Boks vs All Blacks Live Thread

Last 5 penalties all against the Boks. Pressure is building.

Eben gets one against the throw. Important steal.

All Blacks making plenty of errors. Very stop start game.

What a poor NZ side. They must be disappointed with themselves. Handling mistake after handling mistake.

Akira Ioane seems to hav e trouble catching the ball at all.

Half time, 13-11 ABs in what hasn't exactly been a spectacle. Both sides struggling to find any kind of rhythm. Boks as devoid of enterprise as ever. All Blacks creating opportunities but executing poorly.

All Blacks will kick themselves for not being further ahead.

AB                              Boks
220    Metres Run       69

Half time.

The game is unfortunately very poor. As expected, SA can provide nothing but their will not to get beaten by a heavy margin.

They have produced nothing so far. Their first half time is as empty as the SA gold mines as the greedy have managed their job.

Ironically, SA rugby has the same attitude as their economical counterparts: shipping away balls as others ship away gold.

SA rugby players can do nothing with the ball in hand, they must keep sending it back to NZ.

NZ is very poor altogether.  The hope for a decent game relied on them and they failed to show up. Much poor decision making, too much of it. Shaky hands and many handling mistakes.

It seems no side in the world is good enough to deliver a good rugby game when SA rugby is involved.

The stands are being shown during half time. Is there any black SA supporter. Usually, family players come to see their father/husband game and yet it appears there is none. How comes.

SA rugby has no roots.

Bok tackle success again below 80% - 75.

All Black errors keeping us in the game. So many dropped passes.

Bit of tractoring and now Faf throws a poor pass.

Strong carry by the kwagga.

The best thing that could happen right now: A SA rugby victory.

SA team so avoiding to play rugby that a victory by them would bring their negation of rugby to play. With more and more sides around the world adopting this manner of not doing,well, WR will be forced to step in and outlaw this insult on rugby.

Pollard now with a poor pass. Lood carried back in contact.

Penalty, 14-13 Boks.

Consistent AB pressure telling as Boks go offside. Should be three again. 16-14 AB.

Feeling drowsier and drowsier.

Terrific take in the air Beauden. Vermeulen may be in trouble, might be another instance of that silly air collision bullshit. Just a penalty this time. Good.

And another AB knock on. Have to say Australia's handling and passing skills are a few notches above either of these sides.

And another boost by the ref in favour of SA rugby. Things never change. Should have been another yellow card. So far, the ref promptly forgot two yellow cards against SA rugby.

Collapsed maul, penalty Boks. Should put us ahead again.

17-16 Boks

Another high kick, another possession turnover.

And ABs lose the ball in contact again. Now the Boks lose the ball off a poor pass. Comedy capers.

A few minutes away from the best thing this game could deliver.

The bog average Ioane off and Setutu on for the ABs.

McKenzie knocks the high ball. AB has been so poor handling wise.

Boks again kick a high ball on the attack on the opposition 22. Net result - 60m lost .

Good counter Boks and Faf kicks the ball straight to the All Blacks.

All Blacks lineout on the Bok 22. Marco van Staden has ma de quite an impact.

AB lineout shit again.

Penalty ABs 10m line touchline side. What will they do? Posts.

Jordie nails it, what a kick. 19-17 AB.

Boks kick the freaking ball away. Holy shit.

Congrats to the Mighty All Blacks!! Tough luck Boks. The game was played as predicted.

Post mortem: All Blacks error rate shocking. Their set pieces shambles. Boks defense leaky, again no plan other than kick it high, even when you're 22m from the tryline. We beat the ABs at set piece and apart from that their own high error rate contrived to almost lose them the test. Hardly a memorable game.