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Trevor Allan (34)
Writing this all in one go as I don't have the time this week to go through thread by thread and reading, commenting on all. Anyway, here's to it...
First up, congratulations on the biggest stuffed if I know how that happened victory I have ever seen! The Boks stuffed you in all facets of the game, apart from one. And that is scorecard. The Wallabies showed real game, set, match, championship winning heart to take out that game, and I tip my hat to them. Especially one David Pocock. All greats, past present and future, have game defining matches. I thought 2 players did in this game, with Burger being the other. Both were absolutely immense and outstanding. It's rare you get to see players doing as much as both of these did, let alone in the one game. A real treat.
This site has plenty of Richie detractors for various reasons and that's fine. But anybody who lauds Pocock and then calls Richie a filthy cheat is out of line. Alot of what he did was well within the rules, but jesus chris, hands in the ruck, wrong side of the ruck... it was time after time after time. I can't blame the Yarps for being filthy. But that is rugby, so all power and fair play to him.
I usually leave refs and ref-bashing to others, but Lawrence certainly didn't have his best match. I will leave it at that.
As for us, well it was good to get a workout, although we are going to need to step up big time to beat your lot. The usual suspects stepped forward, and we simply ran the Argies out of puff. But they showed real heart, courage and skill in tehir game plan and must be applauded. They are a welcome addition into the 4 nations, the Argentinan game can only prosper with regular games against the 3Nations. It's only a matter of time before they beat us for the first time - I'm very glad it wasn't in the world cup though!!
Onto next week, well you guyse walking on air after that victory. I am very happy to see Cruden in the game and Slade out. I rate Cruden, and he'll at very least give it a go. He'll either capitulate or excel and the winning or losing of the game could be on the back of it. I see the confidence talk has started up again from a few angles - good on them, you are a young team which is bullish on itself, fair play to them.
I'm not going to make a prediction, as frankly, I'm a bit too scared to! I want us to win this match more than anything, but in managing my own expectations, I am fully expecting us to lose. IT depends on how much you have left in the tank after last weekends bruising encounter. Which you can counter of how much have we once again really been tested in this world cup?
All I know is that it's going to be a great match. My phone will be off, twitter will be shut down and the wife will be sent out of the house. I think she has about a 50% chance of coming home to a broken TV... Good luck to you guys as supporters, but I can't wish good luck to your team (for obvious reasons).
Kia Kaha, All Blacks.
MR.
First up, congratulations on the biggest stuffed if I know how that happened victory I have ever seen! The Boks stuffed you in all facets of the game, apart from one. And that is scorecard. The Wallabies showed real game, set, match, championship winning heart to take out that game, and I tip my hat to them. Especially one David Pocock. All greats, past present and future, have game defining matches. I thought 2 players did in this game, with Burger being the other. Both were absolutely immense and outstanding. It's rare you get to see players doing as much as both of these did, let alone in the one game. A real treat.
This site has plenty of Richie detractors for various reasons and that's fine. But anybody who lauds Pocock and then calls Richie a filthy cheat is out of line. Alot of what he did was well within the rules, but jesus chris, hands in the ruck, wrong side of the ruck... it was time after time after time. I can't blame the Yarps for being filthy. But that is rugby, so all power and fair play to him.
I usually leave refs and ref-bashing to others, but Lawrence certainly didn't have his best match. I will leave it at that.
As for us, well it was good to get a workout, although we are going to need to step up big time to beat your lot. The usual suspects stepped forward, and we simply ran the Argies out of puff. But they showed real heart, courage and skill in tehir game plan and must be applauded. They are a welcome addition into the 4 nations, the Argentinan game can only prosper with regular games against the 3Nations. It's only a matter of time before they beat us for the first time - I'm very glad it wasn't in the world cup though!!
Onto next week, well you guyse walking on air after that victory. I am very happy to see Cruden in the game and Slade out. I rate Cruden, and he'll at very least give it a go. He'll either capitulate or excel and the winning or losing of the game could be on the back of it. I see the confidence talk has started up again from a few angles - good on them, you are a young team which is bullish on itself, fair play to them.
I'm not going to make a prediction, as frankly, I'm a bit too scared to! I want us to win this match more than anything, but in managing my own expectations, I am fully expecting us to lose. IT depends on how much you have left in the tank after last weekends bruising encounter. Which you can counter of how much have we once again really been tested in this world cup?
All I know is that it's going to be a great match. My phone will be off, twitter will be shut down and the wife will be sent out of the house. I think she has about a 50% chance of coming home to a broken TV... Good luck to you guys as supporters, but I can't wish good luck to your team (for obvious reasons).
Kia Kaha, All Blacks.
MR.
