RWC Semi Final: New Zealand - Australia (16-10-2011, 21:00)

Larksea · Oct 9, 2011

you never know but if cooper hasn't fired so far what are the chances of him firing against the AB's who are one team that have been able to shut him down when he has been in good form otherwise?

Dizzy · Oct 9, 2011

Larksea said:
you never know but if cooper hasn't fired so far what are the chances of him firing against the AB's who are one team that have been able to shut him down when he has been in good form otherwise?

I think the answer to your question is in the form of your first three words.

InsaneAsylum · Oct 10, 2011

we got to the semis with a tough win against a great side after being written off by everyone following the ireland loss, whether we are overrated or not is irrelevant.

do wales and france fall under the category of overrated too?

all the annoying drivel on the internet about how badly the wallabies suck has just gotten the best of me, according to all the south african fans a week ago we should be landing in sydney any minute now.

sorry ACT1NUP, sure you didn't say half of that and i'm not quoting you.

any team that wins it deserves it, france, wallabies and wales all finished 2nd in their pool, the all blacks have lost their star player. the winner will do it tough

JW. · Oct 10, 2011

InsaneAsylum said:
we got to the semis with a tough win against a great side after being written off by everyone following the ireland loss, whether we are overrated or not is irrelevant.

do wales and france fall under the category of overrated too?

all the annoying drivel on the internet about how badly the wallabies suck has just gotten the best of me, according to all the south african fans a week ago we should be landing in sydney any minute now.

sorry ACT1NUP, sure you didn't say half of that and i'm not quoting you.

any team that wins it deserves it, france, wallabies and wales all finished 2nd in their pool, the all blacks have lost their star player. the winner will do it tough

France do, Wales don't.

Dizzy · Oct 10, 2011

InsaneAsylum said:
we got to the semis with a tough win against a great side after being written off by everyone following the ireland loss, whether we are overrated or not is irrelevant.

do wales and france fall under the category of overrated too?

all the annoying drivel on the internet about how badly the wallabies suck has just gotten the best of me, according to all the south african fans a week ago we should be landing in sydney any minute now.

sorry ACT1NUP, sure you didn't say half of that and i'm not quoting you.

any team that wins it deserves it, france, wallabies and wales all finished 2nd in their pool, the all blacks have lost their star player. the winner will do it tough

I don't understand, you're the one that made the random comment. Now you're reacting to your own comment.?

To be honest, none of the teams have been labelled overrated and I think they all deserve to be there. Or do you think England and Ireland deserved it more than Wales and France?

Isurus · Oct 10, 2011

InsaneAsylum said:
...france, wallabies and wales all finished 2nd in their pool, the all blacks have lost their star player. the winner will do it tough

So this.

donmcdazzle · Oct 10, 2011

InsaneAsylum said:
we got to the semis with a tough win against a great side after being written off by everyone following the ireland loss, whether we are overrated or not is irrelevant.

do wales and france fall under the category of overrated too?

all the annoying drivel on the internet about how badly the wallabies suck has just gotten the best of me, according to all the south african fans a week ago we should be landing in sydney any minute now.

sorry ACT1NUP, sure you didn't say half of that and i'm not quoting you.

any team that wins it deserves it, france, wallabies and wales all finished 2nd in their pool, the all blacks have lost their star player. the winner will do it tough

Don't think any NZ fans think you guys are overrated (you did win the tri nations and beat us in the decider). I think people have been underrating the Wallabies all tournament. With Pocock on the field it's almost impossible to get continual quick ball to put the defence under any real pressure. SA had all the ball yesterday, but it was so slow the Wallabies were able to regroup time and again on D.

james5000 · Oct 10, 2011

InsaneAsylum said:
we got to the semis with a tough win against a great side after being written off by everyone following the ireland loss, whether we are overrated or not is irrelevant.

do wales and france fall under the category of overrated too?

all the annoying drivel on the internet about how badly the wallabies suck has just gotten the best of me, according to all the south african fans a week ago we should be landing in sydney any minute now.

sorry ACT1NUP, sure you didn't say half of that and i'm not quoting you.

any team that wins it deserves it, france, wallabies and wales all finished 2nd in their pool, the all blacks have lost their star player. the winner will do it tough

I backed the Aussies all the way to beat the Bok's.

The only thing that annoys me is that this game could have potentially been the final.
Why did Aussie have to play so poorly against Ireland?

Aussie IMO have the 2nd most talented squad in the world cup haha.

I know the aussies will come out firing this weekend, i'm just hoping the Boks took a little sting out of their defence.

NZ has been the most consistent side since Rugby was invented, we're long over due another world cup. Surely we wont let this one slip away.

Isurus · Oct 10, 2011

Two interesting and competing facts:

1. Every previous World Cup winner has been undefeated. Only the All Blacks are undefeated so far in 2011.

2. Every World Cup winner has beaten the previous champions - 1991 Aus bt NZ in semi-final; 1995 SA bt Aus in pool; 1999 Aus bt SA in semi-final; 2003 Eng bt Aus in final; 2007 SA bt Eng in final; 2011 Aus bt SA in quarter-final.

