SA Vs New Zealand Contains Scores

Chong

South Africa vs New Zealand 22 vs 13

Great game so far south africa kicking ass again.

Chong

22-16

Davei141

Man what an awesome game, those south africans know how to tackle! Poor old all blacks got smashed apart physically.

Chong

Delighted to see South Africa doing as well the south african defense was just so aggressive.

kazzer

All blacks dont look that hot anymore!

Souless

South African defence was amazing. It was so in your face. They totally destroyed the all blacks, with so many bone crunching tackles.

Must say was delighted to see SA win, they definatly deserved to. It was also very funny to watch the amount of mistakes that crept into the AB's game when put under the knife by SA. Was weird to see Carter F*ck up so many times :eek:

Anyway all in all a great game to watch.

gjim

Ya, good game to watch despite all the errors. I was going to put a few bob on SA yesterday but I chickened out because the handicap was too small. Is there some international conspiracy among refs to never ping the ABs for charging into, around and over the top of rucks constantly? Poor tactical approach on the part of the ABs too - trying to play 15 man rugby, offloading from every tackle almost smacks of arrogance. It might work against a relatively untrained side like the Lions but the Bokkes just ate it up. Busting a gut to keep the ball in play (while going backwards) by offloading at even the hint of a tackle so that it can end into the hands of a fat slow prop on the wing doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

daveirl

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Endurance Man

OMG i missed it , stupid gamecon, forgot it was this weekend . Well ill catch a replay. But we won , oh yes, im soo happy, every1 wa betting on all blacks :rolleyes: , LOL. Good stuff team.

youcancallmeal

daveirl wrote:

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Would have to agree here. There was also a few tackles where players were off their feet(Jumping for the ball) and the got seriously taken out, i was under the impression a player couldnt be tackled while in the air or maybe its just lineouts?

Anyway it was a great game which really showed how badly the lions actually did. They are human after all :eek:

Red Soup

Busting a gut to keep the ball in play (while going backwards) by offloading at even the hint of a tackle so that it can end into the hands of a fat slow prop on the wing doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

I don't know if you could say new zealand have a "fat slow prop" anymore, and i still like the risky rugby new zealand play (apart from their illegal physicality) but it seems like we saw the new zealand of 2003 again on saturday - trying to outplay even themselves at their own game, making simple mistakes at vital moments, and seeming to get confused when it doesn't all work out. the only difference now is that they have results (against the lions) to back them up and huge expectations alongside them.

phase rugby might serve them better; they could play australia at their own game on saturday. and i thought the SA rush defence was amazing. that's how they win games, and that's where they fail when they have no confidence.

i see that kelleher could be out for weeks with injury. this means the ABs have hardly any international-level scrum half cover, now marshall has left. they might find it tough in that department. and umaga's ankle....

GreenHell

Great match. Ya the SA tackling was over the top at times but it was a lesson in how to deal with fancy moves. I'd like to see us taking this style of defense against sides like wales.

Endurance Man

Great match. Ya the SA tackling was over the top at times but it was a lesson in how to deal with fancy moves. I'd like to see us taking this style of defense against sides like wales.

Over the top , hell ye, man i gotta watch this .

PJG

that SA scrum half, januarie (wrong spelling I know) what a tackler for his size, he's like having an extra back rower on your team. Excellent

daveirl

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Red Soup

GreenHell wrote:

I'd like to see us taking this style of defense against sides like wales.

i'd love to see ireland use this rush defence style, but their own style of constant cover defence seems to work well. i reckon if we used the SA style of running straight up to the opposition, some of the slower forwards would leave big gaps. it would be interesting to see some team blitz wales though, it could make them lose confidence, but then there would be no risk rugby teams out of the 4 home nations!

GreenHell

Red Soup wrote:

i'd love to see ireland use this rush defence style, but their own style of constant cover defence seems to work well. i reckon if we used the SA style of running straight up to the opposition, some of the slower forwards would leave big gaps. it would be interesting to see some team blitz wales though, it could make them lose confidence, but then there would be no risk rugby teams out of the 4 home nations!

If our backrow and 2nd row contested every tackle like SA we could pull off that style. Drift is fine against less creative sides but I really do think you gota hammer sides like Australia, New Zealand, Wales etc instead of giving them the time to run at you.