So how did the Black Ferns win the Rugby World Cup? | World Cup 2021 Analysis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- It's the impossible action that captured a nation. The 2021 Rugby World Cup has been won, and it wasn't by the team almost nailed-on before things began. This Saturday, the Black Ferns completed the greatest moment in their history as they won the World Cup in front of the biggest crowd they'd ever seen. So what went wrong with the Red Roses, and how did New Zealand seal it?
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That final scene is the most uplifting, wholesome and optimistic thing I've ever seen. What a nation
Squidge, your analysis is not only important because it is so excellent, it is also important because you value authenticity and integrity and equity above views. Massive respect.
Precisely why I contribute to support this channel.
Well said!
I was emotional all the way through this game, and your wrapup just brought it all home again.
The Black Ferns asking 'What else do we need to do?' really hit me.
About time one of the most successful teams from NZ get the recognition they so truly deserve. Onwards and upwards!
I think I'll keep coming back to Ruby Tui directing the crowd to tutere mai ngā Iwi as one of the most important scenes for me. We can be quiet people who often dismiss our culture, but that crowd singing together for the girls is Aotearoa and damn it brings a tear to my eye
My wife and I were at the game that nite , it was a awesome atmosphere, England were amazing, but our girls stuck in there to the end , I will never forget that atmosphere was out the gate , and I will say the difference on watching woman play to men being at the game was the girls feeding of the crowd, and you feel a connection with then
So proud of our black ferns , and hats of to England as well.
Squidge Rugby is my favorite rugby channel across all media and platforms. My go-to for games at the other end of the world. My go to for an independent view of New Zealand rugby and alternative to kiwi on kiwi chest thumping. I used to say All Black rugby but with the Black Ferns Red Roses playing the greatest test of Eden Park, I say New Zealand rugby. Thank you for all your Women's World Cup videos that introduced me to all the other great and amazing players wearing all these different jersies. Without that I would have known only the black ones. Many thanks for the finest rugby commentary, analysis and entertainment on the planet. Kia Ora Squidge.
Thank you Squidge for having covered this amazing rugby event ! What a world cup !
I've never teared up watching rugby before but this game got that emotion out of me.
Waited all week for this one. Thanks for covering everything!
That sing a long at the end was brilliant
Yeah. Ruby Tui brings the magic.
Love your content Squidge! The wrap up brings tears to the eyes.
Watching the analysis of the Abbie Ward stolen lineout is both brilliant and utterly painful 😭😭😭
It was really the only logical thing the black ferns could do. Contest the line out or lose.
I love it when fun good rugby beats mauls
i love you squidge
Stacey Fluhler to Emily Scarrett: "these are not the droids you're looking for"
Stacy blew Emily away, bloody awesome skills...
Honestly those lines at the end were absolutely spot on
It's tough being a runner up and it definitely was a game of ups and downs, triumphs and troughs, so exciting until the last play of the dice when our kiwi girls won, well done the Black Ferns!!
The second the ball went out from that penalty at the end you knew it wasn't gonna work out. It felt like a bad decision the second it was made
Holy Moly your videos are good!
Tearing up God Damn
In all your knowledge, in all your wonderful analysis, how is that not throwing the lift across? Shambles.
Don't forget when it was 14 on 14 NZ scored a try on the same side and outscored England as for the start it's nothing new the Black ferns start slow against quality sides look at Australia and France they were 17-0 and 10-0 up before the Black ferns scored
Australia got to 17-0 up.
@@TillyOrifice ,I changed it 👍.
Yes and Portia was outstanding until she went off with head injury due to what resulted in the red card. Leading metres and clean breaks by far
Great video ❤️
I stand by the fact that women's rugby is perfect the sport without the general girth and weight that is killing the mens game.
The technical part is the same but you get less "dominant" tackles and players use agility and smarts to get through a defence
In short this was rugby at its finest.
Why did England go for the line out to create a rolling maul instead of the quick tap then create the rolling maul they probably would have scored the winning try 🤔 🤣
Why does the new mic make Squidge sound like a mix of Robbie and Will?
Nice
Day 93 of asking you to do a So How did the Stormers win the URC?
IMHO because NZ had one more player for most of the games due to referee inconsistent decisions, England player red carded for (i agree) high tackle and head to head contact, yet NZ player only yellow card for high tackle and head to head contact roll on the NZ trolls
But if you saw the Australia-New Zealand match, the Wallaroos skipper had also made a head-to-head tackle and was given only a yellow as well. And if you had listened in on the conversation with the TMO, you would have been scratching your head because she lowered it from a red, not because of mitigation (she admitted there was none), but because their was a "low risk" of danger....🤯 Any blow to the head is dangerous!! 🤬
So the Kennedy Simon decision was better much consistent: the tackler was actually trying to make a tackle whereas Lydia Thompson wasn't.
was at great game
Can anyone explain why the NZ try where a pod breaks off completely with the ball at the back isn't offside or obstruction when the England defenders re-engage?
