All Blacks vs Springboks Rugby Championsip 2013

A lot of talk but can't see the Boks taking this one.  They certainly won't be short of confidence.  They seldom are and after 3 wins on the trot, albeit 2 versus some dreadul opposition and a close one up against the Pumas in South America, they will no doubt have their tails up.  Credit to them, they truly put the Wallabies to the sword but they were a shadow of themselves, resemblant of a team that was completely lost.  But take out the middle of that 2nd half when every bounce of the ball seemed to go against them, and some bad finishing that cost them at least a couple of tries and the crazy thing is the score would have been quite close.

Missing McCaw and Romano will the selectors bring back Messam to muscle up the pack for this clash?  Hope not...this kid is pretty tough

We will miss McCaw of course. He isnt the ball pilferer he used to be but his physicality would have been more than useful. He has become one of the best ball carriers in the game and he won't shirk any work defensively. If it's a dry track I cant see the Boks being able to stay with them. Their gameplan now is so quick and very low risk and the South African loosies are going to run out of puff. I cant see them being up to bullying this AB pack (though Romano would have been handy) and the much hyped new found ability (dont we hear this every year?) to attack will be sorely tested in a tighter game against the world #1 ranked team. The Boks in the past have talked themselves up but every time it came to the crunch the supposed new ball skills were nowhere to be found.

ABs by ten.