How many points did the All blacks score in the 2011 RWC final?? That was hardly easy on the eye but every Kiwi celebrated that win.

Stephen Donald is a National icon for kicking over that one penalty… The hypocrisy from New Zealand fans after Saturday is bewildering

The worrying stat should be that after 160 minutes of rugby between the two sides,, the Boks have dominated all but 20 of those minutes… That’s what needs to be studied… Apart from the first 20 minutes in that 1st game, and maybe the last 10 minutes, The Boks have been largely in control of the exchanges

I think England might get one over France this year… Im still not convinced about France’s tight five, especially their 2nd rows… France seem like a team that pulls off the spectacular but last year they lost some games that they just shouldn’t have…

Yeah that has to be a universally agreed standard, with no provisos that allow clubs to almost blackmail their players into not making themselves unavailable for test matches, like what some of the Japanese clubs did in November…I’d been following Quade Cooper on Instagram for about 3 years and I was quite struck by his new-found maturity and focus, and even the way he was now approaching his training and conditioning. Quade Cooper is certainly in the best shape of his life, and his new mental disposition makes him the complete Combo…

The sooner all nations embrace professionalism and pick their best players regardless of where they play, the better for the game, because now almost all set-ups around the world are operating at world class standards.. If anything, Japan and European club rugby has overtaken Southern hemisphere club rugby because they have the most money and can afford the best players. The Wallabies were an entirely better team when they had all their best overseas players available during the rugby championship…

This sounds legit, Boxers and MMA fighters seem to peak after 30 years of age, and you need super strength and agility for that…

The Boks have been a terrible wet weather team for about the last 15 years, I’m surprised we won this weekend actually. They play their best rugby on the highveld, where its fast and dry.

Surely that can’t be the only way the Wallabies can get the W.

How about you focus on your own team, the Wallabies. For a Wallabies fan, you sure do bang on about the Boks a lot. If the Wallabies were winning, then maybe I’d understand, but since they are not, this just comes across as jealousy and envy. The Wallabies could learn a thing or two from teams that are actually winning test matches.

If you’re going to quote South African rugby journalists, please don’t quote Mark Keohane. He is an embarrassment and is widely despised here in RSA as well. That article calling the Wallabies wimps has been widely berated even down here, and we do apologise for his childish outbursts. It seems he now writes articles for attention and likes and Retweets so it’s best to ignore anything coming from that idiot.

That’s exactly their problem!! High risk, low/questionable rewards plays. They are just over complicating everything and the more complex something is, the more difficult it is to execute and the odds of it unravelling also increase substantially. In this case, they need to play a bit more of checkers and a lot less of chess.

You do realise that theyve only played like 5 proper test matches in 2 years (over consecutive weeks) against the Lions, (who are a very tough side that the mighty all blacks could only draw with) and against Argentina, who managed to beat the all blacks last year?? So obviously they had to simplify their game as much as possible due to a lack of cohesion and game time. Not too mention that they missed out on 2 weeks of training before the lions series because the majority of the squad contracted Covid. If you take all that into consideration, it’s actually a miracle that they beat the Lions, if you actually think about it, especially since most of the Boks play overseas so it’s not like they are aligned in terms of a playing style unlike the All blacks.. In 2019, they had spent like 3-4 months together do they could play a bit more because they had some cohesion. I suspect that they’ll play a bit more in Australia as they’ve been together for a while now.. Its not like they are incapable of playing, that 36-34 win in Wellington in 2018 shows that they can play if they put their minds to it.

The only reason I’m pointing this out is that the Wallabies’problems can also be fixed at Wallabies level, they just need a change in Philosophy. Sure, they grassroots also needs to be revitalised but this isn’t a bad group of players. The perfect example to prove my point is the 2019 RWC quarter final against England where the Wallabies had just drawn level in something like the 50th minute and they seemed to have a bit of momentum. From the kick-off, the forwards secure the ball in the 22 and Instead of a long clearance to touch, Nick White puts in a little chip kick over the top that goes nowhere and England gets the ball back 30 meters out and launch an attack and score a minute or two later. That just showed me that Australia rugby did not respect the fundamentals of test match rugby, even in a Rugby World Cup Quarter final!! … But they keep on trying the same thing even two years later with disastrous results… “The Australian way” clearly isnt working and needs to be re-examined..

