Add Battleship and you have three and a totally different Bok prospect to which running around in 3 Nations rugby.Quite sad after all this time that Deans has been shown to be at least as, probably more, out of touch with the game than PdV. His belief that a 7's role isn't as a fetcher anymore also seems quite opposed to the Boks view who are in effect playing 2 in Brussouw and Burger and having far more success at the breakdown than we are.
The Kiwis lame excuse after choking back in 2007 is that we had an easy draw. You can only play what is in front of you and myself would love to see us do it the hard way. Dont care if its Italy/Ireland/Wallabies. If you want to win it, win every game from here. If we lose against the Walabies in the quater it sure wont be the end of the day. Myself has never been a big WC lover, I dont like this competition for many reasons. I just want to see the Bokke win. That is all.
Very charitable, Blue. But I would rate the Bokke forwards, man by man, save for Smit, as good or better. And that includes Brussow for Pocock. And that's where we will struggle. If it was all evens up front, I think our backs would do the job. My concern is that I don't think it will happen.Surprised by the Aussie pessimism in this thread.
Your forwards have manned up to the Boks well of late and your kicking game has also been better.
I will say that the bok team is playing better than they have for the last 2 seasons but as I have said elsewhere, the recipe to beat them is much the same, as the Welsh showed.
With Pocock back the Wobs start as favorites in my book.
Pocock's definatly been playing better then Brussouw latley, but I agree with the rest of the Bok pack in better form then ours. Moore has been playing well, but BdP has been destroying opposition latley.
Not me, Brussouw has been huge. But hard to split at their best.Haha fuck us Aussies are a one eyed bunch. Pocock has played 40 minutes in the last 3 weeks and he is in better form than Brussouw.