So are the All Blacks still favourites? | Squidge Rugby 

Rain facts lol

I don't think anyone would underestimate them, but they have a decently set game plan to beat them now. Before it was just 'maybe today....oh nah don't worry'

Noone underestimates the allblacks ever

Don't think his video says that all. He talking about the different level of preparedness compared to previous years. This is based on facts of the Kiwis performance over the last 2 years. They are still a great team but they are beatable in the right conditions

I disagree. I always underestimate the All Blacks. They're pretty crap after all.

Agreed! He is brilliant

@@kagishomokoena2120 He's to rugby what Top Gear (Clarkson/Hammond/May) used to be to cars.

Totally agree. He would be a great analyst to have for any coach too. Brilliant channel. Off to follow him on Twitter now just in case it ever happens again!

No, better to stay independent, unenglish and unbiased :D

no

It will be tough to keep up cause the videos take time and are quality.

Agreed, his rugby iq is so high! Unreal that he isnt coaching a nation

Angelo Briesies same

Me in Kent UK. So happy , love to see All Blacks lose.

So good

Me

John smith Love to see us lose? Wow okay.

@@aliyaali2621 Im a different John Smith so please don't assume all John Smiths are the same! I don't like to see NZ lose just pleased England beat the greatest rugby nation of all time and are now in the final. As for Squidge England now top the word rankings SA second NZ third Wales 4th, Irrelevent, but.... well no im not sad enough to enjoy saying that but if we win next Saturday i will certainly enjoy saying England, world champions 2019

You’re bang on!

I still expect france to ruin someones party, only cause they have done it so many times in the wc

Wales? Come on

wildebest Ireland got dicked on this weekend, almost a full strength team and they got ripped a part. Scotland, in my opinion have a better chance than France, they lost in Nice but using a b team, and won with a shoddy performance in murrayfield

wildebest you’re forgetting that they one twice in the 90’s

Since Hillary climbed Everest in 1953:)

ironoically we haven't played you since 2017 so you can't probe we'll beat you if we play you

@@SGMiner21 Since 1953 !..that's a long time Doc no matter what logic you use.

Wales havent beaten the alblacks, because they nearly came that closer, in the 26--25, but Wales lost by one points, .

wrong

I wouldn't write us off just yet, although I will admit that it's not looking good.

That hurts..

Ireland players looked tired last weekend... What's up with that? And what happened to O'Mahony? He used to be a machine

They still are? You would have said the same thing about England after 2018 even if its not true

Damn raw rugby stop trolling us 😂 I really hope we get our act together fast

Amazing how RU-vid are recommending this.

Here after RSA destroyed england in the finals

@@RugbyLover86 Just came across this comment now having been tagged on another thread. Bok fan, btw, and while I was not betting for or against England to beat you in the semis, I was pretty sure that we would beat you in the final, especially (and I do get the irony here) after you beat us in the opening game. However, the reasons you suggest for the loss to England are completely contradictory to mine; I was of the opinion that using a "completely" untried and untested backline, while sidelining 207 caps between B Smith, Crotty, Ioane and SBW was the reason for the collapse. My contention was that with the inexperience, your boys had no exit strategy and made poor decisions when they got the ball on the back foot. Would be interested to know how you came to your conclusion though.

Andrew_ B Ice Hockey *

Did you see what happened to the USA in the Basketball World Cup?

David Rowe unreal

but neither canada or the usa won the hockey/basketball world cup lol

@@scotthamilton6062 More like New Zealand to rugby is more like Brazil to football

They were the best team they were number 1 😂

@@MarcDavidReich Look at Scotland and Wales away games against France and England.

True story, consistency in game play is the key. ABs is more often then not consistent AND they play 80 minutes unlike other teams

South Africa has more depth and NZ is going through a rough period, where they have been having difficulty replacing some of their big names. I firmly believe that Hansen has finally seen the penny drop regarding goal kicking, and maybe he should kick his own arse regarding his arrogant comments during the BI Lions tour regarding BB kicking. Jordie Barrett is nowhere near the class of some of the players left out of the squad, and IMHO only made it back into the side because he can cover the kicking duties. Mo'unga is not as good as Barrett at 10 and was almost certainly brought in for the same reason. The dead giveaway was in the return Bledisloe clash, with Hansen having vowed 'no risk rugby', the first kick of the night and Richie stepped up, continuing to do so until he was taken off injured.

@@Karma-qt4ji The only depth south africa has is the pit toilet that they shit in because their rugby skills are shit and dumb arrogant losers for players.

Lukas K imo I think England and SA have the most depth

@@newspaper9949 they should,considering their playing numbers.

Karma actually Mo’unga is better than Barret at 10. Look at his stats

Same applies to 1995, where Australia were considered favourites and SA beat them in the opening game. So that is 1991, 1995 and 2003 (England).

Karma yeah 2003 England and Australia were joint favourites at the time

Yeah dribble. Australia were clear Favourites 99, England Came to NZ in 2003 and 91 and 95 were up for grabs. Click bait, obviously never met a wallabies supporter cos they have been screaming chokers since 99

Yeah, i think that 91 AB world cup side was probably the weakest of all our world cup sides.

@@runit5182 aussie was strong back then, but we had lomu.

Im irish so ireland especially now that we're ranked 1st

Since 1905

Ciarao Ohara well sad to say it, but you’d be dead...

Ciarao Ohara hows that working out for you.

The Best English maybe? let’s your post on Sunday

beatonthedonis47 Wales are number 1 but Nz are still the best

I agree with you, as the saying goes, to be the best you have to beat the best and Wales havent beaten NZ for 66 years lol.PS-NZ are back where they belong after Wales lost to Ireland.

Whales are now 4th due to loosing to Ireland this weeknd..NZ now back at #1 All blacks back on top baby!

