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Like Mallet said - I don't care about this competition really. This has been a good lesson, at a good time, to learn ahead of the World Cup.
 
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Leonidas said:
Like Mallet said - I don't care about this competition really. This has been a good lesson, at a good time, to learn ahead of the World Cup.
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What grind my gears is that the same is being said every time we lose. Honestly, the All Blacks didn't play that good today.
 
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What grind my gears is that the same is being said every time we lose. Honestly, the All Blacks didn't play that good today.
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The Boks played gave everything and played very well in keeping the ABs subdued for the first 50-60 minutes. But a tiring Bok team with too many changes forced at the same time will never keep up with the ABs for 80 minutes.
 
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Our starting 15 was all round good except for Hendricks, what an abortion of a player ....... and then once we made changes, Strauss, Trevor, Koch, Flip - our game went to hell.

Do not want Jean back, De Allende and Kriel work bloody well and they need to stay.
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Both were fantastic and I agree they should be starting choices. |But you know they will work Jean back in, that's just the way it is.
 
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The Boks played gave everything and played very well in keeping the ABs subdued for the first 50-60 minutes. But a tiring Bok team with too many changes forced at the same time will never keep up with the ABs for 80 minutes.
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Similar to last week against the Aussies.
 
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Fulcrum29 said:
Similar to last week against the Aussies.
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There just seemed to be a lot more purpose today, but the Boks were ultimately let down by the depth of the bench and timings of the subs.

But the starting 15 all played very well and the trick must now be to mix up the 23 so that the introduction of the subs is a strength rather than today where it was a weakness. Ok, some of the timings were forced, but mixing it up a bit with for example, Whitely starting and Louw, a super strong influential player, being introduced later.

I thought a real positive today was with the backs where 11-15 all played well and prodded away nicely at the ABs defence. As has already been said, De Allende and Kriel surely have to stay at centre, but knowing Meyer, JdV will be straight back into the team as soon as he can walk again.
 
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Spizz said:
There just seemed to be a lot more purpose today, but the Boks were ultimately let down by the depth of the bench and timings of the subs.

But the starting 15 all played very well and the trick must now be to mix up the 23 so that the introduction of the subs is a strength rather than today where it was a weakness. Ok, some of the timings were forced, but mixing it up a bit with for example, Whitely starting and Louw, a super strong influential player, being introduced later.

I thought a real positive today was with the backs where 11-15 all played well and prodded away nicely at the ABs defence. As has already been said, De Allende and Kriel surely have to stay at centre, but knowing Meyer, JdV will be straight back into the team as soon as he can walk again.
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Jean d V should do the honourable thing and be like a Davis Cup tennis player ... be a non-playing captain.

Oh, and Schalk Burger today was very conspicuous in his quick passing to avoid contact. But I can't really blame him after his spinal injury some time ago.

But this begs the question, how much more important is experience over youthfulness?

EDIT: But all the rugby brains have left this thread till the next game ... so my question will not be answered.
 
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It was short. By half a centimetre. But it was still short.

I hope the RWC committee has required the hosting nation (Eeengland) to have invested in some High Definition and high Frame Rate cameras for this coming World Cup.
 
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http://www.supersport.com/rugby/springboks/news/150725/Injuries_cost_the_Boks

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“We were brilliant at the breakdown and our plan worked perfectly. But it was a big blow when Jannie du Plessis went off, and then Vincent Koch, who did well as his replacement, also went off. If two tightheads go off the referee has to protect the players, and it was probably the right call to order uncontested scrums, but it did change the game for us.

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Meyer said that the Boks would probably have won the game despite the injuries had they been awarded the decision off a 50/50 TMO call when De Jager reached out to dot down what would have been the Boks’ third try. There was also a call that went against Heinrich Brussow earlier on when he was over the line.

“These two teams are so close together that it is small things that make the difference. There were two millimetres in it this week if you think about Lood’s try, and it was the same last week when we lost and there were 50/50 TMO calls. Had that try been awarded that would have been the game.”

Hansen appeared to concur with Meyer’s view on both the TMO decisions and the injuries when he pinpointed the five minutes when his team was under severe pressure at the time of the De Jager TMO call as what made the difference between his team winning and losing.

“It was that five minutes of defending our hearts out that won it for us,” said the All Black coach.

“Had they scored then it would have been really difficult for us to come back into the game. They also had injuries that led to golden oldie scrums. We had Sam Whitelock off at that point due to a yellow card and had we been scrumming seven against eight we would have been in trouble. That was crucial.”
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Well done Aussies, though one undeserving try, your team may have enough to beat the All Blacks at home. Many positives in the Puma camp, hardworking and may prove to topple Wales and the islanders in their World Cup pool, exciting rugby coming to the Super Rugby tournament next year.
 
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Watching the Boks yesterday made me feel excited again about SA rugby.....I haven't felt like this in a really long time.
 
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Hopefully be won't be going to the WC with a windgat attitude after these games.
That has been our downfall before.
 
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