Poor performance by the Boks

Meyers poor squad selection was telling. With Beatst out, he was forced to play the hopelessly inadequate CJ. Had Meyer not learnt from the fact that CJ cannot even command a starting spot in the Lions side.

Its difficult to work out why the Boks were so poor in that first half, they could hardly have been complacent given their average record this year.

It was sad seeing Lambie kicking those pointless bombs - here we have a creative attacking player clearly playing under a conservative coaches instruction.

I thought all the Boks were solid apart from CJ who was poor. Again Jeandre Kruger showed he lacks real clout for test rugby. But the team had no zip and once again our tactics were flawed. We should have smashed that Irish side in contact and let Lambie play to his strengths by attacking more than we did. The backs saw little ball down the line.

Our best players were Pienaar, Strauss, Etzebeth and Louw

It was a poor perfomance by the Boks, better in the second half, but still not nearly good enough.

Lets just hope Beast is ok for Scotland as our back-up props are average to poor

Absolutely agree Saffex. Why select Lambie based on his performances for the Sharks of late and then tell him to do the opposite. Morne should start if this is the game plan we are going to keep playing. Only because we dont want to "ruin" any other players careers and turn them into the robot that Morne has become.

Taute was again below par but I am starting to think its not so much that he is not a good 13, it is because of this defensive gameplan we employ! Why select attacking players for a defensive game plan? Makes no sense.

Lambie and Taute should have been left to run a mock with Hougaard and JP. JDV was good again and would be even better in an attacking mindset. We had a taste of it against the Aussies in Pretoria and all of a sudden we reverted back to our old ways that are not working!

I would like to see and attacking game plan employed like that game against Aus with a backline of

9. Hougaard

10. Lambie

11. Habana

12. Jean De Villiers

13. Jordaan

14. JP Pietersen

15. Taute

20. Reinach

21. Goosen

22. Frans Steyn

Frans to get back in shape and find those awesome touches he used to have instead of just crash boom bang stuff. Goosen is not as complete as Lambie at the moment in my opinion. Reinach is attacking, Pienaar is not. Pienaar suits the game plan we have at the moment but I want to get away from this and Pienaar is too far gone to change. Hougaard will be the man moving forward but he needs to spend time with good scrummies like Marshall, Gregan, Joost and even Andy Ellis of the Crusaders. (Dont know why the AB's dont use Andy more). Jean De Villiers is still too good to leave out but unfortunatel, such is life, we age and Frans just needs to shape up and re invent himself. That will come when he tones up.

 BOD will look below par with Meyers tactics. I don't think Taute was below par. He did what he could with the ball he got.

As for CJ, he was very bad in the scrums. Ireland doesn't have the best scrum and CJ still struggled, Heinke has always been a good prop and he saved us.

Boklogic, I like that backline. Hougaard should be left at 9(superrugby) so that he can sort out all the problems he has been having regarding the position. Meyers approach doesn't help him though.

Agreed 107, Taute received the ball in traffic and made yards. He defended well - would love to know what some of these idiots on here expected him to do with the ball he received. There are some real ignorant rugby pundits on this board.

people are ranting and raving about a 4 point win over a 8th place irish team so depleted by injuries that its scarry....

@logic spot on mate...the problem is never the players. you can be the best team in the world if the tactics mindset and approach is not build on what they offer as a player then the net result will be a winning one.

play a game pattern that is build on your players strong points. to be fair meyer is at 6's and 7's...that is the last song and dance routine before a coach gets axed