WARRIOR WALLABIES!!

What a battle.The Boks played strictly to script-a bunch of battle-hardened , very experienced, aging players knowing only one way to play-deny the opposition the ball, wear down defenders will and strength with waves of forward charges and then score tries if they could or more likely, force penalties and kick their way to victory.
But they ran into a much younger, more unorthodox Wallaby team of the future whose brave forwards absorbed all the Boks could throw at them(cheated in the rucks in a way that used to be a Boks hallmark) and always threatened the kind of unexpected break through that led to the ONLY try of the match-remember that when the commentators(NZ and South African-eg Wallabies get out of jail! Boks all over them. Aussies had 15 players + the ref) stress the dominance of the Springboks. The South Africans had 85% possession, still lost and never crossed the Australian try line.
Eddy Jones, the former Australian coach and past adviser to the Springboks, was right when he said they were an aging team stuck in an out outmoded style of play and the key players, especially Habana had gone backwards since they won the last World Cup
It was like the Welsh regiment's famous defence of Rourke's Drift mission station against vastly more numerous Zulu warriors with the Springboks(ironically) playing the losing tribesmen.South African coach and captin resigned on the spot(before facing an ANC firing squad??) what about their English counterparts?
In the pub last night I was the only Wallabies supporter amongst a mob of Kiwis and a few South Africans-behind the bar the Welsh and French flags had pride of place marking their already having won through to the semis.
After the game had manythumps on the back from huge approving New Zealanders who have no love for the Boks and one bought me a drink. Can the Wallabies recover sufficiently to do it all again against an All Blacks,equally as physical but more versatile than the Boks?
The subsequent All Black victory over Argentina was somewhat anti-climactic after the earlier battle but the locals loved it and I left the bar to the pounding sound of the Rolling stones number about the "world is painted black". I rolled down the hill to the campsite quietly humming "The man from down under!!"(without Vegemite sandwich)
Go you good things!!!