Posts by LegBreak
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Or an IRB “Fair Play” Award and an invitation to a nice dinner.
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France’s record against NZ in the professional era hasn’t been that flash either.
Except when the match has been held in the UK.
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and what beats the All Blacks when they're going full guns is another very talented team
The 2007 All Black team was not going at full guns.
Nowhere remotely near it.
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I’ve got no idea how long South Africa held the #1 ranking for, but I do know they hold the World Cup for at least another three years.
And HG; South Africa beat England 36-0 in pool play which was reasonably convincing.
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Well said GT.
What really gets me about the World Cup post-mortem, even more than blaming it on a forward pass, is the assumption that if NZ had got past France they would have won the cup. There was nothing to support that theory. And that’s even before factoring in the fact that Carter probably wouldn’t have been around.
We’d have struggled to beat England, who had sorted out their defence by then, and were clearly inferior to South Africa AT THAT TIME.
And some people wonder why other countries’ rugby fans view All Blacks at RWCs the funniest thing going around.
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We lost because we did not have the combinations or game plan to react to where the French were stifling us. And I don’t mean the droppies.
The guile-free one-off charging at 3 defenders from all those rucks and mauls we were getting slow ball from was never going to work.
Made for impressive stats though I guess.
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The back play? Not so much.
That’s the whole point. For decent back play you need combinations. That is exactly what caught us out.
Not so sure about the fitness thing either. Carter and Collins both carried injuries into that match.
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Rattue would be better served by pointing out that on the November tour Henry appeared to be reverting to his 2007 personality.
The one that led to all that trouble.
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No Naly,
The NZ top order is fresh, exciting, and is all over before anyone can start to get bored of it.
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It’s closer to 3 years out from the World Cup.
But I guess you can do that in a sport where the international pecking order shifts at glacial speed.