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<blockquote data-quote="sanzar" data-source="post: 128539"><p>Whatever about statistics - you didn't have to sit through the head-to-head Grand Slam decider of March 2003. A good Irish team - not so far off the quality of our 2007 team - got slaughtered and fcked by the most arrogant bunch of ... slaughter/fckers that England has ever produced.</p><p></p><p>Ben Cohen scored the last try of the match. On crossing over after an intercept he decided to head for the touchline to ground the ball - because his team didn't need a conversion under the posts, and my team needed to know it. Unforgiveable, but that summed it up.</p><p></p><p>It was the single best international performance I've seen. Pity they couldn't repeat it in Aus six months later, because then you might understand how ruthless NH rugby is. [/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>I saw that match, but it's not in the same class as the France match as far as I'm concerned... It was the begining of the re-emergence of NZ after the coaching change over and France were billed as the best team in the world and likely to take out New Zealand to cement a standing as the new team to beat. New Zealand came out with such energy and precision and totally outclassed France in every aspect of play. It's not often a 1 v 2 clash is so comprehensively one-sided...</p><p></p><p>England v Ireland was a comprehensive performance, but lets be honest, it was never considered a game that would decide who the no.1 team in the world was. If England had come to NZ and put on that kind of a performance against the ABs it would have been a different story... but that's never happened.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="sanzar, post: 128539"] Whatever about statistics - you didn't have to sit through the head-to-head Grand Slam decider of March 2003. A good Irish team - not so far off the quality of our 2007 team - got slaughtered and fcked by the most arrogant bunch of ... slaughter/fckers that England has ever produced. Ben Cohen scored the last try of the match. On crossing over after an intercept he decided to head for the touchline to ground the ball - because his team didn't need a conversion under the posts, and my team needed to know it. Unforgiveable, but that summed it up. It was the single best international performance I've seen. Pity they couldn't repeat it in Aus six months later, because then you might understand how ruthless NH rugby is. [/b][/quote] I saw that match, but it's not in the same class as the France match as far as I'm concerned... It was the begining of the re-emergence of NZ after the coaching change over and France were billed as the best team in the world and likely to take out New Zealand to cement a standing as the new team to beat. New Zealand came out with such energy and precision and totally outclassed France in every aspect of play. It's not often a 1 v 2 clash is so comprehensively one-sided... England v Ireland was a comprehensive performance, but lets be honest, it was never considered a game that would decide who the no.1 team in the world was. If England had come to NZ and put on that kind of a performance against the ABs it would have been a different story... but that's never happened. [/QUOTE]
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