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Nothings gees up the average kiwi fan as much as the Wallabies being complimented and talked up. Their radars can detect 'favourites' status being misallocated through 3 feet of solid lead, 2 continents away. Not the ones on here, to their credit.

Nevertheless. They usually have at least one of the politicians or fans/media supporting him. And they can usually point to a much better track record than HM can.

Not based on an informed source if that's what you're asking. More to do with the general attitude saffer fans have towards him and his gameplan. Fan views tend to very closely follow what their media is feeding them, and if the media is against him and his gameplan then the clock is ticking...

I wonder if this bronze match is where Meyer plays every quota-friendly player in the squad to pad his numbers? On the other hand he's probably given up on the possibility of retaining his position so might as well go out with a bang with whoever he fancies.

The funny thing about that is that the general consensus was that he would never again be as influential even if he regained fitness because he was too limited. He was a one-trick pony and his trick -- pilfering -- had been rendered anachronistic by current rules and interpretations. The proof...

I don't know if it's been said already, but you know the Wallabies are in a different space (and the pumas too) when our coach says things like "We probably let the game become a bit too open which suits them more than us". Imagine reading that quote 4 years ago. You'd think it was a joke.

Actually for all his patriotism Kearns has always struck me as the commentator most likely to agree with 50/50 decisions that don't favour us or disagree with 50/50 decisions that do. He is always the commentator people are citing when they say things like "Even the terrible biased Aussie...

A cursory glance around the internet suggests Argentina wuz robbed. A missed forward pass in the lead up to one of our tries, apparently. Seems like the game you watch depends on the commentators you listen to.

The only time I got the shits with Genia this match was one time when Folau got isolated behind the gain line and Genia didn't look at all interested in receiving an emergency offload. Looked like he was slowly jogging towards him. It may have just been a camera angle making him look a lot...

Our guys looked pretty stuffed at the end. With an extra day to recover and an easier route to the final, I'd be quietly confident if I were a kiwi supporter. I'm hoping we'll scare them but I have a horrible feeling we'll see Bled #2, part 2.

Delighted to be wrong

England and Wales aren't very good at the moment. Wales relied on the hit too much (remember Adam Jones?), and England on Corbisero and dodgy angles. France wrecked the English scrum in the warm-ups. The current English locks are pretty scrawny for a traditional English pack. But my take...

Great game. A few things that irritated but I don't think anyone could argue with the final result. Argentina have just become my 2nd team I think. Pocock makes so much difference. Maybe we need 3 7s in the backrow? Although you'd have to be an idiot to drop Fardy right now -- he's almost...

Barnes has been pretty sympathetic towards them ever since the yellow. Which was when the crowd turned on him

Crowd getting to Barnes

Fair to say the crowd is against us

If we just had one scrum on their put-in where we could attack them it might change Barne's mind about the scrums, but the cagey bastards haven't taken the hit yet. Fuck me it's frustrating.

I've seen a lot of TPN tackles that wouldn't look much different.

Definitely a harsh yellow. Seems like he made a couple of even-ups later though. Like not calling the crooked throw. If it'd been more crooked his halfback would've taken it. Scrum seems to be turning against us. It doesn't help that on their feed they don't seem to take the weight, and on...

I think we need either parity in the scrums or Foley to kick his goals to win this. Both would be preferable, but if we don't have either then I wouldn't like our chances. Hopefully this counts as the sort of pressure match that brings out Foley's A-game.