Canada stands tall......

As you all know I am a rugby fanatic and I was so chuffed to read the following by John Inverdale who is probably the UK's top sports journalist :-

“Canada stand tall under onslaught
Watching the final quarter of the New Zealand v Canada rugby international on Saturday made me wonder what it would have been like to have said a decade or so ago to Mike Tyson in his prime: "Look, I'm going to stand here for the next 20 minutes, and I'd like you to punch me as hard as you possibly can in the midriff, ferociously and unrelentingly, just to see if I'm alive at the end of it." They would probably have been your last words.
Well, after just about holding their own for the first hour of the match, the brave Canucks took the battering to end all batterings for 20 minutes as Dan Carter conducted his orchestra and the All Blacks pounded their line unremittingly - and yet, somehow, the Canadians emerged very bloodied but very unbowed.
They may have conceded 10 tries but at no stage did they take a backward step, and for watching South Africans and Australians, French and maybe even English fans, there was suddenly a shaft of hope. Maybe this autumn's World Cup isn't such a foregone conclusion, after all. “
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New Zealand put in a mediocre performance to beat a spirited Canada side 64-13 in front of a sold-out Waikato Stadium in Hamilton on Saturday. The Canucks put up a good fight and were just six points adrift when New Zealand hooker Andrew Hore went over on cusp of half-time to give the home team a 26-13 half-time lead.
It was certainly a game of two halves. The first belonging to the Canadians and the second was all New Zealand's.
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Brilliant!

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