Springboks (13) 25 / 37 (27) Los Pumas (Final Score)
The South African Springboks and Argentinian Pumas did battle in Round 3 of The Rugby Championship at
Growthpoint Kings Park, Durban at 17:05 SA Time (12:05 ARG Time, 15:05 GMT, Sunday 01:05 AEST, Sunday 03:05 NZ Time).
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 1 & M-Net on TV in SA.
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Scorers:
Springboks:
- Penalties – Handré Pollard (2)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Lood de Jager (1), Willie le Roux (1), Bryan Habana (1)
- Conversions – Handré Pollard (2)
Los Pumas:
- Penalties – Juan Martín Hernández (1), Marcelo Bosch (1)
- Drop Goals – Marcelo Bosch (1)
- Tries – Marcelo Bosch (1), Juan Imhoff (3)
- Conversions – Juan Martín Hernández (4)
Teams:
South African Springboks |
Argentinian Pumas |
8 August at 17:05 SA Time | |
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Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Assistant Referees: JP Doyle (England), Marius Mitrea (Italy)
TMO: Ben Skeen (New Zealand)
@ McLook:
“What I saw from watching the last 20 minutes of the match on the replay on rugby channel was that we got beaten at the breakdowns.”
So, in short, we need a hard man in the loose trio. Can’t play 3 “fetchers” in the loose trio and expect to dominate the breakdown, can you? Or what’s your verdict on that?
Nama wrote:
All our 1st tier coaches have that approach. You also see it in schoolboy rugby. How do you cange it if you don’t bring expertise from outside the country. The headcoach dictate so a consult with other ideas will be useless/ineffective. A good start would be to appoint international coaches at curriecup and S15 level.
I’ll take someone like Gatland or Joe Schmidt (not sure about spelling of the Ireland coach surname) anyday as Springbok coach.
When he announced his team, HM said that we “have to win this game”. That’s why he selected Pollard ahead of Lambie. One could’ve read that as him saying that if we started with Lambie, we would lose.
Now, we’ve lost. What now?
Do we blame Pollard or HM’s stupidity?
I think the latter because Pollards does not select himself.
Charo wrote:
Maybe a successful, English speaking coach from the Last Outpost like Ian McIntosh?
Nama wrote:
Agree. Two fetchers is good against Ozzie, Wales and Ireland (maybe NZ). But when you play teams like England and Argentina who is game is based on scrum dominance and physically dominating the breakdowns the you need guys with ‘boude en blaaie’ to counter them in those departments. We had no pressence at the collisions in this match.
McLook wrote:
School rugby is structured to the biggest players advantage
The big players get bursaries from the top schools and gets selected to play provincial schools rugby and then again gets drafted into the Unions Rugby Academies
By the time the Bok coach gets them he’s got his pick of the biggest but not the smartest or most skilled players in the country
Interestingly Oz gave Argentina a hiding with out big men. The played a faster smarter game and avoided big collisions in the midfield. Make sure you get them on the ground and rip the ball out to top their enterprise quickly and when you run avoid smash-up in the midfield. That took the big Argie guys out of the game. We need to start thinking differently about the game.
Victoriabok wrote:
Yes, it’s a viscious cycle.
vicious
@ Victoriabok:
Precisely.
I would like to see how the next Bok coach (HM?) is going to treat the current SA School FH. Imo, he is way more talented than Pollard will ever br but he is much smaller. Hope the Sharkies will bring him through nicely in the next 3/4 years.
@ McLook:
“The played a faster smarter game and avoided big collisions in the midfield.”
That’s where the Aus team always beat us. Playing smart rugby. Just look at PdV’s record vs the AB as oppose to Aus. We tend to want to play even “harder” if the other team come hard at us instead of playing smarter.
Soort van: Moer my…ek gaan jou harder moer.
Oh yes…
CONGRATULATIONS Argentina,
the truth is…
We were never better
you really moered us,
all through our wild ways,
our own arrogance
we never thought that
you had it in you
The Boks are a shambles under HM.
I don’t see the usual suspects calling for him to resign or be fired like they did to RWC2007: winning coach Jake White.
They called him Jake the Snake. Arre still calling HM coach?
Nama wrote:
Well summed up. I am not a fan.
Elton should, as the form flyhalf, been given an extended run (with Faf as his half-back partner, equally in form) to carry his form into the WC. Simple.
Pollard was out of form in an out of form team, and 3 tests later nothing has changed.
At this stage we need to just do what we can and hope for a extra-ordinary performance in the QF’s against Aus (if we get that far)
I see Hash handed out the team jerseys.
That explains the cricket score.
Victoriabok wrote:
Great post VicBok! Let the truth be told.
Ben-die-Bul wrote:
Is nie man heyneke se vir hom presies wat om te doen waarokal hy op die veld is 😆
McLook wrote:
Scott fardy is a big boy and probbly one of the form loose forwards in TRC this year, he was phenominal yesterday.
Im really disappointed in Schalk saturday numurous times he got the ball and run from 10 meters straight into the oposition like jackpot, might as well have selected jacque potgieter at 8 yesterday.
Charo wrote:
No south african team has won superrugby with an english coach either….meaningless stat
@ MacroPolo:
Kitch Christie?
350 @ Stormersboy:
That was Semi-Super Rugby way back when… hehehe
@ grootblousmile:
Still a great victory! 🙂
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