wasnt the odd call here and there or missing a few things, this was no way to lose, can you imagine the feeling of helplessness and frustration for the players, normally i would say chit happens but this was beyond that, and i am not taking anything away from the aussies, none of it is there fault.
Am a biekie bitter
16 Oct 2011, 18:30 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-914: Howzat Dawn , you seem to be the movie buff, have you seen the movie thats on m net tonight with Richard Gear and the dog. Reason i am asking, i dont watch sad animal movies and need to know ???
16 Oct 2011, 18:35 pm
treehugger … go watch the review @ rottentomatoes.com …. the dog dies at the end! some f*cknut shoots the dog with a arrow — sad thing is that they show it! heavy critism & petitions against the movie…. but yes! if you can watch the lions play, you can watch the movie aswell!
16 Oct 2011, 18:36 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-919:
Yeah, well, thats how it goes in rugby- the ref (human factor) plays a huge role, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose I guess.
I do not believe any professional ref at the top level will deliberately cheat-Pocock was just a far quicker learner than any of the Boks.
Anyway, I hope you get over “biekie bitterness” soon.
Maybe it will help if the Sharks beat the WP in the currie cuo final-
Then I might become the “more than only a bietjie bitter” one
16 Oct 2011, 18:39 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-906: He looks like Agent 47 from Hitman series.
16 Oct 2011, 18:40 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-922:
Ref = umpire= = skytsregter= farkin hard to remember what goes where, lol.
16 Oct 2011, 18:40 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-920: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachiko
That Dog.
16 Oct 2011, 18:42 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-922:
I felt the same way about Pocock playing the ref better than us, but realised, as I mentioned in an earlier post, that the Wobblies didn’t have any ball for us to slow down. The problem wasn’t with his turnovers, it was the slow ball when we were on the front foot that nailed us and allowed the Aussies to gather their defences.
Our lack of imagination didn’t help either.
16 Oct 2011, 18:45 pm
TREEEEEEE
It is the saddest movie you will ever ever ever see !!!!!!!
Don’t!
16 Oct 2011, 18:50 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-927: pocahontas, hi
16 Oct 2011, 18:51 pm
Yaysis I would rather spend an hour blog with greatest13gerber than this maggot.
16 Oct 2011, 18:52 pm
@Richie_7(p0ppa69)-921: oh feck !!!!! why do they make such sad depressing stuff, who wants to watch animals die, thanks so much, will watch Flag of the Fathers again rather. Lol the Lions game.
@Robzim(Robzim)-922:
@Nils(Nils)-925: Thank you Nils, night all.
16 Oct 2011, 18:53 pm
Good day trans excellent game this AM
16 Oct 2011, 18:58 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-930: You’re welcome. It should be a very touching movie.
16 Oct 2011, 18:58 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-927: Jeez i am a bright spark for asking, thanks so much people, last sad animal movie i saw was Born Free, and thats when we came to SA when i was little and that movie influenced who iam today , night night again lololol.
16 Oct 2011, 19:11 pm
Tree it’s a troll
He’s talking rubbish
16 Oct 2011, 19:12 pm
It is sad but quite sweet too
16 Oct 2011, 19:13 pm
@David(David)-926:
Agreed, with all the posession we had we should have scored- I know modern defences are tough to beat but if we wanted to be “world champions” we should have scored at least once- so , I have no sympathy and do not blame the ref- we were just not good enough on the day.
At least we are now entering the “post Div and John era” – it can only get better – we have more than enough talent to regain the world crown and to win consistently instead of just “waiting for the wc”.
16 Oct 2011, 19:28 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-936:
It’s the choice of coaches and their vision that will define how we progress, though.
16 Oct 2011, 19:43 pm
Ahh, poor old David Pocock felt frustrated tonight …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/oct/16/rugby-world-cup-david-pocock?newsfeed=true
16 Oct 2011, 19:44 pm
I said Blacks by 11 or more and guess what it was 14
Tainted RWC by Paddy and his mates
16 Oct 2011, 19:45 pm
It was wonderful to see a game take its natural course with a ref allwoing the players to play within the laws of the game.
Well done NZ players and Craig Joubert. I actually hope that Wayne Barnes gets to ref the final.
16 Oct 2011, 19:48 pm
@BULLET(BULLET)-940: Please no, lol
16 Oct 2011, 19:50 pm
Danuk, you have to admit, it would be amusing?
16 Oct 2011, 19:52 pm
@BULLET(BULLET)-942: The NZers would go farkin apeshite
16 Oct 2011, 19:55 pm
I wonder who would be eligble … I think the ABs would be very happy with Joubert again. Not Bryce (obviously), the french guy, doubt Rolland, unlikely Barnes, not Steve Walsh (probably, due to previously being a NZer).
