Yeah, you're right Mike. The Boks backs were all in agreement to run at 90% pace until Sacha came.
Now they agreed to give it at least 95%.
Yeah, you're right Mike. The Boks backs were all in agreement to run at 90% pace until Sacha came.
Now they agreed to give it at least 95%.
Plum
With Estehuizen arfound it would be at 85 pace/ He will play as a bench loosie against France. LOL
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Interesting comments:-
We were a bit shell-shocked,” Jones said on the Rugby Unity podcast. “There were players who didn’t handle the intensity of the occasion and went into their shell.
“That’s my fault – I didn’t give them the preparation to be confident in that environment.
“But you learn quickly in games like that. You see the gap between where you are and where you need to be, and you can use that to accelerate improvement.”
“Well, there are two areas that were significantly different. One was their speed and height of their work around the breakdown.
“They were really quick and really aggressive and really low. There was one where Malcolm Marx cleaned out one of our players who was over the ball and caused a turnover.
“He literally looked like a bulldozer. He must’ve been less than half a metre in his height, and he just hit him and cleaned him out and took him off the ball. So that was really impressive.”
Jones believes South Africa’s backline has evolved with someone like Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu in the No.10 jersey.
“Secondly, the speed of their backs and the speed of their backs of being able to take advantage of unstructured situations has definitely improved.
“Everyone’s talking about Sacha and quite rightly. He’s a brilliantly talented player.
“He’s got good feet, he’s got a good fend, he’s got an eye for space, and he wants to take people on. And he’s a big fellow too.
“He is not a small player, and he certainly looks like he’s going to be a really good talent coming through.
“There’s obviously a lot for him to negotiate in the next couple of years to see whether he can keep his head on and keep applied to his task. But there’s no reason to think he can’t.”
What Jones mentioned above ties in what was discussed. It seems from his comments that the backs all have increased their space to tie in with ach a at flyhalf.