Realistic Assessment of the Queterfinals

South Africa vs Wales
Although SA won a nailbiter the game was marred by poor option seletion and a deficient game plan by the Springboks.   The reason the match ended up s a nailbiter can be attributed to the play to use a forward (mostly Burger) as first receiver and the flyhalf less than that as first receiver.
That basically resulted in poor usage of ball possession similar to the 2011 WC quarterfinal.   
That kind of predictable game plan is not going to work against the AB's.
All Blacks against France
The All Blacks put up a great performance, but the quality of the French team and their performance leaves a huge question mark about whether that has not had an impact on the AB performance.
It should be borne in mind that France was poor against Ireland and lost by 24 points to 9 the previous week.  This week the dubious strength of the Irish team was illustrated by the bashing the Argentinins gave them.
So the quality of the French team was a joke - Japan would have made mince meat of them too.
This perhaps was a bad thing to happen to the AB's since it gives them a degree of security which may not be a good thing at all.
Argentina - Irish test
The Irish - depleted by injuries and a banning - was disgustingly inadequate.  A poor performance exploited by an excellent Argentinian team.
Australia - Scotland
No comment.  If this is the best Australia can produce - then they are bound home soonest.   This was a disgraceful performance by the Aussies - they had to be saved by the refer ee.    
     

 When you say no comment, it would be a blessing if you simply don't comment.

 Your twisting things Mike. France were bad because NZ made them look bad . And don't you worry the ABS are secure, the boks maybe not so much.

 realistic? not so sure,...

"the quality of the French team and their performance leaves a huge question mark"? a question mark may be,... but a huge one?
you all saffas are dismissing France for not admiting the great match we all can see the AB played. Don't be so elusive and admit it, cross to the Dark side and enjoy watching play the best team on the planet.
France played against a complete Irish team, with O'Connell (their captain and soul), O'Brien and Sexton. These 3 are the framework of the team and weren't playing against Argentina which puts a (huge?) question mark over your statement: "the dubious strength of the Irish team was illustrated by the bashing the Argentinins gave them". O'Mahony was also missing and Bowe got injured early. What would SA have done without their 3 most important players, atm let say Vermeulen, Etzebeth and FdP? the answer is easy, nothing.
And France was in the match against the complete Irish team (which is the current best of Europe and untill the moment has beaten Scotland (the team that put the aussies to the sword), for instance, every time they played) until the 73rd minute. At that time the score was 17-9 and anything could have happened. The Irish won deservedly, but anything could have happened.
So France is not that bad team and what happened to them against the AB, could have happened to any other team. May be not +60points (coz the french collapsed in the last minutes which is not so incomprehensible) but this AB team are able to put 40-50
on any other team in their day. They did it against Australia and Argentina in recent times who are the bests behind them atm.
This doesn't mean that they are going to beat every other team everytime by 40-50 but in their day they can do it.

"The Irish - depleted by injuries and a banning - was disgustingly inadequate.  A poor performance exploited by an excellent Argentinian team."

I wouldn't say that the Irish performance was "disgustingly inadequate". Taking into account the missing players and the excellent match the argentinians played, they were in the match untill the 68th minu te when the score was 26-20. It was a very tight game during 68 minutes.

 Abasque, NZ is a great team and was the best team for most of the time during the last 20 odd years. No one (except Beeno) is denying that. They will still have to work for a victory against SA. Tests between these two nations are the pinnacle of international rugby. The Victor will still need to be up for either Aussie or a very strong looking Argie team in the final. Crunch time for all teams, let's see how it pans out.