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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_Ezequiel" data-source="post: 1164256" data-attributes="member: 42683"><p>This is how I see it as well. There are 3 fluke wins this tournament and those are Portugal beating Fiji, New Zealand beating Ireland and South Africa beating France. </p><p></p><p>After that, both teams won a semi final everyone expected them to win. The real semi finals were those two games mentioned earlier. </p><p></p><p>New Zealand isn't the team they once were. McCaw and Read specifically left holes too big to fill by Cane and Savea. </p><p></p><p>New Zealand getting to the final is already a great accomplishment considering what the expectations were before the tournament. I think there's a lot of hindsight talk going in re: the All Blacks. They're not good enough to get to the final and if they play that game vs Ireland 100 times, they lose 95% of those games. Same with South Africa vs France. </p><p></p><p>They both fluked their way past superior teams. And then met in a final where the All Blacks tried to play their old brand of tugby again. That backfired. They went for the corner over and over again, and that, plus the shaky kicking off the tee, cost them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_Ezequiel, post: 1164256, member: 42683"] This is how I see it as well. There are 3 fluke wins this tournament and those are Portugal beating Fiji, New Zealand beating Ireland and South Africa beating France. After that, both teams won a semi final everyone expected them to win. The real semi finals were those two games mentioned earlier. New Zealand isn't the team they once were. McCaw and Read specifically left holes too big to fill by Cane and Savea. New Zealand getting to the final is already a great accomplishment considering what the expectations were before the tournament. I think there's a lot of hindsight talk going in re: the All Blacks. They're not good enough to get to the final and if they play that game vs Ireland 100 times, they lose 95% of those games. Same with South Africa vs France. They both fluked their way past superior teams. And then met in a final where the All Blacks tried to play their old brand of tugby again. That backfired. They went for the corner over and over again, and that, plus the shaky kicking off the tee, cost them. [/QUOTE]
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