Rassie the rugby brain

Aha.....sort of a rope a dope? How is he going to out fox the slimy Welsh?

yeah i think will be closer game but boks should win this.

We will know if they are on or not whether faf and pollard kick up and unders everytime they get the ball.

The counter from welsh much better than poor japanee...

I think physicality with rush defence and TRY to put it through the hands boks... if your centres KNOW how to pass......?!

Rassie's a good coach, probably a fine motivator but don't forget the defence guru ...... upon this rock we build our team.

On another topic I'll move Kolbe to FB sooner rather than later ...... he has that Christian Cullen like elusiveness, giving us an opportunity to replicate the ABs successful move re Barratt. Poor Am never receives a pass enabling him to feed his wings & we need attacking options.

Kolbe should have been tried at XV before the World cup. His counter-attacking ability maybe even more effective from XV,

He is more reliable under the high ball, and he has a better clearance kick than Leroux

If the Bok forwards dominates, playing Frans Steyn at XV is also an option. He can kick the ball for miles from the 22, allowing the Boks to play more of the game in the opponent half. 

He wus FB at WP or is I skeef ? & he has a lovely boot to boot .

He did play fullback for WP and the Stormers. I would trust him more than anyone under the high ball. A true warrior. 

There is nothing particularly sophisticated about the Rassie blueprint. He is a C- coach, very far from the brimming cauldron of ideas we were foretold. The Boks simply physically overcame a better coached and more talented attacking team by killing them at thr source.

The Welsh have an oppressive line with ferocious work at the point of contact and subsequent breakdown. The Boks won't have the physical advantage they had against the previous strings of minnows they've faced. In fact, the Welsh have physically dominated the Boks for the past five years. Last November they comprehensively blunted Steph, Damian, Lood et al. If you can halt the Bok carriers, they really have no threat on attack. If you can win the aerial battle they struggle to build momentum. The Boks don't create space, they merely plough into you repeatedly with very basic and repetitive shapes and patterns. The biggest aspect of the Bok game post-game one is their power at the breakdown. This will be the decider for me. Can they continue that trend? The Welsh are very clean and precise in contact and provide clean and quick ball. It's remarkable how well they achieve this in the face of intense pressure.

It'll be a physical battle. Our games with Wales always are. The Welsh usually defend with their openside wing up in the line and 9 in the line, so kicking is an obvious option. Perhaps a shallow kick will finally serve its purpose in negating the rush and compressing the Welsh when they win those balls. If they don't, then the Boks can build a head of steam. 

It won't be pretty, but if the Boks can achieve the stated aims and take their chances, they will win. 

Not how the French combined physical hard running with creation of space. It was a recipe which heavily exposed the Boks last November, one which leads me to believe the Boks won't be able to replicate exactly what the French did last weekend. 

Wow - the Village Idiot is back with another anti-Erasmus attack without knowing what he is talking about.  And his attack is what makes it so laughable.   He is as per normal saying things that he dreamed up on Cloud 9 and his fairy tales continue unabated.

Remember how he spoke about the wonderful game plan of Meyer that managed to lose all games in the 2015 Rugby Championship and whose ultimate achievement was a disgrace against Japan who he made into a really the team which could beat the Springboks in the quarterfinals and now that function will be taken over by the Welsh, whose struggled through the WC and if it was not through a red card would have lost against France,   

They are now his great hope to prove that Erasmus is a useless coach and the team with players like De Allende, Du Toit and De Jager is the pits.   He is a double digit coward as well - he wrote paragraphs about the upcoming match denouncing Erasmus and the team and then add an escape clause if he is caught out again in case despite his diatribe the Springboks win the game.  

This is what is called normal because of his attitude ad h is multiple user names of the past is that he changes names every time he is disgraced on site.  Happy Village Idiot Day to him.                          

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That may indeed have been the plan, but I'm not sure why it's considered much different from what we have been doing the whole season (exception the Australia game in the RC with the Jantjies/Jantjies axis where we saw possibly the least kicking of the season between 9/10).

Against Italy for example we kicked 36 times, more than against Japan, although with a more even split between box kicks and bombs from Pollard.

Against NZ in round 1 Faf put up 12 or 13 box kicks, few of which we recovered or got a positive return from. Essentially the same strategy, hand over possession and trust our defense? I see now I have a thread on the board where I analyzed Faf's 10 box kicks against Australia in 2018. This is how the Boks play under Rassie. It's nothing new. He's built the Bok game around our defense.

I'd be surprised to see a much of a change in tactics against Wales from what we've been doing under Rassie since RC2018. Maybe Rassie sneaks one in one us though. We'll see.

What a crock of shit!!

The Japs dominated the Goats in the first half. Even their "superior" pack found themselves under the pump. They were defending for their lives.

Even their set piece was under pressure. They were supposed to walk over the Japanese. What happened? A big pack dominated by small men.

The Goats should have been down to 14 men after Beast's spear tackle. They ended the first half totally panic stricken and had to be calmed down by Rassie and his quota assistant.

Stupid Dave makes it sound as though this was all part of a game plan. The brilliance of Rassie.

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahaa!!

I don't think so.

The only thing that helped them was their rush defense. They were off side on many occasions and were allowed to get away with it most of the match. It disrupted the Japanese who had no answer for it and found themselves on the back foot. 

