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[2018 Rugby Championship] Round 2: New Zealand v Australia (25/08/2018)
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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 913843" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>Exactly this, it's what I've been saying but more eloquently.</p><p></p><p>I'm seeing a lot of "NZ beat Aus by X and Ireland only scraped by so NZ are X much better than Ireland". First of all, sport has never worked like that it discounts form and style of play among other things, secondly, it ignores what Olyy pointed out earlier in that the odds for summer tours are stacked in SH sides' favour, even more so than the reverse in the EOYT. (At least there the SH players are staying with the international squad whereas our players go from a vigourous end to the club season straight to a plane!)</p><p></p><p>I'd be close to throwing SA out of the equation too, I'll wait and see how they do but I'm convinced they're still trash relative to what they've been in the past, if Rassie is as smart as I think he is 2023 is his target. England need to come back, Wales and Scotland need consistency and Ireland need to prove themselves v NZ, South Africa and Australia need so much of an overhaul of sport in the countries that Argentina really poses the biggest medium term threat to NZ in the RC. NZ right now aren't doing anything different from the past, they're good at rugby, Australia and South Africa dropping to the level of average 6n sides is the problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 913843, member: 45598"] Exactly this, it's what I've been saying but more eloquently. I'm seeing a lot of "NZ beat Aus by X and Ireland only scraped by so NZ are X much better than Ireland". First of all, sport has never worked like that it discounts form and style of play among other things, secondly, it ignores what Olyy pointed out earlier in that the odds for summer tours are stacked in SH sides' favour, even more so than the reverse in the EOYT. (At least there the SH players are staying with the international squad whereas our players go from a vigourous end to the club season straight to a plane!) I'd be close to throwing SA out of the equation too, I'll wait and see how they do but I'm convinced they're still trash relative to what they've been in the past, if Rassie is as smart as I think he is 2023 is his target. England need to come back, Wales and Scotland need consistency and Ireland need to prove themselves v NZ, South Africa and Australia need so much of an overhaul of sport in the countries that Argentina really poses the biggest medium term threat to NZ in the RC. NZ right now aren't doing anything different from the past, they're good at rugby, Australia and South Africa dropping to the level of average 6n sides is the problem. [/QUOTE]
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