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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ripper" data-source="post: 118352">Yes... It Must be hindsight.  I'm sure when you heard that 2 Men who couldn't even stand being in the same room as each other appointed as Co-Coaches on the eve of the 1991 RWC you tipped the All Blacks all the way.  I'm also sure that when the ABs were hammered at home in the Bledisoe Cup in the Months leading up to the RWC you rushed down and placed a large chunk of money on them.And you have a go at me because my age? You do know that the All Blacks under Laurie Mains had a 50% recording between 1992 and the start of the 1995 RWC? We lost to England in 1993, lost the Bledisoe Cup in 94 and lost a home series that year as well.  And the South African/All Black results between their re-entrance to international Rugby and the 1995 Final?All Blacks 27-24 Ellis Park Johannesburg All Blacks 22-14 Carisbrook Dunedin All Blacks 13-9 Athletic Park Wellington Drew 18-18 Eden Park Auckland A 3 Point Victory, a 8 point victory and a 4 point Victory with a draw, 3 of those tests at home.  The All Blacks have dominated all those before them for 3 years, but because a couple of games were close they are now screwed, but the All Blacks supposedly had the wood on the Boks leading up to the 95 World Cup Final with a draw and 2 victories where the margin was less than a unconverted try?So in other words, 50% record, losing the BC the year before, struggling to beat the Boks, losing to the French at home and the English, and we were favourites for the 1995 World Cup? :toss: It tells us that the French, after getting a record hammering at home in the wet at the hands of the AB's were forced to scuttle and make widespread changes? Just because they made changes, it doesn't mean jack.  I'm supposed to be impressed because they got pushed around such Rugby Superpowers like Scotland and Wales? Believe it or not I think we are on a bit of a different level to the 6 Nations teams they had to face this year.Scott Hamilton... you mean the one who only made the Tri Nations squad because of injuries, and after struggling to make the Crusaders starting 15 is now barely able to make the Junior All Blacks squad? Sam Tuitopou... Sam Tuitopou, I remember him, I heard his name, it was also in the Junior All Blacks squad.   Masoe, Weepu, Sommerville, Oliver, MacDonald, Eaton, Tuialili all hardly regular starters (funnily enough, 4 Players who started that game - Tuitopou, Gear, Hamilton and Tuialili failed to even make the 30 man AB squad named this week)I'm sorry but what? How are 2 draws (which last time I checked were not classified as defeats), one from 2002 when Mitchell sent a pissweak team over and one from 1981, and a loss in 1978 to a Provinical Team are relevant.Wow, imagine that, I'm an All Black fan, so I'm not impartial... SHOCK. HORROR. Whats next, your going to tell me that the Right Wingers tend to disagree with left wing politics? And what tendancies have you covered in detail.  Last time I checked the All Blacks under Henry don't tend to get 3 players sin binned, please don't tell me you are ignoring the majority of the tests and trying to desperatly zero in on games where Henry was still experimenting and have no bearing on the current AB teams... again?No need to "sware"... and of course BOD was a whinger, he even whinged and made up a bunch of lies about the medical staff, and Tiquri probably shouldn't have been suspended, 10 minutes in the bin would've done me.Really? You seem to think that RSA and Arg have improved while the AB's have remained stagent, and that past World Cups should only be used when arguing against the All Blacks, the fact Ireland and Argentina still failed to do anything outside of pool play should be ignored for a bunch of random reasons (Argentina should be excused because they blew a lead? boo frickity hoo  :wah: Never seen one of his press conferences thanPathetic.</blockquote>

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