Again, the arrogance... Only saying France played well because Carter was injured. Yeah, don't compliment the opponent, just make everything about the All Blacks again. Nothing personal, but it's crap like this that makes me despise the All Blacks and Crusaders. It's always some excuse to make up for a loss or to deny others playing well.
Tony Johnson is one of the worst by the way. Whenever the Crusaders score a try, no matter how sloppy it was with passes going wrong, he will still call it "Classic Crusaders". It's awful.
As for Henry's comments... Just let it go! In stead of being remembered as a World Cup winning coach, he now a whiny, arrogant ass.
Wow, the venom in that post.
To be fair, as silly as this whole thing may be, South Africa is not ammune to a victim mentality. South Africa hardly walked out of the last World Cup graciously.
There are games where the All Blacks have lost and well deserved to lose. The only game in my memory that I've thought New Zealand were cheated was in 2007 as every decision in the game was ruled in France's favour. It was suspicious. Sixty minutes without getting a single penalty while France got some very lucky calls, it didn't seem fair to me. That's not to say I think there is a conspiracy, I just think the one natured way of the calls was unfair.
I also don't know how people can say New Zealand didn't deserve to beat France. I may come off as arrogant, however if the team which played the most negative style of rugby, winning by making few errors and strong defense, isn't the team that deserved to win, then I'll kindly take back both of South Africa's RWC medals as well as Englands, as they played the least amount of positive rugby ever.
Finally, it's a biography. The most dramatic moment of that mans career was the All Blacks losing in the RWC to some very strange circumstances. I think it's safe to say it was going to be mentioned in the book. You can call it crying etc, but the man later went on to win a Rugby World Cup four years later and he did it without passing any public criticism on Wayne Barnes at the time. You're also looking at this from a few select quotes by the media. As someone who just bought PdV's book, I can tell you that one comment about an internal inquiry for bizzare results within a match is nothing.
Anyway, sorry to interrupt what is bound to continue to be a hate fest.