Game plan my arse.

Try to wake up Stupid Dave.

A better plan or have the Boks just become better at playing to the same plan.

What has Rassie brought to the mix?

Jake White introduced the rush defense more than a decade ago. It was abandoned by all the coaches that followed ... in fact, most of what White put in p lace was discarded. The Bok style of play was reinvented by Meyer and we've all seen the results of this stupidity.

Rassie has selected a better quality of quota ... but quotas none the less.

Faff kicks everything away. He doesn't have a good pass, not even off his right hand. His only redeeming quality is being a nuisance ... getting in the faces of the opposition.

Apart from being riddled with quotas, there is nothing new to this Goats team.

Let's face it ... our supposed stars (Pollard, Vermeulen) have been rather timid. Not the world beaters we were told to expect ...

Wales have been poor. The Goats have written them off ... and so have most of the members on this board. Careful ... we may just see another panic stricken Goats side come half time.

Gooooooooooo Walesssssssssss!!!

Not forgetting that Japan played pretty dumb rugby as well, persisting in high risk stuff in their own territory against a defense they couldn't break. T hat leaked the penalties that allowed the Boks to get daylight on the scoreboard before putting the knife in. 

Dave i didn't like the strategy of giving away our ball. However one cant argue with the result or the fact Rassie is a very astute coach. Agree with your take

My fellow CA, and of course a highly intelligent man, Cobus Visagie, said Rassie was the sharpest rugby brain he had ever encountered. Many have made similar comments.

Poor wee cc the ab wannabe is hurting real bad. Only a Bok loss to Wales or one in the final will help his pain. But whatever happens by reaching the semi finals Rassie has already had a reasonably good RWC so its all over already for the Rassie bashers. Bet Rassie's win ratio also is looking much better so we have not heard anything about that recently. Hahahahahahahha

Organhuffer must be hugely embarrassed at how well Allende played. His comments about Allende being weak i s one of the great blunders made. Steph and Lood played very well and confounded the Huffer once again.

It's really funny that the Goats had to rely on penalties to get this "daylight".

They were supposed to freight train this 2nd tier rugby nation ...  isn't that what you guys suggested ... ??? ... and yet ended up turning to their coach for a little comfort at 5 - 3.

Haaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha!!

Beast wasn't red carded for some strange reason. That boggles the mind. I wonder what would have happened if it were a white player?  

Yes ... it was stupid play from Japan that won the match for the goats. The quota goats can be thankful for a lot of things ... much like Wales can be thankful to the stupid French lock.

We have the final of the WC being played in one of the semis ... and the other semi contested by two second rate sides that have no right being there.

What an anticlimax.

Let me explain something which all the Erasmus critics always ignored from the word go.  Tat relates to the number of tries scored  by the Springboks this year:-

In the RC - shortened version :    Tries scored 12 (in 2015 it was 7)

In the WC                               :     Tries scored 30 (in 2015 it was 23)

Tries flows from attacking moves and from nothing else.  Kicking was always a part of the game and I was disappointed with what happened on Sunday as well - instead of being effective it was poorly executed.     

I am not at all disappointed by the results attained by Erasmus thus far.  He did a lot to repair the damage caused by Meyer and Coetzee and it is clear that the Springboks  are on the way up. . 

What about 2007? ....that would also make for an interesting compar ison.

CC these Blossoms beat Ireland. Can't be too bad. 

Dave

It was not the kicking I was disappointed in - it was the QUALITY of the kicks that I was disappointed about,  

Pakie

Those penalty kicks at goal was total garbage.   With Du Toit, De Jager and Etzebeth they walked meters in driving mauls - one even near to 40 meters,   They should under those circumstances rather made corner kicks and set up driving mauls.

The issue about driving mauls was discounted last year because of in the main the physical deficiency of Mostert - but with him not around there was no reason not to go for driving mauls.   The one driving maul after Mostert replaced De Jager was as to be expected an unholy mess with the Springboks losing possession.    

Talking about mauling ... how many of those turned into truck & trailers ... ?

Was any blown up?

Very pleased with myself for calling Am's defensive effot before anyone else.

Oh, and also first to call DDA as MOTM, despite smoke billowing from my shoes as I typed.

Was there a plan B?

Missed the first half but from what i have read the 2nd half was the same. Kick the shit out of it and wear them down. But congrats  it worked.

The plan was obviously to absorb pressure with defence and to pounce on quick turnover ball...and then overpower them in the last 20 with a fresh pack of forwards....and it worked too. The poor kicking, comical fumbles and handing over cheap possession wasn't part of the plan...that was just an added bonus.

Tirn over that much ball to the poms or us and you have no hope of winning. Just hope your players have got that out of their system.

Haaaaaaaaaahahahahahaa!!

Exactly Ceradyne. The knock ons ... missed tackles ... spear tackles ... yellow card that should have been a re d ... and handling errors ... were all deliberate. It kept the ball in Japans hands and so they played into ours. The fools.

Those dumb Japanese.

I would have been happy with a far simpler game plan ...  

Nah ... Draad ... the plan went out the window when panic set in.

The cappie had to calm the poor dears down at the break.

They were all a tremble ... fearful of those pesky dumb, Japs.