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<blockquote data-quote="woodward" data-source="post: 398392" data-attributes="member: 43038"><p>Found which bit you were talking about, was a normal pass that Maitland missed, bounced up for Aplon who was easily cut down by Williams and Berquist. Sometimes helps to watch the game and ignore the commentators as they are invariably full of ****, after that they started going on about how it was a good example of how his offloads can go wrong and are easy to intercept etc... Never mind it wasn't an offload and it wasn't an intercept, good example of how people make things up to confirm their preconceptions. </p><p>Amazing how many people believed Williams defence was suspect, they'd heard it from someone else and/or it fit some sort of profile about a big, brown, attacking league convert. It even made it onto his wiki page, never mind his defence is equal or better to anyone else in the game. A similar perception is that World Cup rugby is somehow more defensive and tightly fought than ordinary rugby, it helps fight the shame of New Zealand dominance so it a staunchly protected view by nearly everyone, especially self hating NZ'ers (99% of us).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="woodward, post: 398392, member: 43038"] Found which bit you were talking about, was a normal pass that Maitland missed, bounced up for Aplon who was easily cut down by Williams and Berquist. Sometimes helps to watch the game and ignore the commentators as they are invariably full of ****, after that they started going on about how it was a good example of how his offloads can go wrong and are easy to intercept etc... Never mind it wasn't an offload and it wasn't an intercept, good example of how people make things up to confirm their preconceptions. Amazing how many people believed Williams defence was suspect, they'd heard it from someone else and/or it fit some sort of profile about a big, brown, attacking league convert. It even made it onto his wiki page, never mind his defence is equal or better to anyone else in the game. A similar perception is that World Cup rugby is somehow more defensive and tightly fought than ordinary rugby, it helps fight the shame of New Zealand dominance so it a staunchly protected view by nearly everyone, especially self hating NZ'ers (99% of us). [/QUOTE]
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