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Tri Nations: Springboks - All Blacks @ Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium (20-8-2011, 15:05)
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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 431925" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>Well, its back to the future isn't it?! </p><p></p><p>With the team PDV has chosen here, the Springbok game plan has been well telegraphed; kick & hope. </p><p></p><p>Du Preez and Steyn will pepper the all Black back three with high kicks, hoping for mistakes so that Steyn can push the score up in increments of three. Looks to me like PDV is <em>"running home to mama"</em>, going back to a tactic that won them the Tri-Nations in 2009. I guess doing what you are comfortable with has some merit, but the only problem for him is that the game has changed now. No longer are the tacklers allowed to prevent the tackled player from placing or passing the ball at the breakdown; the emphasis has changed so that the team with possession is being allowed to execute their obligations.</p><p></p><p>I hope and pray that PDV's game plan doesn't work, not just because I want the All Blacks to win, but because I would not like to see the game taken back to the boring kickfest it was from 2007 to 2009; for the good of the game, the world does not need another World Cup final like 2007.</p><p></p><p>This weekend at Port Elizabeth, we could either see the game take a big backwards step, or the realisation, once and for all, that the Emperor does not have any new clothes on after all!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 431925, member: 20605"] Well, its back to the future isn't it?! With the team PDV has chosen here, the Springbok game plan has been well telegraphed; kick & hope. Du Preez and Steyn will pepper the all Black back three with high kicks, hoping for mistakes so that Steyn can push the score up in increments of three. Looks to me like PDV is [I]"running home to mama"[/I], going back to a tactic that won them the Tri-Nations in 2009. I guess doing what you are comfortable with has some merit, but the only problem for him is that the game has changed now. No longer are the tacklers allowed to prevent the tackled player from placing or passing the ball at the breakdown; the emphasis has changed so that the team with possession is being allowed to execute their obligations. I hope and pray that PDV's game plan doesn't work, not just because I want the All Blacks to win, but because I would not like to see the game taken back to the boring kickfest it was from 2007 to 2009; for the good of the game, the world does not need another World Cup final like 2007. This weekend at Port Elizabeth, we could either see the game take a big backwards step, or the realisation, once and for all, that the Emperor does not have any new clothes on after all!! [/QUOTE]
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