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North should learn from south

Its very very annoying when in sport someone claims to be better than the other but that person can rarely prove to be better than you or at least come close to beating you. That's it I am done with the big debate on North vs South, I am so tired of listening to theses people from Dublin and the odd Englishman telling me how lucky the Springboks were to beat the lions and that they beat us convincingly in the third test.

I mean really now, the other day some guy over heard me and my mates talking about general rugby and so forth  at a pub, so he then came over and said to me that if it was not for the incident of Burger in the first minute of that second test they would have gone on and won not only that test but the series as well, hearing this kind of bullocks had me a bit annoyed and very perturbed, for the fact that this guy was so narrow minded and did not actually mean that, so i asked if he was serious about that and he replied  hell yeah I am, my response to this I think made him open his eyes a little bit because over here in the North if the media says A the world should agree and its people over here go by what ever Greenwood (sky rugby analyst) or Stuart Barnes (sky rugby expert} says, well I am from the south and I dont sorry.

If the B@I Lions were really good enough to beat us then they would have, in sport if you win by two points its a win nevertheless, or would they have needed the springboks to play with a almost second string team as was the case in the third test in all the matches to be able to beat them. The sprinboks did not evan play well or at the potential best and they still beat them, lets say the springboks were playing with the current form that they have against the lions would it still be the same if we would beat them comfortably, or would they now actually make an estimate to how far the rugby up north has gone by judging their poor form to the springboks winning in New Zealand.

Knowing them yes they actually would make an argument on that, by saying that they alomost beat the springboks and now the springboks beat the Kiwis in Kiwiland so i guess we are almost just as good as the guys in the South Just a little more attitude for Cipriani so he can become better than Giteau or Steyn, more flare for Monye so that he can run around Habana and dont forget the handling skills we need to send him to a handling skills centre for the rugby players with handling skills problem, and maybe next time we shall walk the walk and not the talk by saying Victor Matfield will be bossed around, no one in world rugby has achieved that accolade as yet and hey lets not turn our heads away from Matfield and friends bossing the Tri Nation as recently seen.

I just wish that the North could for once stop this whole debate on how much better they are in terms of the rugby they play and the great rugby they produce and that they are the world leaders in rugby as far as development is concerned. Money is not the issue for them they have the financial systems in place to support them immensely, they just dont have the rugby brain that we have in the South.

The Guiness premiership with all its Southern Hemisphere players would not be so attractive without these players, just think about it 35% of the players in this league is overseas Based born and bread players. English rugby is the same as English football, all the money but no brains.

Cant wait for the end of year tour, we shall then really see how far the north have gone with all the talking

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