All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham
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Without reading what everyone else has said:
Turned up to a pub in Malaga after ~10 minutes had already been played.
ABs slow to respond to refereeing the defensive side. Putting themselves under unnecessary pressure gifting the SAs opportunities. Jacobson clearly not a blindside's arsehole at Test level.
Ridiculous interpretation to gift a red card for Scott's cleanout at the ruck.
Too many loose passes without looking hurt us. To compound this our set piece looked remarkably dreadful.
Ultimately from the perspective of a supporter surrounded by Irish, Australian and South African supporters; this was an astonishing failure. The only saving grace is that we've a fortnight to address the glaring issues, namely:
- Inability to defend without giving up penalties.
- Weakness at the set-piece, especially the lineout.
- Passing without looking.
I don't see this as the fixture that permits us to win a fourth WC, but it may be enough to permit us to get beyond a quarter final.
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Stopped watching after the RC. I'd seen this film before. If everything goes 100% right then this team can beat anyone, but are royally fůcked otherwise. Whatever happened to booting the shit out the ball when camped on your line? To win the RWC you have at least one game that's a trench warfare grind fest. I cannot see this team winning a game like that.
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@Chris said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
B Barrett poor
D Coles poor
A Smith poorThey were all fucking poor
Ryan poor
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Stopped watching after the RC. I'd seen this film before. If everything goes 100% right then this team can beat anyone, but are royally fůcked otherwise. Whatever happened to booting the shit out the ball when camped on your line? To win the RWC you have at least one game that's a trench warfare grind fest. I cannot see this team winning a game like that.
Look at the 2015 semi as a case in point.
A Whitelock line out steal and a Carter drop goal won the game. And that was our team of GOATS.
This rabble are going to have to go on a mighty ducks style tear to get this over the line.
Without digging out any of them in particular you can see the team is devoid of thinkers.
There are too many loose canons in that team.
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Quick stat look shows we only won 66% (10/15) of our lineouts. Fuuuuck.
We tackled at 83%. Won't win like that.
Apparently, 554 metres run for SA and 474 for us, why so close? 98 for Roigard making that looking much better than it should do.
DeGroot conceded 5 penalties. Ouch.
ALB stat line: 1 pass, 2 runs, No metres, 1 turnover, no tackles made, 1 tackle missed. Not exactly the impact we are looking for from the bench. Sadly, I don' think there are other options that provide enough cover.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Stopped watching after the RC. I'd seen this film before. If everything goes 100% right then this team can beat anyone, but are royally fůcked otherwise. Whatever happened to booting the shit out the ball when camped on your line? To win the RWC you have at least one game that's a trench warfare grind fest. I cannot see this team winning a game like that.
No rocket science but We can tear any team apart if we win up front and can be made to look very very ordinary when we don’t .
And Our opposition know that
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@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Passing without looking.
34 minutes in, that's what I've noticed. Especially looking for the offload around their own 22. Idiocy.
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Stats meaningless Killed at the start, man down, playing catch-up whole game
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@BerniesCorner I really can’t see us coming back against a half decent side (and South Africa are a lot more than that) if we only have 14 men.
