For me..... A team that triumphed over France on their home turf, Beat England and The All Blacks certainly stands out as the BEST in the world. The World rankings also suggest that they Best in the world. The loss to Ireland was down to wayward kicking from the Flyhalf Libbok.
I don't take anything from SA's win. The team that wins it is the team that deserves it.
That's the Springboks brand of rugby... but I understand what you saying. It works in some settings and doesn't in others. Of their games at the World Cup of found the game against France to the best...end to end stuff... but from there they just hung on.
He's outstanding.
That’s another thing that stands out for me in our win last night. We dominated in no facet of play like we often do, like the scrums. The scrum didn’t move, we lost a lot of lineout ball. Kolbe and Arendse didn’t run as much as they usually would. The ABs were good under the high ball. We had zero dominance in any facet, no tactical nous gave us an edge, and yet we pulled it off. Says a lot that we were still able to win. That’s a sign of a good team in my opinion.
You aren't a good team. You're an excellent one. That other teams struggle to work out. Physical prowess plays a huge part.
That’s a fair take, but we also did plenty of running against France. On a dry day, outside of a final, we usually do a lot of running with the ball. Finals are usually cagey affairs and boring, not just in rugby but probably every sport.
Our physical prowess wasn’t there last night. We defended well except for that one try that NZ got from a lucky bounce. Our defence is largely what got us through
Australia were shocking. Their rugby seems to be in a very bad place. I’m not sure if it’s all due to Eddy cause they were performing very poorly before him too. But he didn’t contribute any positives so it’s no surprise that he’s gone.
Definately. Some of the tackling was relentless by SA. Against 14 I felt you didn't capitalise on any of the gaps or overlaps available though.
Agree but like you say, he did nothing to help improve it. When you look at the state of the England set up toward the end of his tenure, there's a common denominator.
Yeah. That was the most disappointing aspect for all of us who watched the game together, that we didn’t capitalize on them going a man down. When that happened our play actually dropped and NZ actually played better. I told the people watching with me that I hope we don’t become relaxed now that they went a man down and immediately after that we got sloppy.
They Meat Eaters.... .. They like the Dutch arrived in Africa around 1652 if my history is correct.
