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Subject: Rugby WC 2011
Wallabies showed their usual weak game. Better than their quarters but still their pack cant win scrums ... not to mention the amount of handling errors at critical moments. Unable to clear the ball with kicks didnt help much either :D
Was pretty horrible. If you had watched us earlier in June we were actually playing some reasonable quality rugby. Our inability to put any sort of consistency together is a huge problem for us.
Our scrummaging is a lot better than it use to be. The problem I find is that there are preconceived ideas from referees who remember our past history. When a scrum collapses it's usually a 50-50 call and because of our "reputation" for poor scrummaging it's more often then not going to be a penalty against us.
I'm not saying we're completely innocent but it doesn't take long to realise we're rarely given a fair go in the scrums and other teams take advantage of it.
We were unable to clear the ball because we've decided to ditch our best clearance kicker in favour of a player with flair who happens to fail as soon as any pressure is applied. When you make poor selection choices you end up with poor results :).
NZ completely outplayed us last night though as I suspected. I said before the tournament NZ should really walk it in and the only thing that would stop them would be themselves. They'll flog France next week (is anyone outside of NZ or France really going to watch for more than 40min of the game as it's going to be pretty one sided.
Was pretty horrible. If you had watched us earlier in June we were actually playing some reasonable quality rugby. Our inability to put any sort of consistency together is a huge problem for us.
Our scrummaging is a lot better than it use to be. The problem I find is that there are preconceived ideas from referees who remember our past history. When a scrum collapses it's usually a 50-50 call and because of our "reputation" for poor scrummaging it's more often then not going to be a penalty against us.
I'm not saying we're completely innocent but it doesn't take long to realise we're rarely given a fair go in the scrums and other teams take advantage of it.
We were unable to clear the ball because we've decided to ditch our best clearance kicker in favour of a player with flair who happens to fail as soon as any pressure is applied. When you make poor selection choices you end up with poor results :).
NZ completely outplayed us last night though as I suspected. I said before the tournament NZ should really walk it in and the only thing that would stop them would be themselves. They'll flog France next week (is anyone outside of NZ or France really going to watch for more than 40min of the game as it's going to be pretty one sided.
In 1987 the winner of the smallfinal, lost from the winner of the winner of the big final...
the french won the toss, but they let NZ play in black
lol my parrot was singing when they were doing the haka :p
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lol my parrot was singing when they were doing the haka :p
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Very nice try from NZ !! Tactically perfect...
France is better then I expected...But I watch a french stream and those guys are really not objective at all (stream from TF1)
Congratulations to All Blacks they deserve to win this tournament for all the job done before and during this WC but their final was really poor... French guy finally managed to make an honest match in final... And as you said french commentators were awful and "chauvin" !!
New Zealand were always going to win. Even if they'd played badly, they'd have won.
Anyone know what the music is when they're in the dressing rooms and walking out?
Anyone know what the music is when they're in the dressing rooms and walking out?
really nice match :)
there wasn`t only one side on the pitch as everyone expected...thrilling until the last seconds
Congratulation to All Blacks..they really deserve it
there wasn`t only one side on the pitch as everyone expected...thrilling until the last seconds
Congratulation to All Blacks..they really deserve it
Congratulations to All Blacks, world champions.
But congratulations too to french team who played a great final... Yes PhiPhi, we can be proud of our team today.
I'm just a bit sad for Thierry Dusautoir, the french captain. He would have deserved to be world champion in his career. He's really a great player and a great man.
But that's sport ! Congrats to Blacks, indeed !
But congratulations too to french team who played a great final... Yes PhiPhi, we can be proud of our team today.
I'm just a bit sad for Thierry Dusautoir, the french captain. He would have deserved to be world champion in his career. He's really a great player and a great man.
But that's sport ! Congrats to Blacks, indeed !