What a rugby game, friends. What a rugby game. Brilliant stuff. What emotions. What a game. Little reffing, result determined by teams only.
The game was highly satisfactory at various levels.
First, in absolute terms, SC came with an absolutely brilliant gameplan, a bold plan that drew tears from the eyes. What a team, what courage. That is rugby, friends. That is the game millions love.
And in relative terms, in contrast to SA lack of rugby.
As a reminder, SA rugby teams do not step in to play rugby but to avoid playing rugby and prevent the opponent from playing rugby. They usually sit high on the pitch in the opposition side in order to mitigate any of their blunders and milk for penalties. A disgusting behaviour conceived to hide their inability to play rugby at this level of competition.
On the other hand, how SC managed their victory: by playing rugby from all the field positions, they attacked from their own 22, they attacked from the middle field and they attacked from EN 22. They accepted to defend.
It was an exhibition of total rugby.
In other words, they used all the verticality of the field. They opened spaces and took tremendous risks.
To crown it all, a SA born player was instrumental in the victory. So laughable the thought of all those SA supporters who would blame the loss of talent and the non existing quota policy.
No belittling of the man's performance, the thought is tied though to the game plan. Without the game plan, the guy would not have shined that way.
Yet SA rugby supporters will translate the performance one to one into their own team, trying to sell that a player could perform the same in a SA rugby environment, devoid of any will to play rugby.
Satisfaction.