View photosKEY POINTS:
1. As Prince sang, we can party like it's 1999. Or not. Well at least the score was closer than that time and we didn't have to get up so early in the morning. Sigh.
2. Hey Cool. Those All Blacks: The Music albums will be really cheap now. That's Christmas covered.
3. And $4 each for those AB figurines at the petrol station? We think you can bargain them down. Like the whole team free with every box of those high sugar snacks we keep buying to perk ourselves up.
4. No more supporters' black flags on the SUVs of the nation. All that extra drag causing extra fuel consumption sure had us worried. They'll now come in useful when checking the oil.
5. We've now got four years to decide on an alternative strip that will strike fear into the heart of the opposition. Aluminum is not a colour. Unleash the beige!
6. No more commentary from Foxy, Mehrts and A.J. prefaced with the sentence "In my day" to introduce another scintillating anecdote from way back when.
7. The Aussies aren't feeling any better. Especially that George "four more years boys" Gregan.
8. Didn't the French team used to be better looking than ours?
9. South Africa might win the cup again. If so, there will be joy in the streets of East Coast Bays.
10. It's only a game. It's not a particularly big cup or a very nice-looking one. And it's named after a guy who picked up the ball and ran with it. Yes, he may have invented rugby, but wasn't he, like, cheating? Yeah, so what sort of example does that set and who would want to win that? Sniff.
