StephenZA
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What just happened!!! Gambhiring worked!
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StephenZA
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My heart is still beating at a 300/min.
Dendarii
International Debutant
Quite honestly, I thought the best South Africa could hope for was to make New Zealand work for their victory. I certainly never imagined that they would come out on top. That is most incredible Bok win I have ever seen. You don't beat the All Blacks in New Zealand with only 24% possession and making over 200 tackles - you just don't.
James
Cricket Web Owner
Epic match, watched it at The Palace Hotel in the city with a whole bunch of All Blacks supporters. Placed cleared out on mass pretty quickly after the result with a lot of swearing and carrying on.
Coaches certainly need to find a solution to the goal kicking as it will cost us World Cup time as it did with the Lions series.
Coaches certainly need to find a solution to the goal kicking as it will cost us World Cup time as it did with the Lions series.
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Heboric
International Regular
And being 12 - 0 down.
hendrix
Hall of Fame Member
Yup.
Do Argentina have a shot at winning this thing?
Would be lovely considering all the problems over there at the moment.
Dendarii
International Debutant
Mathematically they do, but it would need an extremely unlikely set of results.
The log stands as follows:
New Zealand - 16 points (pd 73)
South Africa - 10 points (pd -3)
Argentina - 8 points (pd -18)
Australia - 5 points (pd -52)
So just one victory will pretty much seal it for New Zealand. There is a scenario that could give South Africa the title even if that happens, but because of the disparity in points difference they'd have to have some huge winning margins that aren't realistic.
South Africa can win if they beat Australia and New Zealand, with New Zealand also losing to Argentina and not picking up bonus points in both losses.
For Argentina to win, New Zealand and South Africa would have to draw, New Zealand not get any bonus points, and they'd also need some unrealistic winning margins.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Great weekend for rugby. Congrats to the Boks and Pumas. Unless Australia can win away they will get the wooden spoon in the RC for the first time.
As an AB fan hopefully Brodie Retallick is fit for the RWC - clearly the best player in the world (Ben Smith is 2nd best).
As an AB fan hopefully Brodie Retallick is fit for the RWC - clearly the best player in the world (Ben Smith is 2nd best).
Bahnz
Hall of Fame Member
Next year's world cup looks like it'll be fun. New Zealand the favourites but no longer absurdly dominant, Ireland looking great, Scotland, Wales and Argentina all making decent progress and South Africa finally showing some potential. If England and Australia get their **** together and Fiji and Japan maintain their recent competitiveness, it could be the most wide-open tournament ever. It's just a pity that France still look pretty tame.
social
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Some of the Wallabies must be candidates for being the most overpaid athletes in the world as it's inexcusable for full-time athletes to have such little command of the fundamentals
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
If the Pumas beat the wallabies will Cheika keep his job?
social
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Not sure that there are any realistic alternatives unless they go offshore for a replacement and it won't resolve the issue of the quality of player anyway
