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[EOYT] France vs. Tonga 16/11/13
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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 606640" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>I respect South Africa tremendously for being so hard. You'd think a group of big athletic, weighty Samoans would have their way against any team, but South Africa not only resisted the onslaught last time these two met, but in fact bullied the heck out of Samoa, discouraged them, saturated their running style and blew them out badly.</p><p>Not many teams, in fact I don't think any team can do that. Big props to the Boers; respect.</p><p>But then again, it was in the 2007 RWC that Tonga came within 5 points of SA. And again in 2011, Samoa this time kept SA to a low score and managed a very thin margin of defeat in the Pools. So even S.A. will succumb in part to the Pacific Islanders' physicality every once in a while..</p><p></p><p>And yes, for this particular instance on Yoann Maestri, clearly the guy isn't even fired up. He's coldly provoking the fight, in a perfectly reckoned and cunning manner. He's clearly just looking for something out of this match, possibly even wanted the red card. You don't just throw a PUNCH in a Rugby match when there isn't that much electricity in the air on the play, and there wasn't anything there...</p><p></p><p>Really hope to see a big call from the IRB, a big big call...this is pathetic, brutal, the lowest thing you can do. I'd much rather see a player pull another's shorts down or smt childish like that. A calculated, cold-spirited punch in the face ? Near blasphemous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 606640, member: 57076"] I respect South Africa tremendously for being so hard. You'd think a group of big athletic, weighty Samoans would have their way against any team, but South Africa not only resisted the onslaught last time these two met, but in fact bullied the heck out of Samoa, discouraged them, saturated their running style and blew them out badly. Not many teams, in fact I don't think any team can do that. Big props to the Boers; respect. But then again, it was in the 2007 RWC that Tonga came within 5 points of SA. And again in 2011, Samoa this time kept SA to a low score and managed a very thin margin of defeat in the Pools. So even S.A. will succumb in part to the Pacific Islanders' physicality every once in a while.. And yes, for this particular instance on Yoann Maestri, clearly the guy isn't even fired up. He's coldly provoking the fight, in a perfectly reckoned and cunning manner. He's clearly just looking for something out of this match, possibly even wanted the red card. You don't just throw a PUNCH in a Rugby match when there isn't that much electricity in the air on the play, and there wasn't anything there... Really hope to see a big call from the IRB, a big big call...this is pathetic, brutal, the lowest thing you can do. I'd much rather see a player pull another's shorts down or smt childish like that. A calculated, cold-spirited punch in the face ? Near blasphemous. [/QUOTE]
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