SHsharkbok
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SHsharkbokCaptain23,217 posts
11 Aug 2024, 18:51#1
Against the Irish, we saw some of Tony Brown's influence on the Bok's attacking play. Sometimes it worked, other times the Boks reverted back to playing flat and carrying the ball up in the centre.
Against Australia, we saw something very different.
Either the Boks are getting used to the plan, or SashaZulu is better at implementing the game plan.
The ball was being moved down the backline with skill, players angled their runs and always drew a player before making the pass - so it does seem the team is starting to gel with the new plan.
We didn't seem much from Delande, where he was preferred mostly as a dummy runner.
Boks are certainly trying to get their wings into the game, arguably the best 2 finishers in world rugby at the moment.
If you play small wings, they need to get more chances to convert opportunities into tries.
What was interesting is that the Boks were less dependent on Willie Leroux being the creator of tries.
MOMozart
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MOMozartCaptain49,914 posts
11 Aug 2024, 19:05#3
We were able to move the ball wide against Oz. But I ascribe that more to Australia’s woeful line speed in defense. We did try to offload more….Dud Toit for example. That hardly worked. If you want to see good offloading putting the player in the gap, watch the Bargies game…they did it brilliantly. Ireland has that skill down as well.
Our tries came mostly from field position….courtesy of the Aussie penalty machine. Our backline tries more from single player breaks in transition play….Sacha and Arendse.
Sacha adds a lot to the running game, as a threat and visualizing the pass. It still has to gel though and I doubt it will with Dud Allende’s instinct to charge into the first tackler.
SHsharkbok
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SHsharkbokCaptain23,217 posts
11 Aug 2024, 20:18#4
Many of the structured backline plays did not result in tries, but it certainly gained territory.
More practice, and some of these will lead to tries, from early stages phase play.
The Boks have never been ruthless on the attack in periods of domination, A 20-minute period could be enough to get the points to win a game if the Boks can score from early phases, rather than relying on broken play.