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Originally Posted by cry babis
A poor England team beat a crap aussie team and a rubbish french team did away with the kiwis, who play 'pretty' rugby but have no guts up front.
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NZ won 100% of their own set pieces and 22% of Frances's. Sounds like guts up front to me. Nobody seems to give the French credit for coming up with a strategy to win against a team that they new would dominate them. They showed enormous fortitude and some nous to hold the All Blacks out.
Ironically, the games I have enjoyed most have involved the less favoured team showing gutsy defence and treating every possible scoring opportunity like it might be their only one in the game. Argentina v France and England v Australia. To a neutral the France v NZ game must have seemed brilliant. I have watched the last 10 minutes a few times now, and think that both teams were pretty awesome. There were a couple of opportunities for drop goals, but the ABs would have expected to win a penalty or score a try. France made 178 tackles but didn't concede a penalty in the last 50 minutes.
