Mas is fucking awesome too. I've always been amazed at how awesome their forward pack is, and yet how teams seem to demolish them in the scrum.
I have money on NZ to win by 20 or less. Not sure whether I'm more afraid of the France win or the 21 points...
If we play with the same intensity as we did against Australia that <20 is looking pretty suspect as Australia are still a class above France and with the amount of missed goals in the Australia match i'd say this could be the biggest WC win.
I fair everyone is underestimating France. They had a nice little 20 minutes against us (All Blacks) in pool play and then a good 30 minutes against England, but really that's it. All the rest of their rugby has been woeful to say the least. So to me France a 'due'. We all know they will have atless one massive game in a WC and maybe it was against England, but I'm not to sure it was, as England are terrible anyway. They can and will take on the ABs up front so if there backs can actually run the ball instead of just kick it every time they touch it then we could be in for a great world cup final!
Doesn't matter. Like it has been said in the paper, there is a high chance that France never really cared about that match as they wanted to be on the other side of the draw because it would be an easier run. I'm not saying the French are going to win, as I believe the ABs are just to good, but I'm saying that people need to respect the frogs as they can do anything and beat anyone if they show up!
France played well against us for 10 minutes, not 20. They also surely wanted to win against Tonga but couldn't even manage that.
Lets just come to 15 eh? . And yes they (France) just didn't turn up that match and got completely embarrassed!
As long as Dusatoir does not defeat the whole All Blacks team like he did in '07, we will hopefully be sweet.