VisKop
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VisKop
Welcome to the ignorant prick club.
To be in our club you need to be possessed of logic and an ability to use your words.
You qualify on both fronts.
Thus, you are an ignorant prick.
We have no leader.
We are legion.
Welcome.
Wrong Buttplug I don’t even bother with Shark as his rugby knowledge is weaker than yours and that’s a hard pill to swallow for him as you evidence daily how little you know about the game
Ag, ou Dawie...the more we press you the more we realise there just ain't no juice. Just a shrivelled husk living on teenage dreams.
That’s a laugh coming from you, the sad fuck who gets off on playing video games
Childish twat
The Saffex Backrow:
Jean Luc Dupreez
Dan Dupreez
The triplet Dupreez twin.
Totally ineffective at the breakdown
You are too fucking stupid
The Plum backrow
Esterhuizen, Eskom and Mostert
Ezterhuizen because he is a centers arse - one of the backline player roles is to protect breakdown ball proection or delay recovery by the opposition and St Esterhuizen is not invovled in anything like that - he is more expert in vanishing from sight in test matches - like happened on Saturday. .
I was watching the game again, and noticed that when Eskom left the pitch on the 17th minute, the Boks instantly started playing badly. The Boks conceded a turn over on the very next play.
The Wallabies got their phase play going well, and started to dominate possession. Gaps opened up after multiple phases, and the Australians ran exceptional running lines. Everything seemed to click for them.
Eskom got back on in the 30th minute, but he not have the same impact. Then when Marx left - the breakdown became "dog shit".
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Over the last few weeks, on a few threads, I’ve explained to Saffex that the Boks always have their worst games when the breakdown goes wrong.
I said that having a specialist 6 was essential in test rugby to compete at the ruck. To that end, Kolisi was a better 8 because he has the running and passing skills to link with the backs.
Having a specialist 6 is essential, particularly true without the likes Duane Vermeulen - or even an inform Marx.
Deon Fourie, who was a revelation for the Boks as a 6, and later as an emergency hooker- played a key role in the Boks 2023 RWC. He was an out and out specialist breakdown player that made slowed down opposition ball and sped up his own teams possession.
Marx has not been as effective at the ruck compared to years past. He no longer seems as mobile around the park.
Rassie said after the match that the breakdown was excellent until Eskom went off in the 20th minute, and once Kolisi picked up an injury, it got even worse. Kwagga made no impact at the breakdown, and there are question marks now over whether he’s still test standard.
The Boks played a very expansive game, and it worked up until Eskom left the pitch. But they kept committing too many players out wide after the Aussies were dominating the rucks. This made it too easy for Australia to punch through the middle. They should have adapted their tactics to commit more players to the ruck.
Also, the skip passes out wide near the touchline, creating one-on-one situations where the Aussies beat their man and cut through the line of defence, which had non-existent cover defence. These were often individual errors, but the frequency they happened is concerning. Although, without their domination of the ruck, they would usually have gotten much less chances. Joe Schmidt is a very good coach.
At the international level, the backrow needs at least one specialist fetcher at 6, or the whole backrow needs to be good on the ground. With Steph DuToit on the wing, we need at least two backrow forwards that are good at the breakdown - and ideally at least one tight forward to cover form on the day.
The Boks tried to play rugby in the second half as though they were dominating the breakdown, and what they got was slow, clumsy possession that delivered a poor performance. Without being able to go through quick phases, the attack was too easy to defend against, which in turn led to more turnovers, intercepts and confusion.