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I agree with the sentiment here in that it wasn't the most spectacular game. It was a typical, hard fought test match dominated by strong defence interspersed with flashes of brilliance. I was very impressed by French discipline, they gave away very few penalties. NZ are looking the weakest they have in a very long time. There is definitely something amiss in their camp.
 
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Why Rudolf Straeuli had done so well in SA rugby after that is beyond me. The guy should be ostracized and not celebrated for being the worst coach in history. He is a remnant of apartheid.
He is the reason the Lions is the team I hate the most.

Even up to this day he is causing ****.

www.news24.com

Lions saga: CEO Straeuli accused of interfering in team selection, game plans - report | Sport

The Lions saga rumbled on this week after a report emerged alleging that CEO and former Springbok head coach Rudolf Straeuli constantly interfered in matters within his coaches' remit, such as team selection and game plans.
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Team announcement for the Ireland match on Saturday, it's the "controversial" and "dangerous" 7 - 1 split again, according to some Coaches and rugby pundits, according to them "we are abusing the bench, and World Rugby needs to step in, make a new law that prevents this" I cannot believe that they can whine and moan like this, any team is allowed to do the exact same 7 - 1 split on their bench if they wish to do so.

Anyways, as for the match against Romania I was very excited to see C. Moodie starting on OC again, as for his exceptional performance against Wales, but unfortunately the few chances that he and A. Esterhuizen got as a centre pair was scarce. But it did definitely show that Moodie is very young, still very inexperienced on a test level, I feel the chances that he got, he definitely made the wrong decisions in the moment with ball in hand.
But his definitely an exceptional player, with many, many more years ahead of him, he simply just need to gain test match level experience.

I'm sure as you guys know M. Marx is basically out for the remainder of the RWC, I think the "experiment" with D. Fourie and M. van Staden went well, yes I'm aware it was only against Romania, but I do think Fourie would be able to step up even against the top teams, his not Marx but definitely not a poor or weak choice.

Another thing I noticed was, that G. Williams is definitely not use to play / start on the wing on that level, not that he had a bad outing, there was just instances whereby he would run the wrong line on attack, not expecting the pass to come his way, not entirely sure how to compete for the high balls etc.

Lastly, the upcoming match against Ireland, I believe J. Sexton plays a gigantic role in that Ireland team, if we want to beat the current number one ranked team, we will have to put Sexton under immense pressure, however do it extremely smartly because if you slip up Sexton will grab that slip up and probably convert it into a try, but I'm confident Rassie & Jacques etc has a "strategy" in place, there's definitely a reason for the 7 - 1 split.


Here's the link to the team;

https://www.world.rugby/news/866319/south-africa-announce-squad-to-play-ireland


PS; Latest news on H. Pollard if anyone was wondering;

https://www.rugbypass.com/news/hand...-ireland-unless-south-africa-suffer-injuries/
 
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Team announcement for the Ireland match on Saturday, it's the "controversial" and "dangerous" 7 - 1 split again, according to some Coaches and rugby pundits, according to them "we are abusing the bench, and World Rugby needs to step in, make a new law that prevents this" I cannot believe that they can whine and moan like this, any team is allowed to do the exact same 7 - 1 split on their bench if they wish to do so.

Anyways, as for the match against Romania I was very excited to see C. Moodie starting on OC again, as for his exceptional performance against Wales, but unfortunately the few chances that he and A. Esterhuizen got as a centre pair was scarce. But it did definitely show that Moodie is very young, still very inexperienced on a test level, I feel the chances that he got, he definitely made the wrong decisions in the moment with ball in hand.
But his definitely an exceptional player, with many, many more years ahead of him, he simply just need to gain test match level experience.

I'm sure as you guys know M. Marx is basically out for the remainder of the RWC, I think the "experiment" with D. Fourie and M. van Staden went well, yes I'm aware it was only against Romania, but I do think Fourie would be able to step up even against the top teams, his not Marx but definitely not a poor or weak choice.

Another thing I noticed was, that G. Williams is definitely not use to play / start on the wing on that level, not that he had a bad outing, there was just instances whereby he would run the wrong line on attack, not expecting the pass to come his way, not entirely sure how to compete for the high balls etc.

Lastly, the upcoming match against Ireland, I believe J. Sexton plays a gigantic role in that Ireland team, if we want to beat the current number one ranked team, we will have to put Sexton under immense pressure, however do it extremely smartly because if you slip up Sexton will grab that slip up and probably convert it into a try, but I'm confident Rassie & Jacques etc has a "strategy" in place, there's definitely a reason for the 7 - 1 split.


Here's the link to the team;

https://www.world.rugby/news/866319/south-africa-announce-squad-to-play-ireland


PS; Latest news on H. Pollard if anyone was wondering;

https://www.rugbypass.com/news/hand...-ireland-unless-south-africa-suffer-injuries/
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You do realise there is a whole other world cup thread?
 
NoStepOnSnek88 said:
Nope I wasn't unfortunately, because there's nothing stating this on the last post on this thread, so is this not the correct thread anymore?
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Correct for everything rugby except rwc basically. Will resume normal order at end of the tourney.
 
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