"The All Blacks have won six of the last seven matches between the sides while the Springboks lost to Ireland and Wales last November, were whitewashed in the Rugby Championship, beaten by Argentina for the first time, and started their World Cup campaign by going down to Japan.
"South Africa have got better since then but in the quarterfinal they faced a Wales team decimated by injury and a tank approaching empty yet managed just one try - and that was down to an individual's defensive error - despite hogging the ball in the second half."
Henry also took a swipe at the way the Springboks have reverted to a dull, 10-man game plan, preferring to use their forwards to cart the ball up, while their backs are being underutilised.
They look to have neither the form nor the momentum of serious World Cup contenders and have gone back to the future, dumping the 15-man game that helped them beat the All Blacks last year in one of the greatest games of all time and reverting to physicality ahead of skill," Henry wrote.
"They are sound in the set pieces, the line-out especially, but South Africa's outside backs are largely unemployed.
"The forwards truck it up, mainly one out from the breakdown, and, with their body height poor, the result is invariably slow, unusable ball. In defence, their tight five appears to be slow and disorganised.
"It should be the All Blacks all the way but there is a massive rugby history over the last hundred years between these two great rugby nations...