Does any of this mean anything? One of these records is about to die.

Dizzy · Oct 10, 2011

Isurus said:
Two interesting and competing facts:

1. Every previous World Cup winner has been undefeated. Only the All Blacks are undefeated so far in 2011.

2. Every World Cup winner has beaten the previous champions - 1991 Aus bt NZ in semi-final; 1995 SA bt Aus in pool; 1999 Aus bt SA in semi-final; 2003 Eng bt Aus in final; 2007 SA bt Eng in final; 2011 Aus bt SA in quarter-final.

Does any of this mean anything? One of these records is about to die.

I thought that when England won the cup they got hammered in pool play.

InsaneAsylum · Oct 10, 2011

sorry guys, rant over, I feel better now

donmcdazzle · Oct 10, 2011

Dizzy said:
I thought that when England won the cup they got hammered in pool play.

Na, that was '07 they got beaten by SA in the pool and then met them again in the final and lost. England won in '03 unbeaten.

Dizzy · Oct 10, 2011

InsaneAsylum said:
sorry guys, rant over, I feel better now

oO Highly confusing.

donmcdazzle said:
Na, that was '07 they got beaten by SA in the pool and then met them again in the final and lost. England won in '03 unbeaten.

Yeah I editted my post after I did a little Wikipedia. lol

ACT1NUP · Oct 10, 2011

They beat us in the tri nations decider yes, in Aussie. After NZ had travelled back from SA with key members of the ABs flying in from NZ. I think it was more the decision of not taking our best players to SA by the three wise men that cost us the Aussie game. We should have played our top 15 in SA and again against Aus, outcome probably would have been different. Speculating of course

. Anyway people need to remember what happened in that game. Aussie dominated the first half outright, ABs changed tack just like that and took the game back. It was one piece of brilliance by Genia that got them home. Now in this semi all the ABs need to do is rely on their systems and back themselves 100%. If Aussie win this game I think it will literally be down to one peice of brilliance from an individual. ABs can win it the same way or by the way of a complete team performance, something I think the Aussies can't do, just yet.

Dizzy · Oct 10, 2011

ACT1NUP said:
They beat us in the tri nations decider yes, in Aussie. After NZ had travelled back from SA with key members of the ABs flying in from NZ. I think it was more the decision of not taking our best players to SA by the three wise men that cost us the Aussie game. We should have played our top 15 in SA and again against Aus, outcome probably would have been different. Speculating of course . Anyway people need to remember what happened in that game. Aussie dominated the first half outright, ABs changed tack just like that and took the game back. It was one piece of brilliance by Genia that got them home. Now in this semi all the ABs need to do is rely on their systems and back themselves 100%. If Aussie win this game I think it will literally be down to one peice of brilliance from an individual. ABs can win it the same way or by the way of a complete team performance, something I think the Aussies can't do, just yet.

Do you mean the part where we lost??. All that matters at the end of the day is the scoreline.

Isurus · Oct 10, 2011

Dizzy said:
Do you mean the part where we lost??. All that matters at the end of the day is the scoreline.

Nope. Why we lost is very important when it comes to preparing for the next meeting.

TRF_Olyy · Oct 10, 2011

I've muddled together all of the All Blacks group stages with the 3N, so I was thinking "Wasn't Thompson playing 8?" "Wasn't Carter out?" "Wasn't Mccaw out?"
:lol:

Ignore this post...

james5000 · Oct 10, 2011

ACT1NUP said:
They beat us in the tri nations decider yes, in Aussie. After NZ had travelled back from SA with key members of the ABs flying in from NZ. I think it was more the decision of not taking our best players to SA by the three wise men that cost us the Aussie game. We should have played our top 15 in SA and again against Aus, outcome probably would have been different. Speculating of course . Anyway people need to remember what happened in that game. Aussie dominated the first half outright, ABs changed tack just like that and took the game back. It was one piece of brilliance by Genia that got them home. Now in this semi all the ABs need to do is rely on their systems and back themselves 100%. If Aussie win this game I think it will literally be down to one peice of brilliance from an individual. ABs can win it the same way or by the way of a complete team performance, something I think the Aussies can't do, just yet.

We were also without our most influential player of 2011 Jerome Kaino, honestly that's a loss as big as aussies losing Pocock.
Kaino is becoming a great of the game, much better than Jerry Collins ever was.

Isurus · Oct 10, 2011

Aussie mentality.

When they have their backs to the wall and go into a big game as underdogs they very often come up with a big performance. Not always but often enough.

When they are confident and talking themselves up they more often than not fall on their asses. I am looking for some big talk to come out of the Wallaby camp this week.

ACT1NUP · Oct 10, 2011

Dizzy said:
Do you mean the part where we lost??. All that matters at the end of the day is the scoreline.

No, read on.

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