- The mindset was a central point of observation. It was about knowing whether SA rugby would adopt a mentality
worthy of a champion or would enter the field with a loser mentality, trying to control damage as much as possible.
SA
delivered in this department in an impressive mentality: no side is
remembered with such an empoverished offer in terms of play.
Depletion
has already hit SA rugby, there was nothing. The death of rugby It was
not even about risk management as kicking away the ball has its own
risk ( if the ref had any consistency, he could have booked two yellows
for mistimed aerial challenge) It was about how limited SA rugby players
are in their ability to offer anything related to rugby.
The lack of plan also is so rigid they failed to test other receivers and kept feeding balls to the NZ player who provided the most reliance.
It was not about the physicality. Rugby is a physical game, which does not mean physical sides offer as little as SA sides. There was nothing, a vaccuum. No sequence of a physical side besieging the NZ side in their 5 metre zone. No rolling maul. Nothing.
- At the moment, no side in the world is able to lift up the quality of a rugby game involving SA rugby.
- SA relies heavily on reffing to milk penalties.
- SA manages the economy of a rugby game as they have done with their country economy: extract a ball/gold to ship it away, no local valorization
- SA rugby is one defeat away from a four defeat streak
- the week end is ruined
- The very soul of rugby is endangered. The remedy: termination of SA rugby.
