RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks

[Donsteppa]

Inconsistent cards, disallowed try, and missed goal kicks. Such narrow margins at this level.

Congratulations to the Springboks.

[chimoaus]

Boks won their last three games by 1 point.

[Bones]

Gutted for the retirees. Wayne bottled it and rewound the clock 16 years.

Scooter and Ardie are fucking phenomenal players.

Fuck you for getting my hopes up Foster

[The Irishman]

Hard luck AB's. Only one team playing rugby out there tonight. SA awful to watch. Barnes didn't help you guys either.

[Tim]

Fuck that shit. NZ could have won that if we believed in the better players

Taukeihaho and Papalii.

[kiwiinmelb]

@His-Bobness said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:

If that’s what winning rugby is deemed to be, the game is fucked. Not interested. One team plays the rugby. The other team plays spoiler.

I sometimes wonder if we have it wrong ,

We have this theory on how it should be played,

No one seems to agree with us

[KiwiMurph]

Congrats Boks fans. Deserved winners.

Heroic effort by ABs.

Goal kicking cost us

[mariner4life]

Well. Shit.

Congratulations South Africa. And well fucking done PSDT on as good a game as you can have

[Stargazer]

Thanks Brodie, Sam W, Nuggy, BB, Richie Mo', Coles, Frizzel, Nepo, big Leicester for your services; you didn't get the sent-off we all wanted you to have, but thank you! One or two of you may still be back, so hopefully laters!

[Frank]

Bugger

[rustycruiser]

@Stag said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:

@rustycruiser I don’t say it much, but that was 14 v 16, and we still should have won. Barnes want biased, he was jut bad, and I backed him as the ref when he was appointed.

My reply would be the one try was from a ball that went forward. But the cards and the reviews were shit

[sparky]

Why was Sam Cane sent off but not Kolisi?

[mariner4life]

Hugely proud of that effort. Forwards huge. We played so much good rugby. Just couldn't get the points. Missed kicks a killer

[His Bobness]

A prescient article by a South African academic. https://theconversation.com/a-red-card-could-ruin-the-rugby-world-cup-final-the-game-needs-fairer-safer-rulings-on-the-field-216419?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0h1TKspwzDIpXV-agbNVTTQGmJqc1GfSsO8dztK3_Q52jxQpnN9GYdykM_aem_AbbOn1awCoUK7zaG45jFlAIz_iRaFu1SY_dE2Oq0Y0q8PHzZgi5hq9T3PF8jKkCoTqU#Echobox=1698383818

[Dodge]

Amazing effort from NZ - I forgot you were down to 14 for most of the game, better side, just too many inaccuracies. South Africa win three games in a row by living solely off opposition mistakes.

[mariner4life]

Is that the easiest MoTM ever?

I guess if we win maybe Ardie

[Machpants]

@sparky said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:

Why was Sam Cane sent off but not Kolisi?

Because Ardie was dropping.

Great to hear all the commentators applauding our losing effort. Aura dies a bit again

[ACT Crusader]

Feels worst than 95.

Proud of the team. Scooter, Retallick, Ardie and the front row were outstanding.

[MajorRage]

Gutted beyond belief.

[nostrildamus]

Well I guess that was test level hard rugby but there were less highlights than cards.