The Rugby thread

[Pegging]

It's called home ground advantage... Refs more lenient.

The ref will be in the AB changing room now ready to give leg massages.

 

[Mzezman]

Ref didn’t have the best game but he didn’t cost SA the win

 

[SeRpEnT]

The ref will be in the AB changing room now ready to give leg massages.

Downing a beer with them no doubt.

 

[SeRpEnT]

Ref didn’t have the best game but he didn’t cost SA the win

Let's be honest...in a tight game you cannot have the 50/50 calls go against you... And one team getting yellows and the other being overlooked doesn't help either.

 

[cavedog]

The ref will be in the AB changing room now ready to give leg massages.

Lifting the Freedom cup secretly celebrating now in the NZL change room

 

[Werner1975]

Well, at least they didnt get a BP and we got one. will see if that helps later in the competition. But now we have to win the Wellington test

 

[Mzezman]

Let's be honest...in a tight game you cannot have the 50/50 calls go against you... And one team getting yellows and the other being overlooked doesn't help either.

On the balance of play NZ didn’t dominate when they had the ball - SA actually did dominate when they had the ball but made too many errors.

 

[RedViking]

 

[rietrot]

Ref was good. Springboks own stupid errors cost them.

The Ausie game had some nice tries. The highlights are worth a watch.

 

[rietrot]

On the balance of play NZ didn’t dominate when they had the ball - SA actually did dominate when they had the ball but made too many errors.

Exactly this. We just could not get momentum, too many silly errors.

 

[rietrot]

The Ausssie game.

6minutes odd extra time?! Why?

In Rugby there is no extra time. You play until the ball goes dead.

 

[Mike7]

Not that disappointed. I’m more confident now than what I was after the Aussie. There is nithing in this AB team to fear. This was their WC final. We will beat them next week IF we can for once this season cut out the mistakes. We’ve been sloppy the whole season but if it clicks for us we are going to give someone a proper hiding.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Sascha over libbokdoos, end of. Start pollard, switch to Sascha, easy. And reinach to start too, Williams was a clusterfsck

 

[RedViking]

Not that disappointed. I’m more confident now than what I was after the Aussie. There is nithing in this AB team to fear. This was their WC final. We will beat them next week IF we can for once this season cut out the mistakes. We’ve been sloppy the whole season but if it clicks for us we are going to give someone a proper hiding.

That's the spirits!

 

[blah99]

So down to 3rd in the world rankings.

 

[Grubscrew]

Not that disappointed. I’m more confident now than what I was after the Aussie. There is nithing in this AB team to fear. This was their WC final. We will beat them next week IF we can for once this season cut out the mistakes. We’ve been sloppy the whole season but if it clicks for us we are going to give someone a proper hiding.

Going to agree, with this. There is still some work to be done, but I won't have sleepless nights yet.

 

[MuterOfWorlds]

Sascha over libbokdoos, end of. Start pollard, switch to Sascha, easy. And reinach to start too, Williams was a clusterfsck

I honestly dont get the hype of Williams. URC showed him up horribly, same with Libbok. Neither have presented anything at URC lvl or Euro lvl to be remotely excited about, if anything, more like plenty to be worried about which is exactly what has come to fruitition.

 

[Heisenborg]

If we made half the mistakes we actually did today we could have won by 15

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

Manie can get the backline going, same as Sacha.
Pollard seem to have lost it.
We not playing the forward dominating game anymore, so Pollard is not the best option then.
SO either leave him out or change game plan.

 

[Heisenborg]

And don't get me started on Malcolm marx and our shambolic lineouts for the last 12 mths