Ireland vs South Africa, 2017, November 11th

Joe S. chmidt knows the Bok game plan better than the players

 Why are they persisting In trying to go wide so early 

 Lomp finally off

 Ireland have only has 33% of possession but Boks lack the ability to create anything. Have gone backwards since the wee ab test.

 Ireland has slowed down, they are thinking of their next game already.

 The AB test was engineered by the ABS. ABS played so that SA looked good.

In this game, Ireland only played one half so SA are going to look better.

SA rugby is poor, it depends on graces from the opponent.

 And another try. Apart from France, going to be hard to find a side that makes SA look good.

 What a game when you think of it. Puzzling that SAns keep clinging to the illusion of their rugby. How many times will they have to be shaken off to come to terms with the mandatory termination of rugby in SA?

Terminate rugby in SA.

 Ireland, without even trying, keeps stacking points.

31 to 3.

 What a joke of a team 

This, to my mind, is a bigger balls up than the 57-0 loss to the ABs.

 So many resources spent on rugby in SA for nothing except kids dying from starvation.

Well done Ireland!!! Displayed an all-round game, and totally outplayed our mob. Ireland should be awarded the 2023 Cup! If this proves anything....

My advice......bring them home.

And just to rub it in, they go on score once more in the corner and then kicks the conversion as wells .....

 What a trashing! SA rugby exposed once again.

Past the hour to admit that resources would have been spent better than on rugby.

Rugby makes SA poorer, it brings nothing.

SA spent tremendously to build infrastructures that earned the blessing of WR. Yet it is likely that SA will not host the WC because of society issues.

Ireland spent on their society first, and much less on rugby.
They have no infrastructures, a rugby team and a society able to host a WC.

Misallocations of resources, the strand of anti capitalism.

 Lucky to get the 3 I thought.

Yeah. Well done to Ireland. Well deserved. Someone said earlier that Joe Schmidt knows the Bok game plan better than the Bok players. That would have been kak funny, had it not been such a farking shame.

 SA play so predicably. It is no merit. Only France has it to make SA shine on this tour.

I thought Ireland would be rusty but having said that I was delighted with the win. It's a pity that the name of the Springboks doesn't present such fear as it used to. I am sure they will execute their next game better, if they play like they did to day I think Wales may beat them, let's hope they get their game together.

A long way from the days of your friend Jake....are you still in touch with him Mo? If ever a man has been vindicated by subsequent events it’sJakeWhite.

A long way from the days of your friend Jake....are you still in touch with him Mo? If ever a man has been vindicated by subsequent events it’sJakeWhite.

 Hi there Mo . How much further will Bok rugby go down.Adopt professionalism and merit or perish.
The difference in skill set was marked.
Poor selections, quotas, poor skills and no idea about how to play.
There are NO solutions as there is no desire to be the best we could be. 
This is simply another anc disaster. Whatever they touch withers.

Yes Mozart we are still in touch and meet up when he is back in South Africa. Will be catching up in the New Year and stay with him before he goes back to Japan. We will meet up again when we go to Japan for a RWC. I have always said a rugby coach is like a football coach a thankless task!

Give him the best wishes of an old Bok rugby fan will you.....the way SA treated that man was so pathetically small.

Hi Beeno, Well I hope things improve for them, I cannot comment on the politics going on out there and the quota situation but have to say they need to get their backs sorted out. I like most of you and most people in NH cannot comprehend how they are in the position they are at the moment. I am not into knocking the coaches as t the end of the day the players have to execute what they are training for day in and day out.

 Mo you firstly have to pick the right players. Then you have to have the skills and a game plan A and B and if necessary C.The team look like rank amateurs. 
It was really very poor. For the reasons given one can say that from time to time the Boks will do well but the glory days look over.

The backline moves by the Springboks was comical

Hi Mozart, I most certainly will, he knows you are a fan of his and was sorry not to meet up that time in London. I must confess It was my fault I got your phone number wrong(I kick myself still) but will pass on your regards. I always say a coaches job is a thankless task.

No worries....cheers Mo.

 Ireland were good. But Boks were just woeful. Especially in the Forwards. Ireland just mauled them their. Whats SA depth like? I am presuming not well. Because I just watched the game. And boy I can't say one player came out looking good. They were luckey to get that 3 points LOL. Poor Selections, Poor Skills, Poor Defense e.t.c. Could go on and on and on and on. Your best players are not even in the team. Their was a loosie who played the Abs for the Barbarians last weekend. Who was outstanding. I Don't even think he is in the Boks Squad.

 Yes Luke. Kwagga Smit is not even in the squad.Ireland was very good though. Congrats to them. The reason we have been struggling against Ireland for years now, is that they can much us up front. Our physicality does not intimidate them. Their backs were always very competitive against the Boks, but the Bok backline has totally imploded. No back 3, poor centers and not a FH of note since Morne.
Top that up with racial sellections and a mediocre couch and this is what you get.