Boks have been smelling their own farts for a while now. Should be a good game next week
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Wobblies I
@W32 said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Joe Schmidt seems to be living on pre Farrell Ireland reputation.. hasn’t added much to any team he’s been involved with since then, and Ireland have been better under Farrell. A bit like Plumtree. Posers
@junior said in Boks v Wobblies I:
@W32 said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Joe Schmidt seems to be living on pre Farrell Ireland reputation.. hasn’t added much to any team he’s been involved with since then, and Ireland have been better under Farrell. A bit like Plumtree. Posers
Certainly looks like a genius today! Well done to everyone involved
@Tim said in Boks v Wobblies I:
@W32 I thought you stopped posting when the political forum was deleted. HA HA HA
I’ve missed you too.
@junior said in Boks v Wobblies I:
@W32 said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Joe Schmidt seems to be living on pre Farrell Ireland reputation.. hasn’t added much to any team he’s been involved with since then, and Ireland have been better under Farrell. A bit like Plumtree. Posers
Wow.
@Frank said in Boks v Wobblies I:
But, but,but the Bok depth and GENIUS coach ............
Enjoy it mate! Loving your hatred of the world champions, says it all
@JayCee said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Is Schmidt definitely done after the RC?
And if the Aussies don't want him, can we get Joe back coaching in New Zealand?
I had to briefly unblock W32 to witness the tears, that's how good this is.
As for all the reasonable Bok fans, Smuts etc, the ABs had off days too and I am pretty sure the Boks will smack them next week.
Why did Lubbock start. Aren't Pollard and Feinberg Zulu better options?
@KiwiMurph said in Boks v Wobblies I:
As an aside - I thought BOK was outstanding
After the first 15.
@Smuts said in Boks v Wobblies I:
@pakman said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Boks are beatable. Main strike weapon will be maul.
Imminently beatable. Main strike weapon is the maul and the scru…
Imminently beatable. Main strike weapons are the maul and the scrum and Arendse (5 tries in 2 tests against Oz), bugger
Imminently beatable. Amongst their arsenal are such diverse weapons as:
the maul and scrum
Arendse (5 from 2) and
Fassi and Moodie (each 1 from 1)Also shouldn’t forget the hot hand of Edwill van der Merwe (5 tries in 3 tests for the Boks) aaargh …
I’ll come in again [exit and immediate reentry]
Imminently beatable. Their ever-expanding arsenal is easily underestimated but contains such diverse weapons as:
the maul and scrum
The tryscoring threats of Arendse (5 from 2), Fassi and Moodie (each 1 from 1)
Along with the hot hand of Edwill van der Merwe (5 tries in 3 tests for the Boks)
To say nothing of two-time and current world player of the year PSDTBugger.
They are beatable if you can nullify their many and diverse threats.
I suggest you quietly delete the tape.
Great performance by the Wallabies. Once they adjusted to the Springbok attack, their drift defence worked really well, just soaking up those SA wide attacks and isolating ball carriers. Best game of Fraser McReight’s career, I’d say, even with that weak tackle effort for Kolisi’s try.
South Africa, on the other hand, were very naïve in the way they attacked, with very little care for numbers or support. If they’re going to continue with this game plan, then you’d feel they need to thoroughly rejuvenate this side. Players like Etzebeth, De Jager and Marx looked spent after half an hour. Then again, I think this whole attacking Bok game plan is just one giant smoke screen for the 2027 World Cup, anyway.
Libbok might have just played his last Test match. Willemse will probably get another shot but some of his tackling at fullback was really poor. It’ll be interesting to see how the Boks respond. After playing wide like this against the Irish in the first July Test of 2024 (and only just getting away with it), they went back to their direct game plan, which ended up backfiring as well, since the Irish won the second Test. I’m expecting they’ll try the same thing here, so the Wallabies will need to front up in Cape Town. Big game for big Will.
That was great, congratulations to the Wallabies. I hope the next game is as exciting. Go the All Blacks!
I know Rassie has been blooding a ton of new players, but are they actually anywhere near some of the older troopers? Feinberg Zulu and possibly Canan Moodie, who else???
Bongi 34, Kolisi 34, Etzebeth, de Allende 33, Faf De Klerk 33,PSDT 32., de Jager 32
Holy crap. I was up early, saw the half time score and went back to bed. Didn't expect to wake up to that scoreline!
Just watched the replay --
Boks looked unstoppable for first 18 - 20 mins ..The box kicking was very accurate and put all kinds of pressure on the Wallabies. Then they noticeably started tiring up front - I feel BOK (ref) insisting on a fast game aided this.
To keep Boks scoreless in second 40 was impressive, big efforts by Aussie back row with some key turnovers.
Boks discipline was very poor with repeated infringements -- TRC is wide open now.
Too many steroids
The boks aerobic fitness was awful, the faster pace of super rugby this year might have helped the aussies
@stodders said in Boks v Wobblies I:
@Smuts good luck Smuts
Shot mate. Didn’t need luck as it turned out. They defended about as poorly as the Boks must’ve in the second half. Got a lot of sad looks and commiserations from the boys as I came off the field and was genuinely bamboozled. I mean, I wasn’t Carter in the 2nd Lions test, but we still put up the half ton.
I guess this game goes into the tiny number of bok tests I’ve never watched.
That in my opinion, was probably best I have seen Wallabies play. They were pretty impressive, and by same token the Boks seemed to just crumble when pressure came on. Wallabies also showed the benefit of a good hard series against Lions. That was a warning for us all for Wallabies this year.
Watching delayed and saw the perfect example of when a ref should just ping a bloke rather than warning him. We had that discussion earlier in the year. Can't remember who with. Was in a Drua match in Fiji.
If the half dummies just ping him Ben. He knows it's wrong. It doesn't need a warning.
Well if ya don't put them away when you should and keep letting the wounded in, that's what happens. South Africa have themselves to blame for that capitulation, turning down 3s, a needless intercept which changed the game completely, it was one hell of a collapse caused by themselves lol. It reminded me of Bledisloe 1 last year, where we were cruising and then got ourselves stuck and ended up almost losing the test where we had no right to (if it went another 10 mins, we would have).
Credit to the Wallabies, they hung tough and outlasted the Boks fitness wise.
