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Whright said:
What attack?

Can’t even attack from our 22 let alone from the opposition 22, skop skop skop that how we sometimes win.
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I think the attack from Willie, Am and Willemse was really good hey. We need to figure out how to play that more. That was good for me. The rest was dog sheeeeet.
 
MirageF1 said:
Lineouts too! How many did NZ steal?! And turnovers.

Rolling malls as well, a mess. On paper we have a better pack, it showed last week. This week was a royal FU.
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On paper…..
 
cavedog said:
I think the attack from Willie, Am and Willemse was really good hey. We need to figure out how to play that more. That was good for me. The rest was dog sheeeeet.
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So why don’t we use Willie AM and Willemse more often for attack???

Kick and hope keeps us relevant.
 
Agent_Smith said:
Then we'll agree to disagree. As a Bok supporter, of course I'm disappointed we lost. But as a rugby supporter, it was a great game of back and forth.

To moan about the loss is to also overlook the fantastic positives. The tries scored by Am and Mapimpi were superbly worked. Not to mention coming back from what in the past would have been an insurmountable 15 point deficit.

Yes, there are things to work on but to suddenly say we have no hope at RWC is completely overreacting.
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But if it's like that we will always be content as long as they play reasonably well and show some good passage of play.

It needs to show on the scoreboard and today it didn't, and we need to call it out and demand answers from the players and the coaching staff. I never really even thought about it until I saw how things changed for NZL and how everything changed. Everyone in NZL rugby from the supporters to the players and the coaching all had only a winning mindset and nothing less than a win was acceptable.

Right now I just feel like this might be a turning point for NZL rugby where they will be on the up and the Boks on a downward trend. We have Australia next that we had back-to-back losses against.
 
cavedog said:
But if it's like that we will always be content as long as they play reasonably well and show some good passage of play.

It needs to show on the scoreboard and today it didn't, and we need to call it out and demand answers from the players and the coaching staff. I never really even thought about it until I saw how things changed for NZL and how everything changed. Everyone in NZL rugby from the supporters to the players and the coaching all had only a winning mindset and nothing less than a win was acceptable.

Right now I just feel like this might be a turning point for NZL rugby where they will be on the up and the Boks on a downward trend. We have Australia next that we had back-to-back losses against.
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I believe that Ian Foster's head is still on line regardless of today's result. Apparently Scott 'Razor' Robertson is the people's favourite to succeed him but whether that happens remains to be seen.
 
The Door said:
You were watching another game mate.
We crossed the line another three times without score. Two were close and one we were robbed albeit close.
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I think I did watch another game then, crossing the line 3 times and still lose does not make sense. must be the ref.
 
Agent_Smith said:
I believe that Ian Foster's head is still on line regardless of today's result. Apparently Scott 'Razor' Robertson is the people's favourite to succeed him but whether that happens remains to be seen.
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It would be really interresting to see how that plays out.

The Boks really needed a win today even by the smallest margins just to cement our dominance. Now we lost and on the back foot and we have to face Australia. New Zealand no doubt will celebrate, and they face Argentina next. I feel sorry for the Argies and just like that NZL will likely win the TRC.
 
Never mind NZ, Ireland would have demolished us today. I believe if they can keep with their current team playing as cohesively in all aspects of the game they have a better than good chance at winning the RWC.

Things certainly have changed in last 2 years in RU.
 
MirageF1 said:
Never mind NZ, Ireland would have demolished us today. I believe if they can keep with their current team playing as cohesively in all aspects of the game they have a better than good chance at winning the RWC.
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Source ?
 
Stephen said:
Source ?
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A series 2-1 win on home soil in NZ ?
2nd spot in 6 Nations. Look at their PD and winning margins besides loss to France.
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Watched their performances of late?
 
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Let me just try to forget about this poor performance now as I got a headache. Nothing worse than having hope for it just to be dashed away and the opposition smiling in your face. Now facebook will throw this loss and all related posts in my face each time I open the app. :cautious:
 
We deserved to lose that.

The Boks were never going to repeat the energy from last week. Something that has plagued us for ages (decades).

We are unbeatable when we front up, but we have one, maybe, maybe, two such games up our sleeves in a year and never consecutively.

The Boks would be better off playing NZ in Durban.

Mkre slippery ball for thrm to deal eith and not so many cape crusaders.

Dry, hard fields suit them.
 
MirageF1 said:
A series 2-1 win on home soil in NZ ?
2nd spot in 6 Nations.
Seen any of their games?
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If Boks play like they did last week no chance - see I can also play that silly 'if' game. Plus Ireland are crap at World Cups cant get past the QF
 
Stephen said:
If Boks play like they did last week no chance - see I can also play that silly 'if' game. Plus Ireland are crap at World Cups cant get past the QF
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Let's wait and see. They not ranked no.1 currently for no reason. Say no more.
 
Stephen said:
If Boks play like they did last week no chance - see I can also play that silly 'if' game. Plus Ireland are crap at World Cups cant get past the QF
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Northern hemisphere choke more in WC rugby than the ladies on the hub
 
C'mon the Argies. Putting one over on the Aussies would throw this championship wiiiiiide open!
 
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