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[2014 TRC] Australia v South Africa in Perth (06/09/2014)
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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_stormer2010" data-source="post: 670485" data-attributes="member: 39190"><p>I know how you feel, Hein but what are we going to do, keep moaning about the ref on a constant basis? We need to realize that the trend is not just against us but against the visiting team in general and against the defending team in general. We can't avoid being the visiting team away from home but we can start to actually play some rugby and see if we don't get the rub of it if we are the team applying the rpessure rather than trying to cope with it. Ball in hand we've actually looked extremely good in non-Pienaar games. We seem to wait till we are 10 point behind before we try to score tries. That 'reserve' kind of mentality means we are almost always going to start dropping behind on the score board and makes us vulnerable to poor ref decisions when we have to defend close margins or have limited time to actually and score some points of our own.</p><p></p><p>Steyn was dire, we can agree. I have to disagree regarding Etzebeth and our props though;</p><p></p><p>Etzebeth was brilliant for a guy out for a year and only his 2nd game starting! He has a 100% tackle rate and stole 2 opposition line-outs. 1 Clean break and though he din't go on a rampage like in some previous pre-injury games we have to give credit to a very good Aussie defense and the fact that we weren't playing with quick or even front foot ball the vast majority of the time.</p><p></p><p>Our props need to f*** off; if they can't scrum then they need to add elsewhere which they don't, Beast dropping teh ball so close to the try line is unforgivable for a test player. Him and Jannie are anonymous apart from when they f*** up. At the scrum, while Slipper was on we were struggling it against <strong>Aus with a 8th? choice hooker!!!!!</strong>NZ are going to give us exactly what Argentina, Wales and the world XV gave us at scrum time. Really, this has been a long time coming regarding our propping situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_stormer2010, post: 670485, member: 39190"] I know how you feel, Hein but what are we going to do, keep moaning about the ref on a constant basis? We need to realize that the trend is not just against us but against the visiting team in general and against the defending team in general. We can't avoid being the visiting team away from home but we can start to actually play some rugby and see if we don't get the rub of it if we are the team applying the rpessure rather than trying to cope with it. Ball in hand we've actually looked extremely good in non-Pienaar games. We seem to wait till we are 10 point behind before we try to score tries. That 'reserve' kind of mentality means we are almost always going to start dropping behind on the score board and makes us vulnerable to poor ref decisions when we have to defend close margins or have limited time to actually and score some points of our own. Steyn was dire, we can agree. I have to disagree regarding Etzebeth and our props though; Etzebeth was brilliant for a guy out for a year and only his 2nd game starting! He has a 100% tackle rate and stole 2 opposition line-outs. 1 Clean break and though he din't go on a rampage like in some previous pre-injury games we have to give credit to a very good Aussie defense and the fact that we weren't playing with quick or even front foot ball the vast majority of the time. Our props need to f*** off; if they can't scrum then they need to add elsewhere which they don't, Beast dropping teh ball so close to the try line is unforgivable for a test player. Him and Jannie are anonymous apart from when they f*** up. At the scrum, while Slipper was on we were struggling it against [B]Aus with a 8th? choice hooker!!!!![/B]NZ are going to give us exactly what Argentina, Wales and the world XV gave us at scrum time. Really, this has been a long time coming regarding our propping situation. [/QUOTE]
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