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Could that possibly be that a 37 year old 92 kg part time hooker played 76 minutes 20 minutes longer than any other front row on either side, after the specialist hooker was cynically put off the field?
Legacies can't be won: History won't look back kindly on Rassie's Springboks
Or he could send it to a private individual who shares it with a journalist and end up in a law suit 😂
Want refereeing consistency? Take a look in the mirror
New Zealand has been the premium rugby nation for the past 50 years. The nation which has been must successful (however limited that may have been) during the past 30 years is South Africa. The two countries have very different national psychology. Different national personalities. Everyone has different friends in their circles – some bold and not adverse to risk taking – other more timid and conservative. I certainly value both. One is not better than the other. So with rugby. New Zealand is admirably attacking minded not adverse to risk taking, and deservedly gathers applause from all round the world. South Africa is the other personality. Timid perhaps (not on the field but on the drawing board. Conservative and not inclined to take strategic risks. Let’s look at international rugby games that are regularly scheduled. There are two types. Mostly the games are of the log points type where points are awarded for more tries for example the Six Nations and Rugby Championship.(The exceptions are the mini tours) favours attacking teams. The characteristic of these games is that there is always another chance. So lose one and win five you’re the champion. No one remembers the lost games just who was the Six Nations champions in whatever year and as the whistle goes on a disappointment the planning starts for the next game of the competition just ten months away. These games are best suited to an attacking style. Every four years there is a very different competition. The World Cup. The attacking style favours teams in the pool stages and almost without exception New Zealand ends up with the most tries and points difference, partly because up to this year the mismatches were stark. Then comes the knockout stages. Statistically it is difficult to argue with the point of view that defence wins knockout competitions. One mistake and it not a case of see you in ten months time – it’s see you in 48 months time. That’s why the conservative no risk taking low mistakes approach is successful. Secondly the WC takes a different kind of fitness to the round robin type games. The one requires a fitness that is geared at an 80 minute effort every fourteen days. The other is geared to have to play five gruelling games in 35 days. That required a squad depth which by its nature often excludes some of the most attacking typr of players. So we have two different types of rugby suited to two different types of competitions. It’s not fair to criticise one style which is successful at one type of competition because that style provides the best chance of winning. So why not have two prestigious world competitions. One the knock out cup and the other a competition which takes the top two teams over a four year period based on the on going log standings in the rugby wold rankings calculated every time world rugby makes a new calculation. The top two teams play the best of three on a four weeks competition either on a home and away or even on a neutral ground. But it is not fair to continuously criticise one style of play which is suited to one type of competition because tries and bonus points win one type and the fact that in 380 minutes of final rugby the other style only allows one try to be score against. South Africa and New Zealand don’t play the sort of games they do because they want to win by playing those styles. They play those styles because that is in the national DNA. The fact that they both win lots of games is a result of the DNA not the other way around.
Legacies can't be won: History won't look back kindly on Rassie's Springboks
Maybe it just shows that this time round the draw was a nightmare. Two of the top four teams were guaranteed to be eliminated in the quarters which mean the pools must have been really tough. The difference between the top six teams has never been so slim.
Legacies can't be won: History won't look back kindly on Rassie's Springboks
We could award points for hairstyles and other attractive characteristics – like the most creative outfits. That should make O’Driscoll happy. But I bet you a pound to a pinch of the brown stuff if the very same game had been played by a team in a lighter shade of green O’Driscoll would not be complaining about the style in which they won.
Legacies can't be won: History won't look back kindly on Rassie's Springboks
Are you sure this is not Eddie Jones writing under a nom de plume?
Legacies can't be won: History won't look back kindly on Rassie's Springboks
Nothing like Australia – over 100 schools producing Springboks and thriving schools competition. Also there is the Varsity Cup where a team scores seven point for a try plus 2 foe the conversion if the movement starts inside the attacking teams’s half. varsity Cup is producing more Springboks than any other feeder system.
SPIRO ZAVOS: 'Crazy brave' Boks are a team for the ages - but key decisions cleared their path to glory
We keep her under wraps and only bring her out when SA play NZ in a RWC final.
SPIRO ZAVOS: 'Crazy brave' Boks are a team for the ages - but key decisions cleared their path to glory
I agree. Phase after phase after phase of going nowhere. Boring as hell. They should bring in a law that after five phases a scrum is awarded to the defending team.
SPIRO ZAVOS: 'Crazy brave' Boks are a team for the ages - but key decisions cleared their path to glory
That depends on whether you have a horse left in the race.
