All Blacks v Springboks
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@siam huh? Why is it a distraction? To me it's just like shaking hands, or a pat on the back. I find it hard to say it's "getting cutesy" when these guys could well have grown up doing just that as part of everyday life. You're sounding like Phil Kearns finding it bizarre that there's Spanish spoken by Argentinians.
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@bones Cool, fair enough.
Not sure it's been part of everyday life as it's arguably the first time on an AB game and I think it was pre-rehearsed and has little upside to performance.
Happy to be proven wrong though, haven't lived in Hongi land for decades
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@siam said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@bones Cool, fair enough.
Not sure it's been part of everyday life as it's arguably the first time on an AB game and I think it was pre-rehearsed and has little upside to performance.
Happy to be proven wrong though, haven't lived in Hongi land for decades
Pretty sure I've seen it before, but I'm sure there's lots of other stuff the cameras don't always show.
Bit odd to say you're not sure it's part of their everyday lives.
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@majorrage As long as we don't lose in SA, then this might be a blessing in disguise. They will analyse the crap out of their mistakes in a way that they wouldn't have had they won. But if we lose in Pretoria, then SA gets the bragging rights this year plus a huge psychological edge leading up to the RWC, and the neutrals will have a field day of course.
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@majorrage don't like losing, never will be ok with it (in any game I follow or participate in) but was happy for SA and thier fans
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@majorrage said in All Blacks v Springboks:
If people are honest with themselves ... was anybody really that bothered by the loss?
I wasn't bothered myself and thought it was finally great to watch a TEST match.
That said, if the ABs were going to lose to SA this year I'd rather it have been in SA. It still might happen of course!
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@majorrage said in All Blacks v Springboks:
If people are honest with themselves ... was anybody really that bothered by the loss?
I only managed to get the last 2o minutes live and I was tense as fark. Then as soon as DMac dropped it, I was remarkably sanguine ... in fact, I was almost happy for the Boks and their fans. The only bad thing about that loss was the FUCKING HERALD posting that "Owens mistake" shit pretty soon after.
Obviously jumped on by all and sundry outside NZ to build to the legend that is arrogant whinging All Black fans.
Didn't hear it and don't care but I've heard it's pretty clear on the commentary feed.
You've got to stop worrying about the Poms and how they feel about us.
Let haterz be haterz.
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That was unexpected. I was at the AB v Boks game at Newlands last year and that was a thrilling match. One the Boks could've / should've won, except for the fact that the AB's just seem to have no clue how to lose, so when Francois Louw coughed up a simple ball with 2 minutes to play I fully expected this to be another close-but-no-cigar match. Fliiping delighted the defence held out though. A heroic loss is sometimes more gutting than getting smashed.
A couple of random thoughts from this Bok supporter.
On the plus side:
Good aggressive effort from especially the pack ensured that the AB's didn't always get the go-forward they have managed in the past.
Faf de Klerk is turning into a fabulous nuisance. He'd irritate the hell out of me if I he played against us.
Nice to see we can actually set up some running rugby tries.
Willie le Roux pitched up big time. Yellow card notwithstanding, one of his best games in the Bok jersey for quite some time.On the minus side:
Boks leaked 6 tries. As impressive as the defence was, especially in the last 20 min, that's still a lot of tries. Had Barrett kicked a touch better, this would be yet another loss for us.
We still don't have a convincing midfield combination. They are ok, but nothing that really asks questions of the defence.
Jessie Kriel... I am not a fan.On the realistic side:
The Boks had a good day and took pretty much every chance that came our way. The AB's made a few more mistakes than usual - whether caused by Bok pressure or simply being too used to having it all their own way I don't know - but the net result was a narrow win for the Boks. On current form , with current skill sets, the Boks remain a good few steps behind the AB's. While I am super chuffed with the result, this Bok team have a long way to go to consistently being a realistic challenger against the AB's. And I mean that in a really positive way. The team has made good strides under Rassie and there are some promising signs, but we are not close to being back towards the top of the rugby tree... yet.Thoroughly looking forward to the return game in Pretoria in 3 weeks time. I expect a hugely motivated and ruthless AB challenge up at one of their favourite SA grounds. The Boks will need to be at their best.
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@billy-webb I especially like that he appears to be just as entertaining when the camera switches to the coaches box as the last coach.
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@bones said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@billy-webb I especially like that he appears to be just as entertaining when the camera switches to the coaches box as the last coach.
I assume you mean Rassie?
He is decidedly less animated than Heyneke, but yes, certainly not a deadpan, no-emotion guy by any stretch. -
@majorrage said in All Blacks v Springboks:
If people are honest with themselves ... was anybody really that bothered by the loss?
I only managed to get the last 2o minutes live and I was tense as fark. Then as soon as DMac dropped it, I was remarkably sanguine ... in fact, I was almost happy for the Boks and their fans. The only bad thing about that loss was the FUCKING HERALD posting that "Owens mistake" shit pretty soon after.
Obviously jumped on by all and sundry outside NZ to build to the legend that is arrogant whinging All Black fans.
Don't like losing especially against the Boks.
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@billy-webb welcome back mate. On Kriel, your 10/12 combo is something to build around and find a more skillful, fleet footed centre I reckon.
