I can tell everyone on the eve of this finale between NZ/Aus.
I still believe the AB will win by 20 but all of my signs tell me that I am a loser for sure.
If one is at all superstitious be prepare that is all I can say.
My signs today have all ceremoniously pointed toward the Wallabys but it doesn't change my betting pattern. I have the AB minus 20 at 1000 quid at 22/1.
I also have some exotic bets but they are all on New Zealand.
I cannot and will not change now or try to gauze the before wagering.
Stand tall and with me and you will prosper.

whilst the rest of the world runs. It is a simple one word answer, nepotism, better known as olde fart rugby, olde school, and most flattering as bullshite of soft texture.
I am now certain that even John Steele is one of them...the 89th official olde fart.
Nothing will change and Princess Rob Andrew will grow old with the RFU.
England will fail and the rest of the hom,e countries and Ireland will still falter, yield and lag.
That lame personality Lady Winston Churchill plagiarized it from someone when he said "It's fine to be honest, but it also important to be right."

"If you have an important point, don't try to be subtle or clever,. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Thn come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time...a tremendous whack."

or as Sebastian Horsley so well said," English rugby died and nobody attended the funeral, no, enough people attended the funeral to put in a phone booth. Unfortunately the phone booth was too small for the fucking fat RFU"

about what is going on right now throughout the world because my focus is on this match between the Wallabys and the All Blacks. I always have a lively discussion with Zardoz since Miffentoff is in isolation and he thinks the All Blacks will win but just barely. As he says this is a 'second side ' of the All Blacks.
I agree and I disagree. What it is IMHO is a complete 'team' as he says and this match will display the depth of the All Blacks which I totally agree with.
But what I cannot see is how he feels and he feels strongly that South Africa will win the Grand Slam in the November tests.
I simply said that the Boks are pure shite and simply because one side(the Wallabys) barely beats another shite side just how can he put it all together.
I digress as he says.
Okay the Wallabys are riding a high and it may be a false alarm. It doesn't matter to me how close the match is on Saturday between the two, the All Blacks are 20 points better even with this 'second side'.
Why?
Because the Wallabys beat a shite side in South Africa if only barely while the All Blacks beat the piss out of both despite that heart attack 29-22 comeback.
So we have bet.
The Boks cannot win a Grand Slam because they are crap.
By beating the Wallabys in Australia will validate the fact that the Wallabys are crap and if the scoreline flatters the Wallabys so be it. I don't think it will.
I think that the Wellington boys in Weepu, Cruden, Nonu, Smith and Jane will simply play better, faster, and harder than the Wallabys can and Quade Cooper will be at fault because he has to prove that he is the man.
But...being the man and playing with your team mates is all about the All Blacks and not about the Wallabys. Even the South Africans show more team work than the Wallabys...a bunch of glorified sissies who play for themselves and not each other.
Those are my thoughts and I cannot be swayed.
Wallabys 20 All Blacks 40 yes, in Sidney... a night at the rugby opera.

that Quade Cooper will hold up against the All Blacks. I am simply not convinced even so that I have witnessed some great stuff from Public Enemy Number 3.
Oh, I suppose he'll be confident enough as he plays opposite Aaron Cruden and Israel Dagg and the other five All Black substitutes but it's the league versus union struggle that will ultimately win out in his mind.
Admittedly Cooper is a great actor able to deceive the rugby public in both his politics and mental status.
Call me crazy but I still say that Quade Cooper is bordering on some sort of mental disorder.
It struck me just now that perhaps what we don't know is that he is on some sort of prescription drug like xanax or ridilin or valium. That would make for a very nice clinical study of how players can or cannot play on medication that dopes meet the random blood and urine sampling.

is as full of shit as a Christmas turkey with his fantasy that the Wallabys are closing the rugby gap crated and elongated by the All Blacks.
I could give two turds about the closeness of the outcome of Saturday's contest because it is meaningless unless you are interested in records and a tenth(?) straight defeat by the AB could be a testament by itself. If that is not evidence enough of superiority then I am the image of Jonah Lomu and Sonny Bill Williams rolled into one. And that, dear colleagues, is a fantasy worthy of Stephen Moore, created and bred in the West of Ireland where fairies and leprechauns play rugby.

