Hmm, well wtf do I know about it? Hard luck Australia, I would be gutted if I was an Aussie fan. England looked like the SH side today with their ferocity at the breakdown. Nervous moment for Mortlock's penalty near the end though.

don't believe i've ever said "choke" so many times in a minute.

France has no chance. NZ is going to destroy them.

Didn't see the game, but I can't believe England won after how bad they got owned by SA. I'm still pretty confident that it will be a NZ-SA final, but we'll see.

heh did not know there were any league fans on here. did i really drive 3 hours to watch that drivel last night?

That's what I thought, but the oddsmakers only have NZ as a 14 point favorite, which is not huge; I would think that's an obvious bet on NZ but I'm no expert.

lol, how many world cups in a row have New Zealand choked in now, lolololololol

huh? lol

wowowowowowow

I just can't believe how terrible France's lineout was, and forward play in general, twice NZ just went through a couple of dozen pick and drive phases down half the field, I honestly believe that we can take them in the semi

Well that actually managed to be more painful than 91, 95, 99 and 03. Didn't think it was possible.

I'm utterly devastated, incredibly angry at the refereeing and our [censored] [censored] luck, but mostly just sad. Commence 4 year life tilt.

GL France.

I was so sure we would be crushed i didn't watch the game except the very end.

I think we made a deal with NZ 'you win all the test-match and you let us the world cup'.

Thanks.

Totally against the run of play, but hey hey kiwis, 4 more years eh, always 4 more years.

North Hemisphere FTW. Let's see if Scotland can skunk em tomorrow.

So sick.

No forward pass.
No hands in the ruck.
No advantage.

So sick.

WP France though, impressive defence.

hahahahahahah. I missed the game cause I was playing soccer. Looking forward to the replay. WOW. The Superclasico and the biggest match in the history of the Pumas. What a day tomorrow will be!!!

The cup is s.africas to lose now

Wow, what awesome games. [censored] hell.

Could be tough in the final against the world champions.

They need to beat Fiji first, 20-20 with less than a quarter of the game to go

fiji's cockup on SA's goal line was goodnight vienna for them. If they had gone 27-20 up they would have pwned. Shame, it would have been great if all 4 underdogs made the semis.

Pretty much, finished 37-20 now which isn't really representative of the game

Well, I guess I'm an idiot. The All Blacks are now officially the biggest chokers ever. I really though this was going to be their year.

And yeah it is SA's tournament to lose now, though the way things have been going, who knows.

I kept cheering on scotland and then remembered they never support us, so thought feck them.

Argentina/SA vs England/France. My money says France/SA, my heart longs for Argentina/England.

Wow, this has to be one of the classic NZ chokes. They totally dominated the game in every phase except defense. Their lineout, scrum, forwards, possession, just completely dominated France and it seemed they could have their way. Really bad luck with a man-down try and a forward pass, but it did seem like the NZ defense really came apart whenever the game got chaotic, and France just played really solid in defense.

You have to wonder how much is because they were never tested, their defense never had to face any pressure. They never really got the backs out running either which was a mistake in hindsight.

Interesting choice to have this 27 year old kid as the ref. He did okay but certainly there were some mistakes and that yellow card was borderline.

The yellow card was way worse than borderline. McCallister was turning away from the chaser to go after the ball himself, the French guy ran into him. No way it was a penalty, let alone a yellow card. Missing the forward pass by both the ref and touch judge was inexcusable too.

NZ should have still won the game, but if those two calls are correct, the All Blacks win period.

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