All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham
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Gregor Paul has a go at over-zealous officiating.
Gregor Paul: Rugby World Cup looks set to be hijacked by pedantry, fakery and group-think
Opinion: The biggest loser on Saturday was potentially the global rugby fraternity.
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Plenty of things can go wrong by agreeing to play our biggest nemesis as a warm up match. Or go right, if you get it right.... But we didn't get this one right
Still prone to brain snaps under pressure
Roigard probably best number two, but will sit behind the ginger unless injury occurs.
Hoping Lomax heals quickly from that nasty gash, wonder if he will be called hermy in camp?
Is the balance of the squad right? Still not sure.A timely reminder you're only as good as your last game and players need to keep their head in the game, just can they correct it in time?. We all know that they can, but we have also seen at times they tend to double down on stupid plays even when they know they shouldn't.
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@bayimports said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Roigard probably best number two, but will sit behind the ginger unless injury occurs.
Even Foster isn't that dumb - is he?
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I think a lot has to do with what the referee focuses on early and we are caught out by starting with what works in super rugby when others play NH style with an NH ref.
The slowing down of the game and the cunning way the Boks played the ref meant that we hardly got a look in by trying super rugby tactics.I thought our defence under the constant pressure was very good indeed. Missing an easy penalty would have been a confidence drainer as would yielding intercepts to retreating players.
I wonder if Will Jordan could run closer to inside players to make it harder for defenders to disrupt our chain moves?Looks to me like squad balance is very wrong now. Telea is a lock in with his tackle breaking ability. And we may need a bench player who has strong clearing kicks much more than another power winger.
Far more need for another 6 or lock or both now. Unless we address this I can see France Boks and Ireland with a 6 2 bench against overpowering us.
Maybe we will have learned enough from this loss to make some radical changes needed for the challenges ahead. I hope so. -
RasNaber have created a nice to have problem with player depth in their squad. The new generation of players look like passing the 2019 WC group. Willemse vs Willie, KLA and Moodie vs Kolbey and Mapimpi, AE and Moodie/Kriel vs Am and Ellendig, Libbok vs Pollard, Faf vs Hendricks, Vermeulen vs Wiese, Kwagga vs PST, Etsebeth and Mostert vs Snyman and Kleyn, Malherbe vs Koch, Marx vs Bongi and Kitshoff vs Ox. Then they have third options who can make most country teams.
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@His-Bobness said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Gregor Paul has a go at over-zealous officiating.
Gregor Paul: Rugby World Cup looks set to be hijacked by pedantry, fakery and group-think
Opinion: The biggest loser on Saturday was potentially the global rugby fraternity.
Would you like some cheese with your whine Gregor?
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@MiketheSnow he has clicks to collect.
When does the RWC start? Man this thread is gonna take a thrashing!
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@Steve Great post.
Something went wrong with the side’s identity after McCaw, Carter, Nonu, Smith, Woodcock and Mealamu retired and we went all Disney in the off season of 2016-7. And they have struggled to recapture a hard nosed ruthless edge since.
PR photos from last week of them grinning like idiots on the Ted Lasso bench had me worrying about the mindset ahead of a physical struggle with the Boks.
We’ve become far too nice, something you would never have said about Sean Fitzpatrick, Buck Shelford and co.
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@His-Bobness For me the worry is that some of the officiating this weekend has been zealous, some of it has been laissez-faire.
Sides that can adapt from the start to different refereeing styles will be at a huge advantage in the RWC. South Africa are helped by having players in their squad who play in lots of different domestic competitions around the world and some of their squad have played club or provincial rugby in several countries.
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@Higgins said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
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@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
And he can't own up when his team puts what is objectively the worst performance ever in black
Utter fucking nonsense.
So a28 point loss isn't objectively the worst ever? Carry on in your dream world. He at no point in the interview admits anything but good learnings. Not 'we didn't prepare well enough' nor 'the tactics weren't quite right' doing shitty little kicks in our 22.Just we will learn. Except they don't and haven't over the last 6 odd years
Losing to Munster 12-0 in 78 is the worst ever…
No it's not, I well remember a real spanking against Sydney 17 - 40 at Penrith in 1992 that was the ultimate pits. That's the same year we had an unbeaten tour of Sth Africa!
That NSW side was basically the Wallabies other than about 3 players. And I think the margin was bigger than that!
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@sparky well our teams play in the URC and HC. The first half a season of URC was a nightmare and all the teams was at the bottom. The URC plays a massive role in our players development. Not only our teams but also our players in the opposition like our Munster lock pair and Vermeulen.
Regarding Foster Mr nice guy, compare him to Rassie the guy everybody hates who can think out of the box.
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@His-Bobness said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Gregor Paul has a go at over-zealous officiating.
Gregor Paul: Rugby World Cup looks set to be hijacked by pedantry, fakery and group-think
Opinion: The biggest loser on Saturday was potentially the global rugby fraternity.
Would you like some cheese with your whine Gregor?
Yeah, those Sweaties can be whingy fucks eh?
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@OomPB No other country has players who play club/provincial Rugby so far and wide. It can make cohesion a problem for the Boks occasionally (not at all on Friday night), but boy does it give them lots and lots of Rugby smarts.
The All Blacks (especially the Barrett trio) looked like dumb, naive bunnies by comparison on the Twickenham Friday night turf.
Time for Foster’s men to wise up and smell the coffee and fast.
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@MiketheSnow Uncle Gregor has a point though, with the seemingly arbitrary use of replay. And it’s nicely written!
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Could be worse. At least we didn't lose to Fiji.
Had a chat with my rugby mad uncle last night and he made a good point: we would expect to destroy any side that had 13 men for a period, then 14 for half the game. Obviously there were other concerning elements but that part is definitely true.
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@game_film without a doubt it was pedantic, but we failed to adjust to both that and the Boks play, who managed to adapt much better.
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@OomPB said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@sparky well our teams play in the URC and HC. The first half a season of URC was a nightmare and all the teams was at the bottom. The URC plays a massive role in our players development. Not only our teams but also our players in the opposition like our Munster lock pair and Vermeulen.
Regarding Foster Mr nice guy, compare him to Rassie the guy everybody hates who can think out of the box.
It's fine to be a Mr Nice guy, but you have to be ruthless too and that's what Foster lacks. He's afraid to make the tough calls. He's also incredibly stubborn and rarely will change his mind on players and tactics. By all means have him as an assistant coach but no way is he a head coach.
