The following question was presented:
With the Rugby World Cup going on, clearly we have to ask the topical question of “who do you think will win?”
In order to give a little context though, I'm here in South Africa and they are in the same group as England. South Africa play England on Wednesday and it will probably be the most interesting game of the group phase and will likely determine the winner of this group. It's absolutely great to be in a nation of rugby lovers whilst this competition is on - it's just not going to get the same coverage in the US.
That said, there's a certain amount of arrogance over here and, although respectful of New Zealand, the Springboks seem to think they will crush England. Well, lets see what the public thinks. Feel free to select whichever country you think will win the Rugby World Cup from the list below:
Results:
England was the clear winner with 40% of the votes selected from the following:
- England (40%)
- England (0%)
- England (0%)
- England (20%)
- England (20%)
- England (20%)
- England (0%)
Graphic of Results:
Analysis:
Bollocks! Is about the only thing I can say at the minute. My feeble attempt to add a little support for England is completely meaningless after that thrashing South Africa just gave us. Hats off to the Springboks, they played a good game - kept the ball moving fast at the start, played very tight and didn't give away any stupid penalties, then at the end, they defended well.
England, on the other hand, were just crap basically.
We'll probably still progress to the next rounds given the other sides in the group (although I'm now starting to doubt that), so I suppose I'm going to be destined to getting my hopes up again, but based on the performance tonight, we really don't deserve to go any further.