New Zealand 31 South Africa 17.
In the end I didn’t bother to go out to watch this one, just watched it online while I caught up on some web stuff and I think I made the right decision!
It was another boringly familiar Tri-Nations match, in a competition for which the participation of Argentina can’t come quickly enough, as New Zealand infringed their way to another comfortable win.
Once again an Irish referee, this time “The Best in the World” Alain Rolland, was overwhelmed with the pace of the infringements and from early on it was obvious who was going to win. Rolland made an early impact with his carding of Danie Rossouw, for having the audacity to “handbag” with the untouchable McCaw, a decision which appeared to have been made before kick-off and a decision that had even the supremely biased New Zealand commentators scratching their heads.
To be honest, my eye didn’t wander to the screen showing the rugby too often after that but I did notice a couple of side entries at rucks and two blatant overruns to take out defenders in the build-up to the All Blacks first try and that really was enough for me.
BJ Botha came on at half time and appeared to have another useful work out and Ruan Pienaar showed good organisation when he came on but it was all too little too late as the All Blacks closed out the game with a degree of comfort.
Next week sees Australia enter the competition when they take on the Boks in Brisbane – hopefully we’ll get a less predictable match!
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You don’t like the All blacks then .!!!!!! ????
I would agree that Alain had one of better forgotten sessions with the whistle and I for one have never really rated him highly as he tends to be a player watcher rather than infringement watcher ref ie he is to busy watching for a “player “to infringe and misses prior infringements
One mans ruck formation is another mans overrun and given the bias towards the attacking team the ref will 9 times out of ten see it as ruck formation — and the overrun is extremely hard to execute behind the gain line– going backwards– defending
The one thing the All blacks do well normally given quick possession is get over the gain line my major gripe would be that they usually lack guile in the backline Carter is an exception and without him the back line is of Guinness Premier standard and style would rather run over you than round you .
But surprise surprise and All Black back actually ran round somone to score — all be it late in the game and the opposing player was a tired No 8.
But any team scoring 8 trys to 2 in two weeks against the boks deserve some respect its not all down to infringements and bad reffereeing
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Don’t particularly dislike New Zealand per se motie it’s more the way they are coached to go beyond the boundaries and the failure to deal with their systematic cheating that pisses me off.
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