No, they played their normal WC game, because the conditions were perfectly playable,
Captain49,914 posts
14 Dec 2023, 18:58
#41
14 Dec 2023, 18:58#41
What are these odds ....
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Captain26,388 posts
14 Dec 2023, 21:32
#42
14 Dec 2023, 21:32#42
...and yet it wasn't good enough.
Captain30,741 posts
14 Dec 2023, 22:29
#43
14 Dec 2023, 22:29#43
Oh wow I must have been watching a different game - so in the final the AB’s were playing a wonderful attacking game
What a load of utter shit - since when did passes, offloads or defenders beaten equate to attacking rugby without context
We could see 20 passes in a single phase that amounts to absolutely nothing, an offload or two means nothing without context. I could beat one defender and run straight into another
Does all this amount to attacking rugby
Fuck no it does not
There was very little attacking rugby played by any of the big sides in the major games
Your take on the Boks not playing attacking rugby in a WC played in wet conditions, stands for all the sides
Captain49,914 posts
14 Dec 2023, 23:37
#44
14 Dec 2023, 23:37#44
..and yet it wasn't good enough.
ooooh I felt that muggie bite. But even though it was the product of only 14 men, it would have been good enough if Barrett did a Pollard.
Captain30,741 posts
15 Dec 2023, 00:19
#45
15 Dec 2023, 00:19#45
14 men means nothing when the opposition are down to 14 for 20 min and playing without a specialist hooker in the rain
Captain49,914 posts
15 Dec 2023, 00:39
#46
15 Dec 2023, 00:39#46
54 (Cane)+10 (Frizell) -10 (Kolisi) - 10 (Kolbe) = 44 minutes
44 x 0.25 points a minute = 11 points
Can you finally grasp this Grade 1 arithmetic?
Captain30,741 posts
15 Dec 2023, 01:07
#47
15 Dec 2023, 01:07#47
Your 11 points is fictitious bullshit
Never has and never will apply in a game of rugby
Especially when the side with 15 has no hooker to press home the advantage, not to mention playing in the rain
Boks had the lead when it was 15 against 15 - do the maths with that
Captain49,914 posts
15 Dec 2023, 01:44
#48
15 Dec 2023, 01:44#48
Actually no…the Frizell yellow preceded any scoring. So the Boks never had the lead until the benefit of playing against 14 men. Swat….another I’ll considered argument is destroyed.
Captain30,741 posts
15 Dec 2023, 11:30
#49
15 Dec 2023, 11:30#49
Bullshit the Boks always had the lead
Captain26,388 posts
15 Dec 2023, 13:07
#50
15 Dec 2023, 13:07#50
getting yellow for a deliberate leg roll to take our hooker out...it should have been red...why should we feel like lesser champs because the Allblacks didn't have the discipline to keep all 15 on the pich...the pressure applied by the Bokke lead to those lapses in discipline...that wasn't luck...our preasure game crafted those lapses...BOKKE!!!
Captain26,388 posts
15 Dec 2023, 13:09
#51
15 Dec 2023, 13:09#51
PS...if you wanted a running game in the wet, Pollard shouldn't have been the 10....
Captain30,741 posts
15 Dec 2023, 17:52
#52
15 Dec 2023, 17:52#52
No one is stupid enough to try play attacking rugby in a WC final when it’s raining
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