I'm Prophetic

South Africa won the Tri-Nations. They won because Victor Matfield dominated the lineouts, because Os du Randt disrupted the Australian scrum in the second half, because of Breyton Paulse's flashes of brilliance, but most of all, they won because they wanted to more than the Aussies or New Zealand. I called it before they'd even played a match, and stuck with my convictions through their early defeats (if not for a last minute try by Doug Howlett and a very late try by Clyde Rathbone, the Springboks would have won an undefeated Grand Slam).

I defy anyone to find someone else who picked South Africa to win the Tri-Nations the same way I did, namely out of rational analysis of their strengths as a team. (In other words, I'm sure that there are plenty of Boer nationalists who expect South Africa to win every match, but they don't count as predictors.)