2019 Rugby World Cup

Fulcrum29 said:
I recognize and acknowledge a quality team when I see one. England was cup contenders since they stepped into this competition. This England team doesn’t kick the ball as much as the previous England teams, and we better relook the way we look at Northern Hemisphere teams when approaching this England side who appreciates keeping the ball in hand. From a technical perspective, Rassie is the one who should revaluate the game plan, but it is likely to be the ‘same’ boring approach. Rassie believes this style will win us the cup and I will trust him to win us the cup.

Remember, this is an England side which changed the All Blacks into guessing themselves. It is a side that is adept a disrupting the territorial game. The Springboks will want to slow the game down, deprive the English, but that is what England wants the opposition to do, kick at them, everything they do is to create a turnover opportunity on the pressure created by the opposition. They get under the skin.

England skipping on the France match placed them in a good position to keep set-pieces back.

It is clueless to underestimate your opponent.
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This is the same England side that lost 21-13 to Wales *and* coughed up a 31 point lead to draw 38-38 with Scotland in the Six Nations earlier this year.

But here's the thing...

Think back to when you were a much younger man. When you were young and handsome and the future lay ahead of you... Two weeks ago.

Remember when you knew who would be playing who in the quarter finals, and you looked at the games and thought, "Japan, then Wales and that's us in the final. And on the other side, England and New Zealand... Ugh, that's us and the All Blacks in the final... Wouldn't it be awesome if England did us a huge favour in the semis... Oh well, you can always dream..."

Oh well indeed.

Here we are.

In an outcome we would all have taken if it were offered two weeks ago.

We're winning this.
 
I'm not that quick to write the boks off. I do think England put in a superb display yesterday, but a final is a different kettle of fish.

If Eng play like they did v NZ then yes we're in trouble, but there's no guarantee they will.

We'll also have had some time to prepare. England are worthy favorites but the boks are in with a chance.
 
Faf you biscuit, that was awesome defensively and that last kick. Pollard has bmt like nobody else.

We got this
 
greg0205 said:
This is the same England side that lost 21-13 to Wales *and* coughed up a 31 point lead to draw 38-38 with Scotland in the Six Nations earlier this year.
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You are saying the same side will always lose or draw with the same opposition? We won Wales today,

November 2016 - Wales - 27-13 WAL
December 2017 - Wales - 24–22 WAL
June 2018 - USA - 20–22 WAL
November 2018 - Wales - 20–11 WAL
October 2019 - Japan - 19–16 RSA

this is like saying this Welsh and Scottish side would have bettered the English at beating the All Blacks.
 
England's handling, energy and low error rate are heavily in their favour. Those elements are likely to carry through to next week.

SA have focused on slowing the game down. Will they be effective in slowing down England? Much also depends on whether slowing the game down works to frustrate England.

Frustrating or pressuring England into errors will be essential as the Boks will not be able to substantially reduce their own error rate in the short time before the final.
 
Cray said:
Nope - 2 out of 2, but then no one has won the whole thing after losing a pool game -so History in the making whatever happens...
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Id much rather have all our losses in pool stage than getting your first loss in semis like the All Blacks.

hahahaha
 
genetic said:
Alister Cotzee was the biggest disaster ever to hit SA Rugby. Glad the POS is gone. His goal was based purely upon race and not performance.
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Think you're overlooking Ian Macintosh, Carl du Plessis, Rudolph Strauli and some other guys.

Proper POS if you ask me.
 
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