Ok at the end of a brilliant world cup I think, I have to say I loved every minute of it (though not quite as much when ABs got beaten
). To all the naysayers out there and here who were predicting a rubbish or not so good WC go and soak your heads!
Before it started we reading that there would be empty stadiums and Japanese people wouldn't be interested, never noticed that problem myself!! Then when it started and Refs cracked down on head contact etc we read an awful lot how the game was ruined and players would just drop their head and charge at tacklers etc, noone would be able to tackle, especially close to line, well bugger me if players didn't just learn to lower tackles again. We also heard how finals outcomes were going to be decided by refs and TMOs, and once again seems the players adapted (apart from one stupid French player) to how the laws were being applied and the likes of Ben Skeen's only interference in finals that I recall was to say a couple of times he saw no need to over rule tries, and generally in every game I saw the best team seemed to win.
Japanese seemed great hosts and had all the details sorted, I have mentioned before how impressed I was even kids that escorted teams on field seemed to know that teams anthem.
I believe that's it for rugby for me for year now and will although still go over games in mind, but may even have to look at doing some things with wife before Super rugby starts next year!