The laws of the game allows that in mauls. Don't really understand it myself, but it's a legal play.
As long as they are all bound to each other is the rule...
Black ferns won because France missed the penalty kick,very simple.
NZ missed more kicks so no excuse
😂😂😂
By playing against 14 players in the final. If we’re honest…..
“Winning that game of rugby will remain a mere formality”
And that is one reason why I have always hated New Zealand as a rugby nation. They do not have the right to win that everyone seems to think they do.
@@DarkMoonWayfarer getting female coaching staff will only help if they're better at their job than the current staff. How do they not already have diversity in their squad?
Wanting to always will isn't hypermasculine. It's hyper competitive. And of course it can take them further.
It's bloody simple!1 extra player for more than sixty minutes will more than likely win the game every time!....that's obvious!!
15 players beat 14. How many internationals where that does not happen??
As a kiwi they gotta bring in 20 min red cards
England has been defeated by NZ black ferns 4th times in a row... England is good at telling the world many years of build up to world cups and the best they can do in the last 4 world cups is second to NZ
England relied way, way, way too much on their forwards. In the final, the backs hardly got their hands on the ball, except for that first try. New Zealand had the better back division overall and they won the game in the end. Fluhrer is to be commended for her play in setting up that last try. She regathered that grubber, passed it off, and it resulted in the game winner. England had some chances to retort, but the backs were basically shut out of play in the second half, except for that counter attack run by Dow that resulted in a yellow card for a high tackle that might have warranted a red. I don't know, I played in a different era, and the game has changed so damn much because it's more like rugby league and rucks are not really contested anymore, but I want the backs handling ball in space, not forwards. I don't like seeing some flank forward or number 8 at flyhalf in open play, but a real flyhalf or center there, because they are backs for a reason: they handle better, pass better, and are faster runners. Anyway, it did seem that the narrator's outlook on how England basically tightened up toward the end of the game was spot on. New Zealand were also down to 14 each for ten minutes in the late second half, but England failed to take advantage of the temporary levelling of the sides.
Watch if there isn't a twenty or thirty minute red card time period, with a sub allowed to come on after that time. As the red card was quite early in the game, England could have been at full strength, with a sub for the sent off winger, for much of the match into the second half. That last line out: good reason that lifting should be banned. I have never liked it. Yes, it seemed NZ figured out who the ball was being thrown to. Easy enough then to challenge, because if no challenge, England might have mauled their way to score as they had so often in the tournament. Legalized obstruction in mauls has allowed this reliance on them to score.
NZ and Australia pushed world rugby for the red carded player being replaced and got shut down by world rugby unfortunately.
The red card should stay as it is. Any thing that is bad enough to warrant a red should be a team is punished for the rest of the game.
I’m a Kiwi, so biased, but felt genuinely emotional at your final wrap up! Thanks Squidge for your excellent coverage and insights as always. 🥰
Can confirm not a kiwi and got goosebumps with that ending!
The crowd joining in for Tutira mai nga iwi brought a tear to my eye on the day, and it still does now!
I'm a Brit, living in NZ for the past 13 years, and supporting the Ferns. I too was emotional after the match and even now watching this analysis. The team has done an incredible job turning the situation around after the events of last years tour.
I am from Africa Namibia and a fan of everthing Aotearoa - it gives me hope with investemnt in womens rugby in africa we can still catch up to the best the way the Ferns turn things around from last year. i was expecting @Squidge to be biased 😃 BUt i like seeing the "overdog lose" Example Portugl beating USA to qualify for the RWC2023
I said this just after the final whistle, and I haven't changed my mind. This final was probably the best RWC final I've ever seen. What a game. Thank you Squidge 👍
On an unrelated note, I love the kid holding up Ruby Tui's book like it's a banner at 17:49. You cant pay for that sort of publicity.
Thank you for the great video analysis and emotional plea for women rugby.
Well done Black Ferns and Red Roses. They were phenomenal.
A quick congratulations to France, les Bleues, for an uncompromising third place.
Well done to all other teams and amateur players who had the courage to face professional players.
Well done to New Zealand for such an impressive tournament organization.
I have watched all 6 games of France live, as early as 3:30 am. And 3 other games, including this outstanding final game.
