Perhaps the power balance is starting to shift back to the Southern Hemisphere. Hopefully, Australia can continue improving under Joe Schmidt.
Perhaps the power balance is starting to shift back to the Southern Hemisphere. Hopefully, Australia can continue improving under Joe Schmidt.
Fiji lost to Scotland last weekend so there's no clean sweep unfortunately.
A bit early too tell. England probably should have beaten New Zealand but sabotaged themselves with what looks like a pre-planned substitution. Australia where good against England and I rate Joe Schmidt highly but I wouldn't read too much into one match.
Ireland where very sloppy and deserved to lose against New Zealand but again its too early to read into that. I didn't think New Zealand looked particularly good against either England or Ireland.
Wales are rubbish. Good on Fiji, they where the better team but they are hardly going give Ireland or France trouble.
Italy where closer to Argentina than the score line suggests. Argentina's first two try's where pretty flukey to be honest. Think once Argentina got more than 3 scores ahead Italian heads dropped.
South Africa beat Scotland but that was expected. SA are simply a better team than Scotland.
The word you are looking for at least three times is ‘were’ not ‘where’.
The teams are very close at the top. It will be interesting to see where France are. The one thing we clearly do better than any other world team is scrum. Game after game it turns close contests in our favor, taken for granted by Bok fans. This is so clear one would like to see some sort of technical explanation.
England are massively underrated.
They should have beat the ABs and chucked the Ozzie game away as well.
They could easily be two on the trot now.
Rassie better pock a strong side for them.
" This is so clear one would like to see some sort of technical explanation."
- Moz Our Props like Malherbe is not only strong but very technical scrummers .
Credit also needs to go to Daan Human who is a master scrum coach.
The Hit is important, as that determines your weight distribution vs your opposition prop.
We are masters at the hit. Low body positioning and of course our engine room with Eben, Franco and RG gives that Boost.
Our Hookers are mostly potent scrummers to.
They can either work together with the LH or TH to pop the opposition props, by scrumming at certain angles
South African props are Just natural born scrummers, it’s in our blood going back centuries and more centuries.
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as Wales slump to a record 10th defeat .................... time for Gatland to take a hike.