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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 462611" data-attributes="member: 38640">Ugh. I&#039;ve had so many rants about the NZ Herald, but I&#039;ll say it once again:It&#039;s a terrible editorial, where sensationalism sells. It&#039;s less than two weeks ago when the Herald was giving reasons why NZ wouldn&#039;t win against Australia with out Carter, and now they&#039;ve jumped to super confident. It does not represent people&#039;s view points in New Zealand, at least not the majority. When people quote it as a representation of what New Zealander&#039;s think, it&#039;s so frustrating. It&#039;s the equivelent things from The Sun or The Evening Standard and then thinking it represents the views of everyone in London.Other papers like the Dominion Posts have taken a less extreme view, with quietly confident being the main theme. Fact is most New Zealanders are quietly confident. We beat France in pool play comfortably, France didn&#039;t looks especially good against Japan and Canada and they lost to Tonga. They would have most likely lost to Wales in the Semi-Finals had they not had 62 minutes in the game with an extra player and the Welsh kickers hadn&#039;t choked. The only time they looked anywhere near the form they are capable of producing was for 40 minutes against a very lackluster English team which had its own set of problems. Meanwhile the New Zealand public had been dreading a run in with an Australian team which won the Tri Nations and yet the All Blacks blew them off the park with what is a near complete performance.Despite this every New Zealander with a fleeting interest in rugby remembers 2007. The fact that New Zealand are being causious against this French team shows that the New Zealand public to respect the French team and know they are capable of a great performance. It seems that it&#039;s France&#039;s own insecurities about their teams chances, that it&#039;s confusing confidence in what is a very good team for arrogance. Regardless of a few sensationalist reporters and outside factors like the Paddy Power stunt, the All Blacks certainly won&#039;t take France lightly and neither will people with a decent long-term memory.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 462611, member: 38640"] Ugh. I've had so many rants about the NZ Herald, but I'll say it once again: It's a terrible editorial, where sensationalism sells. It's less than two weeks ago when the Herald was giving reasons why NZ wouldn't win against Australia with out Carter, and now they've jumped to super confident. It does not represent people's view points in New Zealand, at least not the majority. When people quote it as a representation of what New Zealander's think, it's so frustrating. It's the equivelent things from The Sun or The Evening Standard and then thinking it represents the views of everyone in London. Other papers like the Dominion Posts have taken a less extreme view, with quietly confident being the main theme. Fact is most New Zealanders are quietly confident. We beat France in pool play comfortably, France didn't looks especially good against Japan and Canada and they lost to Tonga. They would have most likely lost to Wales in the Semi-Finals had they not had 62 minutes in the game with an extra player and the Welsh kickers hadn't choked. The only time they looked anywhere near the form they are capable of producing was for 40 minutes against a very lackluster English team which had its own set of problems. Meanwhile the New Zealand public had been dreading a run in with an Australian team which won the Tri Nations and yet the All Blacks blew them off the park with what is a near complete performance. Despite this every New Zealander with a fleeting interest in rugby remembers 2007. The fact that New Zealand are being causious against this French team shows that the New Zealand public to respect the French team and know they are capable of a great performance. It seems that it's France's own insecurities about their teams chances, that it's confusing confidence in what is a very good team for arrogance. Regardless of a few sensationalist reporters and outside factors like the Paddy Power stunt, the All Blacks certainly won't take France lightly and neither will people with a decent long-term memory. [/QUOTE]

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