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June International Test: South Africa vs. Ireland [1st Test] (11/06/2016)
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<blockquote data-quote="kusta" data-source="post: 802647" data-attributes="member: 44266"><p>Terrible performance from the Boks. The ref was absolutely shocking. Apart from Faf de Klerk no one looked mentally up for the game! We were very lethargic on defence and seemed like no game plan and everyone could just go do their own thing. Willie Le Roux was terrible, running sideways on numerous occasions which thwarted the attack. De Jager was also very bad losing ball in contact and getting yellow carded, Malherbe another bad performer. Actually I could name quite a few but this was just a bad performance. But Credit to the Irish they were immense!!! Really fronted up physically and huge defensive effort.</p><p></p><p>On the positive side which are few, We already see the intent to move the ball around and not to mention the shift in selections(rewarding form) which is more than what can be said we saw in the last 4 years!! I felt we did not kick enough, a few times were tried to play from deep when we needed to get out of our half. Would love to see Combrinck and Jaco Kriel have a crack next week. And I would have liked to see Elton at 10 with Lambie at 15 and unfortunately due the injury we didn't see that as I read AC was willing to try that out later in the game! But really I think things can definitely get better and all you people crying Quotas and the end of Springbok rugby are ignorant and one-eyed probable conservatives who don't like change. Transformation is gonna happen whether you like it or not and its either you jump on the bandwagon or get left behind. I dont like the way they are implementing the system but its been too long and not much has been done about it. It needs to start at grassroot level and build up but the problem is we see a lot of black schoolboy players and you can see that in the U20 too but the problem is most of these players do not get contracts with the major unions. Thats the problem too, Unions are "privatised" and do their own things and sign whoever they want. For transformation we would need to get all the Unions onboard and like say a year you need to sign a certain number of blacks (but would they get opportunities thats another topic).</p><p></p><p>The difference between the 2 sides or even between the NH vs SH performances. NH teams just come off a six Nations so they've been together for a while whereas SH teams just come off SupeRugby and its their first time getting together as a team and first game. Not to mention they only had like 2 weeks to prepare. Do I think the SH teams will lift their performances next week? Definitely and will only get better from here. EOYT might be a different story. But really the gap between the 2 spheres is definitely closing!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kusta, post: 802647, member: 44266"] Terrible performance from the Boks. The ref was absolutely shocking. Apart from Faf de Klerk no one looked mentally up for the game! We were very lethargic on defence and seemed like no game plan and everyone could just go do their own thing. Willie Le Roux was terrible, running sideways on numerous occasions which thwarted the attack. De Jager was also very bad losing ball in contact and getting yellow carded, Malherbe another bad performer. Actually I could name quite a few but this was just a bad performance. But Credit to the Irish they were immense!!! Really fronted up physically and huge defensive effort. On the positive side which are few, We already see the intent to move the ball around and not to mention the shift in selections(rewarding form) which is more than what can be said we saw in the last 4 years!! I felt we did not kick enough, a few times were tried to play from deep when we needed to get out of our half. Would love to see Combrinck and Jaco Kriel have a crack next week. And I would have liked to see Elton at 10 with Lambie at 15 and unfortunately due the injury we didn't see that as I read AC was willing to try that out later in the game! But really I think things can definitely get better and all you people crying Quotas and the end of Springbok rugby are ignorant and one-eyed probable conservatives who don't like change. Transformation is gonna happen whether you like it or not and its either you jump on the bandwagon or get left behind. I dont like the way they are implementing the system but its been too long and not much has been done about it. It needs to start at grassroot level and build up but the problem is we see a lot of black schoolboy players and you can see that in the U20 too but the problem is most of these players do not get contracts with the major unions. Thats the problem too, Unions are "privatised" and do their own things and sign whoever they want. For transformation we would need to get all the Unions onboard and like say a year you need to sign a certain number of blacks (but would they get opportunities thats another topic). The difference between the 2 sides or even between the NH vs SH performances. NH teams just come off a six Nations so they've been together for a while whereas SH teams just come off SupeRugby and its their first time getting together as a team and first game. Not to mention they only had like 2 weeks to prepare. Do I think the SH teams will lift their performances next week? Definitely and will only get better from here. EOYT might be a different story. But really the gap between the 2 spheres is definitely closing! [/QUOTE]
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