Springboks v Wallabies, Loftus Versfeld, Sun 9th Jul 1.05am AEST

[Overtime]

Best comment all night from Aussie commentators. There are some positives in this we just have to find them.

 

[whitefalcon]

The boks def got all 50/50 calls with small things. knock ons and forward passes.
Not sure if it's from the rassi pressure? I wonder if we will see it continue.

To be honest its probably just subconciously rewarding the dominant team more so than rassie

 

[Mr Arie]

Carter Gordon, Hollaway, Marky Mark (Nawaqanitawase) (Nawaqanitawase), Ryan Lonergan, Bell, Tupou, Two new second rowers but not sure who and Gleeson to come in. Out Skelton, Frost, Cooper, M Hooper, White, Vunivalu, Two reserve props, Ulesese (Sorry cyclops for misspelling his name).

I thought white was decent tonight. His kicking game was immense but not capitalised on with any real chase or counter rucking.

 

[HooperPocockSmith]

Carter Gordon, Hollaway, Marky Mark (Nawaqanitawase) (Nawaqanitawase), Ryan Lonergan, Bell, Tupou, Two new second rowers but not sure who and Gleeson to come in. Out Skelton, Frost, Cooper, M Hooper,

Carter Gordon, Hollaway, Marky Mark (Nawaqanitawase) (Nawaqanitawase), Ryan Lonergan, Bell, Tupou, Two new second rowers but not sure who and Gleeson to come in. Out Skelton, Frost, Cooper, M Hooper, White, Vunivalu, Two reserve props, Ulesese (Sorry cyclops for misspelling his name).

Lol. We’ll be picking blokes from subbies with the way you’re going.

 

[Marce]

Best comment all night from Aussie commentators. There are some positives in this we just have to find them.

Positives about tonight

Without Bell, Tupou and Kerevi you are f*cked

 

[HooperPocockSmith]

I thought white was decent tonight. His kicking game was immense but not capitalised on with any real chase or counter rucking.

Agreed. Not sure about the White hate. He got no help from his 10 in the kicking department.

 

[whitefalcon]

I thought white was decent tonight. His kicking game was immense but not capitalised on with any real chase or counter rucking.

His passing was shit, possibly he was just gassed but it was shit

 

[Marce]

He is in no way a proven test international

And who's a proven test right now? At least he's a Super Rugby/European Rugby/Top 14 champion. He's not an useless Super Rugby player like Reece Hodge

 

[Mr Arie]

His passing was shit, possibly he was just gassed but it was shit

Possibly, I could imagine no front foot ball or ruck security would play a little into that as well

 

[HooperPocockSmith]

Slipper
Porecki
AAA
Frost
Arnold
Holloway
Hooper
Valentini
White
Gordon
Koroibete
Kerevi
Ikitau
Kellaway
Wright

 

[Bullrush]

How do you become a proven test international without getting a decent chance to show that? He’s one of the hottest commodities in European rugby. Surely we can utilise him.

He has played 20-odd Tests since debuting in 2014. He has had plenty of opportunities but some players just aren't up to Test rugby.

 

[Tomthumb]

And who's a proven test right now? At least he's a Super Rugby/European Rugby/Top 14 champion. He's not an useless Super Rugby player like Reece Hodge

Congrats to Will Skelton for winning a club comp. How that excuses his poor performance I’m not sure

 

[HooperPocockSmith]

Congrats to Will Skelton for winning a club comp. How that excuses his poor performance I’m not sure

Two years in a row. Plus multiple titles with Saracens. Probably more sivlerware than any Aussie

 

[TSR]

Mate - it doesn't matter if it went backwards. You can't knock the ball down like that.

Look - it’s a non issue in the scheme of things. You can - it cost the Wallabies a try against Wales a couple of years ago. The rule is you can’t deliberately knock the ball on, not down.

I’m quibbling with you on this because the game was horrid and I have nothing else.

 

[Tomthumb]

Two years in a row. Plus multiple titles with Saracens. Probably more sivlerware than any Aussie

What’s your point, that’s it’s ok for him to put no effort in and have a guaranteed jersey because he’s on a good club team?

 

[Marce]

Congrats to Will Skelton for winning a club comp. How that excuses his poor performance I’m not sure

A long season maybe. He was playing grand finals against Leinster and Toulouse few weeks ago meanwhile all Super Rugby players were on holidays

 

[eastman]

Quade will come out with some philosophical bullshit on his instagram to explain this abysmal performance. Hes a flat track bully - the last bloke you’d want on your side when the going gets tough. The kiwis must be laughing at us with him at 10.

This is a terrible take- Quade was good and even tackled. We have far bigger issues than that.

 

[KiwiM]

Well that was always a possibility with a team missing a number of starters, a number of guys having very little recent rugby and a short build up with Eddie all thrown in to the Pretoria cauldron.

To start with plug Bell and Philip into that tight 5 (plus Tupou on the bench) and sort out the back row balance. Valetini is a 6 playing 8, and Michael Hooper looks an absolute shadow of the player he once was - you have to seriously consider going with McReight now.

Much better for Carter Gordon to have that 12 minute debut than have his confidence wrecked if he had started that game.

Libbok at 10 for the Boks looks like an absolute superstar. So impressive.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

He fell off 3 I can remember but what’s new for Quade. Didn’t get to show anything in attack. Not going to trash him.

 

[Marce]

Quade will come out with some philosophical bullshit on his instagram to explain this abysmal performance. Hes a flat track bully - the last bloke you’d want on your side when the going gets tough. The kiwis must be laughing at us with him at 10.

The sad thing about it is he's still an option at 35 cause RA couldn't produce a proper fly-half in a while