So much for Wales

But we do have England sitting at 3 in the rankings ahead of Oz and lets face it France and Ireland should have beaten the AB's.
There was nothing slow or weak about any of those teams today, great game of rugby

Only because they never had a SH tour against one of the top 3.  

 SH will always dominate as we are better, but its close stuff as this tour by the SH sides showed

Saffex yeah sure England were ranked 3rd for a while. As of the last week's update the Wallabies are back at 3 though. 

Good we need the SH to keep on top.

The obvious reason we are better is that we dont have foreigners depriving our players of opportunities as you see happen up here.

I am really pissed off seeing an Argentinian lock play for the Stormers next season......it deprives the likes of Ruan Botha from getting top exposure.

In the NH more than 50% of the club sides are made up of foreigners.....its pathetic

 England are currently ranked number #4

 What a bore.....poetry in slow motion. Barnes was my MOM.

 We exported Bekker and Quin Roux so some additonal fire power at lock had to be imported. Now Etzebeth is out for at least the first half of the Super 15. 
Wing is a problem for the Stormers and I guess Pat Howard may finfd himself on the wing.
The NH are shooting themsleves in the foot by importing all these foreign players. They will never succeed this way and deservedly so - parasites.  

Hard to explain the success of the Ozzies in NH. Only logical explanation is the fields weren't soggy enough.

 "Hard to explain the success of the Ozzies in NH"....really?

 

 

The alarm bells should have rung when we witnessed Wales struggling against Tonga and perhaps we gave them too much respect for their performance against the Boks. Wales are ordinary...end of.....and the Ozzies are 2 shits better than ordinary.

Denny, I was being facetious, lol
We had a thread on here were Moz was saying that the ABs and SH teams would have problems in the NH because of the soft fields.

 No worries JW...but I guess you enjoyed that bit about the Ozzies being 2 shits better than Wales

  Saffex, English? You are quite the condundrum young squire.

As per the NH? Wales gifted the game to Australia in many ways, they definitely are a lesser side without Roberts. They centre alot of their play around getting momentum through him. Certainly they very nearly beat us a few times when Roberts was available. But it's the passive defending that was the letdown, it allowed Australia to do what they wanted to. The breakdown was a disappointment as well. Make no mistake, the rankings can be deceptive at times. England are better than Australia. NH rugby is by no means weak, but it just seems the belief just isn't there. Wales didn't look like they trusted themselves or each other, the try with Cooper's flick pass showcased this. The Welsh wing jumped in and broke the pattern. We saw this alot when Adi Jacobs played for the Boks, Habana had to wok twice as hard because he never could trust Jacobs to make the hit. Some things for Wales to work on. Australia moving the game away from scrums is another issue. South Africa and New Zealand imposed these areas of play on Australia, they never sat back, but hit Australia hard! Pummeled them at the breakdown, smashed their scrum, beat them with the boot, drive them backwards, sealed off the outside channels and toppled their lineout. In rugby you must impose yourself, Wales failed to do it and lost.