Blast aka Bill Gray

The NZ All Blacks are in a difficult position after Australia beat Sth Africa 49 - 0 last weekend. The NZ public will be demanding that NZ not only win, but win with a score close to or greater than that of Australia.

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The fact is, though, that Sth Africa is a great rival and last week may have been a blot on the horizon, but one that may be erased by a good performance this weekend.

The stats head to head show that Sth Africa are the only team in the world to compete with the NZ All Blacks throughout history. As it stands now
South Africa and New Zealand have meet 67 times New Zealand have won 36 times, there have been 3 draws and Sth Africa has won 28 times.

New Zealand have scored 1130 points, Sth Africa 990

NZ has a winning percentage of just 53.73 percent.

Sth Africa has won 46.27 percent of the time. The next closest is Australia who only have 33.87 percent of the matches played against the All Blacks.

So, I predict a win to New Zealand and I believe that the win will be by a wide margin but I expect the Sth African team to try and resurrect some pride in their performance.