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<blockquote data-quote="NZbloke" data-source="post: 1056383" data-attributes="member: 85358">Too many silly mistakes by ABs, also turned over a heap of possession at the breakdown because we didn&#039;t get enough numbers there to clean out - also annoyed we went back to Aaron Smith type stuff trying to get the ball wide to the backs too often without doing the hard yakka through the forwards first, so naturally our backs were going to get smothered... making a lot of changes again certainly didn&#039;t help either.Boks don&#039;t have to play all this one-dimensional crap - Pollard is a good running 1st-five &amp; also the 9 de Klerk is good at making darting runs around the edges, it&#039;s obvious their coaching staff have told their playmakers to basically bombard opposition with up &amp; unders all day bloody long, that&#039;s only one area of the game, doesn&#039;t show any insight whatsoever... no one is asking the Boks to play like the ABs, just mix up their tactics a bit, which would definitely make them harder to beat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NZbloke, post: 1056383, member: 85358"] Too many silly mistakes by ABs, also turned over a heap of possession at the breakdown because we didn't get enough numbers there to clean out - also annoyed we went back to Aaron Smith type stuff trying to get the ball wide to the backs too often without doing the hard yakka through the forwards first, so naturally our backs were going to get smothered... making a lot of changes again certainly didn't help either. Boks don't have to play all this one-dimensional crap - Pollard is a good running 1st-five & also the 9 de Klerk is good at making darting runs around the edges, it's obvious their coaching staff have told their playmakers to basically bombard opposition with up & unders all day bloody long, that's only one area of the game, doesn't show any insight whatsoever... no one is asking the Boks to play like the ABs, just mix up their tactics a bit, which would definitely make them harder to beat. [/QUOTE]

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