“A dog don’t bark at parked cars. A dog only barks at cars that are moving and going somewhere”, and in this case you’re the dog and the Boks are the car because you didn’t say anything about how the Boks played when they weren’t winning, now did you? For your sake I hope the All blacks do beat the Boks because if they don’t, I’m definitely coming back to this comment of yours..

Mate, England, Wales and Ireland play just like the Boks and that’s how England and Ireland have gotten recent success against The All Blacks. Surely even you can agree that trying to Out All-Black the All blacks is simply suicidal.. These Wallabies are a case in point as well as the 2016-2017 Boks who conceded 57 points twice against the All blacks in that period.. Im willing to be corrected ofcourse but I doubt I’m wrong…

The Wallabies don’t have terrible players but they are just trying to play a game that they are not good enough to play… 5 intercept tries in the last 3 matches points to a deep malaise, where they don’t seem to respect the fundamentals of test match rugby. People say kicking is boring/bad but the all blacks kicked something like 30 times today and they simply feasted on Wallaby ball-in-hand errors..The all blacks didn’t construct any tries of their own, as much as all black fans may try to argue otherwise… For mine, the Wallabies need to simplify their game because scoring off 10+passes and /or phases in test match rugby just isn’t feasible… Therez a time for carrying the ball, and therez a time for kicking the ball and for Mauling etc etc… They shouldn’t let marketing people dictate how they should play the game because they are trying to play “exciting rugby” to attract more fans, because no one wants to watch a losing team, no matter how exciting they might be..

Ofcourse, as a Kiwi you’d find it exciting that the Wallabies are willing to throw 3 intercept passes in 160 minutes of Bledisloe rugby… Im not sure if the Wallabies supporters found that so exciting…

If the all blacks can dominate contact and the breakdown and just get scrum parity (line outs are a bit of a lottery), then they’ll be cooking… My biggest concern with this all blacks team is that they want to play the flashy stuff and don’t seem to respect the fundamentals of the game like the GOAT all black team(2010-2017), and the pack especially is nowhere near as good as that GOAT all black team… The Backs are still the best in the world though, and I really hope they give Will Jordan an extended run coz that kid is just special, but knowing your coach, hez gonna play Jordie Barrett on the Wing against the Boks ????????????

Tell you what, I’d rather watch a bore fest and win, rather than be like the Wallabies who keep taking 30 point hidings by trying to be ‘exciting’… Beating The same Argentina team that beat the all blacks last year by 20 points twice in a row is no mean feat… You’re not forced to watch Bok games just like I’m not forced to watch Bledisloe blowouts (which have gotten predictably boring by the way)…

A lot of people forget that the Boks can play if they have to, but just choose not to.. Never forget that they were 24-3 down against England in Rassie’s 1st game as coach and came back to win, and when they beat the all blacks 36-34 in Wellington, they were 14-0 down after 15 odd minutes… So don’t get lulled into this idiotic narrative that they are not capable of throwing it around effectively if their hand is forced…

So now, just because they are the top side in the world, they must change the very method that they used to get to that level. Do you realise how stupid that kind of reasoning is, and not just in sport, but in life in general? Everyone has the option of not watching the Boks, and they can watch the ‘exciting’ Wallabies, who have given away 3 intercept tries in their last 160 minutes of test match rugby.

It’s funny because no one complained about the Boks style of play when they were losing and had dropped to 7th in the world rankings…

It’s funny because last year it was the Springboks being called all sorts of names by both the Australians and the Kiwis because they didnt want to play. How the turns have tabled…

What’s the point of your best guys playing in Japan but you’re still paying them retainers?? How does that benefit the local game because they are not available to play and add much needed quality to your local competition… The New Zealand and Australian models of closing one’s self from the world is very outdated… With professionalism and globalisation, Rugby will eventually move to the soccer model especially because the New Zealand and Australian rugby markets are not big enough to sustain the large salaries that the top players demand…Im talking about the long term here(5-10 years), I’m certain I’ll be proven right…

I’ll be honest, I have not, I just watch the highlights and they seem like fast, high quality affairs. But I’ll take your word for it… My biggest worry for New Zealand and Australian rugby is this little closed off ecosystem that they’ve contrived since Covid started.. All the teams play the same way and I honestly stopped watching after a while. That, and some of the best players not playing in the local competitions(because they are In Japan) will greatly diminish the general quality of rugby in the long run, but I could be wrong. I feel that they seriously need to bring in additional(high quality) teams to give the competitions a bit of variety because cocooning oneself from the world can never be a positive thing, you never get yo evolve and expose yourself to different ways of doing things…