A few people have said that NSW choked. They didn't choke. They simply weren't good enough at the business end of the season. In the mid stages of the season, they were probably the best performing team in the comp. I thought then that if they could continue to improve that they would be the team to beat. But they didn't keep improving because they had reached their peak. As with any comp, you have to judge it so that you hit your peak for the playoffs. The Hurricanes were winning games through out the season but weren't playing their best rugby. They have now played their best rugby in the past couple of weeks. The Waratahs lost their last three games to the Chiefs and the Canes. Both those teams were on the way up at the end of the season while the Waratahs had already reached their best. To say the Waratahs choked is a discredit to both those teams.