Exactly Pakie.
PSDT out wide is a complete waste of attacking potential. He should rather be winning collisions, slowing opposition ball, and making dominant tackles.
But when he drifts into those wider channels, he basically becomes a speed bump.
By the time he’s received the ball, the defense is already upon us , and all that space the wing could have used is gone.
The Bok wings are some of the most lethal finishers in world rugby. Give them half a chance, and they score points.
But they can’t do that if the “link” pass always goes to a 115kg forward who has no acceleration to exploit the gap.
PSDT is not breaking thru the defence, he’s just getting caught and recycled, while the real strike power is left watching.
Loose forwards should be cleaning out, carrying hard around the rucks, or acting as link men in midfield.
They should not be clogging up the space where the wings should be taking defenders on.
It’s predictable, it kills momentum, and it plays right into the opposition’s hands
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I'm watching the game again. The amount of times the Boks had a sliver of space for the pace of a wing to exploit out wide but then who gets the ball? PSDT. Standing right inside the wing time and again, running a few meters only for the defense to catch him, take him to ground and all the advantage is gone as the breakdown allows the defense to get ahead of the situation again.
Why is he there? Why is a converted lock time and again the receiver of attacking ball that requires pace and agility to take advantage of? I know he must be playing under instruction, but it makes no sense.
It will certainly make his meters run stat look fantastic, those slow loping charges down the touchline, but those situations need the ball to get to the wing while he still has space to create something.