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Saturday, 6 August: Springboks v New Zealand
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<blockquote data-quote="Umaga&#039;s Witness" data-source="post: 1097512" data-attributes="member: 65365"><p>Honestly, To question ardies intensity is ridiculous . He is the one player that gives it everything every game. He plays way beyond his fitness too. Every game he plays at every level he is blowing hard. You don't see any other player around in the world that is consistently putting in that much effort. There are loads of players who have a higher work rate because they are fitter (no doubt better genetics for rugby fitness - the van der fliers and the likes) but no one has a higher work rate to fitness ratio</p><p></p><p>I can see arguments against ardie being in the side (especially at 8 against the boks), but</p><p>Putting blame on ardie for losses to Ireland is going a bit far. I watched the 2018 loss a second time to rate the players, just the starting fifteens and ardie was the best player on the field. The next 14 best were Irish (the whole team except Rory). Based on that we should have got completely demolished. But nope, ardie was that good he kept us in it on his own. </p><p></p><p>Scott barrett, Liam squire, George moala were all terrible in Chicago and also should never have been in the team. I blame Hansen for Risking our record against ireland in the name of World Cup preparation by picking a few players for development purposes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umaga's Witness, post: 1097512, member: 65365"] Honestly, To question ardies intensity is ridiculous . He is the one player that gives it everything every game. He plays way beyond his fitness too. Every game he plays at every level he is blowing hard. You don't see any other player around in the world that is consistently putting in that much effort. There are loads of players who have a higher work rate because they are fitter (no doubt better genetics for rugby fitness - the van der fliers and the likes) but no one has a higher work rate to fitness ratio I can see arguments against ardie being in the side (especially at 8 against the boks), but Putting blame on ardie for losses to Ireland is going a bit far. I watched the 2018 loss a second time to rate the players, just the starting fifteens and ardie was the best player on the field. The next 14 best were Irish (the whole team except Rory). Based on that we should have got completely demolished. But nope, ardie was that good he kept us in it on his own. Scott barrett, Liam squire, George moala were all terrible in Chicago and also should never have been in the team. I blame Hansen for Risking our record against ireland in the name of World Cup preparation by picking a few players for development purposes. [/QUOTE]
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