Mmm....whoops!

I think they may have been the words uttered by both the New Zealand and Australian coaching staff, after watching their respective teams go down in the quarter finals of the rugby world cup!

The Wallabies, to say they were terrible would be talking them up and I'm not saying that because I'm a one eyed (I really have two eyes!) Aussie, but their game plan seemed to consist of trying to make England believe they were playing against inept school boys and thus lull them into also making school boy errors like we did, then bam, smash 'em!!!

So our scrum got smashed, but we knew it would, but it just had to hold on long enough to get the ball in and out, but Gregan continually took an age to get the ball in, which didn't help. The forwards as a whole were disgraceful, never really competing in any area, all in all terrible. The back line struggled, as any backline will that doesn't have a reasonable forward platform, buth they also were well below par, kicking with no apparent purpose and when they did hit the line and look to offload.....nothing, not one support player!

I believe that the wallabies are the most overcoached team in the world, but in all the wrong areas, i'm sure they could all to a man tell you about an oppositon teams strengths and weaknesses and so forth, but I've yet to see a top tier nation produce so many basic errors with ball in hand and at the breakdown!!!

Try this for the first few sessions next year, catch and pass, catch and pass!!!

As for the All Blacks, as much as their supporters complain about a forward pass that went unnoticed, what also seems to have gone unnoticed is the fact that the so called best team in the world led twice, once by 13 points and again later by 5!! So they couldn't close it out and lost to the French again when it really counts!!

As for the other two matches, I cheered on Fiji and thought just maybe when they had fought back to 20 apiece, but they were done in the end, and Argentina have made their first semi final and a just reward for that first up win against France.

France to beat the Poms and Boks to beat Pumas!