why? why would you do this to one of the only things left in this world that stayed true to its heritage? the black jersey is bigger than us all because of the history, because of the culture with in, because its filled with all our hopes and dreams, our hearts, our souls. untouched, untainted, true and respectful to its own great history. this was the final barrier between the past and the "no respect, commercialised, take all you can, forget your past", future. this is a truely dissappointing bit of news for all not just kiwis but all who recognise the jersey.....there is so many ways you could have publicised our allignment with aig. sooo many other ways the world could have been informed of the partnership and you chose this way. advertise on their clothes, their bus, plane, bill boards, commercials, magazines, stadiums. i absolutely detest this action and if there is someway to return the pride back to the black jersey it must be explored. i cannot relay to you how dissappointed i am. this is truely a tragedy

@HT i am also one who shares your views and have done all year. you should have seen when i left a comment saying that i thought the wallabies deserved their second place ranking. people went nuts at me. bloody clowns. just as you said. they are severly hit by injury yet they still win. i just wish people would see with a clear view rather than a one eyed view. it clouds judgement. i picked all the games this comp except the draw. i new the wallabies would win on the weekend. why? because the less we expect of them the better they play. this is just how they are

what happened to all the comments

My Picks:

1. Robinson
2. Moore
3. Alexander
4. Horwill (C)
5. Timani
6. Samo
7. Po****
8. Higginbotham
9. Genia
10. Beale
11. Ioane
12. Q. Cooper
13. AA. Cooper
14. Shipperly
15. O'connor

Slipper, TPN, Douglas, Hooper, Phipps, Barnes, Harris

doesnt realy matter who you choose in the front row. all of them are no good. same goes for the loosies. bar po****. theres no depth there. quade is a crap 10 but i think he could do well on the back of some good beale play. but what ever would still struggle against the ABs

Wallaroo. Yeah i knew he played at 10 through his early carrer thats why i said it. but you say stuff people dont agree with and they retaliate with name calling and crap. now all this time later im reading that people agree. its a strange bloody world we live in

makes me laugh. i've been saying for years that beale should be at ten. everyone told me i didnt know anything about rugby. now look. people are saying "gee beale is a good number ten" funny that.

love to see what magicbreed thought of the game. think things might have turned out a little different to how he may have expected

#90 Magicbreeeeeeed..................................Oh Magicbreeeeeeeed.............................What did you make of the game last night mate? huh. was that the result you were looking for? i think things may have strayed a little from your predictions aye? do you? never mind champ its always good when people join us to write novels telling us why their teams going to beat the all blacks or why their teams better than the all blacks then come game day their team gets totally destroyed.........AGAIN. oh if only we could see the future aye. we'd all be a lot less likely to "put our foot in our mouths" but thanks for your comment though aye. very entertaining especially reading back through it after the recent result of last nights game. just makes it sooo much better. keep it up you over passionate extra confident super optimistic though somewhat delusional bok supporter you. enjoy the rest of your year mate

yeah i think 4 tries is a bit of a mountain. especially given the argies deffensive capabilities. but hey if youve picked it by the end of the game well done

i think the all blacks are gona beat the boks at home too. they just seem to have everybodys measure right now. even though they arent playing like the well oiled machine that we are used to seeing they still seem to absorb the pressure (quite effortlessly at times) and then reteliate with blinding speed and precision. i dont see the boks winning this next abs encounter. same goes with the argies. i keep reading suggestions that maybe the argies first win will come through the wallabies. im not so sure though in some ways i might agree but not for the same reasons. the wallabies are an incrediblely resilient side which they have already shown with their close wins this championship. regardless of what people say they are wins...WINS not loses. they arent pretty but pretty wins is not something i feel they are in a position to give nor do i think they will be at least untill they sort all their drama out. and when your in the state that the wallabies are in, any win is a good win. i feel that even while they are depleated they will still pose a huge challenge to any team and that says plenty about their resilience. so if the argies do win they WILL have to bloody play well to do it. im suggesting here that it wont be as easy as people like to try to make it out to be but it is possible. in saying that i still think the argies are gona end up winless in their first campaign and that has been my feeling from the start. so far this tournament has turned out how i had pictured earlier this year. bar the draw with argies vs SA. im sitting on 100% 4 more to go. heres hoping