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 – I dont know if I can sink that low. A 0-0 draw, with 3 red cards would work for me.
dis reg K9- ek het die lions die week support so return the favour….
@Loosehead – and 6 logpoints deducted per team….for poor sportsmanship..and bringing the the game into disrepute by wasting everybody’s time who watched it. hehe
@K9-MonsterLeeu – Exactly! I will probabaly watch BBC Food instead of these 2 minnows playing against each other.
Question: Is Beast a strong scrummager?
@Loosehead – believe the Eastern OFS women’s bowls championship will be broadcasted….think ill watch that.
65@K9-MonsterLeeu – Not at the moment.
66@K9-MonsterLeeu – SABC2 will be broadcasting the Northern Gauteng onderwater blits skaak semi finals. I will rather watch that.
Hey AB!!! I can see u!!!! Come out…….and congratulate me…… 🙂
@Loosehead – however will be an interesting battle between two light fives there at newlands. Watching two packs…both trying to go backwards in the scrums.
@K9-MonsterLeeu – #69 Jy geniet dit nê? hehehehe Enjoy oom Leeu
@K9-MonsterLeeu – #70 wil net se dat die WP laas die bulle in hulle glorie ingescrum het….Bulle se scrum is pathetic op die stadium
@Tripples – dis te heerlik!!! :). AB was aangelog…toe hy sien eks hier toe verdwyn hy 🙄
@K9-MonsterLeeu – #73 Miskien het sy baas ingeloop hehehehehe
@Tripples – nee ek weet. Daai slotte van julle is ook te lig in die broek. En Kuun kon nog nooit scrum nie.
@K9-MonsterLeeu – We can always just watch the blerrie game and laugh at these 2 talentles teams making the Aussies LOOK LIKE A SKILLED TEAM.
@Tripples – of daai swak internet konneksie van hom.
@K9-MonsterLeeu – We can always just watch the blerrie game and laugh at these 2 talentles teams making the Aussies look like a well drilled team.
@K9-MonsterLeeu – Julle moet lekker agter my rug skinner!! Well done woef met jou spannetjie se wen! OK daar het ek dit nou gese. Hoe gaan dit met julle klomp stadsjapies??
@Loosehead – #78 😆 lekker snaaks nê…
@AB – hallooo daar, hoe gaan dit nog met die e-ciggies?
@Tripples – My baas is by die werk sy kom eers 5uur huistoe 😉
@Tripples – Nee jong ek het weer lekker Marlboro’s gestook op die plaas!
@AB – #82 het dit net gese want K9 het aangegaan asof jy bang was om te blog want hy is hier en net omdat sy spannetjie vir die eerste keer in 10 miljoen jaar ‘n goeie result op ‘n saterdag gekry het 😉
@Tripples – Neewat ek verstaan dit so, snaaks hy is nie nou 24uur ingelog nie! Hehe
@AB – Hello AB. Dog ek roep jou maar net :). Gaan lekker man. Somersdag hierso…en alles is rooi en wit.
@K9-MonsterLeeu – Mooi man, selle hier in Pretoria waar als natuurlik altyd BLOU is, nie een keer in 100jaar soos Joburg maak nie 😉
Attention all Bulls fans: Loosehead will be supporting the Bulls this Saturday. Hell, I might even go to Boolands to watch the game.
Ide Louw, if you read this, I need two tickets to the box on Saturday.
@Tripples – dis lekker as die leeus wen…maar teen die bulle……Oi……..niks beter nie. 😉
@Loosehead – I always knew there was some hidden intelligence there 🙂
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