Thankyou squidge, for me you are singlehandedly responsible for my new interest in women's rugby.
Rugby is very complicated, keeping up to date with the mens team, their play styles, player match-ups, team balance etc. It all feels like a life long hobby, you have to watch every tournament and see a teams weaknesses and how they unearth new players etc. Your work makes that so much more accessible and the dedication to both the mens and womens game is what makes your channel so special. You're one of the first people to give both equal promotion, praise and analysis and I am so grateful that you provide a platform like this.
So glad u ended with Ruby's sing a long! For a NZ crowd to sing is a sensation, be good if tht gets used throughout games in future to lift the home team...ala the mighty Welsh lungs:)
Fantastic game, and an equally great summary! I felt for England - we NZers know the pain of having our team be dominant for a long period (...well, we used to!) without being able to bring home the silverware we wanted most (see 1991-2010). The Roses always had the most to lose from that game, and that added pressure can't have helped.
To be fair the ABs have that pressure every game they play they're expected to win every game
Not to mention that early red card of course 😂🤣😂
@@jamesbong4928 it was a terribly reckless charge, no shoulder, no arms, head to head, exactly what must be rid from the game. Woodman had checked her trajectory and passed the ball, the assailant (never attempting a tackle) had to change direction to hit her.
@@TheMudwatcher - stick to soccer
@@TheMudwatcher what you on about no arms? Yes, it was a red card.
But what about the tackle on Abby Dow? Are you similarly incensed about that?
The Balls of Ruby Tui to start that chant at the end. Girl is fearless 😂
Loved the editing...especially splicing in a couple of Black Ferns' players from an earlier side and the ad lib crowd singing.....great analysis and well worth the wait.
what a commentary, especially the final bit man! it moved me.
Take a good break Squidge, (but first please do Italy Australia)
Yes another amazing game.
Thank you for this brilliant analysis but also through your work this entire tournament, it's so appreciated! Unbelievably great final (the game, the crowd, the spectacle) to top off a monumental world cup for women's rugby. Respect to you for consistency in calling out how horrendously unions treat their female players, no doubt that's contributing to the change we're seeing. Cannot wait for more rugby from this channel, but do take care of yourself!
It was indeed the best rugby match I've ever seen. Absolutely incredible from both sides.
The Red Roses were clearly the better side, but being down to 14 players against the second best team in the world at home, was just 3 points too far for them to travel.
My heart goes out to the Roses. You could see how exhausted they were approaching the final lineout having had to have worked so hard to cover the missing player. They'd lost the lineout before the ball was thrown.
Congrats to the Black Ferns though, they had an impressive tournament, played some sublime rugby and showed the world just what the women's game can produce.
Roll on 2025
How were they the better team? They couldn't score any other way other than a driving maul. The Black Ferns played all the rugby.
@@DarkJonas33 Exactly and the fact The Balckferns lost one of their top players so early on...yes they lost a player (red card) but at that point they were also 14-0...The fact we scored when we had a yellow card shows with 14 players each the Balckferns still played on their level. .....You can't say they were the better team at all....what they did do is make some choices in the game that could have had a different outcome including the decisions on the replacement players.
@@BetterHumanz & @josh yet they only managed to win by 3 points..... when they had an extra player for 50 minutes of the match. 50 minutes!!
@@lost_boy How many times have we seen the ABs win with a man down against quality sides.. (when they were top not counting the last 2-3 years of decline under foz lol) If the red roses are head and tails above the rest of the world then they should have a plan b to deal with a loss of a player... Instead they stuck to their one trick pony of a maul... Also this was a winger arguably the least involved postion in a game of rugby.
@@lost_boy lol yeah you were lucky Holmes had a bad night it could have been a far larger margin :)Doesn't matter if it is 3 points or 50 points ...Now that The Blackferns have finally gone professional we will see what happens in the future.
Wow! Review, analysis, inspiration!! That was great review Squidge, got me a lil chocked up at the end there! Was a double banger win, Womens rugby as well as the Black Ferns!! Cheehoo!!
As gutted as I am to see the Red Roses lose the better team on the day won and a sold out Eden Park seeing them win will do wonders for the sport. Also I can't deny this sets up the 2025 world cup quite nicely with it being in England
You failed to mention the irony of English fans claiming the Black ferns won because of the red card when NZ has been pushing for a 20min red card for years now.
Was the card red-yes every day of the week based on consistency of those calls.
Was there intent involved- she plenty of time to adjust her height but unlikely.
Was it fair and in the best interests of the players and the game that ENG had to play a final for 60mins-aboslultey not.
