I am not convinced Johnny was 100% - his kicking was not strong. That said it was a hell of risk by the S Africans to play with a crocked Montgomerry. I appreciate his kicking is good but the young lad Steyn was not exactly poor at that either and to have only 14 mobile people on the park was a bit of a risk if England had been able to find a way through.
To be honest Engerland were pretty awful in the Group stages and played two good games to get to the final - but both of those games involved keeping the ball in the middle of the park and grinding out nerve racking narrow wins 1 try in three games is not brilliant. Ashton is going to have to go back to the drawing board and figure out how to get his backs moving again.