The three crucial moments that lost the test
I dont understand why Koch was even in the team. He was bog average when he was in SA, and he signed to play overseas.
Rather stick with local players unless the overseas options are better.
Giving away caps to keep the ANC happy makes me sick. Taking off our only fetcher in Marx when defiesyou know the AB's are going to give it everything in the last 5 defies belief.
Thanks Mozart
For identifying those "moments".
By the way Willemse was outstanding when he got the ball the first time. How many times did ben Smith and the AB's had posiotional problems when kicks were made at them?
So I suppose the attack Willemse will now be career-defining in your normal way?
What about the Etzebeth penalty g ive-away that was converted by Barrett? Was that not a moment too?
If you have strings of BS to write please be fair to all players.
We must not forget the drop in efficiency of the props when Marx is replaced by a much weaker Mbonambi......but why must he be substituted?
Answer my question - stupid. Was the converted penalty of Etzebeth not a moment too?
You ae always writing drivel trying to blame your pet hate players, but answer all the questions ad try and not show prejudice,
You are seriously troubled - go and see your shrink as a matter of urgency since you cannot even answer a simple question.
That from a guy already created a mountain of eggs he ended up with, I am ready to throw some more egg on the mountain - but that would not really help.
The difference is that Etzebeth gave the Boks a competitive edge. Steph was nowhere in the first 40 minutes, the second was a mixed bag. Some good work, but some bad mistakes.
AO
Have you got any active brain cells left?
The full might of Lügnerin's cerebral faculties transiting information around his rather large Mr Clever skull.
And the deceitful and childish do not know anything about the game of rugby,
No I had the right answer - but for the weird bounce of the ball in the last minute of the game. I am a horrible predictor - you are a total rugby ignorant and a deceiver of note when it comes to rugby.
You found another reason to attack Erasmus and that makes it even more weird,
I will not stop predicting because it is fun and one can give real reasons for the prediction. You are too stupid and even to cowardly to make predictions and in the rare event when you do you make it based on no other reason than BS,
You also forgot the penalties given away by Etzebeth (2) and Louw. Why are you always attacking the same player who in the match as a whole played better than the tw o I mentioned combined,
Mike. This man has been a fool for decades. Remember how he disqualified Jaque Fourie as a worthy centre in the early 2000s? His use of the hebephrenic, giggling composer as a personal icon is a projection .
Bit of a giveaway there Mr Ndabaningi
As I understand it the Bok players were subbed due to injury ?
The ABs always rely on their bench and a tiring opposition forward pack to administer the coup de grace.Just so happened that this time they were a fair bit behind so instead of blowing out the score they were "normalising " it
The Boks XV can at least match it with the ABS for 65-70 mins. Even dominate. But I Think ABS exposed their lack of depth, and fitness.. ABS bench in the 20 had a far supeior impact. ABS just know how to win. And have incredible self belief. Would not be too hard on the Boks. They have improoved ammensly. I think both sides can take alot out of the two tests. First test in Welly it was the case of NZ lack of Game management. Than ironically Boks suffered from the very same thing. I thought Ardie was again outstanding. His turnover and try was of course crucial. I thought BB Two Penalty kicks in the 1st half were also crucial. I thought Richies touch finder. To put ABS into position was also crucial. When the Abs seem to be struggling. Richie and BB Combination, seems to add a new dimension. Although I don't think it would work vice versa. If Ritchie started. BB too me also made a crucial play. When he out ran Dyanti to cover.
A loss is always painful but Rassie never lost focus to his overall game plan and that is to build depth and he kept to the road...subbing might well have cost us the game but he never deviated from what he intends to do in the first place and that is to build deeper...the markings of a good coach. His goal is to build depth overall...he keeps to the path and that takes balls...well done Mr Erasmus and thank you for what you have already done...we now have hope for the future and even the WC is no longer a pipe dream.
You don't build depth by sending on rookies in the last 10 minutes of a game against the All Blacks.
So the blame for the loss is as follows:-
1 Pieter-Stef du Toit
2 Erasmus
3 Willemse
4 Koch
5 De Allende
No other penalties an other players are to blame.
I smell a rat - the Mozart and Co lot has their own agenda and that agenda is attacking the same players game after game, everybody else can make mistakes - or under-perform but must never be mentioned.
Talk about the prejudiced brain dead must be very real in their case.
Agree with Wardad, Faff was replaced because he was cramping up, Willie was replaced because he failed a Head Injury Assessment Test - That leaves only Max. Now all 3 players were on the field in Wellington in the last few minutes when the ABs were hot on attack so I am not sure whether they would have done anything differently this time around.
The ABs took to the good old up and under to negate the rushing defense of the Boks forwards and to drive them back. Even at the 70minute mark they were still kicking away position - case in point, Perenara at the back of the ruck on his own 22 - I thought they would have chanced their arm and ran it - they probably thought better the Boks ran at them with the ball and make mistakes then they get penalised with the ball making easy pickings for Pollard kicking penalties.
You don't build depth by playing players that shouldn't be playing test rugby. His handling of the centres has been pretty shoddy. I heard an excuse that he is primarily a forwards expert. That after years of me being told he is the most progressive and intelligent attacking mind in SA rugby, the Eddie Jones of South Africa. I have seen nothing of the sort. He has time to make amends, but it will be difficult. Blowing a win over New Zealand could haunt him. We'll see what he does up north, this will be a new challenge. His clunky attacking game won't work.
Brother Hakwa I think that Hansen is preparing the ABs for the NH defensive tactics maybe ?
In fairness, Jantjies has a history of making tackles, so too Pollard, who moved to 12 .
It was a huge gaff. I wondered what might happen if we'd lost, I never thought it would have been a spectacular implosion. Our game managers were gone. The replacements with the impression that they must attack. What were their instructions before coming on? Interesting.
The madness showed through again - Mozart went bananas because of the replacement of Le Roux and then found out about the injury and in his lunacy he forced himself into finding another excuse to attack Erasmus. Nice try - fool.
The hilarious thing is you first attacked Erasmus when he replaced Le Roux and make other replacements. When it came out afterwards about the attack remained on Erasmus - but now for a different reason.
How prejudiced and stupid you\have become. To support your sick stories further you proclaimed that you, AO, Pakie and Ceradunce are the top world rugby analysts - as they are able to identify issues the ordinary analysts cannot see, That opened the way for you lot to fabricate circumstances to be used against certain players and obviously the coach and continue with your prejudiced BS on site.
L MAO
Koch is one of those types of players that when given the chance in a top-level test match will be hopelessly exposed. He is not even a 5th best option in South Africa. He gave away a scrum penalty- and then gave away a penalty in open play. This was enough to lose the match.
Notshe could be along the lines of what Hansen said as not choosing the best team that is available. Has Notshe ever won a man of the match in SuperRugby or even Curry Cup rugby? Duane Vermeulen should have been playing at the 8th man with Louw on the bench.
Willemse needs game time, he did have one excellent break. We need Willemse to get more game time before the world cup, either at flyhalf or at 10. Possibly even as a wing, because he is fast and has a kicking game.


