All Blacks vs Springboks II
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@canefan said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Either way we need to adapt faster if he is loose at the breakdown. I want to see us front up physically
Yeah, we didn't adapt that well to Pearce last week. He's one of the best Refs around but had a poor game last week I thought, which upset our play.
Think the physicality is there as is the low error rate. Just seemed mutually exclusive last week
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@victor-meldrew said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@canefan said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Either way we need to adapt faster if he is loose at the breakdown. I want to see us front up physically
Yeah, we didn't adapt that well to Pearce last week. He's one of the best Refs around but had a poor game last week I thought, which upset our play.
Think the physicality is there as is the low error rate. Just seemed mutually exclusive last week
Errors yes. But they were able to interfere with our ball at the breakdown, both legally and maybe not, but they played to the ref. We need to clean them out to reduce turnovers and allow our HB to clear the ball quicker
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@nepia said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@nepia I've come round and actually think Reece is a quality player, smart and good vision, and cab beat a man, still a douche though (although seeing clips of abs in training and off the park he seems a good dude...but not sure I'll come round to that)
Yeah, I don't really have a problem with Reece's playing in general (he's less prone to defensive lapses these days) but I don't want players in the ABs merely because they lost their overseas contract.
Irish-style bitterness is strong in this one.
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Won’t even be close this week
ABs by 11-14
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@chris-b said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@dan54 Some bastard here will probably come up with a video - except, now that I've asked them to. :).
Yep remember him spilling one badly in a tackle in first half. Also could have had a try when he popped a no look pass behind him to no one. He was expecting someone to be there but if he had a quick look he would have found Jordie eho would have been a good chance close to the line
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@mikethesnow said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Won’t even be close this week
ABs by 11-14
That’s too close
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I heard match organisers are planning for a delay between the anthems, the time for the South African medical staff to attend to the players with injured vocal cords.
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Very strong All Blacks team and bench. Cant see the Springbok being competitive in the last test. All Blacks by 50
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@pakman said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@bovidae said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
He isn't a large hooker by international standards, and the Canes scrum has often struggled. I accept that's not all down to Aumua (or Blackwell
). The Boks will bring on a better front row than their starters. I'm happy to be proved wrong.Marx and Koch aren't as strong at scrummaging as Mbonambi and Malherbe
But Malherbe isn't playing so Nyakane is switching to the TH side. The SA starting front row for this test isn't as good as last weeks.
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Controversial opinon here, but I'm not convinced that Weber will be an improvement on TJP. We know that coming on against tired legs makes a halfback look better, and we've seen this back to the Marshall/Kelleher days. TJP is a quality halfback, who sometimes struggles to get his passes right.
That said, when he focusses on getting to the ruck and clearacne, he looks just fine ... and then brings a lot to the table.
So, I wouldn't be surprised if we're stoked to see TJ come on with 20ish to go ... and if Weber doesn't look quite as good against a fresh Bok pack.
Obviously hope to be proved wrong, and BW plays an absolute blinder!
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@nzzp how were the Boks tired?
They used all thier timeouts, and ours!
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@nzzp how were the Boks tired?
They used all thier timeouts, and ours!
Overtired
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@nzzp said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Controversial opinon here, but I'm not convinced that Weber will be an improvement on TJP. We know that coming on against tired legs makes a halfback look better, and we've seen this back to the Marshall/Kelleher days. TJP is a quality halfback, who sometimes struggles to get his passes right.
That said, when he focusses on getting to the ruck and clearacne, he looks just fine ... and then brings a lot to the table.
So, I wouldn't be surprised if we're stoked to see TJ come on with 20ish to go ... and if Weber doesn't look quite as good against a fresh Bok pack.
Obviously hope to be proved wrong, and BW plays an absolute blinder!
Weber doesn’t get as emotionally involved as TJ does. When TJ is wound up and/or frustrated it shows.
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@oompb said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Very strong All Blacks team and bench. Cant see the Springbok being competitive in the last test. All Blacks by 50
Perhaps the Springboks may like to come and play rugby this weekend. If they do, it should be a good match in between all the little recovery "injuries'.
