Springboks v All Blacks I
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My thoughts. Embarrassing really. Frustrating. Painful. Hurtful.
Foster simply has to go. No ifs or buts.
We beat ourselves. The Springboks had a very simple game plan that was very predictable and yet after 100 years of history we still had no game plan to counter. Their plan was, put it high and wait for mistakes. They came. Get Marx over the ball and win the penalty. I don't think the scrum and lineouts were as dominant as expected although we did cough up a lot of early penalties.
To say we don't have the players is rubbish. Yes, we are embarrassingly horrible but sides aren't smashing is on the scoreboard. When we're on and the opposition not so much, we rack up points. But today we gifted SA two tries. Sure we weren't in the game but those two tries, if we were better in the air and not having to chase the game, the score difference is a whole lot different.
I honestly don't think this team will take a lot to turn around. First of all we need better coms in the air and we need protection around the caller. We need better cleaning out of the ruck and we need to take it up the guts a whole lot more. We also need a half back willing to snipe. It's too bloody easy. They know our 9s won't run.
It's time for RM to have a decent crack at 10. Maybe he and DH will gel. Maybe JB should be given a crack at 12. Maybe RTs needs a start. WJ needs to go to 15, CC at 11 and we need probably SR back at 15.
If SC is to stay captain and he needs to get in the refs ear instead of being a little bitch and he needs to rark up his forwards. They need to adapt on the pitch. Game plan ain't working, let's do this.
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@taniwharugby 100%. I just commented on this. "this is Fozzie's plan, we must see it out".
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@Canerbry said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
nOT ENOUGH cANTABS.
not enough good ones.
Fixed it for you.
Jordan and Havili weren't up to it. -
I like him as a player but I don't think BB has the kicking ability and pressure to start at 10, let alone marshalling the backline. He hasn't played well under Foster at any rate.
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First try I'm perplexed as to why wasn't there a look at the contest in the air. Looked like a knock on to me.
13th minute: Springbok clearing kick lands very close to the sideline and All Blacks attacking shape finds space, but Savea over runs so Cane can't pass to him. Next phase we shovel ball.
Springboks laying at the base of rucks. Gardner admonishes All Blacks for placing the ball into their bodies.
16th minute. Cane puts a cracking tackle on Marx forcing the ball free.
18th minute Marx wins a turnover reaching over PSDT who is off his feet holding the ball into the ruck. All Blacks making good grounds in that phase of play turning the ball back inside.
21st minute. Great turnover by Cane and Gardner penalises him.
26th minute: Beaudy does some Beaudy magic and All Blacks create an excellent opportunity undone by poor pass by Akira.
29th minute. Some great defence in the 22 and Ardie comes up with a turnover. Notable how often the All Blacks are looking to put pressure at the breakdown.
32nd minute: Another opportunity bombed as Havili snatches at a pass and knocks on. Subsequent scrum the "crouch" call for the scrum comes over three minutes after the whistle was blown for the knock on.
38th minute: Great scrum penalty.
39th minute: Smith no look pass on the inside to no one, which he'd know if he looked before passing. Subsequent clean up results in a turnover.
Notable how improved the maul defence was in the first half. Ryan showing his credentials early - Springboks got no gain from trying to maul.
Forwards are working hard. Back row are noticeable in workrate and impact.
Attacking shape looks predictable with the depth pass from the forward pod. Defence know who to target as there's no deception. The change to hitting inside runners made a big difference.
Biggest problem is accuracy.
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@nostrildamus said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
I like him as a player but I don't think BB has the kicking ability and pressure to start at 10, let alone marshalling the backline. He hasn't played well under Foster at any rate.
I'm agnostic in the BB v Mo debate, but I think Mo needs to get a start next week. Give him 80 minutes to see what he can do.
Also, you just replied to yourself.
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DMac probably would have been a speed bump against those Saffas but what he showed in the Waikato game was something that neither BB or RM do and that is to play after assessing what the opposition are doing. As he has become more mature he is putting his outsides into good positions and holes which gets momentum. It was chalk and cheese to the BB way of playing off the cuff resulting in too many back door plays and not enough gain line manipulation.
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@Crucial said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
DMac probably would have been a speed bump against those Saffas
I'd take DMac in defence over BB and Mo any day of the the week. He's fearless and that's 90% of defence (% stat completely made up but you get my drift).
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@Nepia said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@nostrildamus said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
I like him as a player but I don't think BB has the kicking ability and pressure to start at 10, let alone marshalling the backline. He hasn't played well under Foster at any rate.
I'm agnostic in the BB v Mo debate, but I think Mo needs to get a start next week. Give him 80 minutes to see what he can do.
Also, you just replied to yourself.
I’ve done that more than once. Then I had to delete it, everyone woulda thought the mods had deleted it…..just an awkward messy situation all round which by coincidence sums up this All Black era very well.
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@Tim said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
Wasn't going to bother posting about the 2nd half, but Lomax penalised at the scrum basically as soon as is subbed on. Can't think of a more out of form prop in NZ?
I can.
Nepo Laulala.
Actually maybe not cos I can’t think of a time when he was actually in form.
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