Soz Ireland are the best in the world

@@edwardbyrne2688, only because of the rubbish ranking system but at the end of the day its who has the silverware that really matters.

yeah Japan have been playing tremendously.

Judging by Ireland's recent form and Scotland's woeful away record, I don't think it will be much of an upset in Pool A. I really do think that Fiji are the most likely to cause an upset; but then again the whole thing with an upset is that no one could have conceivably predicted it.

Samoa

Fiji beat the Maori team convincingly not long ago , and on their day could topple some big names. Just can't wait for it to start.

ABs to win is free money

Agree, England look on fire. SA and Wales have a chance. But All Blacks are always the team to beat.

They'll have to win the world cup to make people actually believe that 😂

English fans just can’t accept Wales are better than them

@@tomforde2701 we'll see about that I bet you their form is just a fluke

@YaboiPlank tbf they did win 14 matches in a row, that’s no fluke

@@lordbucketheadpolling5824 how many did they win against NZ?

The Second Crank was on tv this week. Even more legen-dairy than the first.The greatest movie franchise EVER. Starring the most talented and diverse actor of this century, arguably All-time : Jason Statham. How does he keep re-inventing himself, it's a mystery.

the one where he eats humble pie? yes I'm looking forward to it, although I understand if we don't see it 😅

Switch aus with eng

How can you choose australia over england ?????

@@User-eh5zb True that, but of course, Australia always turn up in World Cup years. They might pull off what Wales did in 2015.

Okay yes that's true, I should add England into this pool. I just think australia could surprise me

Nice to see you here G-man :)

Nah he won't do them, partly because he's Welsh and partly because they're just warm ups. He made a pretty detailed comment on Reddit. I don't have a link but it basically said England were good and Ireland weren't and then they gave up

Ben Andrews pretty biased to just ignore any game where England play well and try to almost pretend it didn’t happen, especially for the England v Wales game when England won! I guess it would be a lot of work to make videos for all the warm up games though!

@@jackyarrow9442 surely it'd be pretty biased just to have the england games analysed on the channel when Scotland v France, the Pacific Isles matches and South Africa winning the rugby championship also took place without any content. It's difficult to take anything tangible from the warmup games with nothing at stake and the lineups and tactics constantly changing. Squidge will probably do the Samoa and Japan profile videos and then a hype World Cup intro (hopefully with predictions as well!) before the competition starts.

Aaron Samuel The England v Wales and England v Ireland games were bigger than the likes of France v Scotland and the pacific island games and therefore should get priority when it comes to making videos about them! Not to mention the fact that he’s Welsh and therefore will tend to make more videos about games involving Wales! But i do agree France v Scotland and SA winning the rugby championship were also worthy of having a video!

@@jackyarrow9442 They're bigger in rankings but not in meaning (unless people actually believe Wales are the number 1 side in the world). If every Wales, England and Ireland game were analysed the channel would be boring in my view. I wish Squidge could make a vid on every game ever but as that's impossible I'm quite happy just seeing fewer, but top quality videos on Samoa's troublesome build up and Japan's growing hopes as hosts.

But how else do you do it? Based on a hunch? Reputation? Got to be down to games won, points scored, based on a crazy maths algorithm. But I know what you mean, Wales (or England for that matter) would need to win a series in NZ to be seriously considered to be best in the world. The no.1 ranking for Wales was fleeting.

No one ever said they were the best team in the world, they were simply ceded number 1 for a bit. That is a huge difference and when you start to see that the rankings ARE the "crazy mathematical algorithm", you will not take it so seriously.

You can go on form and NZ have been slipping the last 2 years.

i wouldn't call that cruising. boks ran out of puff and deklerk had a game he probably would wish to forget

Boks would destroy every other team in this tournament apart from NZ. They would walk over Ireland and Wales.

Shaun McAdams Sips tea quietly 😶

@@Theemptythroneistaken They havent beaten NZ since 2018 sunshine :D

How did they do un the fin.... never mind

@@The_Vuka_Experience better than NZ ;)

sq33qs because England beat them

I'm hoping but not expecting an England Wales final

@AbolK2 i'm currently expecting an England/New Zealand and a Wales / South africa set of semi finals. Probably with an NZ/SA final

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jJLDXD35nNs.html he has

He’s made a few

The boks will probably make the Q-Finals but anything beyond that is wishful thinking

@@Thanos-kp5jr That did not age well...

@@Karma-qt4ji I'm skeptic what can i say

Aaaaaaand it's gone i.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/rugby-world-cup/rwc-2019-japan/116030594/rugby-world-cup-all-blacks-on-top-of-the-world-just-one-week-into-the-tournament

what ever you say bro make mine a double

Of course you think you’re gonna win it, after a draw with the AB’s on home soil you’re now automatically gonna win the World Cup aye!!!

ran dodrick you called it 👏🏆🇿🇦

John Smith called it

@@brynmiles699 Ha, ha. My Kiwi mates aren't talking to me. I'm making a really big call now. Springboks to win ... if they get past Wales who have beaten them the last 4 times.

John Smith they are looking very strong right now so it’s totally possible

@@brynmiles699 Yes, I think they've peaked at the right time. It will be a great battle. Both have big forwards and mobile forwards. The Springboks might have an edge in the back line and they are strong in defence, but it's always the on-field gaps, opportunities and mistakes on the day that make the difference and shift momentum.

@TL DRHa, ha, you're probably right. But I had a feeling in my bones that NZ would freeze and lose. Their game was becoming too predictable and other teams have worked out their turnover strategy at the breakdown (except the dumb Australians) as you saw England exploit. The Springboks are not as predictable and when they become predictable they appear to change it up and adapt on the field instinctively. The stats are not in South Africa's favour, but then they weren't in England's favour either.