Bismark will be having the toughest night of his career. All Blacks will not allow the man any chance of roaming freely like at Eden Park. And will be targeted like a squad of SA on Lomu. Shut down Bismark, the team losses any sting, look at the complete loss of attack last time the two teams meet. After he left. AB by 25
Papamoa
The All Blacks will make a serious mistake by trying to play Bismarck and not the team, While Bismarck keep a few of them busy - the rest will have a ball. That is a wrong approach and if I was Hansen I would warn them against that one.
Lomu was never a factor against the Springboks - he never scored a single try against them - they did not allow him to get past and went low and tackled him. They also kicked the ball behind him and he was very poor in ball recovery in such cases.
My question to you is - how do you do it not to allow a player to roam around as you put it - without going against the law? Very difficult since it could end up in penalties.
Just because the bald Aussie hopped around like a man on hot coals, doesn't mean Jannie deliberately gouged his eye. Think about it, Jannie is an intelligent man and his brother has just been red carded. Why for crying out loud, would he risk everything for no pay off. It defies logic and history, Jannie has been clean as a whistle throughout his career.
Having a detached retina is no fun....I've had that experience. But there are plenty of instances where hands make contact with faces and even eyes in rugby. The soccer like tendency these days is play it up and infer it's deliberate.
One thing the Boks don't do is play act out there....and that's admirable.
blokbok
I would not say that Lomu was the rugby equivalent of Pele. In his career he scored 37 test tries - 16 of those against minor unions - and 14 against England and Australia - teams who at the time was struggling as was evidenced in their performances during the period 1995 to 1997.
Australia was weak as is evident in their 63 - 22 loss against SA in Pretoria in 1997 and a record win against England at home by the Springboks during the same period. No doubt Lomu made hay whilst the sun shined against those two countries.
He was a top wing - but not really the best wing ever - even though the NZ supporters made him out to be so. He also had his difficulties in going backwards to recover balls and that was exploited by the SA teams in particular.
Was he a performance enhancing drug abuser? There were indications that he was - kidney problems are often associated with it - but there has been no actual prove of it
Cloudy
Latest news that was made public - not very good I am afraid. There was a court case about a book written about his marriage and in court they argued that the book should not be released - because his health is so poor that any undue stress can cause his death.