Maybe Kaplan or Owen?
16 Oct 2011, 19:57 pm
Think its Kaplan.
That said, Joubert may have reffed himself into the final. He kept the game flowing and the breakdowns honest. I would be happy with him if I was a Kiwi.
16 Oct 2011, 20:01 pm
@BULLET(BULLET)-945: Yeah agree, personally find Kaplan a little pedantic
16 Oct 2011, 20:08 pm
its between Rolland and Joubert the 2 semi’s refs, Paddy ‘O will review their respective performances and declare a winner as to who will ref the final.
Should be Joubert because Rolland has French connections
16 Oct 2011, 20:08 pm
The New World of Rugby Dictionary:
Shi.t = Bryce
Fck = Bryce
Cheat = Bryce
Cnt = Bryce
Fixer = Bryce
Rigger = Bryce
Shagger = bryce (as in sheepbrycer)
Arsehole = Paddy (actually Bryce is quite interchangeable with Paddy, but Bryce is just more convenient)
Po3s = Bryce (No more po3sdom chaps, its brycedom)
And a Kiwi will forever be known as an “honest” brycie
16 Oct 2011, 20:10 pm
Article in the Sunday Times reckons Rolland is Paddy’s favourite and will blow the final…
There you have it.
AB’s have won the RWC (Rigged World Cup) already.
16 Oct 2011, 20:13 pm
Zulu / Kiwi Dictionary part 1
msunu = Bryce
bhosha = Bryce
ithuvi = Bryce
golo = Bryce
16 Oct 2011, 20:28 pm
Only word i know there is bhosha, what are the others.
16 Oct 2011, 20:30 pm
our old foe New Zealand deserve to pack the Web Ellis trophy into their closet monday week. They are after all the undisputed best team in the world. We all know that. They play great rugby and in the the right spirit of the game. France are the opposite IMHO. If they, against all odds, win it will be a travesty of justice. It would have been ‘nice’ to see the Boks contest the final but if we are honest, they are a shade short of the AB’s quality. Our attack is simply not up to it. So, in the spirit of the game, I back the AB’s for the title this time round.
16 Oct 2011, 20:42 pm
Well done AB’s
Good to see the breakdown policed properly for a change, good one Craig
16 Oct 2011, 20:51 pm
@whatever(whatever)-953: yes, magnificently managed by Craig. What a change from the one we had to endure.
16 Oct 2011, 21:03 pm
MOM Craig Joubert He set the tone but not allowing hands in ruck and playing the ball while off their feet
Plus he lets the game flow
16 Oct 2011, 21:05 pm
Yes Well done ABs Should be un-beatable especially against at team than can only win by 1 against 14 men
ABs to win by more than 20 points
16 Oct 2011, 21:06 pm
@CoachPete(CoachPete)-955: howzit Pete. Absolutely. Was looking out for you in Kiwi. You miss the boat? What a great time we had. Would do it again tomorrow.
16 Oct 2011, 21:10 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-949: Not sure that is to the ABs benefit. From what I’ve seen the NH referees are not great around the breakdown either
16 Oct 2011, 21:17 pm
Hardly knew craig was on the field
16 Oct 2011, 21:18 pm
@TASSIES(TASSIES)-957:
Howzit Glad you having a great time Yes I would have loved to have gone
I think we should have been playing the ABs in semi I dont think we would have beaten them
So are you going to the final?
I dont see france been that big dark horse upset type team. ABs are just too good
16 Oct 2011, 21:20 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-959:
Exactly he lets the game flow only few times he had to say anything was to remind a few Aussies about the rules (which included “hands in a ruck are not permitted ” Watch the game Bryce see how rugby should be reffed
16 Oct 2011, 21:23 pm
It’s so bryce that it’s monday tomorrow!
16 Oct 2011, 21:26 pm
@CoachPete(CoachPete)-961: More than that I recon, he set the tone early on with three early penalties of which two was against Pocock. From there on the breakdowns looked very clean
Check out the Guardian article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/oct/16/rugby-world-cup-david-pocock?newsfeed=true
16 Oct 2011, 21:27 pm
Well I suppose that’s that 20-6, that was regarded as the real final. Boks fans believe they’d have offered more, perhaps, but the question is where were they? If you cannot score tries in modern rugby, you cannot be competitive!
16 Oct 2011, 21:30 pm
Where’s Helen, where are her usual taunts and silly jokes, where’s her commentary and idiotic banter, where is she?
