Both sides are hardly stacked with stars but they keep producing the results thanks to the brand of rugby they play. They have attacking minded 9's & 10's and players across the park who look to attack space and keep the ball alive.
Its so refreshing to watch, compared to the conservative crap the likes of the Sharks and Bulls dish out.
Am with you on Retallick and SBW but neither are playing right now
Nor is Cruden for that matter.
Imagine how good both sides would be is they were dominated by test players, playing that brand of rugby
The mistake the Bools made was trying to play the Chiefs game. Which is exactly the mistake the Boks made at Ellis Park in 2013. If that was the way to go the Blitz Bokke would have won a few trophies in the last 10 years.
Nope the Bulls never tried to play the Chiefs game they just played boring unimaginative rugby much like the Boks do.
If the Boks had a worthy coach that gave them the freedom to play the brand of rugby that the Lions and Chiefs do, the Boks would be number 1 right now.
The Boks should be playing to their strengths which is dominance up front, with plenty of physicality, mixed with the free spirited stuff we see from the Chiefs and Lions....its that simple really
Davey, Davey still in cloud cuckow land? The Bools ran 100 times, the Chiefs 158 times. Here's what happened. The Chiefs were way bettter at beating the first tackle, which unleashed their back up runners for a massive 3.75 as many offloads. It wasn't a question of intent, the Bools couldn't execute along with the Chiefs.
20Clean breaks635Defenders beaten1730Offloads8
Oh boy the usual bullshit from Moz......you will find Blue that JJ had the ball passed down the line from Morne and then his captain Jean on the stroke of halftime, with the clear expectation that the Boks run the ball.......unless in Moz's eyes, it was down to JJ to make a clearance kick.......for a fleeting moment, maybe Morne decided JJ was better equipped to kick!!!!.......what a joke. JJ ran because his skipper passed him the ball.....it wa in fact a good run, beating Cruden with a great step.
And oh we just cant move away from the lies relating to the Barrett try....first we had Jean completely cock up the charge out of the line pathetically missing Barrett and throwing the defensive line in the process. We then had Morne the inside defender going high on Barrett missing him completely, leaving JJ to try and adjust from covering wide in order to clean up the messes Jean and Morne had left him.
At NO point and I'll say it again at NO point did wee Barrett run over JJ - that is a blatant lie......but Moz seems to think lies carry weight on here.
Liar mike at it again. The JJ incident that occurred at the half was as follows. The Boks won a lineout a few metres outside their 22. They passed the ball back to Morne who was 5 metres inside his 22.....who then passed to Jean, who offloaded to JJ on the inside. JJ beat one defender but when tackled he placed the ball immediately.
So Morne was not 15 metres inside our 22....Liarmike.
JJ made several mistakes.....having taken the offload he isolated himself by running away from all his support.....he failed to maintain his feet for even an instant when tackled.....he placed the ball to close to himself and again could have delayed just that little bit to deny the fetcher. In effect he created the perfect fetch for Reid.
To make things worse he then missed Nonu in the lead up to the AB try.
Was Morne's decision justified? Well the Boks had just scored two long range tries from just outside their 22. In one case Louw made the perfect offload, in the other case Vermeulen. Chasing the championship Jean obviously felt it was worth taking the chance. But JJ running a way from his support, instead of linking like Louw and Vermeulen, turned the move into a catastrophe.
Oh yeah and what exactly have the current Bok coaches achieved against the AB's exactly?
Last I checked we kept coming second to the Kiwi's so whatever current plan is being employed is NOT working.....you work the maths out.
Um that was a one off at Ellis Park as explained previously - we were chasing a bonus point......a one off test does not define a years worth of boring rugby played by the Boks.
Fact is we were the better side on the day and had it not been for Jean pathetic miss on Barrett and useless Morne's fumble over the line after JJ brilliant beating of Savea, we would have walked that test.
That test showed exactly how we should have played all year and how we should be playing right now.
The way the Chiefs and Lions play is exactly how the game should be played by the Boks with an added emphasis on dominating up front without the likes of useless Matfield and the likes on board.
So a question for you Moz, was it wrong that JJ ran the ball after receiving it from Morne and Jean on the halftime whistle or do you think it was his job to say kick it out?
Lestat, instead of lying why not back your pathetic assertion re JJ's defence with actual stats, thereby exposing you for the useless liar you are.
As I pointed out at the time, backed by stats......JJ's defensive stats were better than Jean's in the RC that year.....so stop fucking lying, its pathetic.
The Boks were the better side on the day
You are lying you twat, go check the stats for the whole RC that year and come back and tell me that JJ was worse than Jean......blatant bloody lies.
Provide a video of JJ being bounced in test matches.....come on you liar
Your take on JJ not linking with slow coaches like Louw and Vermeulen is a load of shit......JJ made a great break and Kolisi came close to securing the ball after Read got a hand on JJ which threw him off balance......it was Read's swinging arm that had the ball fly out some distance for the AB's to counter......much happened after that incident before the AB's scored.
What should have happened on the stroke of half time, was Morne kicking the ball dead - failing which the Bok captain in Jean should have done just that. By passing to JJ, they obviously wanted to attack.......how fucking obvious is that......but we have some clowns telling us JJ is the guilty party......unbelievable
