Rugby Championship

Every SA player are playing brilliantly, especially de Allende. Watch Meyer take him off early in the 2nd half

Outstanding 1st half.

Let's see if the Boks can keep the pace up.

A movie seen far too often!

No fu... rugby brains in that side of ours, cause they gave it away with shocking decision making and play. If anyone tells me again fu... Bambie must be a Springbok knows fu... all about rugby. Kak, you Sharks can have him.

The gap between SA and NZ has been v small in recent years.Unfortunately,bar last year when the Boks got the last grasp win,the AB have consistently beaten the Boks even when the Boks have played really well.

If you want to make money punting sport,oppose SA teams.

Stuff guys, great game to watch for neutral

SA play fantastic for the first 60 minutes then blow up. They have not got the ' stick in there mentality' and this stems from a coach who sits in his box and barks instructions down to the bench. Why do these rugby coaches sit in the stands whereas their football counterparts are on the touchline? Meyer is a lost cause and Scotland are waiting for them in the World Cup at a cold north east England at St James Park. Unfortunately they cannot close tight matches and in the World Cup there will be many of those. If I were the SA management team I would inform the pilots of the plane that bring them across to keep the engines running because they will be going home early.

CnC, that is strong weed you smoking in your profile pick there! You like winding us up! :lol: One thing that these last 2 games have proved to me is that when we click and do play for the full 80 minutes we will beat anyone in the world. We had the mighty AB's chasing shadows for most of the match. We have the players( still many of the best on the injured list) The pilot can take that plane away and come back after the final! :whistle: As for the Scotland game I hope the scoreboard for SA goes beyond 50!

Craig I also want SA to win the WC but I am a realist and this side with their current coach wont win. You say they played like champs in the opening 60 minutes and if they play like that for 80 then they will do it. Well that's the crux of the matter. They don't play over the 80 minutes. Its happened time and time again losing matches in the last few minutes because mentally they throw in the towel when teams come at them in the final minutes. They cannot close out a tight game. They always leave the back door open thus allowing teams to have chances. Sorry but the Boks wont put 25 points on Scotland let alone the 50 that you suggest. Don't worry Craig as they say, its only a game.

Cnc, we played some of our best rugger in the past 3 years yesterday and we couldnt pull it off. Why ? Decision making on our feet is sorely lacking from so-called professional management/players. Certain players with all the skills stuffing up time and time again, just to mention two, Willie L and Brian H....
What was going on with those uncontested scrums ? Dont we have a captain to question the ref ? or was it caused by our management ? Shocking ! That cost us the game, our huge advantage was taken away.
Why do we give easy points away at the end of half's ? Our players unfit physically and mentally ?
Replacing players during the second half ( some of whom are playing their best rugger in years) with second rate A division wanna bees. Bambie, Warren W, F van der M and C Reinach. HM at his frikken useless best.
But then cowboys dont cry they just lose...

neigh wrote: Cnc, we played some of our best rugger in the past 3 years yesterday and we couldnt pull it off. Why ? Decision making on our feet is sorely lacking from so-called professional management/players. Certain players with all the skills stuffing up time and time again, just to mention two, Willie L and Brian H....
What was going on with those uncontested scrums ? Dont we have a captain to question the ref ? or was it caused by our management ? Shocking ! That cost us the game, our huge advantage was taken away.
Why do we give easy points away at the end of half's ? Our players unfit physically and mentally ?
Replacing players during the second half ( some of whom are playing their best rugger in years) with second rate A division wanna bees. Bambie, Warren W, F van der M and C Reinach. HM at his frikken useless best.
But then cowboys dont cry they just lose...

Yes they seem to switch off in the last minute or so of each half. Appears that Burger just accepted the refs decision to have uncontested scrums. Surely as a hooker that guy could scrum. On this occasion, unfortunately, the coach cannot be blamed as both his loose heads were off injured. The two incidents with Le Roux and Habana was imo unlucky. The bounce of the ball beat both of them and if the ball had fallen their way in that particular attack then SA would have won. Also instead of kicking in another attack Le Roux could have passed to Habana and he most probably would have run in a try from 30 metres. Big matches like this hinge on the small things and SA got most of them wrong. SA should run away with Argentina and then Meyer will come out telling the world that he is on track.

I read his excuses re the Aussie loss. He cited Jannie Du Plessis as been injured the reason he was removed and other subs. BUT he said nothing about taking off the beast and the hooker when on the Aussie 5 metre line prior to a scrum. That decision cost SA the match. He just wont admit his mistakes and that makes him a liability. If he came out and said shit I made the wrong call then all the fans would accept it and move on and more importantly have gotten behind him and supported him. The sooner we see the back of him the better for SA Rugby.

chicken n chips wrote:

Bob Brogan wrote: Chook chook all the boks need to do is beat the ausies and it`s home jerome.. and you know it

and the Argentinians and the Kiwis. They wont win a single match. Boks are a done thing with this coach in charge. Need a new coach with new ideas not the archaic moves that he brings

one away from a full house :huh: