P Divvie stating the obvious said the Springboks have work to do on their scrum.
The Boks came off the first four-try bonus point win of this year’s Tri-Nations and is two points away from winning the Cup, all this with two games to go for the Boks. The Springboks scored two beautiful tries from first phase ball, a rarity in Rugby these days but faltered in the scrum, where the Wallaby front row forced them into error and conceding 15 penalties, a good number of these emanating from the set piece.
De Villiers had the following to say after the match: “We never had the platform to play off, but we still managed to play with the kind of ball we had.”
“Our defence was good, our kicking was outstanding, as it always is, and we passed the ball and scored four tries.”
He admitted there would be a review of his team’s scrum problems ahead of next weekend’s encounter with the Wallabies.
“We will definitely look [on video] at our scrums and see if we were hard done by or if we did anything bad, and then we try to improve on that one and set the platform there,” he said.
“I think we will be back [next week].”
People in the know in Australia has been hinting at the improving Wallaby front row for a while now, you hear words like ‘technically very good’ coupled with something like ‘lacking experience’ which over time can only improve. So, are we looking at a much improved Wallaby front row or are we suddenly seeing the weakness of a converted hooker at tighthead, as some pundits warned us about? I have also heard a lot about the impact a tighthead lock can have on the scrum, did everything go pear-shaped when Bekker came on? I will leave the technicalities to someone like Tighthead who already suggested we packing to high in the scrum. I assume the answer is a combination of all of the above, hopefully we have the knowhow in the Bok camp and it can be sorted out quickly.
P Divvie also did not let the opportunity slip to have a dig at his detractors and the ref:
“I said we could play total rugby and we did as the guys made brilliant decisions. When the space was there to run it we did,” De Villiers said.
“I was happy with the character they showed. There were a few calls that went against us, we were at sixes and sevens in the scrums and we didn’t know what would come next.”
“But we bounced above the situation and showed character to stand up as a team and to play with the scraps that we got.”
I hope the ‘quick fix’ for the front row is not seen as a friendly chat with the ref before the game! There are bigger problems than just that to work on.
@K9-MonsterLeeu – #89 DIt doen my hart goed dit beteken dat julle net die Bulle as die beste opponente beskou…….ek is bly dat julle ons sohoog ag, dankie man 😆
@Tripples – nee…daars niks so lekker as om die bulle onderteuners te sien wat sondag die horings van hul 3L cortinas afbreek nie hehehe
@K9-MonsterLeeu – Al die Transvalers het vanoggend hulle mullets laat perm! lol
@AB – #93 Darrem sal die cokeblik bietjie meer toeskouers nou lok…..
@Tripples – Nee wat jong dis nie toeskouers nie dis gawies hulle sal maar sukkel om ordentlike supporters soos ons te kry!
@K9-MonsterLeeu – #92 ag nee wat myne bly sommer op my 3L Cortina…..die ding wou nie start nie so ek hoef dit nie eers af te haal nie…..sal dit maar die saterdag na die oorwinning van die Bulle teen Wiepee…maar om die blok stoot 😆
Bulls and WP supporters are being FAR to nice to each other for my liking. It shows they lack real passion for the game.
@Loosehead – #97 laas toe ons die wiepee supporters geterg het het die goed amper in trane uitgebars en gese daar is geen liefde en respek vir hulle nie…daar is vir my niks ergers as ‘n klomp uitgevrete mans wat tjank nie, so ek sal liewers mooi speel met hulle 🙄
Wie wag nou weer vir 100? Seker die Leeutjies!
Bulle
@AB – #100
Wooohoooooooooooooo you go AB….BULLE BO!!!!!!!!!!!
@Tripples – Dis lekker om weer n goeie internet konneksie te he! Die plaas se gprs is maar slow motion!
Afternoon all.
Loosehead what is blits skaak ?
I seem to be permanently loggged in, what am i doing wrong, i click the log off then it asks me to do it again and i do.
@Treehugger – Under water spedd chess.
K9, I see that the Losing Lions are up against the Mighty Cheetahs on Saturday. Expect to get a hiding!
@Loosehead – ah! ta
@Loosehead – a helse pakslae bra die cheetahs is op pad final toe
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