Those two first tries by the AB’s were soft and down to some absurd goings on with Willie and the unbelievable one on one miss by Marx - some idiot on here blamed the Marx miss as a du Toit miss - fucking childish idiot
I don't get why people find what Willie did so absurd. He couldn't get to the kick, Narawa went to ground as he caught it, Willie couldn't dive onto him as that is illegal so his momentum simply took him past the player on the ground. No mystery. Kolbe is far more culpable for buying a dummy instead of tackling the carrier, which, being a fine tackler, he definitely would have pulled off.
Du Toit was right there as Jordan was slipping through Marx's tackle, then for some reason hesitated a fraction instead of just keeping his momentum and that fraction of hesitation was all Jordan needed to get away from him. As it is he just about clipped his ankle, without the hesitation he could have had him. Marx is obviously the main culprit, but there was a chance.
In the second half you get the nice break by de Allende to set up PSDT deep
You also get him handing the All Blacks their biggest clean break on a platter as he vacated the space on the inside that Jordie runs into. You also get him kicking the ball straight to the All Blacks with Moodie in space out wide. You also get him tossing advantage possession to nowhere with Moodie yet again open on the right edge. Outside of his break all he did was carry into traffic to set up the next phase - every 12 in the world can do that.
o much for the AB’s pushing us off the ball at the breakdown, again by the comments I expected to see that all game - that never materialised
They only counter rucked us off the ball 3 or 4 times, including right at the end before they kicked it out to end the game but sure, it never materialised.
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Talk about missed opportunities and two fuck ups
There was nothing in that game if anything I thought the Boks looked the stronger side
Those two first tries by the AB’s were soft and down to some absurd goings on with Willie and the unbelievable one on one miss by Marx - some idiot on here blamed the Marx miss as a du Toit miss - fucking childish idiot
Then we had line out attacking opportunities deep in their 22 squandered by the Williams miss and the Marx taking too long to throw the ball in.
Then there was the Ox should have scored opportunity thrown away over the line
Best was the same idiot saying that all Rassie was a kick and chase coach - it was raining you fucking idiot, we kicked less than the AB’s did. Do we really have to put up with such stupidity on this board
The conclusions reached that de Allende and Kriel were poor is a load of shit. Same applies to Williams, Pollard, Kolisi, Marx and Willie. Judging by the comments on here I was expecting to see howlers from these players
In the second half you get the nice break by de Allende to set up PSDT deep in the 22 only for an obstruction to be called
So much for the AB’s pushing us off the ball at the breakdown, again by the comments I expected to see that all game - that never materialised, just like the so called utter shit that the AB’s can’t scrum
Bottom line is take away those soft tries and add Ox bloody scoring when he should have and that game was ours but right now this is a Bok side lacking synergy and still staying in the game