Argentina vs Boks - Live Match Threat

Another try Argies. Making the Boks look ordinary right now.

Our flanker s are useless.

So too our lineouts.

That attempted kick by Reinach about says it all. Play a few phases and then run completely out of ideas.

That's half time.

Reinach quick tap and score.

Need to get Louw and Kwagga on. Dixon is invisible, Van Staden made one good steal and done little else.

Pakie

Just a qustion =- oow many taackles are Polard allowed to miss.  My count is 3 by now.  two plyers are seriously missed in this case.    De Allende and  Du Toit seriously missed by the team. .   

Time to replace Moerat - he is frankly not a factor in any phase of the game..  In any event who is captaining the team anway?   

Just a qustion =- oow many taackles are Polard allowed to miss.

Why are you asking me? 3 sounds about right.

Libbok should be good off the bench in an open game like this. Hopefully he remembers his kicking boots...

Defence around the fringes have been poor, and their have been numerous open field tackles.

I fear that Pollard has transformed into Morne Steyn.

Our defensive system is a problem. All they need to do is step inside the guy shooting up out of the line and there's an overlap. We've seen NZ exploit it in the first test, Arg is doing it even more ruthlessly.

Yes, Pakie - the Bok defence is totally dependent on the person shooting upwards to form the umbrella defence. If this person gets it wrong, it creates a massive amount of space.

We saw last week how Moodie got exposed.

Penalty Boks bang in front . . . Pollard scores. 26-25.

Penalty goal after a laboured period of phase play for the Boks. 25-26

Here comes the Bomb Squad . . .

W aste of a kick by Fassi.

The Boks remain so weak under the high ball. How many do we actually win?

Manie on for Pollard and he lines up a penalty . . . Louw, Etzebeth, Koch, Kwagga all on . . . Manie scores. Bokke lead again 28-26.

Louw has shown more fire in his 2 minutes on than Dixon showed in his 46 minutes.

Now Albornoz has a shot for the Pumas . . . he misses . . .

And another high ball simply results in free possession for Arg.

Boks so lateral in attack.

Ox making some strong runs. And again we kick away possession and get penalized.

Springbok lineout is a shambles . . .

Great scrum, but again our backs just run themselves out of space. Two passes and we're up against the touchline.

Mike are you waking up to the problems with our back play yet?

Again lateral, everyone is drifting to the outside as they move, no one straightens the line.

Manie misses touch with a penalty . . .

Our scrum dominating, Hendrikse isolating himself in what could have been a good attacking chance for us under advantage.

Ox with another big performance comes off.

Albornoz is a real handful . . .

And we continue with shenanigans like behind the back passes instead of just keeping possession.

Penalty Pumas. Albornoz has a shot to take the lead . . . he scores. 29-28 to the Pumas. 12 to go.

Am missing a crucial tackle.

The Argies are doing what we're not doing - simple layered attack that fixes the inside defense and opens space on the outside, instead of just passing from one guy to the next while drifting like we do.

Fassi knocks on just short of the line.

Boks almost through but Fassi loses the ball in the tackle. And now has a pass nearly intercepted.

Late tackle on Fassi missed there?

Eben with a massive lineout steal. Only gain about 5m with Hendrikse's touch kick.