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Are the All Blacks Chokers? Article By Tom Scott
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<blockquote data-quote="shiznit" data-source="post: 117849"><p>not a bad article...... we were beaten by the better team in '91. no choke there. the best team in the world won the cup. i must say though.... the draw was a farce... the world cup final was effectively in dublin. how the hell the two favourates(NZ & AUS) were on the same side of the draw was a farce. then you have england losing easily to NZ in pool play then being rewarded by avoiding the top 2 sides in knockout play. deadset farce.</p><p></p><p>in '95 leading up to the world cup most people had us as a possible finalist but we were still considered behind the likes of australia, south africa & england. people need to remember we lost the bledisloe to australia and we were beaten in a series 2-nil by the french in NZ about 8-9 months before the cup started. it wasnt until the cup started and jonah burst onto the scene that everyone started ranking us favourates.</p><p></p><p>in '99 we got done by our arch enemy the frogs. we deadset choked. but having said that, i dont know if many sides would have beaten the french on that day. they were simply sublime and blew the ab's off the park.</p><p></p><p>'03 we choked to a degree. i say we choked because we had the measure of australia during the year and we lost when when it really mattered. thats part is a deadset choke. i say to a degree because england were the actual favourates for the cup. it wasnt like '99 where we were favourates by miles. england had beaten us twice in the previous 12 months both home and away so you cant say we were deadset certainties to lift the cup.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shiznit, post: 117849"] not a bad article...... we were beaten by the better team in '91. no choke there. the best team in the world won the cup. i must say though.... the draw was a farce... the world cup final was effectively in dublin. how the hell the two favourates(NZ & AUS) were on the same side of the draw was a farce. then you have england losing easily to NZ in pool play then being rewarded by avoiding the top 2 sides in knockout play. deadset farce. in '95 leading up to the world cup most people had us as a possible finalist but we were still considered behind the likes of australia, south africa & england. people need to remember we lost the bledisloe to australia and we were beaten in a series 2-nil by the french in NZ about 8-9 months before the cup started. it wasnt until the cup started and jonah burst onto the scene that everyone started ranking us favourates. in '99 we got done by our arch enemy the frogs. we deadset choked. but having said that, i dont know if many sides would have beaten the french on that day. they were simply sublime and blew the ab's off the park. '03 we choked to a degree. i say we choked because we had the measure of australia during the year and we lost when when it really mattered. thats part is a deadset choke. i say to a degree because england were the actual favourates for the cup. it wasnt like '99 where we were favourates by miles. england had beaten us twice in the previous 12 months both home and away so you cant say we were deadset certainties to lift the cup. [/QUOTE]
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