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[2016 Rugby Championship] New Zealand v Argentina (10/09/2016)
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<blockquote data-quote="The Jones Boy" data-source="post: 816482" data-attributes="member: 70721"><p>Larksea is right.</p><p>The qualitative difference in how the Pumas took it to the AB's was impressive. For 55-60 minutes the AB's were working hard to maintain an equilibrium on defence and that was never the case in the first 2 RC matches against the Wallabies.</p><p>The key difference was that although the Wallabies tired in the last quarter of both games, they never ran out of steam.</p><p>The Pumas did run out of steam.</p><p>Once they became more static then the pace of Barrett, Ben Smith and Perenara in particular began to cause monumental issues for the Pumas so the scoreboard went into overdrive.</p><p></p><p>The All Blacks are all about raising the intensity for 80 minutes and keeping it there. Having a world class bench helps enormously.</p><p>For three quarters of the game the Pumas were matching the AB's toe to toe.</p><p>The last quarter their fitness dropped away and when the fitness falls off so does everything else by degrees. The intensity, the tackling, the focus, the accuracy all suffer when fitness drops.</p><p>It was a harsh last quarter 20 minutes for the Pumas when the previous 60 minutes had been so effectively contested.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Jones Boy, post: 816482, member: 70721"] Larksea is right. The qualitative difference in how the Pumas took it to the AB's was impressive. For 55-60 minutes the AB's were working hard to maintain an equilibrium on defence and that was never the case in the first 2 RC matches against the Wallabies. The key difference was that although the Wallabies tired in the last quarter of both games, they never ran out of steam. The Pumas did run out of steam. Once they became more static then the pace of Barrett, Ben Smith and Perenara in particular began to cause monumental issues for the Pumas so the scoreboard went into overdrive. The All Blacks are all about raising the intensity for 80 minutes and keeping it there. Having a world class bench helps enormously. For three quarters of the game the Pumas were matching the AB's toe to toe. The last quarter their fitness dropped away and when the fitness falls off so does everything else by degrees. The intensity, the tackling, the focus, the accuracy all suffer when fitness drops. It was a harsh last quarter 20 minutes for the Pumas when the previous 60 minutes had been so effectively contested. [/QUOTE]
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