2019 Rugby World Cup

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Fulcrum29 said:
It has, and the team's culture has 'dramatically' improved and I believe there is some leniency given to Erasmus, to be enabled, to do their best at this RWC. The transformation pot is boiling, but someone lifted the cover off the pot for a while. It is in my opinion, that politics has been the highest hurdle, and even stumble block, for the development and support of the sport in South Africa. Erasmus may have surprised politics in this regard, national pride of the team has fundamentally grown after he took Directorship of Rugby, and he will be there when the coaching reigns of the Springboks is given to another.

Even blind people can see and feel the unity of the Springbok team, this is how it must be like throughout every other structure in SA Rugby.
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He turned it upside down not necessarily with his selections, but with the way he handles the media and explains why x and y is selected, regardless of their skin colour, which never materialises in his speeches.
 
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Who is going to scrap for the ball at the breakdown for SA? Kolisi?

If PSdT gets injured v Wales then we have 34 year old Louw and Kwagga next in line. Compare that to the English combo you saw. We're farked!
 
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Drifter said:
He reminds me of Jopie Adam, old Afrikaans story from the 80's, and Jopr Adam was really dof.
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Just a small correction there, Jopie Adam wasn't an Afrikaans story, it was a dubbed American story, his real name was Grizzly Adams and was played by Dan Haggerty.

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Yes, you are correct, but in the context more people will remember Jopie Adam than Grizzly Adams. Grizly Adams was also not an ass.
 
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If we could make it past Wales I actually think we will win the World Cup , fk knows how this managed to play out so perfectly for us. :)

We have never lost a Worldcup finals. I also believe we have always made the finals after reaching the semi finals, might be wrong. Wales have never beaten us in any World Cup game.

We have beaten England in a finals before even though our team technically looked way worse in 2007 than we do right now.

So somehow the stars must have aligned for us and as long as we take down Wales tomorrow we will lift the trophy in the finals.

Crazy.
 
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John Tempus said:
If we could make it past Wales I actually think we will win the World Cup , fk knows how this managed to play out so perfectly for us. :)

We have never lost a Worldcup finals. I also believe we have always made the finals after reaching the semi finals, might be wrong. Wales have never beaten us in any World Cup game.

We have beaten England in a finals before even though our team technically looked way worse in 2007 than we do right now.

So somehow the stars must have aligned for us and as long as we take down Wales tomorrow we will lift the trophy in the finals.

Crazy.
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We literally lost the last semi finals we were involved in (2015).

We also lost the semis in 1999.
 
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I wonder by how much we're going to smash Wales (and subsequently England, next week) today :unsure:
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John Tempus said:
If we could make it past Wales I actually think we will win the World Cup , fk knows how this managed to play out so perfectly for us. :)

Wales have never beaten us in any World Cup game.

We have beaten England in a finals before even though our team technically looked way worse in 2007 than we do right now.

So somehow the stars must have aligned for us and as long as we take down Wales tomorrow we will lift the trophy in the finals.

Crazy.
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