Tough to rate, some good performances spoiled by big errors. Pay more attention to the comments than the points.
Ox - 6
A few strong scrums, involved in the tight stuff and breakdowns.
Marx - 5
Lineout troubles that may not all be his fault - you could see with the free kick for delayed throw for example he pointed to his ear, indicating that he likely couldn't hear the calls. Missed the tackle on Jordan for his try. Good involvement otherwise.
Thomas - 7
Strong work at the breakdowns and tight stuff. Copped one scrum penalty.
Eben - 6
Very involved in the tight. Not effective on the carry in this game. Good wide tackle on Rieko late in the game. Failed along with Wessels to clean Ardie off Van Staden at the death for the match deciding moment.
Nortje - 6
Early missed tackle on Vaai. He hunted play well, seldom far from the action. Great lineout steal at 27:40. Unable to clear Vaai off the ball that resulted in a penalty for NZ. Busy and involved, but lacks physical presence. Plays more like a loosie.
Van Staden - 6
Drops Williams pass early on. Also hunted play well, often the first man to the breakdown, maybe unlucky in one or two instances not to win a turnover penalty. Missed a few tackles, carried strongly.
PSDT - 6
Tough to rate. Penalized for obstructive line early. Poor lineout offload missing Williams at 20:08. Failed to get to Jordan with his try. Concedes a penalty costing 3 points at the ruck. Drove Marx over the line for his try. Culpable in the Tupuea try with a failed tackle, with the fact that the Boks had to rush wide to counter the AB numbers as a softener. Gets up at 69:35 and instead of continuing to protect the ruck stands off and NZ counter rucks and turns the ball over. He was very involved though and often the player driving the carrier over the advantage line, but a few big errors count against him.
Kolisi - 6
Better than on first impression. Made some good tackles and good defensive reads, like the spot tackle getting the Boks a penalty 45:06. Some strong carries. Not very involved in the tight stuff, which is perhaps not his job.
Williams - 6
Cleaned up Nortje's miss on Vaai with a good tackle. Sharp collect from lineout and great clearance upfield 8:25. Poor pass 9:24 loses the Boks 30m. Box kick partially charged 10:05. Good snipe 21:20. Caught by Vaai behind the ruck at 27:49, but Vaai had moved on him before he had picked up the ball so should have been a Bok penalty. Dropped a PSDT lineout offload. Box kicks had good accuracy, but he did make some unforced errors.
Pollard - 5
One great kick take. One excellent 50/22. One wayward pass. For the rest neither here nor there with little influence. Missed more tackles than he made.
Moodie - 5
Big momentum stopping spot tackle on Beauden, a few other good tackles. Missed some as well. Rarely got drawn into play, more effort should be made to get the ball to him.
DDA - 5
Plenty of tackles around the tight fringes, but exposed on defense in open play as when easily beaten on the outside by Jordan at 4:53 and when overcommitting to the outside at 46:04 leaving a huge gap for Jordie to exploit, costing the Boks 20+m. Pointlessly kicks possession away with Moodie in space for a wide pass 19:06. One good dart from first receiver into a gap at 51:41. Tosses away advantage possession to nowhere a little later, again showing the lack of cohesion in the Bok setup. Displays no vision or creativity while making a few of his staple slow carries over the advantage line.
Kriel - 6
Dropped an early Pollard pass after apparent confusion between him and DDA (who was also reaching for the pass), costing the Boks 60m and setting up the position for the ABs first try. Caught offside at 5:21. However, he tracked very well on defense all over the park, at least one excellent spot tackle and often being the guy to make a trouble stopping tackle out of nowhere. Another obstructive run penalty against him and Sacha as they both ran an inside line in a very attacking position in the phase after DDA's carry at 51:41 adds another instance of the Boks left hand seemingly not knowing what the right hand is doing.
Kolbe - 5
Inexplicable error in judgement not tackling Narawa for his try, more so than Willie's blunder. Good spot tackle to stop NZ breakout from 22 late in the game. A few runs and a few good tackles, but another example of a decent performance hard to rate because of one costly error.
Willie - 5
Early error in judgement with Narawa's try. His wide pass to get Kolbe into space was, however, the only pass with some vision from any Bok back in the whole game. He wasn't as bad as first impressions would suggest, but added little.
Sacha - 5
Good take in the air, a good break, poor kick away of attacking possession with 3 men outside him. Mixed bag, little influence.
Kwagga - 5
Strong carry to set up Bok try after the monster scrum, yellow for professional foul in the red zone set the All Blacks up for what turned out to be the winning try.
Reinach - 6
Forward offload to DDA in attacking position, well taken try. Pretty standard, didn't do much else than Williams.
Lood - 5
Strong tracking of breakdowns, involved in the tight stuff, one great lineout steal, a monster tackle on Jordie. Poor pass to no one that tanked the Boks last chance.
Hooker - NR
No involvement outside of a brief defensive effort trying to call more defenders across in Tupuea's try before being stepped on the inside.
Wessels - NR
Weak cleaning along with Eben on Ardie at the death. Won a strong turnover on the hooter to give the Boks a last chance.
Wilco - NR
Big scrum giving the Boks a try. Got pinged for one of the number of obstructions that the ref gave both ways at the kickoffs and high kicks.
Here are my final thoughts. The Bok players are not doing badly in itself. There are weak moments and errors, but the major issues are:
1. Our players are blind to opportunity. As I mentioned above, Willie was the only player who threw a creative pass that put someone in space. DDA had that opportunity at 19:06 with Moodie in space wide, instead he kicks it through the line to where a cluster of defenders awaits the ball. We have no vision or creativity in midfield, just perpetual seeking of contact or senseless kicking.
2. There is no cohesion or flow. Kriel with Sacha too again ran an obstructive line in a perfect attacking position with no one seeming to know what is going on. Early on both he and DDA went for a Pollard pass resulting in a knock - they've had 39 games together, yet there's no apparent understanding between them. I don't even consider them a center combination right now - they don't combine at all.
3. We need to fix our lineouts. Too much attacking possession lost through steals, poor offloads or dropped balls, plus the free kick.
4. We kick away most of our possession to no advantage. Here is a rundown of our high kicking (I may have missed one or two but you'll get the gist of it). We lost 9/13 possessions on box/high kicks. Is this really an effective strategy?
Box/high kicks:
Grant - competitive/lost
Grant - competitive/lost
Grant - competitive/lost
Grant - competitive/penalty won for obstruction
Grant - competitive/scrum advantage
Grant - competitive/won
Pollard - competitive/lost
Pollard - competitive/lost
Pollard - not competitive/lost
Grant - not competitive/lost
Reinach - not competitive/lost
Reinach - competitive/won
Pollard - competitive/lost