16 Oct 2011, 21:31 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-964:
Well you cannot win a game of rugby if the ref cannot apply the rules at the breakdown correctly Joubert did a huge difference when you are the dominant team
Also when Aussies lost Beale game over before it started
16 Oct 2011, 21:34 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-964: more sanctimonious rubbish from you…2 tries in both semis with 4 so-called “flair” “running” rugby teams tl tl tl.
sudden death rugby – to use a graham henry term – is npt this fanciful stuff u have in your mind
i see you team didn’t play that airy fairy stuff from the 1st half in brisbane.
16 Oct 2011, 21:37 pm
Coach Pete: it’s an indictment on the boks that they can dominate overwhelmingly the scrums, lineouts, collision points, possession, territory, and lose marginal the breakdown points and not win, that’s woeful no matter the manner of the ref the boks lost that game on their own, they do not have the skills set to cross the tryline whilst holding the ball.
16 Oct 2011, 21:38 pm
I was accused of been a “sore loser” after the boks game. I congratulated the Aussies but I still dont believe they should have won
Just good to know that what i felt, Bryce had missed and his poor handling of the breakdown, was echoed thousand of times here and all over included the post link from danuk
16 Oct 2011, 21:39 pm
Ja ok the boks are vrot before we have 100 posts saying the same thing.
16 Oct 2011, 21:40 pm
Transie: what game did you play against the Aussies? Pray tell…..
16 Oct 2011, 21:42 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-968: @mpundulu(mpundulu)-968:
Does not matter how many times you cross the try line in knock out rugby You can win even when you dont score tries
How many tries did ABs score in semi vs Aussie only one after been so dominant?
In out game Vs Aussies there were 2-3 kickable penalties not give by the ref
and a flat pass called back
We should have won that game by 5 or 8 points if you add those kicks
16 Oct 2011, 21:44 pm
Transie: ungabuza negeza laseBhofolo, uya ku xelela uba amabokoboko abakwazi uku skora I-try!
16 Oct 2011, 21:44 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-971:your team today did more “skop n jag” than the Boks in the WHOLE rwc! vreet that
16 Oct 2011, 21:45 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-964: last time I looked most of the points in the game where penalties.
How do you score tries if the ball is slowed down?
Rugby is simple, teams will infringe to limit the other team’s attach, like Pocock and did twice early on and Richie did once.
And just like the ABs today, in close test matches, you take points on offer, which creates more pressure and chances.
How do you score tries if the ball is slowed down?
16 Oct 2011, 21:46 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-948: A4Y
16 Oct 2011, 21:46 pm
@danuk(danuk)-975:
We agree
16 Oct 2011, 21:47 pm
Transie: from you I expect more, you should be more worried about the fact that PdV is getting another 4 years as head coach but he has to take AC as his assistant!!!
16 Oct 2011, 21:47 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-968:more rubbish…how much possession dod ur team have 2day? they dominated the collision, breakdown, territory & possession yet have only one try to show – riddle me that squire
a solitary try umnqongo?
16 Oct 2011, 21:48 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-968: Horseshite. We had territory and possession. Rugby is a multiphase game these days, unless your view is that we should be able to score tries against the top 5 nations in the world from phase 1/2 possession all the time.
Did the AB try come from a set piece or broken play?
16 Oct 2011, 21:48 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-964: Excuse me buddy but the Ozzies only scored one against us because of a refereeing faux pas and today there was only one try scored by the All Blacks with 2 of the best attacking teams on the planet. I´m sick of this where were the tries bs. Its a WC – when it comes down to the crunch tries are few and far between.
16 Oct 2011, 21:48 pm
Coach Pete: should have? Really……, well you didn’t!
16 Oct 2011, 21:49 pm
Lol tackler the only kiwi still awake
16 Oct 2011, 21:51 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-974:
Some how they just do it better
16 Oct 2011, 21:51 pm
That does not mean to say I think we are fantastic on attack or have a load of Daggs in our backline, HOWEVER if we dominate the set pieces and get gainline ascendancy to the degree we had against Australia, then we should be able to get the offensive advantage to the same degree as against Fiji.
Otherwise we should get the penalties
16 Oct 2011, 21:54 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-983:
work starts early at Auckland Uni’s Faculty of Bitter Expats.
there is much belittling of the mother country to be done.
16 Oct 2011, 21:55 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-978: expect “more” what from me? you’re the only one that knows that PdV is getting a contract extension…asiyazi thina lonto
16 Oct 2011, 21:55 pm
Slumtown, danuk, transie, coach Pete: gentlemen, don’t be upset, I should not be discussing rugby with you lot until the rwc is over but alas you are available. In order that we don’t belabour this, the boks are rubbish, and have been for many years and we all know this. Your greatest problem now is that PdV is back for four more years, what are you going to do about it?!
