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Springboks win Tri-Nations
The Springboks found something to do in boring Hamilton - celebrate a rare Tri-Nations triumph as they completed a season clean-sweep over the All Blacks to underline their status as the best team in world rugby.
And in the end there could be no argument about either the result or the immediate implications - the Boks, with their fabulously one-dimensional game of kick-and-chase pressure, have the wood on the All Blacks two years out from the next World Cup. Whether that means anything come 2011, well, only those with a fully functional crystal ball could tell us.
But for now the South Africans own the All Blacks. They've won all three matches between rugby's fiercest enemies in 2009 and, significantly, they've now also won their last two tests on New Zealand soil. They also captured just their third Tri-Nations title after they held off a furious New Zealand finish to prevail in a thrilling test match.
But what will the All Blacks take from a scintillating final half-hour that saw them roar back from 17 points down and go within a fingertip's distance of stealing a sensational victory?
The Boks had looked to be cruising at 32-22 as the match ticked into its final few minutes, but a Richie McCaw try via a Dan Carter crosskick with less than two minutes left, and a sublime, and speedy, sideline conversion from the superboot reduced the margin to three points with 90 seconds left.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-newspapers...in-Tri-Nations
Well the Proteas would have won the 3N even if the All Blacks stole an unlikely win as they would have picked up a bonus point
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The smote is for calling the Boks proteas![]()
booyahhhh best game in tri nations from my point of view![]()
BOKKE“Let me put it this way, A Springbok team contains Afrikaners, Englishmen, coloureds and blacks. It has parochial foes in Bulls, Sharks, Stormers, Cheetahs and Lions. It is a recipe for war! Yet in all the years of John Smit’s captaincy, there has never been one unhappy customer, not one voice of rebellion against his leadership. He is the glue that holds the Springboks together. The man is a legend!”- Jake White
Congrats to the Boks... its their year...
Myself, I thought it was an extremely dirty game by the boks, and some truly ugly ugly rugby. Though, I did give up halfway through, did it get any better on the ugly stakes? I saw the final few minutes of blatent cheating, and was too shocked to notice much else.
But PB, they are called the proteas, according to the SA government![]()
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A kick in this game is like a rather nasty alcoholic shooter, only as good as it's chaser...
Courtesy of quality South African commentry
Firstly, congratulations to the victors.
Secondly, am actually delighted that South Africa will be another year closer to the next World Cup believing their own hype. Winning forgives all sorts of problems, which in SA's case are set to manifest themselves in the next two years, leaving too little time to rebuild.
No one likes to lose, but it is a very real comfort for New Zealanders and (especially) Australians looking ahead.
Hope they have fun celebrating in Hamilton. Seems appropriate, celebrating a forgetable series in a forgetable town...
"Bloody oath we did!"
Nathan Sharpe, Legend.
Wonder what PdV's comments on the ref will be like this week and if he will procede with his claims from last week.
Well, congrats to the Boks. I suppose winning ugly is still winning!
SA seemed to have the ABs quite rattled, and the kiwis never completely got their act together.
Ah, well. At least there's a Bledisloe game coming up![]()
Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
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I was at the wrestling in Queens Park, so missed the game.
What Mud Wrestling in Boganville B
Yes congrats to the Boks/Proteas now renamed the Jumping jack flowers, any win against the AB's in NZ is an acheivment.