Springboks continue to reap tries in Japan Rugby League One

I don’t know if you had a point you were trying to make, or believed in, but the case for the AB players is the same as your above list as well.

Discuss.

Of course I was replying to this in jest;

It’s an interesting issue. Where you have a team like the boks picking players on their ability to play in multiple positions - and then you have the ABs picking a player and moving him around the backline because he can’t.

So we agree (I'm not sure HH does!) these are the same things, for Rassies players too. That’s what you were saying?

After having first read your other two replies though, I can add to this, that Razor is obviously still learning and not at Rassies experienced level yet, hence why I thought the way he was trying to manage Rieko was a bit.. crude.

Rieko has of course been a wing before, so perhaps Rassie would have been shy in just throwing him back their again after a weeks training either? But yes, I think it was a good tactic to add to his game as our, and perhaps the, best defensive centre.

I might be wrong but it seems to me you are confusing Razor doing what Rassie does in experimenting with players and tactics as not knowing what his best team is. At least, it certainly seems to me Razor has made a change to be more like him this year (through the course of last year really, he seems to have studied you a lot).

I think NZR are doing better. They have brought in a new consultant role, and we saw Smith with the team this weekend, They bucked their normal All Black Coach selection process to ensure they got the right group this time (Foster lost assistants like Jamie Joseph and Tony Brown in 2019), and they intervened and sourced improved assistants for Foster in 2022. I’d imagine Joe Schmidt will be coming back into the fold (probably to replace Wayne Smith) next year when he finally wraps up. It had been a shambles during Hansens reign, sure, but everything has worked well since.

Hope you enjoyed the game. both sides seem to bring a different intensity this weekend, your crowd especially worth two extra men.

Of course a deliberate knock down is not a deliberate knock down, it might be accidental, it might have been supposed to go backwards, not fowards, it might have been reactionary like last week, or it might have been an honest attempt to intercept. Theyre all called deliberate knock downs when it is lost forward on a threatening play.

What Beaudy needed to be asked is where you going for the ball or the man, that’s all that matters. To me, live and on the first few replays I thought it was perfect man timing. Only one of the last replays though he looks to be several meters shy of the tackle and looking at the ball. He may not even realise his arm made a play at the ball until he sees it during debrief.

Of course it was also unclear if it was passed back in the first place, or whether the ball went straight down or forward from BB.

Was a crack up of a start (only watched first 20), crowd was into it (great to see, Kingz country no?) and the scrum kept getting pinged lol. Really cool start to the game but holly heck the officiating has been so poor this international window, he was nearly 2m offside and there ready to catch the ball before it was kicked!