Does this red card detract away from what was an amazing final and ocasion for womens Rugby-Absolutely.
Yes yes yes. It was the English rugby union that voted against it so fervently (among others)
It is ironic 😮
Fun fact, England had six forwards and only two backs on the bench. The odds were that NZ would run wide and tire out the English backline. On that "winning" try, you can see Emily looked gassed. It was the same in 2017.
Deserved red card massively changed England's fortunes😭 Good win for NZ. Great Rugby final. Great Analysis. Hope countries make their respective teams full time professionals. Praying to see the red Roses in the 2025 Final versus New Zealand. Really need to break this hoodoo.
Hey Squidge, thanks for opening my eyes to women's rugby. This has been an excellent tournament, I've watched some of the best games of rugby that I've ever seen, and it would probably have passed me by if not for your videos. Great work!
Absolutely spot on with your analysis. The red card significantly affected the English game plan . Well spotted also with the timing around the English throw in. The Black Ferns were up against a juggernaut and it was all these elements that amounted to an improbable victory for the Kiwis. To defend the inevitable lineout/maul/try right at the death made this a game for the ages. . Thanks for helping us all understand what the hell happened.
The highlight from the Women's World Cup was the lack of players pretending to be injured to give their team a breather like we see all the goddamn time with South Africa and a lot of European sides, it's great to have players keen to actually play.
Where is the winning try in this video?? That offload from the NZ centre was the play of the game.
Absolutely, you could make a whole video on that offload.
And the way Stacey Fluhler was clapped off the field!
@@kstringer24 And she wasn't considered as player of the match 🤬
The final lineout was Killa moment of the game,win or lose....
I really appreciate the analysis you’ve done during the World Cup Squidge. I’ve been following Women’s Rugby for years now and I’m so happy to see more and more people realising how good the rugby is.
As a Red Roses fan, I hated the result initially, but the Black Ferns were wonderful and I'm almost pleased they won now. Great analysis, Sir, and what an advert for Rugby and for women's sport. The athleticism and gameplay of both teams was incredible.
Would England have won with 15 players on the field - Probably, Could England have won it with 14 - Yes. Coulda, woulda shouldas don't count. The tackling technique of just one player at one critical moment changed the momentum and course of the game. Lesson: in the next 5 years keep doing the same but learn to tackle
Also Portia was superbly brilliant before that point making something like 80 metres and many clean breaks. England probably would have won, but I wouldn't have counted the Blackferns out either. But yes it was up to England in the end with their tackling technique. Or one player of the 15 on the field.
@@Tom_McMurtry Lydia wasn't even trying to make a tackle 🙄 I'm guessing she intended to push Woodman over the touch line.
I was there that day and just wow it has to have been the best game of rugby I've ever seen. on the train home I was thinking 'can't ait for squidges analysis' 😁
One important side effect of this world cup- now everyone knows who Ruby Tui is
They play boring rugby typical pommie stuff
8 person rugby, whereas the Black Ferns played 15 person rugby where tries came from the forwards AND the backs.
Red card took out Portia Woodman WORTH 10 POINTS she is top scorer¡!!?!
Guess they shouldn't have concussed our best attacking threat so badly she can't even remember the game then, ey?
You can write your post script analysis anyway you won't after the fact, it's irrelevant, the fact is ,England lost, NZ won & are now the world champions, as you said yourself @ the start of your prematch analysis, England went out with their game plan stuck in their heads ,NZ had the world cup stuck in their hands, now that's a fact
What a fabulous summary and the analysis of the final. Well put together and a great finish with Ruby Tui making the crowd singing Māori and Samoan songs. Never seen a rugby player done that before as men are all serious. Kapai
This video seems pretty one sided to focus on what England did wrong without giving due credit to what NZ did right to win the game with their expansive attacking game.
High quality analysis like this only adds to the legacy of an instant classic of a game.
Great analysis. Only thing I would say is that on the front ball, the trigger is the jumper not that thrower. Meaning that the timing being different was because of the jumper being slower not the hooker
He summed up what the win meant for womens 🏉
Should have showed Stacey's offload - that was a great try
Yes, and she should've been named player of the match. She showed determination, made key tackles and great runs. And that smile....😍😍
England's play of rugby sets women's rugby back 30 odd years, so very uninspiring do they know they have a back line, that red card didn't do a damn thing because that women only gets used on defense
Dumb comment of the day!
Would’ve loved to see Squidge’s analysis of the lead-up to Fluhler’s epic game-winning offload
...tatou tatou e!
