Alrighty then people. So the B-team went down arms flapping and, honestly, no person with half a rugby brain expected otherwise. By heart, we will always believe the impossible can be done but, damit, the head failed to believe on Saturday, even after 17-0... Anyway, I see the president of the ARU got on his soapbox rather quickly after the game (yawn), bemoaning the fact that the crowed was 10,000 short of expectation. Big deal.

Game is over, we played it wrong anyway (should have kept it in the forwards and , MY GOD, when we kicked we should have kicked with purpose and NOT EVERYTHING away, bloody-hell), but that was to be expected. Hougaard lacks BMT at test level and there was very little to see of the so-called "structured rugby" we were supposed to play. Maybe too much talk of structure anyway... just play the damn game.

Unlike this weekend past, where Australia eeked out a win against South Africa B/C, the boys in Green and Gold are in for a rough time on Saturday.  No amount of heart will carry the lads through to anything resembling respectability... it would, in fact, take an absolute freak rugby incident ala France in '99 (and a lot of luck) to even get close.

My advice? Run the damn ball from everywhere. Why not?  We may end up losing by quite a bit playing high risk rugby but that's the only way we' re going to make any impression on the scoreboard. No pressure really, so we should/could/must run it.

The brain says NZ will take it by 25+ points without breaking too much of a sweat. The heart points to freak show results of the past as reason enough to start drinking bloody early this Saturday...

Either way, I hope it makes for entertaining viewing. RUN IT, my BOKS... what have we got to lose?