{"id":103647,"date":"2015-11-01T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T08:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=103647"},"modified":"2019-09-18T02:56:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:56:34","slug":"all-blacks-just-too-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/11\/01\/all-blacks-just-too-good\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks &#8216;just too good&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>David Rush, South Coast Herald<\/h6>\n<p>New Zealand beat Australia in a pulsating final at Twickenham &#8211; the score 34-17.<\/p>\n<p>The All Blacks dominated the first half thanks to three penalties from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dan_Carter\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Carter<\/a> and a try from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nehe_Milner-Skudder\" target=\"_blank\">Nehe Milner-Skudder.<\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<iframe src='\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SEAtUFvlWII' height='360' width='640' allowfullscreen='' frameborder='0' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s only first-half points came from a penalty kicked by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Foley\" target=\"_blank\">Bernard Foley<\/a>. The half time score was 16-3.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the break Ma&#8217;a Nonu scorched through to score again. Carter missed the kick but at 21-3, the Wallabies looked like a horse with a broken leg &#8230; needing to be put out of its misery.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Yet somehow Australia clawed back into the game as only an Australian team can.<\/p>\n<p>Their cause was helped by Ben Smith who got a yellow card and sent to the Sin Bin for 10 minutes. In this time the Wallabies scored twice to narrow the score to just four points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES... <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/NZL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NZL<\/a> enjoy their first moments as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RWC2015?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RWC2015<\/a> champions <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3bkGivw52G\">pic.twitter.com\/3bkGivw52G<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rugby World Cup (@rugbyworldcup) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rugbyworldcup\/status\/660538556084035584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2015<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n<p>With the 82 000 spectators belting out Swing Low Sweet Chariot the game was most certainly on!<\/p>\n<p>It was at this point in the game that Dan Carter showed his class. Well, eventually.<\/p>\n<p>When he missed touch with a penalty clearance it seemed like New Zealand&#8217;s choking ghosts had entered the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>However, Carter settled nerves with a superb drop goal and then a long range penalty.<\/p>\n\n<p>It meant Australia had to throw caution to the wind and mistakes were made from which New Zealand scored through Beauden Barrett to increase the scoreline.<\/p>\n<p>Carter was man of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s coach Michael Cheika said the better team had won, that New Zealand had just been too good. The seemingly unflappable All Black coach Steve Hansen gave praise to a &#8216;special&#8217; team.<\/p>\n<p>Overall it was a fantastic spectacle with five tries scored in the game.<\/p>\n<p>The All Blacks have now won the trophy three times, in 1987, 2012 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa could perhaps take some comfort knowing they had New Zealand under real pressure last week. The flip side of that is that they&#8217;ll feel they could have beaten Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Until Japan then in 2019. In the meantime rugby fans can enjoy a break, allow blood pressures to return to normal, and then look forward to Super Rugby in the new year &#8211; and of course the Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='ffa60f75e0651f8f7705bcfa1f87b7fe'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the result most people were expecting but perhaps not the way it panned out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5696,"featured_media":103652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":".","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8428,3],"tags":[1768,1122,7566,8866],"class_list":["post-103647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby-world-cup","category-sports-news","tag-all-blacks","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-wallabies"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Rugby World Cup"},"tag_labels":["all blacks","rugby","Rugby World Cup","Wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}