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<blockquote data-quote="Durbanite" data-source="post: 872233" data-attributes="member: 73156">56&#039;- METRES MADE ON ATTACKAustralia 449mSouth Africa 196mI think this stat illustrates both our points decently. If memory serves we ended the first half with closer to 80-100m made on attack and Aus were on about 330-350m. Beale/Foley/Folau were kicking just as much as Jaintjies and Coetzee. Elton could not execute the territorial game effectively and when we were more direct in the second half we effectively doubled our attacking metres made in 16min. Now I&#039;m not saying we would&#039;ve won strictly speaking, but with Elton not being able to execute it took a lot of opportunity away from the rest of the team, if we used Elton off 9 to distribute rather than in the pocket to kick from the stary we could&#039;ve put the Aussies under a lot more pressure and made those metres ourselves rather than hoping for the boot to do the work and we could&#039;ve used Coetzee to punt it down the field when in danger.It seems to me that there was a lack of faith in our running approach followed by an obvious directive to try and turn the Aussies and keep them pinned, not so easy when you have Folau and Beale waiting in the outskirts, so why did it take so long to shape up and release the runners. If we try play tennis with the kiwis we will lose, this is why we need Combrinck or Pollard on centre or wing, so that our running game won&#039;t suffer when we need to be kicking and Elton can breathe a little.I&#039;m starting to sound like a broken record so the last I will say is that AC better be ready to experiment with the WHOLE backline come the EOYT, I don&#039;t see EJ being dropped until then, but I have hope he will be allowed to play to his own strengths once again</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Durbanite, post: 872233, member: 73156"] 56'- METRES MADE ON ATTACK Australia 449m South Africa 196m I think this stat illustrates both our points decently. If memory serves we ended the first half with closer to 80-100m made on attack and Aus were on about 330-350m. Beale/Foley/Folau were kicking just as much as Jaintjies and Coetzee. Elton could not execute the territorial game effectively and when we were more direct in the second half we effectively doubled our attacking metres made in 16min. Now I'm not saying we would've won strictly speaking, but with Elton not being able to execute it took a lot of opportunity away from the rest of the team, if we used Elton off 9 to distribute rather than in the pocket to kick from the stary we could've put the Aussies under a lot more pressure and made those metres ourselves rather than hoping for the boot to do the work and we could've used Coetzee to punt it down the field when in danger. It seems to me that there was a lack of faith in our running approach followed by an obvious directive to try and turn the Aussies and keep them pinned, not so easy when you have Folau and Beale waiting in the outskirts, so why did it take so long to shape up and release the runners. If we try play tennis with the kiwis we will lose, this is why we need Combrinck or Pollard on centre or wing, so that our running game won't suffer when we need to be kicking and Elton can breathe a little. I'm starting to sound like a broken record so the last I will say is that AC better be ready to experiment with the WHOLE backline come the EOYT, I don't see EJ being dropped until then, but I have hope he will be allowed to play to his own strengths once again [/QUOTE]

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