Hello JW. Stocked up on enough alcohol to drown your sorrows two hours from now?
Hello JW. Stocked up on enough alcohol to drown your sorrows two hours from now?
It's finally time boys (and Becs)! Here's to what we hope is a great game of rugby!
Thank goodness the vowel song is out of the way!
Ha ha Pakie I flew down to NZ for family reasons so it's 8 am here a little early but by the time this game is over it will be time to celebrate our victory
At a friend's house.
Enjoy!!
Aaron Smith remembered to bring his paddle
Nice to see the wee abs bowing before the Boks!
Madness by Damian at prior ruck. High tackle and clearing from the wrong side!
What a bad start!
This is a ridiculous start.
What of Damian?
We've got to be careful. Etzebeth leading with the elbow, making contact. Two more tackles around the neck. We can't have that.
The trademark Damian splat ball.
Steph took him before feet on ground? This is making me nervous. Good thing Kiwis can't get more than two phases together.
Got to be a maul try.
6 points, a nice little cushion, but should have been 7 more. Kiwis are looking more ragged. Can't get out of their territory.
What a catch Willemse!
Faff tackles someone without the ball
Good driving run by Vermeulen. Secures a penalty
9-3 SA
Some harsh reffing for the Kiwis, but, Boks to start pulling away.
ABs playing 16
Umbrella rush defence so putting pressure on All Blacks outside backs.
Mosterd knocks on
Red card against Sam the dirty man.
Kiwis are trampling over the Bok midfield on those hit ups. We've been quite lucky because we've had Damian with a red card offence, and at least four other cardable offences. Very one way here, as I predicted.
The reffing is ruining this for me.
Did Steph make head contact there?
ABs not in this so far
ABs not in this so far
Sader, it's more biased reffing. Just call it fairly and call it how it is. This is pathetic.
Very harsh call to get a red for that. It should have been a yellow
South Africa World Champions 2023*
Thats the ball game.
Congrats Bokd
Damian should have had a red after a few minutes. Very poor reffing.
Excellent tackle by Steph.
Delande buggers up the advantage
To be fair, Damian's been so bad we've both effectively been reduced to 14 players.
South Africa have lots 3 lineouts in a row.
Deon Fourie is good on the pitch, but he needs to improve the lineouts in the 2nd half for the Boks to setup mauls near the lineout
The best 12 in the world again doing his best to disguise his true value beneath many layers of retardation.
Seriously, every time DDA has touched the ball he has done stupid shit.
The ABs could still win this.
What a shame, great contest ruined by a red card. I still have hope the ABs can at least get close. Who knows Boks may get a yellow or red card but sad we have to be talking about that.
This win will have an asterisk, and because of the half a dozen calls the ref refused to make. Damian right out of the gate with a neck tackle and immediately rushes into the breakdown from the wrong side making a clean out. How was that not called?
Both cards were BS...what a shame...
"Thats the ball game.
Congrats Bokd"
Chin up, it would be legendary to win from here...
GO BOKKE!!!!
Halftime commentary a load of excrement.
That red was a clear and obvious.
If you don't want games to be ruined then don't do stupid things.
The Boks haven't done anything at all aside from one attacking sequence. The Kiwis look far better using the ball. This has to be said to be the worst cycle of rugby union punctuated by the most retarded and anticlimactic final yet. I really tried to get into the spirit for this, and it was a nice buildup all week. It's been ruined. No more. Never again.
"That red was a clear and obvious.
If you don't want games to be ruined then don't do stupid things."
It was accidental...the laws for reds are stupid.
Kolisi... Mr MeMeMe
"If you don't want games to be ruined then don't do stupid things."
Damian should have been red carded. Steph, I'll have to review. It might have been a red card offence. Etzebeth with the leading elbow a yellow.
If only Steph wasn't ham handed.
Arendse. One of the Vodacom Cup players who made the team.
Steph holding that Kiwi. Uncalled.
Just a yellow? Charged into his face.
Unbelievable. Or, at least, it should be.
Damian stepped like a block.
Worst final ever. Only a yellow for Kwotalisi
Well done ABs, way to hang in there!
Damian left for dead.
DDA gifts them a try.
Cumon Saffex, tell us again how this absolute brain dead moron is the best 12 in the world.