16 Oct 2011, 21:55 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-982:
Yeah got that. Seems like you know nothing about Knock out rugby
16 Oct 2011, 22:00 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-988: @mpundulu(mpundulu)-988: you’re right on that one, don’t come talk rugby here when you’re tanked…
16 Oct 2011, 22:00 pm
@JL1(JL1)-939:
*chortle*
just LOVIN’ your whinging
16 Oct 2011, 22:00 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-988: yes, PDV was not the greatest coach probably, and we’ve not played very well in recent years.
However saying the Aussie game was completely within our control, and we should have won if we had more skill is shortsighted.
Simple, we had the game against the Aussies in the semi, regardless of our recent form and our supposed lack of attacking innovation. They (the Aussies) won that game because Bryce awarded the lowest (yes the lowest) number of penalties of any RWC game played.
I’m all for a new coach, with more consistent results and a better way of playing, however saying we lost that game because we weren’t good enough is insulting for the guys who played that day
16 Oct 2011, 22:02 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-988: why do u care if the boks are rubbish, worry about your ‘adopted’ team
16 Oct 2011, 22:03 pm
@TASSIES(TASSIES)-952:
“a shade”
~guffaw~
QterFinal Chump steak.
16 Oct 2011, 22:03 pm
Anywho, that’s rugby, when a country complains about a result they whine. Ask the ABs in 2007. Does not mean that the supporters of that country should not feel pissed off
Apart from that I’m glad the better team won today, without any refereeing issues
I hope that happens next weekend as well
16 Oct 2011, 22:04 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-988:
Your clueless
16 Oct 2011, 22:04 pm
@danuk(danuk)-992: don’t get worked up chap he is in trol mode…mpundulu is dronk that i’m positive of
16 Oct 2011, 22:06 pm
Whoa! Panther up too!
Nicely done to your team.
Well impressed I was.
16 Oct 2011, 22:06 pm
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-976:
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeautiful
will NEVER forget how it sounds with 50,000+ in unison
………………..~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
16 Oct 2011, 22:06 pm
B L A C K
16 Oct 2011, 22:07 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-998:
on ya, Peaches.
16 Oct 2011, 22:07 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-997:
skokiaan?
16 Oct 2011, 22:10 pm
Lower hutt is the shiznizz
16 Oct 2011, 22:10 pm
Gentlemen: I don’t understand why you are attacking me personally, I’ve not attacked any of you personally, I’ve merely attended to the boks. As individuals I respect all of you. I believe the boks to be challenged and I don’t believe the boks will flourish under PdV that’s all!
16 Oct 2011, 22:11 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-994: Isn’t every team though? I mean nobody else gets personal calls from Paddy when the coach complains about a ref?
Lol, seriously dude, don’t be such a ****.
Unlike a lot of the AB fans in 2007, everyone on the site, expect one or two conspiracy theorists (off there meds) thought the ABs played extremely well and are well deserving of the final and RWC title …
16 Oct 2011, 22:16 pm
Transie: why are you telling people I’m inebriated? Transie, I have a concern for bok rugby, do you think I honestly want to see you chaps not pick up a single trophy for 4 years? I want to help, what can I do?
16 Oct 2011, 22:19 pm
16 Oct 2011, 22:21 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-1006: Your talking different things though. Yes the team has been very badly managed. That does not mean that we should say that game was karma?
16 Oct 2011, 22:22 pm
@danuk(danuk)-1005:
just LOVIN the Bok fans continuing to whinge about the ref
60% possession
76% territory
NOT ONE TRY
and
yet
IT WAS THE REF
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ chins and bellies in unison ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
16 Oct 2011, 22:22 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-1006:
He did he one one Trinations
16 Oct 2011, 22:23 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-1006: Anyway, you should probably clarify that part, lol, whether you are indeed inebriated
16 Oct 2011, 22:25 pm
Danuk: I’d like to put forward a helping hand, what can I do to help?
16 Oct 2011, 22:26 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-1006:you care about bok rugby, hehe since when?
16 Oct 2011, 22:26 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-1009: your are right though, at least we had a convincing chance to still beat the Aussies, unlike you guys in 2007 …
No “~ ~ ~ ~ ~ chins and bellies in unison ~ ~ ~ ~ ~”, however my 16 year old nephew would probably think that’s cool
16 Oct 2011, 22:27 pm
This is getting absurd.
16 Oct 2011, 22:27 pm
Danuk: I’m sober as a judge mate.
