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Tri Nations: All Blacks - Wallabies @ Eden Park (06-08-2011, 08:35 GMT)
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<blockquote data-quote="Larksea" data-source="post: 429768" data-attributes="member: 43875"><p>look at your own list.. here is the threat South Africa faced?</p><p></p><p>oh c'mon I know it's hardly South Africa's fault but the reality is the only sides that could have mounted a real threat against SA were NZ, Aus and France. SA made it the entire way through without having to face any of these teams. Look at SA's record against France in Europe - it's shocking. Utterly shocking.</p><p></p><p>SA won the WC because of shock results and matchups that happened giving them a golden run all the way through. Starting with Frances loss in the first game which was against form and ability. Though Argi were an ok team the result put them in a position above their actual ability and France became the huge quater final threat.</p><p></p><p>Another big result was AUS loss to ENG, Aussie are a better team than that but they always seem to struggle against The style of game england plays. The kicking game and the Huge english forward pack.</p><p></p><p>France with the help of the ref played their hearts, body and mind to a standstill against the all blacks. They were never going to recover from that game to win the next one. they were spent. That was their final. And they were exposed for England to trot past them to the final.</p><p></p><p>So many other factors went their way. Like having some more challenging competition in the pool stages compared to New Zealand was also a huge factor in the overall result.</p><p></p><p>So much of the end result was just luck and other results making progression easy to the point that the Quaterfinal, Semi and final itself was pretty much a formality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Larksea, post: 429768, member: 43875"] look at your own list.. here is the threat South Africa faced? oh c'mon I know it's hardly South Africa's fault but the reality is the only sides that could have mounted a real threat against SA were NZ, Aus and France. SA made it the entire way through without having to face any of these teams. Look at SA's record against France in Europe - it's shocking. Utterly shocking. SA won the WC because of shock results and matchups that happened giving them a golden run all the way through. Starting with Frances loss in the first game which was against form and ability. Though Argi were an ok team the result put them in a position above their actual ability and France became the huge quater final threat. Another big result was AUS loss to ENG, Aussie are a better team than that but they always seem to struggle against The style of game england plays. The kicking game and the Huge english forward pack. France with the help of the ref played their hearts, body and mind to a standstill against the all blacks. They were never going to recover from that game to win the next one. they were spent. That was their final. And they were exposed for England to trot past them to the final. So many other factors went their way. Like having some more challenging competition in the pool stages compared to New Zealand was also a huge factor in the overall result. So much of the end result was just luck and other results making progression easy to the point that the Quaterfinal, Semi and final itself was pretty much a formality. [/QUOTE]
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