What's Ritchie wanting them to lose the WC got to do with anything? I'm all for celebrating them winning, yay and stuff. But stop swallowing a hot steamy load of All Blacks jizz. They've won a few matches in a row, against teams that are clearly rebuilding after a world cup. How does that make them one of the greatest?
A few? 16. The last two games were won away from home in the most convincing style despite the travel factor and despite having already won the comp. If you can't appreciate a 16 point win and a 20 point scoreless second half against the South Africans at home on the high veldt then you need to brush up on your rugby history.
Pathetic. We're rebuilding too. Fuck the rebuilding excuse anyway. Overused. Do you think the Aus, SA or Argie coaches ever said "it's OK if we lose guys, we're rebuilding and the public will understand"? We won. We beat the other teams who were also trying to win. End of story. Celebrate our greatness. This is a team who has won a World Cup and are just getting better and better.
How do you rate our players as individuals compared to past All Blacks that you've seen? Our wingers, fullback etc.
I'll stick with the back 3 for now: Cullen was way better than Dagg...but Cullen is my favourite player of all time. Dagg is a dynamic attacking player and I like his huge punt. Lomu is one of the greatest rugby players of all time obviously because here came a player suddenly appearing from the islands who was much bigger and stronger and faster than anyone else on the rugby field in the world at the time. I really like Cory Jane though. He has a knack for doing everything right when he touchs the ball. Jane has nowhere near the all round majestic skills of Jeff Wilson though. Savea and Hosea gear are not even fit to lace any of these players boots yet. So there's my back 3 comparison
I lold when people on the radio said Marshall is better then Aaron Smith I think they forget he took like 3 steps to pass the ball
No, it's because the levels of bias and hypocrisy toward the AB's is sickening, in the media and by the average fan. - France beat the AB's thanks to a forward pass. The ref is the worst ref in the history of the game should never ref another game. - The AB's win thanks to a ref mistake. Oh they were the better team anyway so it didn't matter. - Saffie player deliberately attempts to injure Richie McCaw. Ban him for life, it's a disgrace. - AB players deliberately attempt to injure Brian O'Driscoll. There was nothing it it, he needs to harden up. - Can't believe we kept Henry over Deans we needed to get rid of him. Watch Australia become great now. - Give Henry a knightship, greatest coach ever. Lol at Australia and being stuck with fucking Deans now. - All Blacks lose. It's the ref, coaches or mistakes. Never the opposition being better. - All Blacks win. Never the ref, coaches or opposition mistakes. It's the AB's being the better side. This kind of crap is par for the fucking course whenever it comes to bloody rugby in NZ and it's ridiculous. The only time you hear some fuckwit on talkback or in the media give an honest opinion on the AB's is when they get their fuck arses kicked. And even then it's all about what went wrong for them, not what the other side did well. That's why I want them to lose. And it's fucking rich to hear from you Mr. Fucking NZ Loyalty King. Current location Denmark.
Heard it all before. You disgust me more than SM going to that effort. You reminded me of a dying pig rolling around in it's own shit. Hope your next generation are more positive.
1 - If you've heard it all before, why bring me up at all. 2 - I don't see the insult. Pigs live/die in their own shit, it's like saying I remind you of a bird dying whilst in flight. 3 - If I have kids I'm making them League and Football fans. If they show any rugby talent I'm moving to Ireland.
I think a lot of this is commonplace in any sporting country while a lot of it isn't 100% true. Most New Zealanders seem to think France deserved to win the final (which I don't actually agree with, by the way). This year no one praised the All Blacks when they beat us - most of their commentators thought they were appalling and they only won because we were worse.
"Not good enough to beat an Australian side trying to give them the game." New one to add to the list.
Taking that scrum at the end was one of the worst tactical decisions I have seen in years. McCaw is a great captain but I don't think his decision making is always 100%.
