The Rugby thread

[MirageF1]

One of the best performances by the Springboks in a long time, can hardly fault a player, they all gave their best and came back from 13-0 and a man down to leading for most of the second half.


Bad luck and bad ref calls in last 10 minutes cost us the match, but a most enjoyable, non stop 80 minutes of rugby from both sides. Well done to both teams, could have gone either way...

 

[netstrider]

Just glad we showed that we can actually play rugby when not kicking everything away!

Dodgy calls are dodgy! But no changing anything now.

Italy is going to be fired up after scalping the Wallabies. And I think we are going to be out to prove a point.

Think we will be out on our feet rather after two gruelling games.

 

[netstrider]

That's what I said in 2019 world cup final.

Lol.

 

[Vrotappel]

I agree but we can complain until we are blue but the results will stand.

If this was a world cup semi or final we were out.

We need to win and if we don't when do we draw the line to say enough is enough and now coaches need to go or players need to be dropped?

We need to be at least 10 points better to take the poor officiating out of the equation.

 

[netstrider]

Bittersweet loss because I'm up by 10 points on Superbru to the next best in the group.

 

[cavedog]

We need to be at least 10 points better to take the poor officiating out of the equation.

So how do we get it because second game in a row we couldn't?

 

[SAguy]

It was an immense game. Well fought but we didn't get the result.

When are we going to say enough losses now? We can't just keep saying good games but are on the wrong side of the scoreboard.

That point is now for me, time to start getting some wins.

 

[netstrider]

Was a great test match in the end. Thought the red card would ruin us but it didn't so credit there to thr lads.

 

[Vrotappel]

That's what I said in 2019 world cup final.

England was destroyed by a team that was better on every single level.

 

[DeTector]

Ref was VERY VERY POOR at the end, almost deliberately so. Hard to believe these days with all the tech involved that this happens so regularly without any consequence. Thought we played well enough to win this one but the ref made sure we had no chance

 

[cavedog]

I know @SAguy will call me negative but our tour has back to back losses.

We lost against the 1st ranked team in the world.
We lost against the 2nd ranked team in the world.
Our SA 'A' team lost against 13th on the URC table Munster.

When is enough, enough or are we just not that good anymore?

 

[Whright]

How are you going to win the close ones when you come up to refereeing like this week in and out?

Now you can imagine how Wales felt during their not so long ago test series here in SA.

 

[Whright]

It was an immense game. Well fought but we didn't get the result.

When are we going to say enough losses now? We can't just keep saying good games but are on the wrong side of the scoreboard.

We can always blame the Ref... easier pill to swallow.

 

[MirageF1]

So how do we get it because second game in a row we couldn't?

Carrying on playing like tonight.
Use all 15 players, play expansively, take chances, play some open rugby like NZ, Arg and Irish... not just bulldozing using the forwards for every try.
We have the players, let them play more than a 1 dimensional game ffs!

Tonight showed what we can achieve against heavy odds from almost the start of the game when we use some ingenuity and creativity.

 

[cavedog]

We can always blame the Ref... easier pill to swallow.

I used to but I'm tired of that now because we can't change that but we can change players and change coaching.

I think Nienaber needs to go. He is racking up the losses now we need to get him out before the damage is done.

 

[rvZA]

Bring our gebreekte bokke terug huis toe. Let them rus and recover. We will send them in 2050 again to try. Shame man.

 

[Vrotappel]

We can always blame the Ref... easier pill to swallow.

One can watch the game and see the poor decision making for yourself.

If one can blame players, coaches and teams the refs should also be blamed if they mess up.

Refs cannot be holy cows that are allowed to do what they want.

 

[cavedog]

Carrying on playing like tonight.
Use all 15 players, play expansively, take chances, play some open rugby like NZ, Arg and Irish... not just bulldozing using the forwards for every try.
We have the players, let them play more than a 1 plan game!

I think it's a start.

We better win the World cup or we have nothing to show. No TRC, Freedom cup, Mandela Plate, No 1st in the world ranking. If we don't win the world cup next year, we will essentially have nothing.

 

[backstreetboy]

Bring our gebreekte bokke terug huis toe. Let them rus and recover. We will send them in 2050 again to try. Shame man.

Rather send the ref on down to Spec savers for an eye test.

 

[Vrotappel]

I used to but I'm tired of that now because we can't change that but we can change players and change coaching.

I think Nienaber needs to go. He is racking up the losses now we need to get him out before the damage is done.

I am wondering if Nienaber is actually the coach. This is something SA rugby needs to sort out.