All Blacks v Springboks
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@nepia said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@taniwharugby said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@nepia I think thats the thing, natural instinct is to run it, so while they were set, they look up, see the space...whereas say an English 10, natural instinct is to go for the DG, so the 9 looks up, sees the space, but they follow through.
Different mindset.
Yeah, it's funny, if the Saffa wing come up a bit quicker or slower or DMac has the ball a little bit more to the left we'd all be hailing this as a gutsy comeback win probably.
Well, we would. But that's because people forget what they said a couple of hours earlier.
Loads of people were predicting a large win. The Bok coach was getting shit for his "must win game" comments. If people thought the Boks had a chance, then it was back home, not in NZ. This isn't a great Bok team, and we fielded a strong side. Did anyone here predict a close game?
So even if the ball goes to hand and we score a late try, that doesn't explain the discrepancy of prior expectations to results.
When the kids at school go "we were inches from winning" they don't get much sympathy. I certainly don't give it to adults.
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Faf was off side slot and a couple of wee tugs on jersies too (think it was Karl T he tackled slightly early causing him to spill the ball)...but he got away with it so why wouldn't he keep pushing.
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@majorrage said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@mn5 said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@rapido said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Point of first contact, Smiht only gets about 2 metres .... But Faf is flying and easily evaded.
Reminds me of a Super game where Wendell Sailor stepped or fended about 6 tacklers yet only made a net gain of under a metre.
I remember that game. Gordon Bray was creaming himself.
Or was that Tuquri
Either or. All those guys look the same to me.
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@mn5 said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@majorrage said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@mn5 said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@rapido said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Point of first contact, Smiht only gets about 2 metres .... But Faf is flying and easily evaded.
Reminds me of a Super game where Wendell Sailor stepped or fended about 6 tacklers yet only made a net gain of under a metre.
I remember that game. Gordon Bray was creaming himself.
Or was that Tuquri
Either or. All those guys look the same to me.
If Bray was creaming himself then it was probably Ben Tune.
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Re the comments about offside and Faf, I had a look at the last 5 minutes again to see where the AR call of offside was and it was actually marginal (probably why Nige ignored it). That was with me watching the AR when he clicked his microphone to talk. What was noticeable was that Faf was actually working hard to stay onside and not concede a penalty. It was Le Roux that was constantly offside shutting down thought of spreading the ball to Ioane.
The ABs should have deliberately run at him, brought him into the game and claimed the penalty (and probably Red Card)
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@machpants fuck his videos are irritating. Only a spastic flashes all text for less than a human can read the words.
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Should we be concerned about our inability to win the close games? Contrary to the bs spouted by the media that this team has hardly been tested and placed under pressure, they actually have been under pressure quite often in recent history.
Over the last two years, this team have only managed to get the positive outcome 50% of the time in tight contests, not what you would expect from an AB team, especially one with so much talent. Here's a list of the games during that time that could have gone either way.
Wellington 2017 (loss to the BIL)
Auckland 2017 (draw with the BIL)
Dunedin 2017 (beat Australia)
Durban 2017 (beat the Boks)
Brisbane 2017 (loss to Australia)
Edinburgh 2017 (beat Scotland)
Cardiff 2017 (beat Wales)
Wellington 2018 (loss to the Boks)That's played eight, four wins, one draw and three losses.
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@akan004 cherry pick to make the sky fall?
how about looking at it like this. in 21 tests we are 17-1-3. In 13 of those tests we have hosed them.
We lost a game where we had 14 blokes for 3/4s of the game
We lost a dead rubber Bledisloe away.
We lost one of the best tests in years.You know, now i think about it, we are 0-3 where we have scored less points than the opposition. That's not what you expect from a team with this much talent.
Try looking at it this way. We never, ever lose big. if it's a loss, it's by a bee's dick. We are balls deep in every game we play. That's a pretty sweet position to be in.
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