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The refereeing of the 2010 Tri Nations
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<blockquote data-quote="woodward" data-source="post: 339000" data-attributes="member: 43038"><p>to be honest I think the lack of All Black success at World Cups has made it hyped more and not just in NZ. It's effectively the only chance for any country to hold anything against the All Blacks for any real length of time, its basically a leveller. France would never have been considered a better team but because it only came down to a one off game they could put everything into it and by good fortune, a lot of passion and a bit of flair they pulled off the upsets. I'm not trying to downplay the World Cup but it has been over hyped partly because of the reason just mentioned, that its a chance for everyone else to get the All Blacks, the result of it is not a definitive reflection of the best rugby team and it has benefited from association with the soccer world cup. I think people forget that unlike football their is meaningful competition year in year out between all the top nations and a World Cup is no different from the competition with see regularly anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="woodward, post: 339000, member: 43038"] to be honest I think the lack of All Black success at World Cups has made it hyped more and not just in NZ. It's effectively the only chance for any country to hold anything against the All Blacks for any real length of time, its basically a leveller. France would never have been considered a better team but because it only came down to a one off game they could put everything into it and by good fortune, a lot of passion and a bit of flair they pulled off the upsets. I'm not trying to downplay the World Cup but it has been over hyped partly because of the reason just mentioned, that its a chance for everyone else to get the All Blacks, the result of it is not a definitive reflection of the best rugby team and it has benefited from association with the soccer world cup. I think people forget that unlike football their is meaningful competition year in year out between all the top nations and a World Cup is no different from the competition with see regularly anyway. [/QUOTE]
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