What a shame, great contest ruined by a red card. I still have hope the ABs can at least get close. Who knows Boks may get a yellow or red card but sad we have to be talking about that.
This win will have an asterisk, and because of the half a dozen calls the ref refused to make. Damian right out of the gate with a neck tackle and immediately rushes into the breakdown from the wrong side making a clean out. How was that not called?
Both cards were BS...what a shame...
"Thats the ball game.
Congrats Bokd"
Chin up, it would be legendary to win from here...
GO BOKKE!!!!
Halftime commentary a load of excrement.
The Boks haven't done anything at all aside from one attacking sequence. The Kiwis look far better using the ball. This has to be said to be the worst cycle of rugby union punctuated by the most retarded and anticlimactic final yet. I really tried to get into the spirit for this, and it was a nice buildup all week. It's been ruined. No more. Never again.
"That red was a clear and obvious.
If you don't want games to be ruined then don't do stupid things."
It was accidental...the laws for reds are stupid.
Kolisi... Mr MeMeMe
"If you don't want games to be ruined then don't do stupid things."
Damian should have been red carded. Steph, I'll have to review. It might have been a red card offence. Etzebeth with the leading elbow a yellow.
If only Steph wasn't ham handed.
Arendse. One of the Vodacom Cup players who made the team.
Steph holding that Kiwi. Uncalled.
Just a yellow? Charged into his face.
Unbelievable. Or, at least, it should be.
Damian stepped like a block.
Worst final ever. Only a yellow for Kwotalisi
Well done ABs, way to hang in there!
Damian left for dead.
Worst ever team to reach a final in the worst final of all time. Unwatchable trash.
Wow, heroic!!
No try blatant forward.
Crying about the ref Beanbag?
Abs playing great rugby. Proud of the boys even if they don't get across the line.
Well, it went down to the last call. ABs gave it everything and although it wasn't a free flowing game it was a great struggle. Congrats Boks!
Well done nothing. This game was even worse than the 2011 farce! This team is dead to me. Outplayed all over the field for 80 minutes and even with 14 men for all but maybe 20 minutes "win" by 1 point. This was a disgrace. It is a blight on the game and Bok rugby.
Boks World Champs and number one side in World.
Bongi injured early and Deon having to play 77 minutes.
Du Toit man of the match.
Wee abs try from a ball that went forward.
No Marx. No Lood.
Rassie a genius coach.
Du Toit was one of the worst players on the field.
The Kiwis were robbed. Maybe a little karma for 2011, but this Bok side is a disgrace and this game has damaged the game for me. Only a couple of Boks were more than a 4.
Lekke Bokke!!!
Wee abs played well so Congrats to them.
Du Toit man of the match. More egg lands on you know who.
Poor Doos is very bitter. Please note Plum.