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LISTEN: The Short Ball Super Rugby Final Special with Scotty and Mils

The Ellis Park crowd will be in fine voice for the final

The boys discuss every aspect of the 2017 Super Rugby final between the Crusaders and Lions, and we mean everything.

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The referee situation, which one of the coaches you’d rather have a fight with and whether you’d rather have your daughter date Sam Whitelock or Franco Mostert. Plus Scotty cruelly makes Mils recall the only Super Rugby final he played in South Africa, which resulted in a 61-17 hiding at the hands of the Bulls.

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Scott Robertson responds to criticism over All Blacks' handling errors

I thought we made a lot of progress against that type of defence by the WC last year. Lots of direct running and punching holes rather than using width. Against that type of defence I think you have to be looking to kick on first phase when you have front foot ball which we did relatively successfully. We are playing a lot of rugby behind the gain line at the moment. They are looking for those little interchanges for soft shoulders and fast ball or off loads but it regularly turns into them battering away with slow ball and going backwards, then putting in a very rushed kick under huge pressure.


JB brought that dimension when he first moved into 12 a couple of years ago but he's definitely not been at his best this year. I don't know if it is because he is being asked to play a narrow role, or carrying a niggle or two, but he does not look confident to me. He had that clean break on the weekend and stood there like he was a prop who found himself in open space and didn't know what to do with the ball. He is still a good first phase ball carrier though, they use him a lot off the line out to set up fast clean ball, but I don't think anyone is particularly clear on what they are supposed to do at that point. He was used really successfully as a second playmaker last year but I don't think he's been at that role once this year. He is a triple threat player but playing a very 1 dimensional role at the moment. He and Reiko have been absolutely rock solid on defence which is why I don't think there will be too much experimentation or changes there.

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