Well here it is folks. What a 2 months it’s been, I’ve enjoyed every interaction on Lemmy and want to thank you all too
Tonight it’s going for 4. The boks after back to back wins, both away unlike the All Blacks’, and NZ looking to settle scores after that abysmal world cup warm up. I wouldn’t read much into that though: SA have been through the ringer, and NZ have been building since that opening loss vs France
7-1 bench for SA again, with NZ staying pretty strongly in shape match to match, so a tale of squad management. Game management from the inspriational Rassie and his pushing the laws across the whole pitch. And I expect a tale of 80’ not unlike the 1995 final
Head, heart, and arse requested before kick off. The BBC rugby world cup daily podcast worth a listen too for a preview too
See y’all for 8pm BST
That was stressful no matter who you supported
Thanks for this! It’s been very fun with you guys here on Lemmy! Hope we can keep going for the URC (go Sharks!)
Head: SA by 1
Heart: SA by 1
Arse: Jonah Lomu is neutralized and Stransky kicks the winning penalty! The Springboks unite a nation and bring about a golden age in South Africa, eventually leading to a South African scientist solving the energy crisis, and South Africa being the first country to colonize another planet in our solar system.
Am I doing this right?
Lol, aye, you are. You forgot world peace though
Head: NZ by a try
Heart: RSA by a try after holding the lead the entire second half
Arse: RSA bench collapses and we see a scoreline more reminiscent of NZ v USA.
Super Arse: RSA down at the half. Matt Damon shows up in their locker room to give the inspirational rallying speech. RSA wins 15-12 in overtime. Matt Damon tweets that racism has been cured and then gets cancelled for the next month until everyone forgets and moves on.
Maaatt Daaaamonnn. Love the super arse
Well done tae the Boks! Worthy winners, putting Scotland out helps too ;)
NZ red worth the 3 points I feel, but was still a great spectacle that they coule have won anyway
Head: NZ by 4
Heart: SA by 2
Arse: 7-1 bites SA in the ass with a head on head collision knocking out both centers for SA and NZ procede to tear them apart by 20
Surely did not deserve a red card… Welp, that’s probably the game
Nah, that was a red
Yeah I think that was a pretty fair red; surprised Kolisi didn’t get upgraded given head to head is almost by definition the fault of the tackler for not being low; and there was just as much dynamic change with Cane’s tackler as the ball carrier was dropping into the contact.
But I think the bigger question mark was on the Frizell foul play yellow. It wasn’t a neck roll as he started on the shoulders; and really was an accident that he landed on the SA player’s leg. And only a couple phases later there was a very clear neck roll on Cody Taylor that just wasn’t looked at - why? Well because Taylor wasn’t injured as a result of it.
Its the same thing with the micro analysis of the phases when a try is scored, but the same standard isn’t applied to all of the other phases around the pitch - and given kickers can score from 55m out, plus penalties can take a team from their 22 to the opposing its a bit silly. I don’t want the TMO investigating everything; but I think taking a lesson from League and having 2 referees in the middle would help to spot more stuff and just make a call at the time.
Oops missed the kickoff comment. Head: black by 4
Heart: black by 20
Arse: Dan Carter will be called on as a substitute.
come en NZ. I believe
The cool thing about supporting The AB’s is we can wear the same colour the day of and the day after the final.
:(
OMGGG BOOOKKEEEE
awesome game
KLIPPIES MET YS FOR EVERYONE
First 10 mins, the boks are looking stronger. They’re targeting mo’unga and it’s working so far
LETS GOOOO BOKKE
Welp that’s a big oof by Barnes there on the release miss. I’m not one to complain though cough
And what was the margin of victory? He saw it on the replay and admitted it was the wrong call before the penalty kick had been taken too.
Oh absolutely, Barnes had quite a few horrible calls by the end. I feel like he kept trying to overcompensate or something. Respect to the ABs though. What a match. We couldn’t even get a try through with you guys one man down
I think the trouble is that things WR wants referee’s to focus on (at the expense of other parts of the game) inevitably mean that in games with two stalwart defenses such as the ABs clearly had (as you say, not giving up a try while playing with 14 for most of the match) that a referee decision will determine which teams gets the ascendancy.
And defense being so favored in referee decisions has resulted in the last 6 years of teams choosing to play without the ball more often than not. We really had a heyday of Rugby from the mid 90s through to the late 2000s where professional defense wasn’t up to much and teams could score lots of tries. Then once Rugby adopted League defensive systems, but without the League dictate of standing the defense back 10m from the ruck the game as a whole has become a bit crap to watch.
When you’re invested in the result its still engrossing watching to see who will crack first, but if you’re neutral games like that are pretty dire.