It’s great analysis but I’m an England fan and I’m still in turmoil. We have been building for this for five years and we’re back at square one: second best team in the world, arrrrh!
@@DarkMoonWayfarer hi, generally I’m pleased with the progress the game has made. The Black Ferns are a fantastic team, a joy to watch and France and Canada are looking good. Now we need to get The US and Aus to come to the party and we have a real international spectacle on our hands. But this was our golden opportunity and we bottled. Still love them tho’ 🥺
Good video. The Roses played so well most of the time and with 14 players. The Ferns had enough talent to exploit this and like you said crack the code..
Wow, 6 (from 7) rugby world cups for nz women now i believe. And they have only this year gone semi pro!. Outstanding fearless play to run from as many opportunities as possible, great for the game to see running rugbyvprevail over 1 dimensional pushovers which frankly are the bain of the sport. Eng deserves respect for their winning streak as they showed it a hard thing to combat. Lets hope other teams follow nz lead and promote running the ball.
Englands won 2
England scored a lot from the maul this tournament but to call them one-dimensional is ridiculous, not least after the way they scored the first try of the final.
If they played the way New Zealand fans think they play, we wouldn't have seen Kildunne's try in the final, or either of Dow's tries against Canada. We wouldn't have seen MacDonald score four tries in the opening game and England wouldn't have scored any tries against France.
Cokayne and smuggle, that’s a joke I can get behind
Did someone not tell the BFs the script says "England wins the RWC" cause they've won 20, 30 or 40 in a row and the 🏆 was basically locked away for 4yrs HOW RUDE !!! Those BFs party 💩 👎👎😞
Amazing both Men's and Women's finals were heavily influenced by a red card. Sooner it goes to 20 min a player replaced the better.
The fact the next World Cup is in England should help build the sport nicely.
In the end it came down to the Auckland spectators and the legendary mana of Eden Park. This Park has its own spirit it is NZ hard, we will it, trust it and rely on it. The whine new this and responded. It has our spirit.
your pronunciation of maori and pasifica names is better than most kiwis'. ka pai!
Lydia Thompson vs Potia Woodman top in all scorer in. ????!!!
Guts and grunt on attack and defence. Simple rugby basics.
excellent
Thanks for giving such great coverage to womens sport :)
New mic is great btw
Really liked your analysis of how massive the impact of the red card was. The pundits on TV just didn’t want to talk about it, presumably for fear of being accused of being overly critical of the player. All they needed to say was ‘these things happen in rugby, but it was tragic that it happened to England in this game of all games’. But it became an elephant in the room and made them look odd by not addressing the big factor.
They were afraid it would undermine the fern's achievement, which to be fair it does.
@Miguel Angel by the end of the gane it's was 14 game against 14 England had so many chances to win and get tries they just decided not too and only kick for the corner
@@miguelangel3254 and also on that front we left 12 points out there due to poor kicking
I'm probably going to sound like I'm whingeing, but is it a thing to test viewer's reflexes on the space bar / mouse by flashing texts impossible to read within the time it is on screen? Even getting the correct frame to pause on is a challenge. Also appreciated how you labelled the 'pods' (by numbering them) in your previous videos so felt a little disappointed you didn't do so here when you called out the formations. Apart from that, totally mirror @apartclassic comment.
'Twas a real ding-dong battle with both teams giving everything possible. While gutted for the Red Roses, you can't begrudge the Silver Ferns their success.
And again, thanks to Squidgy for making sense of it all!
For the last segment of the game it was 14 v 14 and although you had a player red carded the result of that clash saw the Black Ferns most try scorer side lined.. The last play of the game saw the same number of players in the line out. NZ responded with the steal of the game against England’s most potent attack. An amazing game with both teams adapting tactics to suit the play !
Thank you Squidge for your intelligent, brilliant, enlightening, well-thought-out, funny, entertaining, analysis. Compared to some rugby channels on here (who shall remain unnamed) you are a breath of fresh air!! Bravo that man!
I’m not crying … you’re crying. 😢
The red card helped! An accident but never the less it’s the rules. Tackle low. Proud kiwi God was watching over us🎉
Blatant headbutt I rekon mate,no accident in my book...RED.
@@howardpohatu3868 🤣🤣she almost knocked herself out. U think she did that on purpose 😂
@@wadesharp11 didn't see her getting ferried off on the cart she walked off no problem, blatant all day mate...
@@howardpohatu3868 accidental mate. She’s not a cheat. No one especially woman go in with their head. Never the less we won. Very lucky to win
How?... by playing good to watch rugby... 15 women rugby... that's how (not necessarily why).