Deflection.
Deflection.
Too much praise...the Bokke thrive on being the underdog...this has the potential to backfire spectacularly...I hope our boys stay humble.
Deflection bwahhhaaaahaaaa
Bit fishy so much praise, trying to give boks a false sense of security….mind games by Tim.
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You must by now know that Mozart's hate list contains in the the following order contains -
* Erasmus'
* Du Toit,
* De Allende, and
* the Springboks
So anything positive posted by rel experts are taken as being worthless. He has the means of devising non-existent try opportunities and writing BS about it.
By the way I took a sport combination bet on the following winning:-
* Sinner, Sverev and Rublev winning in the Cincinnati Tennis Open, and
* The Springboks winning in the test tomorrow,
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Tim Horan Makes Bold Claim About ‘wonderful’ Springboks After Dominating ‘confused’ Wallabies
Jesse Kriel showing off Springboks' improved attack and Wallabies legend Tim Horan.
Wallabies legend Tim Horan believes that the Springboks have improved since the Rugby World Cup following their dominant victory at the weekend.
South Africa are the double defending world champions after lifting the Webb Ellis Cup in both 2019 and 2023.
Their victory in France was built on set-piece, physicality and just sheer bloodymindedness as they won each knockout match by a single point.
Since then, Rassie Erasmus has returned as head coach after being the director of rugby over the previous four-year cycle and is plotting their path to the next World Cup.
Developing the style
The 51-year-old has brought in New Zealander Tony Brown as their attack coach as he searches for a point of difference heading into Australia 2027.
It appears to have had the desired effect already as the Springboks shone in all facets during their 33-7 victory over the Wallabies in the Rugby Championship
And the great Horan, who was working as a commentator on the game, was mightily impressed by what he saw.
“When you’re on the broadcast, you see the way the Springboks perform and you’ve got to sit back and go, ‘wow, they are the number one team in the world.’ I actually think they’re probably a bit better than what they were last year,” he told The Breakdown.
Erasmus’ main focus will always be on the next World Cup but he is well aware that results and performances are vital as the coaches attempt to rebuild.
The core of the squad that won the title in 2023 has remained but, with the majority of them being the wrong side of 30, the Boks will have to ease younger players in.
They have started to do that with Elrigh Louw and Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu starting last weekend, but the likes of captain Siya Kolisi are still playing top quality rugby.
Improvement since joining the north
Horan was full of praise for Kolisi and the Boks after their performance against the Wallabies in Brisbane, claiming that the team have improved since aligning their domestic game with the northern hemisphere.
“I think they’ve gone to the northern hemisphere and they’ve got better. I think their forward pack is more dominant,” he said.
“They were getting a lot of off-loads away. You talk about the physicality and you talk about how good they are in bending the defensive line, but they’re getting off-loads away all the time.
“And Siya Kolisi was superb. At 33 years of age, he’s still got it. I don’t think he’s unfit, he looks pretty sharp. They’re a wonderful team.
“I wanted to sit back and enjoy how good they are. I think they’re better, and more expansive, than they were at the Rugby World Cup. They’re going to be very hard to beat in this Rugby Championship.”
The Wallabies were quite simply overwhelmed by the Springboks at the weekend with Erasmus’ charges showing why they are number one in the rankings.
Horan felt that the Wallabies would have been prepared for the onslaught coming their way, but that it is one thing to understand the threat and another to have the quality to stop it.
‘Out-and-out power
“I think they were mentally ready, the side was up for it. There was no Taniela Tupou, no Fraser McReight, which probably hurt us, but I thought they were mentally ready,” he added.
“The physicality that the Springboks bring to Test matches now with the size and how they dominated the breakdown.
“Tony Brown had a really good influence in the game as an assistant coach. There were a couple of different plays, one of those the lineout [for Kolisi’s try]. Also, the first scrum of the match, their winger put the ball in at scrum-half and then [Cobus] Reinach went out into the centres.
“There’s just new variations from guys like Tony Brown which probably confused the Wallabies, but it was out-and-out a power game from this Springbok team.
“They got width in their game throughout the whole 80 minutes, whereas the Wallabies were really bunched. They were sending four, five, sometimes six players to the breakdown to get the ball out, and then they just had no width in their game.”