Springboks v All Blacks I
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@Duluth also thought ash dixon had scored one....will have to try and find it
that also seem to be a video of the crusaders trying to sack a maul several times.....
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You're probably right. I think the record is an exaggeration.
No one else was keeping this record, the Crusaders were tracking it internally. Eventually they let people like TJ know. How many times did they define a border line case as 'not a maul'?
Of course, they've had excellent maul defence for years and Ryan and people like Whitelock deserve plenty of credit for that.
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@stodders said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@Billy-Tell said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@No-Quarter said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
We have enough talent to put SA away, without a doubt. I've made it pretty clear on here that I don't particularly rate Foster, but I'm really hoping the changes to the coaching group can bring enough fresh ideas into the camp that things start clicking for this team. We're not that far away, we are just trying to do too much in the first half and putting ourselves under too much pressure.
Really looking forward to these 2 matches.
Anything resembling a back line move off first phase would be welcome.
Like this one?
That looks like backing up individual brilliance rather than planned.
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@antipodean ...i thought i might have been missing something but thought much the same myself, also relies on several missed tackles, make the first one and that dies real quick....hardly a move putting someone in space without a hand laid on them
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lol that's not a backline move, that's the exact thing our defense hopes for now. RI draws no one on his run at all. BB beats a piss weak tackle, and for some reason the Bok loosies are napping and corner-flagging. After that it's all support play.
Nice, instinctive try to take advantage of a lapse. But i could see us running that exact play in the last 3 weeks, and BB getting fucking smoked by an Irish loosie and the whole play breaking down.
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@mariner4life agreed, but also we seldom had the ball humming at that speed during most of the Irish tests.
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That was just absolutely brilliant from Beauden, then good support play after that. As @mariner4life said winning a lineout and chucking it to Beauden isn't a backline move, there's no real deception going on, he just spotted a gap and exploited it with pace and fend. The Irish didn't give him space like that to move and our attack was easily shut down.
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@broughie said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@nzzp and a good lineout option. He should be used.
I think he was the number one lineout target in one of the Tests last year? Blackadder was in a Test around the same time too
Taylors throwing accuracy has made hitting the back of the lintout difficult this year. I think they've given up on throwing long relatively early
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@Bovidae said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
Good for Newell but I doubt they'll trust him to be on the bench in the 1st test. So Lomax it is.
Nepo isn't travelling to Africa and Ta'avao is out one more match at least isn't he?
So Lomax to start Newell on the bench?
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