Reinach.....enough already

Crucial mistakes to put the seal on defeat. Get him gone.

Lambie likewise, his brilliant open field tackle aside was his usual dithering self....his failure to support Hendricks after he took the high ball led directly to Smith's try. A decent sub for Willie.

Pollard and Pienaar were very good today, Pienaar having one of his best Bok outings.

Our centres are Hyde on attack and Jeckyl on defence....we desperately need to give these lads some help. Kriel's inability to read the cut for example. All that time the Bools wasted with JJ at 13 all S15. 

Habana was very busy, Hendricks seems to be more physical in the tackle.

In the scrum Jannie has turned up trumps along with the whole front row. The locks were all good with Lomp putting in a huge effort.....he was perhaps the best forward on the park. All the starting loosies played well....but we lost so much when Louw went off for Whiteley who is no test player. I'm not sure Brussouw really proved his case but he was good. And Schalk was imperious barring one lineout he couldn't quite reach. 

The forward subs added nothing to the effort and frankly Koch, and especially Whiteley and Strauss were very disappointing.

In aggregate the team lost intensity in the last 20 minutes and through the yellow which cost us the test. I personally think the uncontested scrum decision had a lot to do with that....with Nyakane available and our scrum against 7 men on their try line, to not contest is perhaps the most cowardly decision I have ever seen in sports. Shame on HM for allowing that travesty.

http://www.supersport.com/rugby/springboks/news/150725/McCaw_breaks_Bok_hearts

"With less than 20 minutes to go, and a man up through a yellow card for a professional foul to Sam Whitelock and a dominant scrum, referee Jerome Garces took the advantage away from the Springboks with a bizarre call for uncontested scrums at a crucial time.

The Boks had both their tightheads injured, with Jannie du Plessis taken off at halftime with a knock to his knee and Vincent Koch off for blood, but Garces made the call that replacement Trevor Nyakane couldn’t scrum as he was listed as a loosehead and not a tighthead.

Nayakane has been a tighthead replacement before for the Boks and spent a large portion of the Vodacom Super Rugby tournament at No 3, but uncontested scrums were called even though there were four props on the field.

It dealt a blow to the Bok dominance at a crucial time where they had just received a penalty at the scrum and were a man up in the set-piece.

And for the All Blacks it had the opposite effect, it buoyed them and lifted them as their substitutes came on, as they came storming back to dominate the last 20 minutes as their bench took control of the game."

Not sure that the call for an uncontested scrum came from the Boks because Schalk looked very surprised when the ref made the call.

I suspect that the ref made the call based on what was written on the team sheet. I believe only Jannie and Koch's name appeared under tighthead and since none was able to scrum, he called for an uncontested scrum. ( Not sure why Jannie could not return).

 Who zFcked up the margins?  I  can see only a third of the posts! 

Vlag - is jy die stoute kabouter?

Watch the incident where Hendricks get's turned to set up the AB try. He makes a very good take, but the gets set upon by two AB chasers. Instead of going in straight way to help secure the ball Lambie hovers, then fully commits just as the ABs get the ball. .....leaving a huge gap in our defence that Sopoaga runs through.

An error compounding another error. Timidity punished.