Maybe it's my imagination, but every single wussy litte faggotty ref from the North who has officiated over an ABs game has been absolute shite. From Barnes to White to this crapzilla I'm beginning to think the North breeds pedantic little wimps specially for international refereeing.
As for the game the English technique at the ruck was far better than the ABs, sure they cheated a bit, but their ability to drive under oppossition players should be a real lesson to the ABs.
Lineouts are always hard to gauge with NZ, it's difficult to say whether england's lineout was great or if NZs was having one of its dysfunctional nights.
NZ dominated the scrums right up until Boric came on. I'll be honest, I have watched this guy live and he has never looked like test material to me. Thorns value as a scrummager was very apparrent when he went off and England was able to gain parity.
Sheridan continues to disappoint me, I have only seen him at test level and he has never looked special to me. I laughed when I read his major claim to fame was demolishing the Wallabies scrum, geez talk about join the club.
Ojo's tries were pretty meaningless in gauging his ability at test level. SAF produces a million wings just like him or better and none of them has been good enough to hold down a regular test spot. I need to see his ability to run in more than just a straight line and his strength, ability to break tackles and step before he can be considered more than lucky.
On the other hand NZ showed how very lucky Ireland were it was wet and freezing when they played.
Crap play from the ABs in the last 20 minutes. Real champion sides would have kept it tight and totally dominated and destroyed England till the final whistle. Instead they all decided to improve their individual stats and pretty much stopped playing as a team.
Hopefully this win and Aussies average performance will shut the majority of NZers up about what a loss Deans was.
[/b]