maybe the RFU under the guidance of someone other than Francis Baron is a good thing. It's all politics really but maybe this guy John Steele might bring some blood back into the pallid corpse of England and along the way drag the other home countries because they will need dragging.especially an Ireland that has acquired a staggering debt.
The faces are all the same....don't look out for anybody but the top five....I am banking my payroll on Bath with Luke Watson and Olly Barkley. I've had it with South Africans, especially that rather impetuous Brendan Venter, who seems to have lost his head and way along the path.
We can all thank the SH and the 3N for setting the standard and making rugby really happen.
The Heineken Cup will prove interesting in the same way Quade Cooper will.
It looks like Cooper, if the Wallabys stay at least close to the All Blacks, will stick around the ARU. My personal thinking says the guy is so thick that he will try to outmaneuver new kid on the block Aaron Cruden and have his teeth kicked in. The All Blacks are too good and too SMART for the Wallabys.
While it is true that the Wallabys are the best athletes, no need to discuss that, there is a strong argument that individually and collectively they remain the stupidist....like in really dumb. At the very least the All Blacks and the Boks have a few players with a palate for education. That would seem non existent in the Wallabys camp. The diplomas anybody received in Australia would at first glance seem purloined to a skeptic like myself.
Well. here we go in Sydney where the clash between IQ's is just as important as the clash between personality disorder and illusion.
Rugby will win out; I mean the sport will do the job despite the flaws in the personalities and mental acumen of the players.
That's why Deans and Henry are there.

is none other than blow-my-own horn Jake White and with sissy Eddie Jones we get a two-for-one special in the clown department.
Neither one of these guys have jobs. That ought to tell something about their character.
White is a disruptive character and Eddie Jones has a much larger mouth with a lot more stupid things coming out of it than Pieter de Villiers.
Also neither of the three is any "Einstein."
Jones keeps wandering around England trying to put something together for himself for the last two years with utter failure the answer.
White tried to put this rugby leadership consultancy group in place and his first victims, the Lions, fell from grace faster than Maria.
Why on earth does White push himself on the South Africa. He has always been full of himself no doubt but this display goes well beyond the boundaries of human emotion. It's disgusting.
Sure Jake the Snake won a RWC but was it really a win? Truly a simpler draw could not have happened. Let's be honest with one another. Neither England nor South Africa were nearly sweet enough to win in France. I couldn't watch the final considering the teams were in he same pool and that South Africa murdered England 34-0 in pool play.
Whenever England is in any event, especially one that they control, the chances of it being a an easier ride than all other is a FACT.
The 07 RWC was no different.
South Africa got lucky in the RWC and they got lucky in finding Morne Steyn and creating a kick and chase tactic when they had the ball that was dumb enough to show great success. Now that has all been swallowed up and it doesn't make a difference as was seen that 750 caps were on display for the Boks.....they just aren't any good because they are incapable of moving with the flow,
It takes big bollocks to make decisions and the big bollocks in the Bok camp are Afrikaans and if you know anything about Afrikaaners they are an insulated group of inbreds who might take years to figure out what is wrong. It is no time in this age for guerilla tactics; they need to front up and they aren't doing it. Putting Jake White and Eddie Jones would make the BIg Top look like the funhouse.

Hooray! Hooray! I hit and was spot on, Beale and all.
I'm frigging even after three weeks of extreme miscasting.
You can count on me again.

to tomorrow's match will be twofold. The first contest is between Frans Steyn and Kurtley Beale. Beale may not have the foot or the power of a Steyn but he does have the float like a butterfly, sting like a bee potential of Muhamed Ali.
The Juan Smith now playing is NOT the same Juan Smith as before.
This guy is a real weapon. Before he was merely sublime, he is playing with some new found reckless abandon.
To stop him and , lest we forget the always potent Burger, an unknown factor in McCalman, who I have the feeling is up to the task and we can hopefully and not regrettably forget about Richard Brown, who is a waste, a body simply occupying space for another.
Those are the critical factors that could determine the outcome of the match.
Steyn to make more idiotic youthful mistakes than Beale and McCalman to soften up the Boks by negating Smith and Burger.
I am taking the Wallabys by 7, an easy 7.
Am I worried?
Damn right!

sir. Okay. Pieter de Villiers is a God awful international coach. He also dwarfish and hideous to look at.
Robbie Deans is, and I still believe, a good coach, certainly better than PDV.
Deans also has a more respected staff.
I truly believe, all conspiracy theories abounding, that one, possibly both, will not be there at the 2011 RWC.
I don't have an inkling who might get the wallaby job but I feel very definite that Heyneke Meyer will get the Bok job.
Then the Boks might turn lethal.
It would be difficult to bet against South Africa with another coach in charge.
The same might not be said for Deans.
The proof is in the Bloemfontein Pudding in less than 24 hours.
Within that time frame, whoever is the losing coach, rumors will be rampant and vicious.