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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pampas" data-source="post: 694816" data-attributes="member: 70388">Lets see, the WC is the most prestigious international rugby championship, and any reasonable rugby union player/fan would prefer that throphy more than any other (or at least the vast majority would). So its not overrated.Winning a 4-5 test match series is not, by any means, comparable to winning a WC, because its very different playing individual test matches than a tournament, where every game (or at least almost every one) counts, where the context and the pressure of playing such an important competition is overwhelming.And we can see its not the same when the All Blacks have won hundreds of series and have been favourites to win the WC in several ocasions and they failed again and again (with the two obvious exceptions). You can be the best, but to win a WC you have to be the best during that month and a half. And that`s not an easy task, even for the best team in the world. When Greece won the Euro in football, nobody thought for a minute that they were the best of Europe, but they managed to do what the big boys couldnt, and they deserved to be ranked as the best national team of Europe.So yes, you may win the WC and not being the best team in the World, but if you did it, that should be enough to be reckoned as the best at that moment, and if there happens to be a better team, they will have to prove it again winning enough points in the ranking to get the #1.- - - Updated - - -Well, Argentina in that WC beat France 2 times (feat that NZ couldnt do even once), and beat Ireland and Scotland. In 2006 we beat Wales two times, and England in Twickenham.So we can safely say that at that time, we were ahead of the NH nations, therefore, beating Argentina was quite an achievement for SA.</blockquote>

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