Five things: World Cup final represents good and evil as All Blacks and Springboks face off
Absolute nonsense. Even when SA was destroying England in the last final the ref blew two scrum penaltiesd against the Boks.Your attitude is exactly why the NH can’t win Wc. So many excuses instead of correcting the problem. When SA won the bronze medal we fired the coach. You guys go on as if you had won the cup and blame everybody else instead of fixing the problem.
Five things: World Cup final represents good and evil as All Blacks and Springboks face off
I’ve got an idea of making the game a better spectacle. A team is only allowed five phases after which it must either kick or give the ball to the opposition. That will take out an endless 25 phases which everyone here sees as boring because there were three 25 phase movements in the semi final.
Five things: World Cup final represents good and evil as All Blacks and Springboks face off
How do you manage to keep a man up who has folded and gone to ground. Just go and study the physics around the front row bind.
Five things: World Cup final represents good and evil as All Blacks and Springboks face off
Isn’t iot amazing that supporters of teams that have the wobbliest scrums and the ones advocating for no scrum penalties. But let me give you guys some advice. It will never happen. Collapsing the scrum will always be a penalty just as collapsing the maul will be. Try to work on getting stronger front rows rather than. trying to dumb the game into a muted form of league with four too many players on the park. France scored 60% of their tries of first phase over the past four years.
Five things: World Cup final represents good and evil as All Blacks and Springboks face off
Did you think about what you wrote. So basically you can select eight loose forwards and give away a free kick on every scrum. Daft idea.
Five things: World Cup final represents good and evil as All Blacks and Springboks face off
Mate you’ve been doing that for over 100 years it’s called rugby league.
Five things: World Cup final represents good and evil as All Blacks and Springboks face off
Faith wait until you see what’s coming out of our monster forward factory in the next two years. You think Etzebeth is big? We’ve got an up and coming lock who is four inches taller than him. And that’s not all. South Africa does not put a lot of store on U20 as a feeder. You need to look at the Varsity Cup and the youngsters who didn’t get selected for the national U20 side which is viewed more as an opportunity for fringe players and has a very strict quota policy. Once the money kicks in that all goes out of the window. I think the golden generation of the Springboks is just beginning.
SPIRO ZAVOS: The moment I knew Irish curse would continue, and why Southern giants still rule the Cup
When you are as arrogant as you are Fun Bus you must have some serious ammunition. Are you a Pulitzer Prize winning journo is disguise, or perhaps a world cup winning rugby coach or a board member of World Rugby? Jeez guy you must have some serious backup for the breathtaking arrogance – or you are just a frustrated keyboard warrior who has yet again come out on the wrong side of rugby history. Or maybe you are just the Sirocco of social media platforms.
SPIRO ZAVOS: The moment I knew Irish curse would continue, and why Southern giants still rule the Cup
Jeez Fun Bus – please remind me never to annoy you. The consequence is to awful for contemplation.
SPIRO ZAVOS: The moment I knew Irish curse would continue, and why Southern giants still rule the Cup
I think you’re forgetting about all the screeds of copy and hours of sound bites about howe the power in rugby had moved to the north and that the traditional powerhouses NZ and SA were not going to get beyond the quarters. One writer even suggested SA would not get out of the pool losing to Scotland and Ireland. Well I will say there’re a lot more talk than action coming from north of the line.
SPIRO ZAVOS: The moment I knew Irish curse would continue, and why Southern giants still rule the Cup
But you agree with Rassie’s ban six weeks later a day before the English Twickenham game?
SPIRO ZAVOS: The moment I knew Irish curse would continue, and why Southern giants still rule the Cup
Sorry Billy Boy. I really apologise for the blatant bad treatment of the French by the referees. Can’t be bothered to say anything else but “Cheers” as I raise my glass of excellent Cape bubbly. Dis I say glass – the sixth glass – and it only cost me 12 quid for the bottle.
Good, the Bad, the Eddie: Bok hails AB for 'best display I've ever seen', Kolbe confounds, 'classless' Rieko claim
Don’t go into horse racing tipping – footy – you’ll end up getting lynched by irate punters 😊
COMPLETE RWC QF teams: Dupont returns, Boks make HUGE halves call, Borthwick picks his No.10, Semi back for Fiji
You’re getting confused with the AB’s who went for 24 years cupless. 😊
COMPLETE RWC QF teams: Dupont returns, Boks make HUGE halves call, Borthwick picks his No.10, Semi back for Fiji
Except the one which was cynically taken out of the game.
Legacies can't be won: History won't look back kindly on Rassie's Springboks