Back to Rugby........Predictions

NZ vs Ireland - Ireland 

Oz vs England - England 

Boks vs Wales - Boks

Argies vs Scotland - Argies

All Blacks and Boks to win com fortably, the other two are too close to call.

Interesting......I think the AB game is tough to call...convinced England will win, the Ozzies have had too many injuries.

But.....

Just wait for Monday when the cowardly and self-opinionated know-it-all who is too gutless to make predictions of his own starts having a spiteful little pop at those of us who did make predictions.

I know.....correction we all know, he's a king after the event. Never predicts, never picks a team but ever so quick to point a finger and ridicule his enemies when they do. Actually, I trolled him with the comment I made.."in hindsight" I knew he'd bite. He's just a sad, lonely and childish little man who bullshits his way through life. 

Ireland. 

Australia.

Boks.

Scotland

All close games.

AB's versus Ireland...AB's by 15

Austr versus England...Austr by 5

SA versus Wales...SA by 7

Scot versus Arg...Arg by 7

AB's versus Ireland...AB's by 15

Austr versus England...Austr by 5

SA versus Wales...SA by 7

Scot versus Arg...Arg by 7

Your call on the Bok game is interesting.......although I've read Nienaber saying the Boks are going to run the ball(that will be a fir st) I suspect it's going to be a close one.

It is a matter of timing: WR puts up with SA rugby antics up to a point, and when the point is, it gives an open game.

This point is likely to be the next game against WA. The expectations are that SA rugby team will score tries, that SA rugby supporters will interpret as the evidence SA rugby team is able to play rugby and so on.

Of course, this open game, this abandon of the SA lack of rugby is the byproduct of the previous lack of rugby games.

SA rugby pattern: lack of rugby games until WR grows irritated enough to send a ref who will work to get anything but that lack of rugby.

Refeering will be liberal and will favour expansive play.

Winners:

NZ

England

Springboks

Argies

It's a Prediction thread, Trad.....in case you haven't noticed.....care to oblige with one?

Ah, but there is a prediction made. Predictions are not guessing, they are only worthwhile the process to carry them out.

As a reminder, predictions of results were made on this board for the November tour.

Contrary to what was reported by this board,

 it was stated SA rugby would win the first two games and lose the third.

The cause was given: SA rugby is only dangerous against weakened teams. As soon as they face sides with a similar level of freshness, SA rugby are exposed.

During this tour, all teams but EN had played one game more and it happened as foretold.

Back to when this prediction was made, a comparison was made:

SA rugby are like those bands that used to roam battlefields in Europe during middle times.

They waited for battles to end and cut the throats of fighters who were gurgling in their blood, crippled etc

Those bands would have stand no fair chances a few hours ago but were up to to the task of despatching dying fighters.

Boks by 9+, Nz by closer margin...Aussie even closer, Argie a bit easier...difficult in Salta, but Santiago won't be much easier. 

NZ by 37 to 12

AUS by 5/10 pts

SA by 15 pts

SCO by 10 pts

The All Blacks are supershit playing  Meyer rugby.  And the team is playing like the aged players Meyer preferred - in other words they need a proper coach and better team selection - get rid of the elderly - to get anywhere in rugby.       

Lets analyze it a bit - they have the worst backline I have ever seen in an All Back team and their line-outs is a joke.   Retallick is worse than Mostert and Warlock worse than Matfield was in 2014 and 2015.   I must admit that the inside center of the AB' are supershit s well - outplayed by Aki is an insult.

Time for a wholesale clear-out of the team as well,   They are not at all acceptable.