Worst 12 in the game.
Skumboks paid well for this.
The refs save DDA
Worst ever team to reach a final in the worst final of all time. Unwatchable trash.
Tell me one single good thing the best 12 in the game had done today.
Just one.
Wow, heroic!!
No try blatant forward.
Crying about the ref Beanbag?
Abs playing great rugby. Proud of the boys even if they don't get across the line.
ABs might win this...they're the favourites now
Yeah, Sader.
You guys deserve this win far more than the Boks do...
By a country mile.
Bauden misses his penalty.
Unlucky.
Well, it went down to the last call. ABs gave it everything and although it wasn't a free flowing game it was a great struggle. Congrats Boks!
Well done Boks, and the All Blacks for pushing them so close. 1 point.
Well done nothing. This game was even worse than the 2011 farce! This team is dead to me. Outplayed all over the field for 80 minutes and even with 14 men for all but maybe 20 minutes "win" by 1 point. This was a disgrace. It is a blight on the game and Bok rugby.
Boks World Champs and number one side in World.
Bongi injured early and Deon having to play 77 minutes.
Du Toit man of the match.
Wee abs try from a ball that went forward.
No Marx. No Lood.
Rassie a genius coach.
Du Toit was one of the worst players on the field.
Congrats Boks!!!
Geez, I aged 10 years in 4 weeks.
Unlucky Kiwis.
You guys took it very close.
The Kiwis were robbed. Maybe a little karma for 2011, but this Bok side is a disgrace and this game has damaged the game for me. Only a couple of Boks were more than a 4.
Lekke Bokke!!!
Wee abs played well so Congrats to them.
Du Toit man of the match. More egg lands on you know who.
Poor Doos is very bitter. Please note Plum.
What did Steph do? Beaten all around the field. Useless. Damian, Arendse, Kolisi, Thor, the front row, Willemse, awful and dominated. Player 16 MOM. Kwagga was the best Bok. No Kwagga, Kiwis get another try.
No disgrace in that loss. Think we were the better team in the end but Boks did enough to get over the line. Congrats
I warned site members that the Springboks would win by i poi9nt and made som, comments about the thinking on view why the scorw was impossible - yet I persist with it - so why?
That scoreline was 1 point it scared the shit out of me. Why?
I warned site members that the Springboks would win by i poi9nt and made som, comments about the thinking on view why the scorw was impossible - yet I persist with it - so why?
That scoreline was 1 point it scared the shit out of me. Why?
Congrats - Springboks.
Well done Mike. What a prediction!
Good call Mike
Predicting a number is pot luck. Calling the actual game takes rugby acumen.
What did Steph do? Beaten all around the field.
Nah Deus, have to disagree with you here. Steph was terrific on defence, so many momentum stopping, move disrupting tackles.
Steph was roadkill far too often. He wasn't close to being the best anything in this game. Steph was not more than a 5.0. Kwagga was the most impactful Bok by far and saved the scoreboard.
Thank NZ for being the greatest foe and friend to the Springboks. You are the true king makers.
Well done Boks.
And it was not their fault but the refeering was absolutely shocking.
It was pathetic.
This puts world rugby in disrepute.
Steph Dutoit made over 30 tackles, and damn good ones.
Mike never predicted by 1 point, he Questioned the prediction….go check the Prediction Thread again : ) well done Boks!
He missed quite a number of key assignments and was soft in many. He was not very good. Maybe better than some of the others, but that's not saying much. It was an abysmal showing.
Congrats ma Bokke................. lekker like a crecker.
du Toit's best ever Test 
Steph's only two good tests are Australia 2018, and England 2018 away.
Card, if our rugby's so kak perhaps its time for your deep dive, altho I always miss you .
Bokke.
I'm still waiting for these references of good play by the Boks in this WC.
Congratulations guys. Boks took their points on offer, unlike our AB kickers who are just not consistent enough for top draw rugby. I was amazed that we held the Bok scrum throughout the game but maybe that was fatigue setting in for the Bok forwards after many battles. Anyway enjoy your night boys!
Thanks moolaa. Nothing but respect and admiration for the All Blacks after tonight's game.
PSDT was amazing today and utmost respect for his efforts.
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