Ah, that makes sense.
Like everyone else I guess the expectation going into the match was the Wallabies winning in a canter so when things don't appear to be going to plan he still assumed that it would come right, even if by the end of the game he had to accept it's was not going to!
I must admit I feel like that every Crusaders or All Blacks game. I assume we will win, and it's not until my team is obviously out of the running that I have to accept it's not going the way I expected.
In some cases (like the final of the Super 15 this year) I actually felt like we were still going to pull it back right up until about 2 minutes from fulltime.
The closeness of the previous Reds/Crusaders game probably just accentuated that feeling, surely it was time for pay back... but it wasn't.
Anyway the Samoa result was certainly a great thing going into RWC 2011, now we just need Fiji to do the same to the All Blacks and all illusions of superiority will be dispelled.
Of course that will never happen.
Jules