16 Oct 2011, 22:28 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-1012: Dunno dude, not sure if there is an official drunk blogging test … maybe Google it …
16 Oct 2011, 22:28 pm
16 Oct 2011, 22:28 pm
Panther has a weight problem and wobbles everywhere.
16 Oct 2011, 22:29 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-1015: wait for that shampoo fellow and the boksarenumber5 dude to show up …
16 Oct 2011, 22:30 pm
Transie: there’s nothing wrong with an AB fan wanting to assist those most deserving, I’ve offered my hand, please tell me what I should do to help, the next four years are very long! I just believe a strong bok environment will be good for the four nations, I just don’t want the boks picking up the wooden spoon with the argentians in the comp as well.
16 Oct 2011, 22:32 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-1016:judge motata…yeah…tl tl
16 Oct 2011, 22:32 pm
Danuk: ok I really don’t know what else I need to do to prove my sobriety. Transie has tainted me with no shame.
16 Oct 2011, 22:33 pm
Transie: I demand an apology!
16 Oct 2011, 22:33 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-1021: lol, remove politics from our rugby, give us great running backs, even if we have a few good ones, train some bloody good refs in NZ! …
and get us a good coach
16 Oct 2011, 22:33 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-1021:*yawn* moving on
16 Oct 2011, 22:34 pm
@danuk(danuk)-1014:
it was the ref
*ch’in’ortle*
LOVIN IT
16 Oct 2011, 22:34 pm
we can probably do the rest ourselves
16 Oct 2011, 22:35 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-1023:
von Trapp is slowly morphing in to Boy George, very sad indeed.
16 Oct 2011, 22:35 pm
anyway i’m off…night pocahontas
16 Oct 2011, 22:37 pm
Danuk: I can assist, I’ve provided on this forum a coaching team of equals I believe can transform the boks into a rugby team, politics I’m afraid can only be changed if you change SA’s political history. Backline players are in abundance the problem are the coaches in SA, they are painful!
16 Oct 2011, 22:39 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-1027: yeah, going to get that tatooed on my left butt cheek. Apparently good experience of that in NZ, along with “was Suzie who poisoned us” and “I love my mutton”
16 Oct 2011, 22:39 pm
Transie: yintoni mfodini? Xholisa chap kum ngoku! Hehehehe
16 Oct 2011, 22:40 pm
BP: lol
16 Oct 2011, 22:47 pm
@mpundulu(mpundulu)-1031: nah seriously, we need to get a central contract system like in NZ probably. Apart from that we need better skills coaching I think, but like the effect Plumbtree and Mitchell has on our team.
Hopefully we can get guys like Victor involved to help new locks learn the trade as well
16 Oct 2011, 22:49 pm
@danuk(danuk)-1032:
get some new material, Chump.
16 Oct 2011, 22:51 pm
Hey supersize. No need for insults.
16 Oct 2011, 22:52 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-1037:
~ ~ ~ jowl quake ~ ~ ~
16 Oct 2011, 22:54 pm
Pundy
There’s only 1 single thing worse than a Fake glory hunter “fan” and that’s a Fake glory hunter “fan” who feels it necessary to run his own countrymen down in the process.
“Support” NZ all you like, but running down the Boks and making up completely false stories not only makes you look like a big (drunk, perhaps?) t*t, but also reveals a great deal about your character and that massive chip on your shoulder.
16 Oct 2011, 22:55 pm
~~~~~~@@@@@ Big fuckenbelly wiggle chortle @@@@@~~~~~~
16 Oct 2011, 22:55 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-1036: New stuff, your kidding right?
~ ~ ~ moderate grin ~ ~ ~
16 Oct 2011, 22:56 pm
And I’m out, so don’t bother replying, Fake.
16 Oct 2011, 23:03 pm
Wooden spoon: you are always so angry, why?
16 Oct 2011, 23:05 pm
@danuk(danuk)-1041:
an over-reliance on cliches
exposes your lack of imagination and your intellect with it.
not to mention the elementary-level grammar
16 Oct 2011, 23:13 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-1044: sigh … you are right, intellectually superior AB supporter on a SA rugby site
Your intelligent retorts and factual insights are just too much for me. Alas I give in
~ ~ ~ trembling with inferiority complex ~ ~ ~
16 Oct 2011, 23:14 pm
sorry, should have hyphenated something, my-bad
16 Oct 2011, 23:16 pm
an Englishman, an Aussie and a Sth African walk in to a bar
at Departure Lounge…
nahhh, maybe Danuk was right.
16 Oct 2011, 23:17 pm
@danuk(danuk)-1045:
“you are right”
and so completes your first lesson.
@GUFFAW@