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[2018 Rugby Championship] Round 2: Argentina v South Africa (25/08/2018)
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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 913793" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>Guys, can we please stay on topic. If you want to talk about the quota system there are more than enough threads on the forum for that.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Back to the game. This was the worse performance yet under Rassie, and to make it even worse, it was our first away game under his reign, so I hope this isn't going to be a trend. Everyone played poorly, except PSDT and Wilco Louw when they came on, and perhaps RG Snyman.</p><p></p><p>Pollard seems to have the yips with his kicking at goal, and it even looked like it was starting to affect his general play. But what I don't understand about our tactics was why were we playing more off 9 than 10? We had so many pods run off Faf, that it became somewhat predictable, and that helped the Argies a lot with getting the turnovers.</p><p></p><p>Our defence was the most shocking, and it was as if our guys wasn't comitted this week. And Mapoe as a winger was terrible on defence, between him and Am, there were too many gaps, and when they got close to the attacking player, they just missed the tackles.</p><p></p><p>Our discipline was absolutely atrocious! And I hope Rassie and his team gets this right before we travel to Australia and NZ.</p><p></p><p>Etzebeth, as great as he was last week, was the biggest let-down form me this week. How can you go from playing so great the one week, to being so crap the following week? That's not a form issue, that's an attitude issue.</p><p></p><p>One thing that I just didn't understand was why did Gardner give Etzebeth a yellow so quickly, but was reluctant to give one to Matera? In instance alone, Matera fouled like 3 times, but then Gardner just kept on giving advantage and then when we got the penalty, he just went to talk to Creevy and said this is a warning. I don't see the consistency in this instance.</p><p></p><p>But other than that I thought Gardner had a really good game officiating.</p><p></p><p>We were our own worst enemies. When we we were attacking, we lost the ball, or ran into touch, there was little to no creativity. And Aphiwe Dyanthi needs to figure out when to step and when to run, as it's becoming way too easy for the opposition to read him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 913793, member: 40658"] Guys, can we please stay on topic. If you want to talk about the quota system there are more than enough threads on the forum for that. Back to the game. This was the worse performance yet under Rassie, and to make it even worse, it was our first away game under his reign, so I hope this isn't going to be a trend. Everyone played poorly, except PSDT and Wilco Louw when they came on, and perhaps RG Snyman. Pollard seems to have the yips with his kicking at goal, and it even looked like it was starting to affect his general play. But what I don't understand about our tactics was why were we playing more off 9 than 10? We had so many pods run off Faf, that it became somewhat predictable, and that helped the Argies a lot with getting the turnovers. Our defence was the most shocking, and it was as if our guys wasn't comitted this week. And Mapoe as a winger was terrible on defence, between him and Am, there were too many gaps, and when they got close to the attacking player, they just missed the tackles. Our discipline was absolutely atrocious! And I hope Rassie and his team gets this right before we travel to Australia and NZ. Etzebeth, as great as he was last week, was the biggest let-down form me this week. How can you go from playing so great the one week, to being so crap the following week? That's not a form issue, that's an attitude issue. One thing that I just didn't understand was why did Gardner give Etzebeth a yellow so quickly, but was reluctant to give one to Matera? In instance alone, Matera fouled like 3 times, but then Gardner just kept on giving advantage and then when we got the penalty, he just went to talk to Creevy and said this is a warning. I don't see the consistency in this instance. But other than that I thought Gardner had a really good game officiating. We were our own worst enemies. When we we were attacking, we lost the ball, or ran into touch, there was little to no creativity. And Aphiwe Dyanthi needs to figure out when to step and when to run, as it's becoming way too easy for the opposition to read him. [/QUOTE]
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