Test Rugby Rugby World Cup - Japan 2019 Final: England v South Africa

What a great result!

My Welsh father in law is over the moon and if only I could write on here what he was saying during the game about the Poms! :eek::p

Can’t help but feel the Poms played their grand final last week and just expected to walk in and take the Cup.

South Africa said NO!!

Great win.
 

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Boks played their best rugby of the last 2 years tonight.
Looking back at their pool game v the all blacks, that 23-13 scoreline was very flattering to NZ. outside the 4mins where NZ got two break away tries SA were the better team.
Looks as if England spent all their chips last week.
Might not be the best world cup winners ever but the Boks of '19 are definitely deserved winners.
 

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Nice work South Africa, their draw with NZ earlier in the year and their thumping of Australia gave a hint of more to come. The pool match against the Kiwis showed they were in with a chance and that they had a few improvements yet to come. The way they played the subsequent pool games and then the change of tactics at half-time vs Japan indicated there was more to the Springboks' brainstrust than a lot of pundits gave them credit for. The Springboks were putting pieces of a puzzle in place all year and it all came together in the final. I think they would have strangled anyone they came up against in the final, including New Zealand, as it was all leading up to this.

Can they follow this victory up with dominance à la the Wallabies in '91 and '99 and the All Blacks in '11 and '15? Or will this be the high point and then they'll trail off as they did after '95 and '07 or as England did in '03? Time will tell.
 
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South Africa would have to be one of the weaker winners this time around. Oh well as long as England didnt win is all that matters.

Lol, how so? Best defence in this world cup, best line out and best scrum. Combined with their fantastic kicking game those are most of the ingredients you need to be great.
 

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France were quite unlucky in 2011 tbf, if it wasn't for being on home soil NZ probs wouldn't have won that final had it been in another country
Remember that final.France where all over the AB's in the second half.
 
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