Rasmus’ post match comments included these remarks:
“It was just overthrown by the hooker and sometimes they didn’t even go up so that’s a timing issue,” the Bok boss explained.
“We have to understand that a guy like Ruan Nortje is early in his career and it was only his second game against New Zealand.
“Last week, we had Pieter-Steph help him call the lineout but this week it was solely on him, so he will have learnt a lot and the All Blacks did their homework and contested well.”
The lineout was not the only area of the game that New Zealand were able to put the Boks under pressure with Erasmus believing that the All Black comfortably got the better of his side at the breakdown with Scott Robertson’s men winning nine turnovers.
“The scrums was another area, at the first two scrums we were dominant and then they came back and the next two we were under the pump,” Erasmus added.
“Where we came totally second best was the breakdown, the lineouts weren’t great but at the breakdown, they definitely overshadowed us.”
The win over the All Blacks puts South Africa in a strong place to win the Rugby Championship but Erasmus is not getting carried away.
“We respect them immensely as a team,” Erasmus said of the All Blacks.
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So what should some of our esteemed colleagues be learning from these remarks:
1 There is a lineout captain (this is meant for you Clever) and that role is crucial to the functioning of our lineouts. Clearly HM feels the loss of Mostert hurts us.
2 We are very weak on the deck with the combination of Dud Toit and Kolisi. It isn’t always what players do, it’s what they don’t do that makes a difference.
3 We can’t always rely on scrum penalties to feed the maul try conveyor belt. Our scrum dominance relies almost solely on Ox upsetting the opposing tighthead. NZ countered by loosehead pressure via the estimable Tamaiti Williams. Other teams will work this out.
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Clearly Rasmus having taken us back to traditional Bok rugby is still focused almost exclusively on the forward elements, back play seems to be somewhat alien to the great man.
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Rasmus’ post match comments included these remarks:
“It was just overthrown by the hooker and sometimes they didn’t even go up so that’s a timing issue,” the Bok boss explained.
“We have to understand that a guy like Ruan Nortje is early in his career and it was only his second game against New Zealand.
“Last week, we had Pieter-Steph help him call the lineout but this week it was solely on him, so he will have learnt a lot and the All Blacks did their homework and contested well.”
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The lineout was not the only area of the game that New Zealand were able to put the Boks under pressure with Erasmus believing that the All Black comfortably got the better of his side at the breakdown with Scott Robertson’s men winning nine turnovers.
“The scrums was another area, at the first two scrums we were dominant and then they came back and the next two we were under the pump,” Erasmus added.
“Where we came totally second best was the breakdown, the lineouts weren’t great but at the breakdown, they definitely overshadowed us.”
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Respect for the All Blacks
The win over the All Blacks puts South Africa in a strong place to win the Rugby Championship but Erasmus is not getting carried away.
“We respect them immensely as a team,” Erasmus said of the All Blacks.
……….
So what should some of our esteemed colleagues be learning from these remarks:
1 There is a lineout captain (this is meant for you Clever) and that role is crucial to the functioning of our lineouts. Clearly HM feels the loss of Mostert hurts us.
2 We are very weak on the deck with the combination of Dud Toit and Kolisi. It isn’t always what players do, it’s what they don’t do that makes a difference.
3 We can’t always rely on scrum penalties to feed the maul try conveyor belt. Our scrum dominance relies almost solely on Ox upsetting the opposing tighthead. NZ countered by loosehead pressure via the estimable Tamaiti Williams. Other teams will work this out.
…….
Clearly Rasmus having taken us back to traditional Bok rugby is still focused almost exclusively on the forward elements, back play seems to be somewhat alien to the great man.