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@act-crusader said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@billy-webb welcome back mate. On Kriel, your 10/12 combo is something to build around and find a more skillful, fleet footed centre I reckon.
Thanks ACT. Life has been keeping me honest and away from posting on here - although I have been reading
Agreed with your assessment on 110-12. The Jantjies, Pollard enforced combo late in the game surprisingly worked well. Still, I don't think that is the long term solution either..
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@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@chester-draws said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@antipodean said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@chester-draws said in All Blacks v Springboks:
It's a flawed plan IMO. It's really obvious, and so the counter is not hard to figure out. I really hope we move on from it before the RWC.
I'm guessing you've not noticed our win loss ratio for the last decade?
Our dropping ratio? Yeah, I noticed.
The current style not been our plan for "a decade". You don't get to use the Carter and Cruden periods to back up how good Beauden is.
We used to play fast, but we didn't use to take the risks we take now. We didn't leave every game to deep into the second half to wrap it up.
The old plan was better. Attack at all times, sure, but be prepared to take it in to contact if nothing was going on.
Have some set plays, if possession is not yielding points. Use strike weapons other than your 1st-5 in those plays.
Take easy kicks for penalties even at 40 metres out (like what made Donald a hero -- imagine if we had chosen to not take that kick --we'd likely have lost). That was seven years ago. I think the current team would lose that match.
The cross-field kicks were much rarer too. They're typical of the new scheme -- great if they come off, but often just a turn-over of possession.
The willingness to defend for long periods is starting to slide too. Journalists can get all excited about how defence no longer wins big games in the new AB paradigm, but they're wrong.
It's just one loss. We've lost before and we'll lose again. What i don't like is that we lost while sticking to our plan.
You have to wonder if you actually watched the ABs play prior to 2017. If you're having a cry now, God knows how you handled the late 90s and early 2000s, not to mention 2007-2009.
Well, I handled those badly. Like a lot of us here.
I'm old enough to have seen this before. Best team in the world on our day, with a helter-skelter game plan. Too arrogant to play conservative rugby, like take a drop kick, because we're the best. Sound familiar?
Can Carter and Richie McCaw didn't save us in Cardiff. Having the best players in the world is no good if your game plan is prone to coming unstuck.
Of course losing now isn't that big a deal. But if we just assume it was a blip, it won't be. We lost a few dead rubber games in recent years. Now we're losing important home games.
Our best recent period was, having been humbled, when we stopped thinking we could change the way the game is played and stuck to doing the basics well.
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@chester-draws said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@chester-draws said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@antipodean said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@chester-draws said in All Blacks v Springboks:
It's a flawed plan IMO. It's really obvious, and so the counter is not hard to figure out. I really hope we move on from it before the RWC.
I'm guessing you've not noticed our win loss ratio for the last decade?
Our dropping ratio? Yeah, I noticed.
The current style not been our plan for "a decade". You don't get to use the Carter and Cruden periods to back up how good Beauden is.
We used to play fast, but we didn't use to take the risks we take now. We didn't leave every game to deep into the second half to wrap it up.
The old plan was better. Attack at all times, sure, but be prepared to take it in to contact if nothing was going on.
Have some set plays, if possession is not yielding points. Use strike weapons other than your 1st-5 in those plays.
Take easy kicks for penalties even at 40 metres out (like what made Donald a hero -- imagine if we had chosen to not take that kick --we'd likely have lost). That was seven years ago. I think the current team would lose that match.
The cross-field kicks were much rarer too. They're typical of the new scheme -- great if they come off, but often just a turn-over of possession.
The willingness to defend for long periods is starting to slide too. Journalists can get all excited about how defence no longer wins big games in the new AB paradigm, but they're wrong.
It's just one loss. We've lost before and we'll lose again. What i don't like is that we lost while sticking to our plan.
You have to wonder if you actually watched the ABs play prior to 2017. If you're having a cry now, God knows how you handled the late 90s and early 2000s, not to mention 2007-2009.
Well, I handled those badly. Like a lot of us here.
I'm old enough to have seen this before. Best team in the world on our day, with a helter-skelter game plan. Too arrogant to play conservative rugby, like take a drop kick, because we're the best. Sound familiar?
Can Carter and Richie McCaw didn't save us in Cardiff. Having the best players in the world is no good if your game plan is prone to coming unstuck.
Of course losing now isn't that big a deal. But if we just assume it was a blip, it won't be. We lost a few dead rubber games in recent years. Now we're losing important home games.
Our best recent period was, having been humbled, when we stopped thinking we could change the way the game is played and stuck to doing the basics well.
I don't imagine we'll be seeing that kind of game plan in the RWC. It'll be much tighter. Iirc BB also seems to kick much better in November and December for some reason.
Btw, I hate losing as much as anyone. If I'd had a cat, I would have kicked it. Anyone who says it's good for rugby, good for the Boks etc. can go hang. But as much as I hate it, you also have to have some perspective. The whole chicken little thing from some fans following an ab loss is utterly ridiculous. Thank God they aren't the coaches and are nowhere near the selectors' table.
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@mn5 said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Latest rankings. Cab someone explain how these work ? Full credit to S.A. but surely one won doesn't guarantee a jump of two spots?
And how the fuck are we 3rd in the world?
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@mikethesnow Cos you have a decent team.
