oh, poor Archer...
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Originally posted by Archer
Excuses, excuses, admit defeat and move on Doos.
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LOL!!
excuses, excuses... your words.
as for your excuses...
Australia
did deserve to win.
going in to this cup campaign, NZ only had ONE game plan, just as Spencer said after the match. Australia shut it down... that done, Spencer couldn´t pull anything else together... especially with Australia defending as well as they did.
they put the pressure on, and NZ made mistake after mistake... Rokocoko´s dropping the ball into touch is a great case in point.
Mortlock was NOT offside... that was a magnificent, and risky intercept... look at the replay, if he didn´t pull that off, there would have been three NZ backs running around him.
that disallowed try WAS knocked on... and his elbow was in touch if i remember correctly. Tuqiri´s tackle was too strong.
There are always forward passes... this is because refs are not able to always stay at a decent angle of the play... this happens all the time...
it wasn´t the ref who drained the ´flash´ from the blacks, it was the Wallabies.
Kees Meeuws ought to have been distraught... he put Ben Darwin in hospital, possibly ending his rugby career, oh, and his world cup dream had just died.
as for Australia not deserving to win the cup... LOL!!
both England and Australia deserve to win the cup.
why?
because when it counted, they played the best rugby.
if England wins on Saturday, it´ll be because they´ve been able to play the greatest rugby around, and that they´ve mastered the rules...
to take advantage of the kicking aspect of the game in the way that they do (masterfully, i should add), even if heaps of people think its boring (myself included), shows that they are well and truly deserving of the cup.
if Australia wins, well its because they are the best, and that when it counted, they´ll have outwitted two supposedly better teams.
for an American, you don´t seem to be taking a Kiwi defeat very well.