I'm Heartbroken for the Springboks

[Iafeta]

While I got no problem with penalising teams for breaking the rules, (and in Union it is often 50-50 which team gets the penalty), teams need to be better rewarded for scoring tries, not the team winning because they gave away the least amount of penalties. If the idea is that the team who has the best goal kicker wins the game a la England with Wilkinson, well thats what turns fans away. Maybe tries should be 6 points instead of 5.

To a point true, but South Africa's main objective was inside their 30 metre red zone to stop New Zealand at all costs, through yellow card offences. New Zealand were still trying to go over for tries, but couldn't go wide because they were often 5-6 metres off side, and couldn't take it up the middle because the ball was too slow as Os Du Randt was often sitting on top of it LITERALLY killing the ball :lol:

They should count their blessings that Cole didn't use the card system at all. I don't think they'll get away with it a second time around, A: the All Blacks will turn them around a lot more and get them working out of their corners B: a more positive referee will take disciplinary action.

 

[ripper]

Robinson will give them a hit for their troubles if they do it agian in J'Burg.

 

[ThrashViking]

Robinson sprained his ankle for Waikato in a NPC warm up