posted Nov 10, 2008

Sceptical scotty - you have the 3 losing nations on top and the 3 winning nations bottom. I reckon:

1 - England
2 - Italy
3 - Ireland
4 - France
5 - Wales
6 - Scotland

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posted Nov 10, 2008

France deserve no credit, they won just at home against a side that was beaten by Scotland and Italy at home in the summer. I thought Scotland played really well, very attacking, a bit more composure and the game would have been close.

So overall in the NH no team really stood out, they all did ok.

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posted Nov 10, 2008

1)Wales-amazing 2nd half against a full-strenght SA
2)France-good hard-fought win
3) Argentina-almost to win in France, a confirm they are a truly good team
4)Ireland-they did what they had to do showing confidence
5)England -same than Ireland above
6)New Zealand-Good win with a weaken team
7)Scotland-not too bad but they ruined their day wasting all the chances they had and getting a score too severe
8)Italy-with the help of the ref, they gave away a match that at some point they were dominating and should have won..Italy proved not to be inferior in each phase of the game and they should have killed the game (call a scrum, don't kick at 5 mt from the try, ffs!) when, with 15 to go, italian pack was driving all over aussie pack. More, Italy knows that ref-crap is behind the corner, so must go to kill the game when and if possible. Wasted chance

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posted Nov 10, 2008

aqualung - just hold on a second whilst i stitch my split sides back together.

You have Wales first for losing to a full strength South Africa. Right so the current grand slam champions playing at home mid season at full strength LOSE to the team that came LAST in the tri-nations and that's a great result?

You then lambast Italy and place them 8th for not winning a game they could have against Australia, who finished above South Africa in the tri nations.

Can you see the absurd irony of your rankings? Step away from the crack pipe.

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posted Nov 10, 2008

the MOST ironic thing is aqualung is an Italy fan.

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posted Nov 10, 2008

I think Italians make lists in reverse order; that would be closer to the truth

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posted Nov 10, 2008

Red my order was what it was because those teams played the top 3 ranked teams in the world. Not saying Ireland and England didn't do well, they did what any team with decent pretensions should have done, and won well. But they can only play whats in front of them.

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posted Nov 10, 2008

>>they played the world champions and did OK<<

Now England won by 20 points and scored 5 tries as well as knocking on over the line.

Ireland scored 7 tries in awful weather, didnt conceed one point and both England and Ireland blooded new players.

I know South Africa are better opposition but a defeat is never better than a clear win. If they got even a 1 point win i would say Wales. But defeat cannot be better than a 50 point win.

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posted Nov 10, 2008

Well I would have to beg to differ - The PI Barbarians with no time to train were always going to be very flakey in defence, which is after all the key.

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posted Nov 10, 2008

And you reckon that if Australia beat England by 2 points and Wales win 50 nil against Canada then England had a better weekend?

Im not trying to be smart or anything but its an attitude I wouldnt have had.

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