Hey Sportz,

I agree with you but only to a point and Chuck's right, Auckland was playing pure crap both NPC and S12....and at the end of the day thats where the selectors choose their AB's (normally) from. Dougie Howlett was another one who's form dropped away markedly due to Aucklands inability to perform as a team....getting back to the Aussies, there is going to have be some new blood injected into the tight 5 ************ quick, your scrum was demolished. George Greegan's gotta go, he's well past his best and your coach should be looking very closely at himself for not bringing on new young blood over the last year or so....to put it bluntly it was the poorest performance from a Aussie team I've seen in 30 years and it was certainly not a top performance by the AB's either....the person that had the best performance was the REFEREE. I got the impression that he thought the reason that 85,000 people turned up was to see him in the middle of the paddock teaching two teams how to play the game, talking non-stop and waving his arms around blowing his whistle for the full 80 minutes....unbelievable, he was so good he could talk underwater with a mouth full of marbles.

Cheers