All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham

kiwiinmelb

@akan004 said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

I'm watching delayed. It's half time.

If thr Barretts weren't good at rugby, they would be concreters. They are dumb as fuck.

Jordie? Dumb. Scott? Worse than dumb

This first half is showing a lot of players reverting to 2022 deadshit level

Just wait till you watch the start of the 2nd.

In the first half I could at least see a hint of a silver lining with our grit in defence to hang in there

Steve

That Arendse grub put a cheap hit on Roigard as he scored the try.

antipodean

Without reading what everyone else has said:

Turned up to a pub in Malaga after ~10 minutes had already been played.

ABs slow to respond to refereeing the defensive side. Putting themselves under unnecessary pressure gifting the SAs opportunities. Jacobson clearly not a blindside's arsehole at Test level.

Ridiculous interpretation to gift a red card for Scott's cleanout at the ruck.

Too many loose passes without looking hurt us. To compound this our set piece looked remarkably dreadful.

Ultimately from the perspective of a supporter surrounded by Irish, Australian and South African supporters; this was an astonishing failure. The only saving grace is that we've a fortnight to address the glaring issues, namely:

Inability to defend without giving up penalties.
Weakness at the set-piece, especially the lineout.
Passing without looking.

I don't see this as the fixture that permits us to win a fourth WC, but it may be enough to permit us to get beyond a quarter final.

Rancid Schnitzel

Stopped watching after the RC. I'd seen this film before. If everything goes 100% right then this team can beat anyone, but are royally fůcked otherwise. Whatever happened to booting the shit out the ball when camped on your line? To win the RWC you have at least one game that's a trench warfare grind fest. I cannot see this team winning a game like that.

sparky

The Twickenham horror show…….

Duluth

@Chris said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

@ploughboy

B Barrett poor
D Coles poor
A Smith poor

They were all fucking poor

Ryan poor

Chris

@Duluth

yeah
Schmidt poor
Foster poor

The bus driver was shit they all were.

Duluth

@Chris

But Ryan in particular

Steve

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

Stopped watching after the RC. I'd seen this film before. If everything goes 100% right then this team can beat anyone, but are royally fůcked otherwise. Whatever happened to booting the shit out the ball when camped on your line? To win the RWC you have at least one game that's a trench warfare grind fest. I cannot see this team winning a game like that.

Look at the 2015 semi as a case in point.

A Whitelock line out steal and a Carter drop goal won the game. And that was our team of GOATS.

This rabble are going to have to go on a mighty ducks style tear to get this over the line.

Without digging out any of them in particular you can see the team is devoid of thinkers.

There are too many loose canons in that team.

gt12

Quick stat look shows we only won 66% (10/15) of our lineouts. Fuuuuck.

We tackled at 83%. Won't win like that.

Apparently, 554 metres run for SA and 474 for us, why so close? 98 for Roigard making that looking much better than it should do.

DeGroot conceded 5 penalties. Ouch.

ALB stat line: 1 pass, 2 runs, No metres, 1 turnover, no tackles made, 1 tackle missed. Not exactly the impact we are looking for from the bench. Sadly, I don' think there are other options that provide enough cover.

Chris

@Duluth

I thought the bus driver was worse he ate all Fozzies sandwiches on the way to the ground.

Duluth

@Chris

That was an abysmally prepared forward pack

kiwiinmelb

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

Stopped watching after the RC. I'd seen this film before. If everything goes 100% right then this team can beat anyone, but are royally fůcked otherwise. Whatever happened to booting the shit out the ball when camped on your line? To win the RWC you have at least one game that's a trench warfare grind fest. I cannot see this team winning a game like that.

No rocket science but We can tear any team apart if we win up front and can be made to look very very ordinary when we don’t .

And Our opposition know that

NTA

@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

Passing without looking.

34 minutes in, that's what I've noticed. Especially looking for the offload around their own 22. Idiocy.

Chris

@Duluth

agreed very disappointing,we reverted back to the bad days of the last 3 years.
I was hoping we were making progress but it looks like we are back to the shit days.

sparky

@NTA That Second Try was an absolute shocker. Sheer lunacy to try and play like that near our own line.

Our guys seemed to think it was some sort of Barbarians game. South Africa had come to play a Test match.

Stag

And the great Fozz stamps his name on yet another abysmal record…

sparky

@Duluth Is Ryan locked in for the next coaching panel? If the forwards perform as poorly as that it the World Cup, there is no way NZRU should retain his services with the national side.

BerniesCorner

Stats meaningless Killed at the start, man down, playing catch-up whole game

Stag

And equally as bad on the field when the players are looking around for real leadership from the captain and all they see is Cane looking like a possum in headlights, again.

The Silver Fern

All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham